It’s been another wonderful-weather day
here that hasn’t made it feel at all as though we’re at the start of
November. I’m okay with that; and Mother
Nature can keep the warm coming straight through until spring if she wants to
do that for us! ;^)
Tai Chi by the river anytime in November is
nice too, and though it’s probably getting tedious for anyone reading this in
the future; I still really love having breakfast in the sunroom with Mom, Dad,
and the twins. It’s really such a simple
change, but the open view of the back yard and river really is wonderful – and helps
to make for a great start to every day when we get to enjoy it while having our
morning meal.
Moving along, I’m sure that you can guess
that the Halloween weekend recap and our upcoming football playoff game were
the top two chat topics at school. Sure,
there were lots of side-stories too – like Paul getting his driver’s license
today and Karla and Brock’s budding new romance, but Halloween got to have one
last day in the spotlight; and football will be big news every day until our
post-season run in the playoffs comes to an end.
For me, after two school days of busy that
didn’t include much actual classroom time; it was back to the normal
routine. We started new modules in most
classes that’ll take us through to Thanksgiving; and that helped to make the
day a bit more interesting – though it also meant new assignments and projects
too. Our lunch break outdoors was a
highlight of the day; and we even managed to do that without any major football
scrimmages breaking out. Tim did have a
football with him that a few of the guys tossed around for a while; but the
football players are under strict orders from Coach Robinson on how to get
ready for their first-round playoff game – and that doesn’t include anything
that could mess up their practices; or accidentally get them injured.
My after-school cheerleading practice was
fun, and Anna-Marie is looking to end her high school cheerleading career with
the best half-time routines we can come up with for the playoffs. Rowen and I are very involved with that; and
she’s letting us loose to try adding a few new tricks to our routines that are
a bit risky; but will look awesome if we can pull them off. We can all do the basic gymnastics that are
trademarks for cheerleading squads; but Rowen and I are the only girls on the
squad crazy-enough to attempt the more advanced aerials. I’ll add that our plans for that will depend
on the weather; since major tricks aren’t safe to do in the rain. Let’s hope that the weather will cooperate –
and not just because the rain last Friday night didn’t work out very well for
our team.
The guys had a long football practice, so
Rowen and I watched the end of it while doing some homework; we waited for
Michael and Tim while they hit the showers; and then Rowen went home with Tim
while I went home with Michael. Dinner
was ready by the time we got there; so we sat down to eat; enjoyed the gourmet
meal that Jacob cooked up for us; and then Michael, Rebecca, and I took care of
the clean-up before getting started on our homework.
Speaking of Rebecca, our studying
conversation included talking about the start of basketball season with ‘training
camp and tryouts’ coming up next week; and I realized that I haven’t mentioned
Rebecca’s sports career for this school year at all – mostly because Michael
and I have been too busy to get involved at all. This year, she added Volleyball to her high
school sports credits; thanks entirely to Carolyn Landry talking her into
playing on that team too. While I’m sure
that Carolyn would have loved to win a championship in her senior year, and
Rebecca did help their team; they did not make it to the volleyball
championship tournaments. They’re hoping
for better with basketball, and while she will have the formality of the
tryouts; I don’t have any doubt that Rebecca will make that team. Michael and I will need to be more supportive
too; and try to attend more of her games than we did last season.
Yes, I know; and have no idea how that’ll
fit into my schedule – especially when I have such a long list of
equally-important things on that not-enough-time-for to-do list.
Moving along again, our study time was
followed by a music practice for Michael and me; a very minor make-out session;
and an evening wrap-up chat with Jacob and Miranda in the living room before I
headed home for the night at ten o’clock.
It’s been all work and studying since then; starting with my Magi lesson
with Mom and ending with an hour and a half of family business work. I began my study of the Turkish language
tonight too; and I’m going to learn it over the next two months – and hopefully
have it mastered by Christmas so that I can take the holidays off from that
part of my never-ending studies.
Since I had a lot to do tonight, and didn’t
want to use another time phase; it’s heading toward three o’clock and time for
me to wrap this up and get some rest.
Tomorrow will be an even longer day with the usual three practices, and
I want to be ready to keep up with everything; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
