Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Is It Over Yet?

Where has this month gone?

Other than eight days dedicated to visiting family, our anniversary, seven more days of visiting family, back-to-school shopping, the start of school, the start of fall planting, a family birthday, a family birth-day, a reunion with a newly nearly-local cousin I haven't seen since the year I got married, and the deadline for part one of a writing assignment I received back in March...

Not to mention baking bread several times, sending spontaneous fun packages to a couple of friends, changing my plans for where Rooster would attend kindergarten, deciding to enroll Lu at Mother's Day Out once a week, attempting to determine a new direction for my blog, considering becoming a locavore, and just generally getting excited about all the upcoming opportunities wafting to me on the fallish breeze...

Trudging through a final month of chaos with everyone.home.all.day...

Getting an offer to contribute to a regular online publication right up my alley...

Learning of a friend's highly anticipated pregnancy...

A difficult interaction with another friend that left me reeling for days...

Having my heart broken by yet another friend's completely unexpected cancer discovery...

And, just to top it all off, getting barfed all over my freshly showered, last-set-of-clean-clothes self this afternoon by my poor feverish baby, who is sleeping very restlessly this night...

I wonder where the time went, and why I feel a little post-roller-coaster whiplash!

I'd post photos, but my external drive dedicated to photos is about to die so I'm afraid to turn it on again until I am ready to back it up immediately. And since iPhoto can't seem to figure out how to download my camera without finding the photo library, the images of baby, relatives, and some really cool bugs will have to wait.

I have reached the finish line of August with my writing deadline accomplished... except today I suddenly realized the deadline for part one was August 1, not September 1. Dang. Novice freelancer mistake, I hope they still want my work now that I've completely buried myself in Israel's unattractive period of the Judges for the past two weeks.

The entire month of September is committed to completing the remaining four lessons of this project on Judges by October 1. Assuming they didn't reassign the job when they didn't receive Lesson One a month ago. But considering the competition for this subject matter, I think I have good odds. I'm either going to be completely depressed about human nature by the end of it, or completely grateful for the grace of God that spares us from ourselves when we behave in stubborn, self-serving ways.

So if fire and brimstone happen to be the only themes that leak out of me for the next four weeks, perhaps you can understand why. At least I'll have all those other fun things like gardening and fall baking to help balance the subject matter.

So long, August. It's been fun, but I can't take any more. I'm moving on.

September, I'll deal with you when you get here. For now, I'm on a break. If the baby sleeps tonight.

2 comments:

  1. if i lived just a tad closer i'd come play so you could take a nice...long..nap...

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  2. Ah, my kindred spirit! I'm on a break between August and September with you! Can we go back to July? That's my home. I like it there.

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