Happy 31st Birthday, Uncle Mark!
I’d say that his big day was fairly happy
too. Aunt Grace started out his day by
giving him a fairly large gift – a new, shiny black crossover with room for six
that will not only come in handy for their family; but work pretty well for
handling small-town emergency calls for one of our doctors too.
That’s quite a bit nicer than the gift that
Michael and I picked out for him; but then we were thinking along the lines of
decorations for his new office at the time – and new trucks, minivans, or
whatever you actually consider a crossover to be wasn’t in our birthday budget
this year.
My only involvement in Uncle Mark’s
birthday was a bit of pre-dinner work and then I was there for maybe the first
half of the meal before I needed to meet up with Rowen and get to our baseball
practice. I’m glad that didn’t get
rained out because that also meant that Uncle Mark’s dinner and mini-party
could be outdoors; but missing some of the best parts of the evening fun was
tough. Our ball practice went fairly well,
and we did have fun too; but not birthday roasts and Olde Bakery birthday cakes
kind of fun.
Okay, Mom and Dad brought cake home for me
after the party, so I got in on that anyway; but you know what I mean.
I’ve skipped past the morning and school
parts of my day, but Tai Chi was indoors thanks to some early-morning rain, but
that cleared out by the time we got started on an uneventful day of
classes. Our lunch break was
entertaining enough with some co-ed football and a side of girl chat time when
Rowen and I weren’t playing with our boys; but that’s about all of the news
from our time at school. The same can be
said for my evening and late night action – except for the short chat I had
with Mom, Dad, and the twins once we were all home again either from the party
or practice and my Magi lesson with Mom.
The rest of my night has been filled with
the usual work and studying from the time I helped with tucking Ethan and
Ehlana in for the night until now. That’s
covering more than five hours of nearly non-stop computing, and some of that
was even fun too; but now I’m totally cooked and ready for some downtime. We’ve got one day left to the weekend, and I’m
looking forward to the impending arrival of my favorite collegians over the
next few days, but we also have lots of work to do too; and I’ll be doing what
I can to help Mom and Dad out with getting ready for the holiday weekend –
especially since Dad needs to get ready for his week in the city too.
Now I really want to get started on what
nap time I have left before it’ll be time to gut up and going again; so, until
next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
