And then August happened

Out my window: The crickets are singing and still partly cloudy from all the rain from the past couple of days. My porch is looking pretty abysmal...it's on my to-do list.

Clothing myself in: jeans, a green maurice's top

Around the apartment: Since beginning to use my new planner and using my bullet journal portion to fill my days with better goodness, I have started to resolve to "clean" each day. Some days that looks like just doing the dishes, or getting the vacuuming done, but gosh darn, it's nicer than letting it pile up for one day a week like I so often do.

The hubby: is once again a year-older numberwise than me for a few months. We celebrated a couple weeks ago with family. I got him a membership to the Dollar Shaving Club, as well as a few Lego Star Wars ships to put together and a little Ewok keychain...all because I shattered his nerd heart a few weeks ago with trying to remember what they were called and referring to them as "baby wookies." I knew it would rile him a little bit, so now every time he sees it he can think of me ;-)
  
In the kitchen: Trying to get back in the swing of things post summer craziness.

Crafting: Another of my bullet journal goals is to work on a good leisure hobby each day, whether that be piano, reading, genealogy, or coloring. I've been making more progress in my coloring book from last Christmas in this realm.

Learning: that learning at my job is not done by a longshot. All of this beginning of the school year and fall semester stuff is still all new to me, so I'm getting nervous about the school year programs starting up.

Reading: Rereading Les Miz. Last I read it was high school, so it's been a while. Just finished Book 1 on the Monseigneur this weekend, looking forward to having Jean Valjean introduced. Still slowly working through "I Will Give Them a New Heart."

Watching: I watched the Olympics pretty regularly until life got busy again during the second week of Olympics. A few sleepy documentary series on Irish castles, the history of math, and stolen art. I tried an episode of the new Netflix series The Get Down, but waaaaay too much cursing and innuendo for my taste, and that was just half an episode. I thought about finishing the episode, but Matt came home in the middle of it from work and I started getting our supper ready and I decided it just wasn't worth it to finish it.
   
Bringing me joy: celebrating my guy's birthday :-)

Thinking about: all the PSR/youth group stuff. All of it. So much happening so soon!

Pictures to share: Ugh. I'm so bad at this.

St. Addal

catholic.org

1. This is a second-generation Christian that I did not know about before..always cool to learn about early Christians!
2. Legend is that St. Thomas the Apostle sent Addal to cure and convert a king in modern-day Turkey.
3. He spent his life serving as a missionary, and is honored by the Persian and Syrian churches as a martyr of the faith.