Happy 4th Anniversary, Jake and
Stephanie!
Ethan:
We’re at the start of a new month, and
while there is lots of excitement happening on the Stone side of Cassie’s
family; we’ve had a fairly-quiet day here at our house. In addition to Jake and Stephanie’s
anniversary; Rebecca and Lucas took possession of the apartment they’ll be
renting for the rest of their years at college – something that works out
nicely for them now that Jen is married and staying home to run the
pizzeria! Cassie and Michael would have
loved to help them, but while they couldn’t; Rebecca and Lucas had lots of help
with the move – and it wasn’t as big a deal as it had been for Cassie, Michael,
Rowen, and Tim when they were furnishing two townhomes instead of one,
comparatively-small apartment.
While the Stone family was busy –
including, we expect, Cassie and Michael Stone; Ehlana and I had a play morning
at the lab after some chores we needed to get done ahead of our trip on
Saturday; we had another picnic and play afternoon with our friends at the park
and around town on the paths for the biking; and then we had more work to do
before and after dinner that included continuing to get ready for our
trip. May had some teen time – including
hanging out with Cody, but got home in time to watch a show with us in the lounge
before bedtime while Mom and Dad worked in the office; and now we’re heading
for bed to get a good night sleep because we won’t likely get a lot of sleep
tomorrow night. That’s entirely because
we’re going to be up very early for the drive to the airport to get May there
in time for her flight to Washington D.C. instead of due to Friday evening
plans, but we’re also going to spend some time with our family and friends too
before we leave for a week.
Okay, that’s all for me – I’m off to
dreamland now.
Ethan – out!
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Ehlana:
I should really try harder to beat Ethan to
the first update now and then! ;^)
He’s covered the main news of the day; so I’ll
only add a few side notes.
I haven’t done a general update for my
research at the lab in this journal lately; and that’s because I don’t really
have anything to report. After the cold
cure; we’re still in early stages of our other projects; and that always means
slow progress. Sure, it’s always
possible that we’ll get an unexpected breakthrough, but that hasn’t happened;
and the long series of research failures would bore most archive readers; so I
won’t go there. On the friends’ play
time; I’ll add that we’ve had a good week in part because we’re going on the
trip next week; so we’re making the extra effort to make good memories with our
friends and avoid the drama moments.
That isn’t always easy when some of our friends really want to antagonize
each other and have fun doing that too, but we like it better when we’re all
happy for positive reasons instead – and we mostly got to have that again
today. We didn’t really have any major involvement
in Jake and Stephanie’s anniversary, but delivered gifts and cards; and hope
that they’re enjoying their celebration while taking their usual days off from
the Inn. We saw Rebecca and Lucas before
they left this morning to take possession of their apartment, and they’re happy
too; so we can be happy for them – and appreciate the additional precedents
being set for future college students! ;^)
I think that’s all for me; we really do
need to get the sleep while we can – especially when we’ll be dealing with a
time zone jump on Saturday night; so I’ll move on to call it a day and get
started on that nap time.
This is Ehlana Proctor; coming to you live
from what is now my past!
