Our movie night ended up being for one
movie; the sofa sleepover was junior-camper-rated fun; and we’ve had a good day
– if not a very exciting one by comparison to shopping in the city and getting
to play Magi superhero with my best friend! ;^)
We had fun this morning – both at home and
church; and then Michael and I worked the full shift at the Inn. I did the lunch shift to help out with the
shortage due to flu and cold season, and while Michael and I had a normal
afternoon break; we did our weekend homework during most of that time off. The buffet-to-close part of the shift wasn’t
too crazy, but we were busy; and didn’t get out of the Inn until shortly before
ten o’clock. I walked Michael home; only
stayed long-enough to say goodnight to him in a non-verbal sort of way; and
then Mom did a Magi lesson with me while Dad finished up his homework – and before
I came up to bed and got to work on my computer. That was too-long ago, and I’m not going to
get much sleep; but I got everything done; and should be able to stay ahead of
the workload all week.
I should just wrap this up and get some
sleep, but there are a few things about that near-crash that I’ve been thinking
about all day and want to mention here; since they’re issues that all Magi have
to deal with.
First, and certainly in no order of
importance; Rowen and I can’t talk about what we did with very many
people. I can’t even tell Michael; since
he doesn’t know about Rowen. She can
pretty much only talk about it with her grandmother or my parents – and probably
won’t do that unless we do that together.
This isn’t something I’m mentioning because of pride; and we’d never
brag about something like that – no matter how cool it was! I do think that it’s too bad that we can’t
talk about things like this freely with other Magi. We can learn a lot from each other and our
unique experiences. I get that we can’t
all just go out there and start running around doing super good deeds, but
there are times when we could do more; and either can’t or are too afraid to
act in an emergency situation.
That brings me to my next point – that the
situation would have been very different if the boys had been with us – or I’d
been there with a vanload of kids – like for the Christmas shopping trip. It’s too easy for me to imagine watching that
accident happen and being unable to stop it.
I don’t know if that’s a choice I could make or not, but it’s something
to think about; since the consequences for doing something like that and
exposing our secret could be even more serious.
When it comes to the actual incident, when
I talked about it with Mom and Dad tonight; they pointed out how impressive it
was that we did as much as we did so quickly – and I hadn’t even thought about
it at the time; but I navigated that ice patch and the traffic around us while working
with multiple power weaves and tasks.
Rowen and I worked together so well too; and that’s despite the fact
that we haven’t done all that many lessons together recently while we’re both
so busy. Sure, we still manage to have a
bit of Magi play time now and then; but really don’t have that many
opportunities to do that either.
Finally, for tonight; Mom wants me to think
about dealing with potential exposure risks for us because of technology. One obvious example is the cameras in every
smart phone. Miracles caught on camera
would be a problem, and while we weren’t waving magic wands around or shouting
out spells; we wouldn’t want to draw any unwanted attention our way. I don’t have any answers for that; but I will
think about it.
Okay, I guess that’s enough for
tonight. I really need the bit of nap
time I have left, and that’s all the news for today; so, until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
