With luck, this will be my last full night
of sleep for the next nine or ten days; so this is going to be a short update.
Now that the tests are done, it was an easy
day at school; though Michael, Tim, Rowen, and I continued to work ahead on our
new batch of assignments while most of our classmates finished up projects or
goofed off if they didn’t have any work left to do. We had another awesome weather day, and if the
warm hangs around much longer; we’ll begin to think that spring really is here
now – or will be disappointed if we head back into winter for another blast of
cold before that actually happens. I
should add that the farmers are worried about that possibility; but this is
still a bit early to declare the end of winter in our area.
I can’t say the same about that for
Florida, since the forecast for our first weekend in Orlando is looking fairly
awesome; but I’ll save comments on that for my reports while we’re there. That’s a good thing, since it would be
totally unfair if we get to Florida and end up having nicer weather here. We’d also never hear the end of it from our
classmates and friends if that did happen; but let’s not go there either – we all
know how generally easy it is to amuse most teens.
If you’d been around our school at
lunchtime today while we were enjoying the nice weather outdoors; you’d have no
doubt about that last comment. The imminent
arrival of March Break might have something to do with why the guys were acting
so strange; though it’s also possible that our parents and teachers just needed
to let them out to play more often this winter too. That’s actually at least a little bit true
because we didn’t get very much snow this winter, and since sledding or other
snow-play fun wasn’t an option; we did spend more time indoors than usual.
This is not going to be a short report at
all if I keep getting side-tracked; so let’s move along!
We had a good day at school, and I skipped
it; but we also went outdoors again for Tai Chi this morning and Michael stayed
for an easy-breakfast with us before going on to his last weight training
session of the week at school. He and
Tim are both taking the day off tomorrow because they need to do other things
to finish getting ready for our trip before spending the night at our house
tomorrow night. I came home after school
while Michael went to help out at the Inn; and I worked with Mom to get
everything still on our to-do chores list finished before we went on to the Inn
for game night. Mom still has a few things
to do tomorrow, including the rest of the family business work she needs to
complete; but we are pretty much ready to go for our trip now and have the
guest rooms and bathrooms ready for tomorrow night too.
Miranda and Mom won the senior title for the
games and get to keep the crown for two weeks; but Michael and I only managed a
top-ten finish this week while playing with the twins and our friends. I do like to win as much as Miranda does; but
my appreciation for Jacob’s game night perspective has come a long way too –
and Michael is definitely his father’s son when it comes to having fun with our
family and friends being more important than winning.
While that break in the work was fun, Mom
and I still had a few things to do once we got home that weren’t chores,
travel, or work-related. We tucked the
twins into bed for the night first; did my last Magi lesson until after the
holiday; and then hopped into our Jacuzzis for some quality tub time that at
least one of us might not have time for while we’re away. I wasn’t really planning to do any
multi-tasking while doing that; but ended up studying languages instead of just
listening to music. Even that wasn’t
entirely intentional – I just picked out a YouTube video of a conference that
sounded mildly interesting and started practicing the interpretations into
several languages.
Yes, that is a warped idea of what fun is –
for most teens; but that helped out with getting me to wind down so that I will
be able to sleep soon.
Getting to that down time now is a really
good idea, and this didn’t exactly end up being a micro-report anyway; so that’s
it for now, and, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
