August.
Or, as I like to call it, “Ugh-ist.”
Never my favorite month. Except
for the birthdays of some loved ones (hi, guys!), August is a month I just try
to survive, and I have a long history of complaining about it every year
here on Catching Happiness. See “August Monday Musings,” “Feeling the Heat,” or “In Which I Compare Myself to a Horse.”
But 2020 has been such a strange year, and while this August
is…weird to say the least, for me personally, it’s better than the past few
years. Last summer, Tank had a serious hoof condition and was lame, and my
husband’s truck engine blew. The year before that I was stressed out about
moving Tank to a new barn and our son had been forced to move home
temporarily. And the year before that,
Tank had an abscessed tooth that required twice-a-day doctoring. This month,
fingers crossed, I’m just dealing with ordinary, day-to-day stuff. For which I
am very, very grateful.
Despite my typical lack of energy in August, I have been
participating in some challenges this month: the KonMari 8-Week Tidy Challenge
and Susannah Conway’s #augustbreak2020 Instagram challenge. I’m doing them both
imperfectly, and that’s OK. I’ve probably missed more days than I’ve posted on
Instagram, but I’m allowing myself to take it easy. (See my posts here.) I’m a
bit bogged down with tidying my books (is anyone surprised?), but I’m making
progress. Slow, languid, August progress, but progress nonetheless.
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| In progress... |
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| Tidied |
I feel like that’s a lesson I can learn this year: keep
trying. Do it imperfectly, but don’t give up. Soften.
I hope that you have been able to enjoy some of summer’s
simple pleasures, and that you’re experiencing August progress. Tell me about
what you’ve been up to in the comments!
