It got cold overnight; didn’t warm up much
today; and the only real weather impact on my day was the very chilly marching
band practice that we really need to have outdoors as many times as we can
ahead of our big trip in February.
Music seemed to be the only thing I was
doing for most of the day; though Michael and I did have some classes that we
attended between the practices with the younger kids and tweens that we’re
working with this year. We are having a
lot of fun this week, though; so it’s worth the bit of extra work we need to do
to make up for those missed classes and time we don’t get to have in class for
our assignments.
I’ve skipped the morning news, but then
there really isn’t much to write about anyway.
Tai Chi indoors was good thanks to the pushing hands workout with
Michael; breakfast was standard school day fare; and we had a short video chat
with Dad that was mostly about a kids versus the parents battle over Mom going
to the city for a sleepover despite the fact that she’s too busy for that this
week. We – the kids – won that fight,
but while we’d have been okay with Mom going there today; she isn’t doing that
until tomorrow because the Christmas dinner visit with the Malloys is tomorrow
evening; and Mom wouldn’t stay in the city for two nights.
Okay, that does sound like news for the
morning, but that wasn’t confirmed until later; so it’s technically news for
this afternoon – and I wasn’t even around when Mom finally caved in thanks to
an afternoon of twin badgering. ;^)
Moving along, our concert band practice was
all Christmas while we got ready for our little part in the pageant and the
seniors’ Christmas party. I had
fundraising work to do between band practices, so I ate on the fly; and dealt
with the fruit and vegetable boxes orders that will be arriving this Friday
because we’re all too busy to do that work next week when we’d be just two days
from Christmas. The Christmas ornaments
fundraiser is now done; we sold out; and hit our goal for that little blast of
holiday fun. Our sales for the fruit and
vegetable boxes will be lighter this month than last; but we do have more local
orders for families needing the extra food for holiday weekend guests even if
we are losing the chance to sell many orders to visitors. There’s only going to be one more month for
that fundraiser too, and I don’t expect the order in January to be all that
large; but we’re going to hit our fundraising target anyway; and there is a
surprise coming via the family business that I won’t spoil ahead of time – even
here in my journal.
The marching band practice was the
exception for the Christmas music, since we needed to practice our Disney songs
instead; but that was fun too – even while we were a bit frozen by the time we
were done.
Get it?
We were Frozen!
Aren’t you glad that I’m not the family
business comedian?
The cold did keep us from having an
extremely-long practice, but those of us that needed to be at the church next
were still late – and that was quite a few of us because we had a full, dress
rehearsal for the Sunday night Christmas show.
That last, big practice always takes twice as long as the actual show
will be this weekend; and that’s why it was heading toward eleven o’clock by
the time Michael and I got home tonight.
We are ready for the show – even if some of our friends are stressing
about it a bit; and I still think that it’s the little imperfections that make
those moments most-special for everyone.
Michael and I needed to do our homework; we
worked in the office while doing that so that Mom could take advantage of the
time phase I used; and then she went to bed when Michael went home – without doing
a Magi lesson with us – or with me.
Skipping it tonight worked for me because I still had a lot to get done
on my family business work and studying – especially since I’ll be taking the
holiday break from my language studies for sure; and hopefully be able to do a
bit less on the family business front too – though that’s less likely to happen
for me. I used a time phase for that
work and studying too; multi-tasked some Jacuzzi time at the start of that
blast of busy; and had about an hour of ‘real time’ work to do once I’d
finished everything that didn’t require being connected to the internet and our
systems at the lab.
Looking ahead to tomorrow, my work day is
now going to include babysitting the twins while Mom’s in the city; I’ll likely
end up with Naomi and Aiden too; and may invite Rowen to stay overnight too –
just because we’re overdue for a girls’ night sleepover. Yes, we might invite the boys to hang out
with us too – though Michael won’t be able to do that until after work at the
Inn; but we’ll be good – and won’t keep them for the night too – no matter how
tempting that is for all of us.
Yes, I’m a normal teen, and do sometimes
want to take a walk on the wild and crazy side of life, but that really, really
isn’t an option for a Magi Master; so it won’t happen.
I should get some sleep now to be ready for
another busy day, though; so let’s get to the fun part of these holiday
updates! My Christmas music video pick
for tonight is from another of the contestants on the Voice this season. I’m sure that having a famous mother in the
television and movie business is a big help when it comes to getting chances to
perform songs for those shows or movies, but this teen has some talent; so I
hope you have fun with this catchy little Christmas tune – even if the parts of
the video with said Mom making out with the leading man might be weird for most
teens! ;^)
I’m off to dreamland now while you’re being
entertained; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
