The changes in the weather today might be
the most newsworthy event around here today.
It’s been weird too, since we were outdoors for Tai Chi by the river;
then Rowen and I – and most other students – got rained on while walking to
school as a thunderstorm rolled through and dumped a fair bit of rain on
us. Then it was gone as quickly as it
came; and we had sunshine for a while; followed by another round of
thunderstorms in the afternoon that put on a good show; but didn’t dump much
rain. After that, it was clear skies
again; which meant that baseball practices were on tonight. Some of the early practices were done on the
grass while the diamonds dried; but we didn’t have that problem for our
practice.
We’ve had a pretty good day despite the
rounds of bad weather. Our school day
was fun, if uneventful; I did another saxophone practice with Jessica after
school; got my homework done after that and before dinner; and then enjoyed the
easy-meal dinner with Mom, Dad, and the twins before we needed to clean up and
head for the park or school for our practices.
Being back on a Carolyn Landry team is fairly intense compared to
playing on Coach Claire’s squad. I’m not
suggesting that’s in a good or bad way – just that it’s different. While I like to win as much as anyone;
Carolyn wants to win on a different level; and she seriously hates to
lose. I almost feel sorry for the other
teams this year! ;^)
Our second practice of the season was good,
and Rowen and I managed to have fun even with the more serious nature of our
practices. I won’t say that for
everyone, because Carolyn can be a force of nature while on the way to getting
what she wants; but she is pushing all of us to get better – even those of us
who need to hold back to play like ‘normal’ teens.
While I do like getting to play baseball
with my friends, not getting to do my work and studying early on Wednesdays isn’t
so great. Dad’s in the same boat with
me, though, so I worked in the office tonight once I got home from spending a
bit of time with Michael after our practices.
We only sat out by the river at his house and talked for a half-hour or
so, and he still had his homework to do after working the dinner shift ahead of
his practice; so we kept that quiet little blast of fun short so that one of us
still had a chance at an early bedtime.
That didn’t happen for me; though I’m not
up as late as I would have been if I hadn’t used a time phase while working
with Dad in the office. Mom didn’t need
to do that, so she took care of getting Ethan and Ehlana bathed and into bed;
and then she enjoyed a soak in her Jacuzzi that conveniently ended at nearly
the same time as Dad got his work done.
I still had a lot more to do, but I came up to my room then so that I
could get cleaned up from my ball practice too while multi-tasking some of my
language studies. My soak in the Jacuzzi
lasted a bit too long, but I felt better by the time I had my hair dry and
crawled into bed with Mandy and my computer.
The work wasn’t done yet, but I didn’t have enough in me to try another
time phase; so I just kept plugging away at my to-do list for tonight until I
had everything finished.
Now that I have this update pretty much
finished too, it’s time to get to the last item on my to-do list – getting some
sleep! It’s been fun, but I’ve had
enough for today; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
