We’re back to school, so this was our
first, mid-week, after-school work day.
I got to do all of my usual bedtime work and studying after school and
dinner; and now I can go to bed early!
Oh wait – that’s just what I wished had
happened! Instead of doing that; I’m
just getting ready to wrap up my day with just a few hours of nap time
available before I’ll be up and on the go again. There was some fun to be had here and there
to off-set the work and another really late night, though; so let’s get to the
real news of the day.
Happy 16th Birthday, Gretchen!
I didn’t start this update with that news
because my feeble attempt at late-night humor seemed like more fun; but
Gretchen has had a happy day – especially now that she’s joined the
supervision-free driver’s club with the majority of our classmates. Her birthday added to the fun at school; with
the lunchtime birthday party the highlight for everyone helping her to
celebrate. Our classes were filled with
more exam review, and while I haven’t been thinking much about that at all;
some of my classmates are starting to worry about our mid-terms now that we’re
past the return to school excitement and our first marching band practice on
the New Year. My late night isn’t due to
exam studying; since Michael and I split our time tonight between working at
the Inn because of Gretchen’s birthday party and Miranda’s continuing
short-staffing problems due to the flu bug around here; but we have set up a
study session for tomorrow night that is open to everyone in our class – and here
at my house.
Michael and I did do our exam review
assignments after school before getting to work on the prep line in the
kitchen; we worked for nearly two hours until the main round of dinner orders
went out into the dining room – with Gretchen’s dinner party being two-thirds
of those orders; and then we took our break so that we could have dinner with
Gretchen, her family, and the rest of her party guests. That was a nice blast of fun that was over
too soon; and then we were back to work until close – and that took longer than
normal because we didn’t have enough help for the extra business tonight.
While I’m thinking about the flu bug
issues; I’ll also mention that we’re nearly-through the worst of it. Three days seems to be the average for most
of Uncle Adam and Uncle Mark’s patients – or that’s true for the people we
couldn’t help with some Magi Healing.
Since so many of us came down with it at the same time; there won’t be
any major waves of flu to follow; so we’re already mostly just dealing with the
remnants of this round – and that should be done with by the weekend.
Moving along, Michael came home with me
after we were done at the Inn; we had another Magi lesson with Mom; and spent
some time with Ethan and Ehlana before they went to bed and we wrapped up our
day with some cuddle time in the lounge before he went home and I got ready for
bed and started in on my bedtime computing, studying, and family business to-do
list. I needed to get more done tonight
to get ready for the weekend and extra exam studying I’ll be doing then too; so
I really do wish that this could have been a normal work night Wednesday. One of these days, I’ll need to write more
about my language studies and family business work, since it is a big part of
my life now, but that won’t be tonight; and I’m about ready to go into nap mode
now.
Before I do that, though; let’s talk about
weather and weather forecasting. Over
the past week, we’ve gone from a forecast for this weekend of a major snowstorm
with maybe a couple of feet of snow to a prediction of mostly-rain and just a
bit of snow that was posted just yesterday; and now we’re heading back toward snow
and ice storm levels of yuck on Saturday and Sunday. It seems that I end up picking on
meteorologists too-often; but that has got to be one of the only jobs where you
can be wrong so much of the time and still have someone willing to hand you a
paycheck for your work! I’ll let you
know how that goes this weekend, but my point is that it’s a pain to get ready
for a storm and then have nothing happen at all; and probably worse for people
that get tired of the false alarms and then aren’t ready when the storm
hits. Here’s a fun idea – if you can’t
forecast a week in advance with any accuracy at all; stop doing it until you
can!
Okay, that’s enough of a rant for tonight,
and I’d rather be sleeping now anyway; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
