Happy 17th Birthday, Luke!
It’s a bit weird to be starting the
next-level of friends’ birthdays, since I’m one of the last to make the grade
cut for my own year. Luke’s only a grade
ahead of me, but almost two years older; and we don’t have a lot in common
either. My invitation had nothing to do
with me anyway, since Rowen and I were invited along with Tim and Michael; so
it wasn’t a big deal that we were on the fringe of the dinner party too. We also barely made it out to Luke’s farm in
time for dinner after band practice; and had to leave the party before dessert
was served; so that worked out for the best anyway since our interruptions didn’t
get in the way of the birthday fun.
We did have fun despite being rushed; but
then rushed pretty much describes my entire day. Tai Chi by the river was an exception to that
general rule; but then we were busy the rest of the time before and after
breakfast. While writing tests and doing
everything else we had on the go at school wasn’t difficult for me; we were
busy all day too. Even our lunch break
was busy because there was some birthday fun for Luke with his girlfriend
Denise and some of the friends that weren’t at his party after school.
After school, we were busy with band; and
part of that practice was a preview of the music we’ll be doing with the
marching band starting next month. I
haven’t really thought about that much, but our little concert band isn’t going
to have as much to do over the next year as our marching band starts doing the
parades instead. We’ll still have the
seniors’ parties and concerts at school; but we’ll also likely cut way back on
the practices next fall. For today,
though, we used up our entire practice time, and then Tim met up with us at the
school and Rowen’s mother gave the four of us a ride out to the Taylor farm for
Luke’s birthday dinner.
We weren’t the only teens doing that after
band, or the only group heading back to town in time for our praise team
practice; but we didn’t have any extra passengers with us. Dad came to pick us up for that trip back to
town; and then he stayed at the church to help out as one of the volunteers
working in the sanctuary this week. The
sanctuary is closed while that work is being done; so our praise team practice
was in the fellowship hall instead. We
could still hear the noise from the work in the sanctuary, and they could hear
our practice; but that’s a small price to pay for having the expanded sanctuary
ready to go in time for Easter.
That practice was a blast of work and fun
because we still have a lot to do before we’ll be ready for our contributions
to the Easter season music and services; and that’s especially true when we
have March Break between now and then.
My work and busy for the day was far from done after that, though; and
Michael came home with me from the church so that we could get started on our
homework. We spent an hour doing that;
Michael stayed long-enough to help me with tucking Ethan and Ehlana in for the
night; and then he went home so that I could get started on the rest of my work
and studying – about four hours ago.
I’ve doubled up the work and studying again
tonight, and while that’s kept me up late again; I need to keep at it if I want
to head to Colorado on Saturday morning and not need to take a lot of work with
me. Speaking of that, I’ve started to
keep an eye on the forecast for Winter Park, and while going snowboarding with
temperatures above freezing can be awesome; I hope it doesn’t get too warm out
there! This isn’t part of my ‘cover’
story, but I have been to a ski resort before when there haven’t been many runs
left open due to snow melt; and it won’t be as much fun for us if that happens
while we’re there next week – and way sooner than is normal for Colorado.
It’s going to be another short nap night
for me again, though; so I shouldn’t waste that down time writing about
something that I can’t do anything about.
Okay, I could; but Mom would get really mad
if I tried to whip up a cold front in the Rockies ahead of our trip – not to
mention that things like that can really mess with the weather in much bigger
ways than can realistically be controlled.
It’s really for the best to leave things like that to Mother Nature –
even when she doesn’t always give us what we want.
That’s definitely wandered off somewhere I
didn’t need to go, and that means I’m too tired to be doing this anymore; so,
until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
