**This post was supposed to go live this morning but WordPress was down and I had to leave for the day, as you will see below. So – since this is a time sensitive post…. and will make no sense in a couple of days, I am posting it now. 😀
(as told at 7 am this morning):
I am sitting here sipping coffee This is the kick off to a busy, crazy, fun and wild month.
- Today we move college son back to Mankato into his apartment he is renting with a friend. Yes, Mankato Minnesota is the one and the same “Big town” where the Ingall’s family would go shopping for supplies. 🙂
- Today starts the Game On Diet – 30 days….. I am hopeful I will do well. To follow this journey I have made a journal on my sidebar… Game On!
- Next weekend Aug. 7-8 is the 150 mile bike ride for a camp in Brainerd that is for children with Aids. This will be my second year doing this ride.
- Aug. 10 I am in Minneapolis for the day training for my job on a software program, sadly that is the same day as my book club meets and I am more than likely going to miss attending. I really dislike missing book club.
- August 21 is a 75 mile bike ride through Itasca Park and I will be doing this one with Wendy. This was a beautiful ride last year and I am so excited to be on this one.
- August 22 – 24 I am up at Mink Lake Camp in Grand Marais Minnesota for Leadership training
- Somewhere in there I am hoping to get tickets to Wicked which will be performing in Minneapolis. I had tickets two years ago when they were here and a friend of mine decided to get married on that day and I was in her wedding so I gave my ticket away.
What does August look like for you?
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LOL, I have to admit that whenever you mention Mankato, I can’t help thinking of the Ingalls family! Looks like you’ve got a pretty crazy August coming up. As for me, I don’t have too much lined up as of yet, but that could be a good thing for my poor, oft-neglected blog (not to mention the overflowing shelves….).
Megan I called my twenty year old son Almanzo this morning. He Didn’t get it. How annoying. 🙄 LOL
You have a busy month ahead of you! I am impressed about the 75 mile bike ride let alone the 150 mile bike ride for charity. That is awesome!
I had to smile when I saw the Little House on the Prairie reference. I loved the books and the show although it had already ended by the time I started watching as a kid in the mid-late 80s.
July was my busy month but so far in August I have family from Canada staying with me this week and then my birthday later this month. I am also participating in a read a thon.
I wish I could do a read a thon Christina – I could use one, but nothing slows down now until the second week of September…. oh wait – no, that’s my serving week – I mean the third week of September 😀
What a fun journey!
I thought something was wrong with Word Press today…I was hoping I hadn’t made a mistake by moving one of my Blogger blogs here….lol..
Your August sounds great.
I have a book signing on the 14th, with some of us Central Valley authors.
I hope to make it to the beach!
A book signing – how fun Laurel! 😀
What a crazy August you have–but, as always–you approach with such positive energy! Take plenty of books along on your out-of-town training sessions! It’s back to school for those of your readers who are teachers at the end of August–these last three weeks are jam-packed with beginning the spring cleaning one hoped to begin in June, daytime book group meetings at local outdoor patio lunch places, catching up with yard work (never-ending!), getting in those stray doctor/dental appointments, a bit of back to school shopping, cooking with all of the fresh fruit/vegetable bounty here in the midwest, and finding time for the exercise plans we promised ourselves to begin two months ago. I envy your bike rides, but I am way out of shape for a 75-mile ride these days!
Linda I did not do as many bike rides as I had hoped this summer – seems like whenever there is a beautiful day (like today) I am stuck in a car traveling somewhere….. hmmm… something in not right about that! 😀
Wow!! You are busy!!
For me . . . I’ve got my son starting Kindergarten (and I’m a nervous mom!), and I’ve got students starting at the university where I work, and then I’ve got a class that I am teaching starting as well (and I don’t have the syllabus done for)! It’s going to be a busy month for me too now that I think of it! GULP!
Oh a kindergartner! Tif I remember those days – its exciting, and scary and a little sad too….. growing up. 😀 But what a time of memories!
I really don’t like being overly booked. I am more comfortable with open schedules…. I think I get a little claustrophobic when I look at a calender filled with “have to’s” – even when they are fun have to’s.
I checked out the Game On diet book at the library. Haven’t had a chance to look through it yet. good luck! I may be joining in on the down low. 🙂
I wanted to go to Wicked so bad last year when it came to Nashville, but the funds were just not available. I hope it will come back and I will get another chance.
Michelle I heard the play is fantastic. I have to go this time…. I must…. I really want to…. (ok, I hope to!) 😀
Boy, August does sound busy for you. July was my busy month. I’m hoping August will be more quiet and relaxing which lends itself to more time to read. 🙂 Like Megan, when you mentioned Mankato, I thought of Little House. Growing up, my family watched the show together and I read all of the books. I admit to catching it on Hallmark now and then while on my treadmill. They don’t make shows like that anymore, that’s for sure. Happy Monday!
I used to watch it all the time too Jill… I think as a child I never realized that “hey, that’s Minnesota!” LOL
Now I want to read all three of the books out by the actors that were in LHOTP. I would love to know what their experiences were like.
We leave midweek for Hutchmoot, and then later this month we’re taking a long weekend and driving back to Northwest Arkansas. Oh, and we may start obedience classes with/for Maisie this month, too. Sounds plenty busy to me! But fun, as does yours. 😀
That is busy Hannah! Where did the carefree Summer go? 😀
I know, I know. But we don’t really live on a school-year schedule around here. And all the trips are good ones, too. 😀
Sounds like you are going to be busy. I find that now that I no longer work, time has slowed down for the Kelly household..well for me anyway, hubby is always running around doing something. He is on the City Council as Alderman. Every year in August for the past 10+ years we have been going to Milwaukee Irish Fest. Hubby has to work that weekend so we will be going to the Irish Fair in St.Paul instead…should be fun…stay safe in your travels!!!
Celtic Lady – the Irish Fest – that sounds fun 😀
August is shaping up to be the month of painting, drywalling, sanding…oh, so much fun 😀 Plus a good book here and there!
I have some projects I really need to get working on too Staci, in the Game On Diet we are suppose to pick up a good habit a day and lose one a day – I need to start adding a project a day (big or small) to my list…. 😀
I swear I get exhausted just reading about your hectic lifestyle, Sheila! Where on earth do you find the time to work, be a mum, do charity work, bike ride and still read and blog so much – you are superwoman and I am in awe.
My August consists of looking for a new job (hate mine), having the in-laws to stay and going to Turkey for a week at the end of it…….and of course reading lots of books 🙂
Book Whisperer, I dont know where it comes from…. well maybe I do. I think there is a book in there somewhere 😀
Oh and going to Turkey? How amazing!!! Take lots of pics!
You can’t miss our special August book club! Noooooooooooo!!
Angie – I know – I hate that… I just dont think I will make it back int time. My conference goes until 5:30 and I am in the cities 😦
I am totally exhausted just reading this…you are the queen of multitasking…do you ever just want to slow down?
Every evening Patty. I like to get everything done and then at the end of the day – I just melt into a chair with a book or my laptop. 😀 If Al is home – we will watch a show together.
I don’t think we have anything planned for August except getting through it. My little brother and my sister-in-laws birthday are both in this month though, so who knows?
This is a relatively quiet month. Maybe I can actually get something done. One can dream. I need to diet and start exercising, preferably walking. It is just too hot and there is no safe place to walk or ride nearby. We’ll see what we can work out. Would swim, but it is 15 to 20 miles to the nearest pool. I am really good at excuses.