We had a couple of little rain moments
today, but they blasted through town fast; and most of our day has been sunny
and beautiful. That meant that baseball
was on for tonight; and Rowen and I had our first practice of the year at the
park while Michael and Tim are at the school this year; and Mom and Dad have
the coed practices at the other ball diamond at the park.
I’ll start with that baseball news; and
then plan on keeping the rest of this update short so that I can get to sleep
and nap for a few hours.
Our team is not going to have many senior
players this year. That isn’t unusual;
since most of them will be off to college by mid-August and can’t play the
entire season anyway; but we didn’t have any of them this week while they’re
away on the annual school trip. I haven’t
heard a lot about that, but Rebecca and Lucas are having fun – and that might
be the last chance for doing much of that together between now and the end of
the school year while they’re both busy with work and getting ready for final
exams. Our practice went well; Claire is
our coach; and I think we’ll do well-enough with the team we have this year.
Wednesday nights are going to be
interesting again during the baseball season, and while the practices mess with
my normal mid-week work night; we had extra issues tonight because Michael and
I worked at the Inn for as long as we could before our practices. That was thanks to a big dinner rush that was
all about people wanting to check out the new dining room now that it’s done;
so Miranda needed the extra help and called me in to do that. The change in plans meant that I didn’t end
up helping Mom much again tonight; though Ethan and Ehlana did hang out with
Rowen and me a lot at our practice while Mom was busy with the coed workout.
We didn’t have much family support tonight,
but that was because Violet and Dillon had wedding work happening that included
getting help from my grandparents, Aunt Leanne, and other volunteers from both
sides of the family. I’m not helping
with that either; and wish that I was doing more for Violet – especially when
they’ll now be adding in a move into their apartment next week too so that’ll
be done before they go away for their honeymoon.
I will need to write about the wedding in
more detail over the next week and a half, but really need he sleep tonight; so
let’s move this along.
Morning Tai Chi by the river and the rest
of the get-ready-for-school routine was uneventful; we had one test to liven up
our school day a bit; and having lunch outside with some football fun for
entertainment was the highlight of the school day. I came home after school while Michael went
to the Inn, and got my homework done, but barely got started on my family
business work when Miranda sent the call for help and I hurried over to the
Inn. That work meant missing out on a
barbeque dinner at home with some bonus baseball friends and their kids over
for that too; but then Michael and I both ate on the fly when we needed to get
to our practices.
I mentioned that Aunt Leanne helped with
wedding work tonight; so she skipped baseball to do that; and Mom might miss
the practice next week instead – or they both will; depending on how close they
are to having everything ready for the wedding. I’m back there, and didn’t want to be; but let’s
pick all of that up with the next report – especially when we’ll have a lot
going on this weekend to get ready for the wedding and holiday weekend.
After the ball practice, some of us opted
to jump into the river to cool off. That
didn’t take long – between five and thirty seconds for all but one of us; and
then it was time for me to say goodnight to Michael and come home with Mom,
Ethan, and Ehlana. I got cleaned up and
changed; met up with them in the office; and we got to work or studying while
in a time phase. Mom let us work until
eleven; did a group Magi lesson with us; and then took care of getting the
twins tucked in for the night while I came up to my room and got back to work.
That reminds me that I haven’t mentioned
Silkie in a while, and just as I didn’t mention her bedtime run around the back
yard to take care of business; I also didn’t mention that she was at the park
for the evening too – splitting her time between hanging out with Mom, me, and
the twins – though she was with the twins and their friends most of the
time. My supposedly-short update is
getting a bit long-winded with these little side-trips; but that just says a
lot about how tired and diffused I am right now.
I went back to working in a time phase for
a while; switched to ‘real’ time when needed for the rest of my work and
studies; and wrapped up with one last email check. My language studies are rolling along nicely,
but the family business work was a bit frustrating tonight. That work would be so much easier if everyone
in the world would just start caring about everyone instead of having so many
looking out for number one and not caring who gets stepped on along the way to ‘winning’
at any cost.
That definitely isn’t a rant I want to get
started on while this tired, though, and I won’t bore you with the business
details; so I guess that’s it for tonight.
I expect another long, busy day tomorrow – especially if we have a big
turnout for game night at the Inn because of the new dining room too – which we
likely will have happen. That’s
something I can report on tomorrow, and that you can flip a digital page to
read about in my future; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
