This has been one of those seriously
crazy-busy days with a lot of fun mixed in with the school time; work; and
football-related action.
I’m going to skip the news from the start
of my day, since that was fairly-standard exercise by the river and breakfast
in the sunroom fun. My school day was
shortened thanks to dealing with the fruit and vegetable boxes delivery and
then the outbound pick-ups. I was on the
crew unloading the truck; we had an extra-large order because of the bonus
sales at the fall festival and the extra boxes we ordered to sell tomorrow
night at the Haunted Halloween Walk booth the marching band will be running to
sell snacks, drinks, and raffle tickets too.
That work was tougher than the classes
would have been, but we had fun with it too; and then I had to keep moving
again after school while continuing to help with that; do my own deliveries
with help from Mom, Ethan, and Ehlana; and then I had a micro-dinner before
heading back to the school to get ready for cheerleading and marching band for
the football game.
We were up against Pinehurst for our final
regular season game, and it was a big deal for both teams; since first place in
our division was on the line – and home field advantage for at least the first
round of the playoffs. Pinehurst didn’t
have an undefeated season on the line, but beating us would have left our teams
with nine-and-one records. Fortunately
for our team, we won; and did that very convincingly by a score of fifty-four
to twenty-six. Pinehurst never gave up,
but I won’t suggest that the game was close.
Michael and Tim helped us out to a big first-half lead that included a
combination of great offense and big defensive plays. Lucas added a couple of touchdowns on the
ground before we switched to kicking field goals for the rest of the game; and
Pinehurst had to settle for only two touchdowns and four field goals. They did keep trying for more touchdowns in
the third and fourth quarters, but either lost fourth down attempts or gave up
interceptions to Michael and Tim.
Having a lot to cheer about made
cheerleading a lot of fun for us, but the awesome weather made a big difference
too. The ‘feels like’ temperature at
kick-off was in the mid-eighties, and while I wouldn’t dream of complaining
about that; it was weird for the last weekend of October. It definitely felt weird to be wearing our
usual cheerleading uniforms instead of needing to bundle up, and while the guys
appreciated that a lot too; I’m not going to write about that at all – even when
it applies to the single girls on the squad; and they generally like the
attention. I only enjoy that kind of
attention from Michael, and he did appreciate me a lot tonight too; but not at
the expense of having a really great game.
Our half-time cheerleading routine was
another kid-friendly, Disney-themed show; it was a hit with all of the
spectators – including my extended family; and then we put on our best marching
band half-time show of the season too.
We’re not sure whether the band will be going to every football playoff
game with our team, but we will go to as many as we can – and we’ll definitely
be playing at the first-round match next Friday night. While I was too busy to help out with the
work, we also had the marching band raffle tickets on sale; and some of the
fruit and vegetable boxes were picked up at the game too.
The post-game action was comparatively
short because the school Halloween dance was already starting by then; so we
wrapped up on the field as quickly as possible; those of us that needed to hit
the showers before going to the dance did that; and then Rowen and I met up
with Tim and Michael when we were all ready to go to the dance. Michael and I went with the Elena of Avalor
costume for me while he went as my Royal Magician, Mateo, and although we didn’t
win any prizes for our costumes; we did have fun – and a much easier time of it
when it came to things like dancing together than some of our friends did with
their costume choices. Even with the
game and everything we had to get done after it; we still had nearly two hours
left to go until the end of the dance when we got to it; and made the most of
every minute. The dancing was great; we
had fun hanging out with our friends; and we had the bonus fun of the Pinehurst
teens staying for part of the dance too – though they needed to get on their
buses by a bit after midnight when they closed in on the time limit they had
for their bus drivers’ work limits.
Michael and I loved the dance; I brought
him home with me after it; and we had some cuddle time in the living room for a
while before he needed to head home to get some sleep ahead of the breakfast shift
he’s working in the morning. I’m not
doing that this weekend, but I will be helping out on Sunday. I need to get some sleep too, though I’ll be
busy with other things tomorrow – including another fall cleanup day; the
marching band work at the Haunted Halloween Walk; and babysitting later
tomorrow night while the parents go out to the Halloween party at Sheldon’s Pub
after the haunted walk.
I’m getting tired just thinking about all
of that, but we’ll be having a lot of fun again tomorrow too; so we’re sure to
have a really great day too. Sleeping
now is an option, though, since there isn’t anything newsworthy for me to
report from my bedtime computing or email checks; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
