August 17th, 2010 by Kateastrophe

Have I ever mentioned that August is my least favorite month?  Maybe last year when I think I said it a hundred times and then I lost my job?  Yeah.  August and I?  Don’t really “mesh.”  C Jane even agrees with me (though I think she’s doing a better job at fixing her August dislikes than I am).

Arizona sort of exasterbates the problem.

Why, you ask?  Because August is hot everywhere in the US but in Phoenix?  It’s sort of like we’ve reached the seventh level of Hell.  Plus it’s monsoon season so our usual dry heat turns to humid mugginess.  This all translates to sweaty hotness.

Also, school starts in August.  In my planet, school starting equals HORRIBLE traffic.  Just driving down the parkway toward the freeway from my house, I had three giant SUVs cut me off because they almost missed their turns to get their munchkins to school.  It didn’t really start my morning off right, if you know what I mean.  On top of neighborhood traffic, I work near the two biggest private schools in town plus a bunch of other smaller ones PLUS a few more public schools and I’m sure there are 850 charter schools thrown into the mix and ohmygosh it’s like the number of cars on the road quadruples.  When the snowbirds head back down here in about a month I think I might just open a vein.

I feel badly about not liking August.  Matt’s birthday is the 24th and on top of his being the HARDEST PERSON TO BUY PRESENT FOR EVER, IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY (Example:  the things wants?  Cost like $15,000.  I’m not even joking.  He doesn’t ask for them, they’re just the things I know he wants - and isn’t getting) I am just sort of burnt out in August.  His presents are never a surprise.  I never know what to get him and after the pressure washer “incident” I’ll never be assuming I just bought the greatest present for him EVER again.

On top of August just being a generally sucky month, last week Matt’s sweet Aunt Lorma, who was a knitting, cooking, painting, crafting, amazingness machine, slipped on some stairs at her daughters house and hit her head.  The hospital missed the intracranial bleeding she had between her brain hemispheres and her brain started swelling, unknown to anyone.  She went to bed that night and never woke up.  It’s devastating for so many reasons and we’re missing her already.  I can’t say enough prayers that her family will be OK and comforted right now.

I was ready for August to be over on about the 5th.  I need this month to hurry up and be over already because I have big plans for September.