This is going to be a short update because
I’m really tired out after pushing myself a bit too hard today.
Tai Chi by the river, breakfast, and
juggling getting ready for the day with helping out in the kitchen kept me busy
until it was time to get to the school for cheerleading tryouts. Anna-Marie picked up the pace of our workouts
to something closer to what we did last summer; so I guess that she was easing
us into the tryouts with the lighter training level yesterday. Her plan is having an effect on the
candidates because some of the girls were definitely having issues with
conditioning; and couldn’t keep up with the rest of us. We also started adding in more difficult and
acrobatic moves today too; so I’ve made my predictions for the Grade Nine
additions to our squad now – and I’m also sure that Jenny and Tammy have
nothing to worry about from their Grade Eleven competition. We still have one or two more days of tryouts
to go before Anna-Marie chooses her squad, so it isn’t over yet, but if I’m
right; then it basically is over except for the official announcement sometime
on Thursday.
Our tryouts are going better than Tim
thinks things are going for the football team.
Sure, they still have three days to get their team picked and then be
ready to play their first game; but he has good reason to be worried. They’ll be up against Grand Summit in a
rematch of their Championship game; and it’s a safe bet that the Grand Summit
players will be ready to avenge their loss.
To summarize Tim’s biggest issues today, the senior players are too
complacent; they don’t even seem to notice that they’re being out-played by the
best of the younger teens; and the more-motivated player-hopefuls might be
working hard enough, but they don’t have the experience and football know-how
to pick up the slack.
The cheerleader tryouts ended earlier than
the football practice, so Rowen and I watched and waited for our boys again
today; we had another swim after that while Tim vented his football
frustrations; and then Michael and I had dinner at my house with Mom, Dad, and
the twins before we needed to head over to the church for a teen praise team
practice. We’re doing two of them ahead
of the holiday weekend, and while we were a bit rusty today; the practice went
fairly well. Michael and I are both
going to be playing our guitar and keyboard more this year, so I’ll need to
work in extra practice time for that somewhere; but I’m not going to even think
about that tonight. It’s already been a
bit too much for one day – and I haven’t even reached the end of my report yet.
So much for writing a micro-report!
We spent nearly an hour and a half at the
church with that practice; Michael came home with me; and we did the bedtime
routine with Ethan and Ehlana before coming up to the lounge for a bit of alone
time. Michael was in need of another
Magi-powered healing, and we didn’t have much time to play before he needed to
by home; so I used a time phase so that we made time for both the healing and
something more than a micro make-out session.
Michael went home at eleven after we had a chat in the office with Mom
and Dad; and then I came up to my room again to get started on my nightly
computing and work. I used a time phase
to do all of that too; which has a lot to do with my level of exhaustion
now. My choices to time phase or not are
a bit inconsistent, but it’s what works for me so far this week; and I’ll just
go with how I feel about it during a week like this when I have more to do than
hours in the day allow. I will need to be
careful, though, or Mom will be putting me back on a reduced work schedule
again if I do take the workload too far.
With that thought in mind, I guess that
there isn’t anything else to add that’s important enough to lose sleep over to
write about; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
