running through August

I need someone to explain to me exactly how it became August 22 already. Wasn't the beginning of August like yesterday? This month is just flying by, but I'm fine with that as long as it takes all these triple-digit temperatures with it. The heat and the humidity are really not my favorite parts of living in the South.

I'm feeling very shy about blogging lately, which is just silly. Every time I start to think about sitting down to post here, I start running all my thoughts through a "Is this blog worthy?" filter, and nothing seems to be worth the time to write because I'm all boring and stupid and blah blah blah. It's crazy, so I'm just going to spill out some thoughts and run ahead of my internal editor.

Matt and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary on the 16th of this month. We drove to Colonial Williamsburg and spent a few days there before heading to Norfolk, Virginia for some sight-seeing. It was a very low-key celebration, and we had a great time just being silly together without all the distractions of home.

The fall semester started this week for grad school, so that's taken most of my attention. I'm usually really excited about the start of a new semester, but I'm not really feeling much of anything about this one. That's probably because the classes don't seem as interesting as others I've taken. I'm hoping they prove me wrong though and turn out great.

We're also looking for a new church, which is really weighing me down. I loved our last church, and I'm sad that a disagreement among some of the elders has turned everything into a huge mess. We were hanging on like the last people on a sinking ship, but with the pastor feeling led to move to another state, we decided that it was time for us to move on as well. One positive is that the church had moved several miles out of town after we started attending there, so maybe we'll find a church a little closer to home and make some new friends who live near us.

Speaking of friends, I have to say that even though my closest friends live a million miles away from me (feels that way sometimes at least :D), I'm really blessed to have them. I'm not always the best at keeping in touch because I go through these times where dealing with anyone other than family just completely tires me out or I convince myself that I'm just bothering people. Some of my friends are the same way, and it's good for all of us to remember that we're not alone and that we can have some quiet pauses in our friendships without the friendships themselves disappearing.

And I've obviously left that internal editor eating my dust, so I'll click "save" and then go take a little rest.