Warm weather returned to town, and while it
isn’t going to last for long; we’ll try to enjoy it while we can.
The highlight of my day was spending the
afternoon and evening with Violet and Dillon – something else that Mom, Dad,
Ethan, Ehlana, Michael, and I were also glad to enjoy while we can. Tonight was ‘our’ time with Violet and
Dillon. Michael and I came home after
school, and other doing our homework; we spent all of our late afternoon and
early evening with them, my parents, and the twins. The highlights included some play time at the
park before dinner; the meal out in the sunroom; and an evening indoors that
included watching a movie and playing some video games in the living room.
Dad took that time off from his work
despite being busy; which is why I wasn’t the only person in the house starting
my work and studying even later than usual – after Michael headed home at
eleven o’clock. Mom skipped my Magi
lesson so that she could spend that time working with Violet and Dillon instead,
so I opted to work in the office with Dad; and Ethan and Ehlana decided to stay
up late and work on their college courses.
The twins were allowed to do that because I decided to use a time phase
so that Dad and I could both catch up on the lost work time; and it gave my brother
and sister the chance to get a lot of their studying done in a short amount of ‘real’
time.
I won’t make this tedious by writing all
about any of the work and studying details, but it was productive; and we
wrapped up our time phase by a bit after midnight. It was time for all of us to head for bed
after that, and while it isn’t three or four in the morning; the time phase
effort took just as much out of me as staying up that late would have
done. Violet and I had our bedtime chat
with Ehlana and Mom in Ehlana’s room while we tucked her in for the night, and
while we stopped in to say goodnight to Ethan too; he’d spent most of that time
with Dad and Dillon.
Once I was in my room, I was tempted to hop
in my Jacuzzi for a soak, but decided to just get changed and into bed
instead. Other than one last email check
and a bit of casual surfing on the web; this update is the only job I had left
to do on my computer for the night. That’s
a good thing, because I’m seriously ready for the down time.
Before I go there, I’ll note that my school
day was fairly quiet. There was a lot of
Thanksgiving-related action going on there; but most of that was with the
primary grades. Michael and I didn’t get
around to any music time tonight, and we should have done that to get ready for
our band and praise team practices tomorrow; but photographic memories do come
in handy now and then and we’ll be ready anyway. While I wasn’t involved in the action for
everyone else in my family today, Dillon did spend some time at the lab with
Ehlana and Uncle Adam while Ethan opted to play in the archives with some new
books that had recently been delivered and were still being catalogued and put
away. Mom and Violet did some family
business work at home then; and Mom continued to work on her holiday weekend
pre-cooking and baking. This year,
without the entire gang home for the holiday weekend, it’s going to be a home
baking event, and while I love Olde Bakery treats; it’s going to be great to
enjoy some of the old recipes that Mom likes to dust off for special
events. She isn’t likely going to do
that very often for the big family holidays, since that’s so much work when she’s
already so busy; but then Hannah’s very happy to help us out with those big
orders whenever we need them! The great
news for our home town family is that we win on the dessert front either way!
;^)
We’re down to two school days to the
holiday weekend, and Wednesday will pretty much just be a play day; so tomorrow
will be our last day of ‘real’ classes this week. I’m good with that, and if I get enough work
done tomorrow night; I’ll start my long weekend off from family business work
and studying early. Sure, I’ll still
have work at the Inn, and I’ll help Mom out as much as needed this weekend too;
but all late nights should mostly be of the fun variety – even if that won’t
include a championship football game for our team.
That, but the way was news at school, and
while our team won’t be playing in that game; there was a fair bit of interest
over finding out that Hillcrest will be up against Clairmont – the perennial
champions that won so often before we interrupted their dominance over the past
two seasons. While our football players
have motivation to cheer for Hillcrest; I think that I’ll quietly root for
Clairmont – and then hope for another rematch against them for our Raiders next
season. That kind of a rivalry could be
a lot of fun – or at least it would be in the years that we win those matches!
I hadn’t planned on going off on a football
side-trip, and I really am ready to crash now; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
