August

August is my favorite month for many reasons: it is the month my parents were married, the month I was born, I love St. Augustine and I love the season, the end of summer.

My parent's celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary yesterday, the 21st of August. They are the most amazing people in the world!

I love my birthday :) Every year until I went to college I celebrated my birthday with my two best friends, Shannon and Elizabeth. They would come over and we would camp out in my backyard and the next day we would go apple picking. We would pick bags and bags of apples. The following week my mom and I would bake apple pies!
Since college my birthday's have not been as sentimental, while in college I still went apple picking, on my 19th birthday I got a piercing and tried chewing tobacco (no idea why) and threw up. My 20th birthday I went out with my friends. My 21st birthday I had just returned from a trip to Ireland and no one knew I was home so my roommate and I went out to celebrate :) My 22nd I had a hawaiian themed birthday party and made my own lei. My 23rd I spent with my brother in law at the Fireside and got a huge blister on the walk home. My 24th I helped my friend David move. My 25th Kevin sent me a gorgeous bouquet of flowers because I had never recieved proper flowers and my sister made me a birthday spaghetti pie. My roommate and I went out downtown and danced all night. 

This year I decided that I am going to celebrate my birthday for the entire month. I have been making myself get out and do stuff. We kicked it off with Arctic Monkey's at stubbs. It was so hot and dusty but it was a lot of fun. I already feel older because we couldnt even make it the whole night, we were tired and left early. I helped Kevin move and I had a blast riding the moving equipment around the storage unit. I got a massage and mani/pedi. My sister and went to flix brewhouse for a movie and I am looking forward to my birthday dinner :) My big birthday present to myself is a helicopter lesson which I will take in September.

St. Augustine: First of all he was born in Numidia, so he rocks! He did not become a Chrsitian until his 30s, but began his philosophical studies in his 20s....while writing this I have gone off on a tangent and am currently confusing myself trying to understand heretics of the early church. Anyways, I grew up learning about St. Augustine, and I most identify with his love of church music.

Season: I love the end of summer heat. It is always the warmest in August and I love it, everything seems brighter and I like hanging on to the last few days of summer. I love New England in August, especially fishing at 4:00 in the morning. 

On a side note - In Texas it is death heat and I have stopped running and am using the crappy eliptical machine for a cardio workout. I also keep my apartment at 85 degrees now and am going to freeze this fall when it is 75 rather than 105 which is just absurd!

All in all it has been a great August and I look forward to these last two weeks :)