Before I get into the news of the day, I
just can’t resist taking another swing at meteorologists and news reporters
over the silliness of polar vortices and the rest of the weather hype.
Give me a break! It’s January in the northern hemisphere; so
it gets cold. This hasn’t been an
abnormal winter so far; and it’s ridiculous to essentially get people worked up
over non-events. Yes, it has been cold today;
but not even remotely worthy of yet another winter weather warning. If the news media keeps freaking out over the
slightest little cold front and every time we get more than a dusting of snow;
where are they going to go from there if we actually do get a real snowstorm?
Oh right, we saw what happens with that
storm in Buffalo. The media everywhere
went nuts over it; and the people living there mostly tried to have fun with it
– since freaking out was pointless.
Reporters in general ought to take a hint from that too. What I remember most from that storm isn’t
anything I saw, heard, or read on the news networks or papers – it was the
social media pictures of people making beer fridges in the snow piled up
outside of their front or back doors.
Anyway, that’s enough of a rant for today;
so let’s get on with the update and news of the day.
First up today on the news front is the
start of winter weight training for Tim and Michael. They were a group of two for that today; and
there apparently wasn’t much interest from the rest of the guys on the football
team for doing that this year. Tim
obviously doesn’t have the same pull with the other guys that Kyle had when he
was here; though they will have some guys join them soon. Lucas wants to work out with them; but needs
to work out the early-morning rides into town.
The senior guys don’t care, since they won’t be playing football next
season anyway; the Grade Eleven guys are all two-time champions and don’t think
they need to do the extra work; and the Grade Ten guys are following the lead
of Jason Johnson and a couple of the other guys, so they won’t likely be
training with Tim and Michael at all. He
does expect that some of the guys in our grade will start working out with them
soon – or at least the guys that are serious about playing football next season
will do it after seeing it work for Michael and Tim last year.
Michael is once again doing that training
with Tim because his best friend wants to do it; but they have fun too. Although it won’t get in the way of our
morning Tai Chi, the extra workout does make Michael’s mornings very busy now;
so I doubt he’ll be having breakfast with us very often for the next few
months. It also meant that Rowen and I
met up with him at school instead of walking there together; and Tim was as
pumped up about that first workout as he was from the exercise. I’m glad that he’s already so optimistic
about next season, but I’d be okay with taking a football break too – until August. That won’t happen, but a girl can dream!
The only news I have from school today is
that we worked on exam preparation in every class; and then we were able to go
home after school and study because we didn’t have a band practice this
week. We also didn’t have teen praise
team practice tonight; so Michael and I were able to spend the evening at my
house – and have a nice visit with my grandparents, Uncle Adam, Aunt Leanne,
Zack, Violet, and Dillon. Rowen and Tim
had come home with us for the homework part of our day; but then they left
again once we were finished out assignments – shortly after Grandma and Grandpa
got to the house and I was drafted to help out in the kitchen.
The hang out time with my family was great;
we had a nice pasta and sides dinner; and the highlight of the night for
Michael, Ethan, Ehlana, and me was the newsflash that Mom and Dad were working
on a March Break adventure for us – in Florida!
We have to keep that news to ourselves for now, but Grandma and Grandpa
will be in Florida by then; Uncle Adam, Aunt Leanne, and Zack are coming too;
and so are Rowen, Tim, Naomi, and Aiden.
They’ll find out next week, and we’re saving up that surprise because going
with us for the trip is also going to be our gift to Naomi for her fourth
birthday. Mom’s birthday is that week
too; so it is definitely going to be a best week ever so far kind of adventure
for all of us; and I can hardly wait!
Our guests didn’t stay too late tonight,
but Michael stayed after everyone else left so that Mom could do a Magi lesson
with both of us while Dad worked and Ethan and Ehlana did some college
studying. I would have liked to have
some alone time with him too, but Michael went home after our lesson so that I
could get started on my studies and work.
I multi-tasked that with some Jacuzzi time while doing my language studies;
moved on to my archive homework after I was in bed with Mandy; and wrapped up
with the family business work before doing a last round of computer checks and
starting this journal update.
Even with starting a bit earlier than
expected, it’s still past-three; and I’m ready to go into nap mode for a
while. We’re back to our weekly after-school
work day tomorrow, so I’ll be able to do my studies and work early; and maybe I’ll
be able to catch up on my sleep too instead of doing the morning self-healing
thing that I’ll be doing for the second time this week in a few hours. I really do need a better time management
plan, but I say that way too often; and don’t end up changing anything.
Thinking about that now isn’t going to get
me any more sleep tonight either, though, so I’m going to save that for another
time and call it a night. Until next
time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
