Happy 15th Birthday, Sally!
As always, Sally’s birthday is one of my
favorites; since she was the first girl in my class to invite me to a birthday
party after I moved here. Her party
today was fairly quiet compared to others she’s had, but it was a school night;
and her boyfriend is on the football team this year and had practice after
school before he – or any of the other guys at the party could go to it. I’ll get to that part of the update soon; but
let’s take a quick look at the rest of the day first.
Tai Chi by the river is still an option;
but also on the chilly side first thing in the morning. The one big change in our morning routine is
that the sunroom is now our preferred choice for where we have breakfast. It’s only a bit more work hauling everything
between the two rooms; and worth the effort to have the view while we enjoy
that meal. Michael didn’t stay for
breakfast, so it was just the five of us today, and while I helped with the
clean-up; I still had lots of time to get ready for school and go meet up with
Rowen for the walk there. Mom, Ethan,
and Ehlana had a lab day while I was busy with school and then cheerleading
practice; and Dad had a full day booked after taking most of the weekend off
and having a shorter-than-usual work day on Friday. My day was more fun; though Ethan and Ehlana
are always happy to be at the lab – and want to spend as much time there as
they can between now and when they’ll start school next September.
For me, the school day highlights were the
birthday moments for Sally – whether that was before classes started, at lunch,
or during the rest of the day. Her best
part of the day was going to get her license; which was a breeze for a farm kid
used to driving farm equipment – and highly motivated to join that particular
club. Getting to drive home with
parental supervision after school was a bonus bit of fun for her too; which she
told us all about while we were at the party.
Since I’m thinking about that, there’s a
good chance that Mom and Patricia won’t get asked to drive us to these parties
very often this fall and winter now that Tim and Michael have their licenses. Parties at farms give them the perfect chance
for some driving time; so Tim drove us out to Sally’s farm with his mother as
co-pilot; and Michael and his Dad were paired up for the return trip home after
the party ended at nine-thirty. That’s
definitely something different for us compared to city kids – or even the farm
kids around here. The town kids don’t
get daily opportunities to practice their driving when the weather’s decent and
most of us walk or bike where we want to go unless we have a lot to carry.
It’s getting pretty late, so let’s not get
bogged down with any side-trips tonight.
We had fun with school and helping Sally
celebrate her birthday. There were
cupcakes and gifts at lunchtime; and we had some outdoor play time while on
that break too that kept all of us happy for the afternoon. Rowen and I had fun with our cheerleading
practice, and then we were finished enough ahead of the boys to have time to go
home and get ready for Sally’s party.
Michael and Tim had to hurry, since Sally’s birthday did not rate Coach
Robinson giving his team an easy practice night; so it was nearly time to sit
down for dinner by the time we got to the farm.
Joshua was the only guy from the team to get there ahead of us, so we
did at least have a bit of time to visit with Sally, her family, and our other
friends while we waited for the last teens to arrive; and then the party kicked
up into high gear with dinner in the dining room.
I know that Sally’s had a really good night,
but I also don’t really have any major news to report tonight. Kris and Diana are definitely a couple now,
and she was at the party as Kris’ date; so that’s a bit of minor gossip for the
network at school tomorrow. Including Joshua,
Sally only invited nine teens to her party this year; and there were only two
singles there – Gretchen and Marc. They’re
a potential new couple too; though that’s at least partly because they’re
members of a very small minority now that most of the teens in our grade are
paired up. I’m not going to comment on
what I see for the future in this case; mostly because what I do see for them
is still not all that clear.
That’s getting off-track again, though; so
let’s move this along.
The dinner was good; we had fun with all of
the usual birthday party action; and then Rowen and I were two of the clean-up
volunteers while Sally was kept entertained by the rest of our friends. We still had an hour or so to enjoy the play
time after the work was done; and then it was time to head home again. Yes, that’s very early for a party – even around
here; but we all still had homework to get done too – and not all of us can
stay up half the night working; or use a time phase to speed up the job.
Michael, Tim, and Rowen all came back to my
house; we did our homework in the lounge; and then Rowen and Tim headed home at
eleven o’clock. Michael stayed and did a
Magi lesson with Mom and me; but then he went home before midnight while I came
up to my room again and got ready for bed.
My nightly computing, studying, archive assignment, and family business
work has taken another three hours to get it all done; and that’s why this
update is coming to you so late – not that you really care about the timing from
your perspective in my future. All of
the work and studying went well-enough, but I’d bore myself to sleep writing
about the details – especially the archive assignment. I probably shouldn’t say much about that,
since for all I know; future Magi will use my journals as sleep aids at
bedtime.
If, by the way, that’s actually true; skip
ahead to my journals when I’m a bit older.
I’ll guess that they’ll be more interesting by then! ;^)
Now that has my thoughts wandering off in
an interesting direction that might be fun to take with me into dreamland, so
that’s it for tonight; and, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
