Um, hello? August?! Is that you? Why are you here and where did summer go already? It feels like yesterday that I was exclaiming in early May how badly this season of rest was needed and how I couldn’t wait to recharge and refresh. Oh hah hah hah, and then summer took me by storm and now it is August and Cru staff (aka my other awesome job) starts in two days and whew, need. to. catch. my. breath.

This week holds a staff retreat (which I’m sure will hold all the things I hoped my summer would, wrapped up in to two days), the last of my summer wedding season(!!!), and many more hours in front of the computer, getting lost in pretty images and letting Michael Buble serenade my productiveness. But to be honest, right now I’m being serenaded by the call waiting Light Jazz that David for some reason has on speakerphone. Oof. This past week held a beautiful Norfolk wedding, seeing lotsa friends, making slow updates to our littlebutbigger home, and more pop culture addictions.

Get ready for some feels:

• I am officially addicted to @carolinecalloway ‘s instagram account. What started as a misclick because the caption read “REAL LIFE HOGWARTS” turned into hours reading her stories about her fabulous and embarrassing and heartbreaking and ridiculous life. Check it out. You will not be disappointed.
• The great migration back to Radford has officially begun! Friends are coming back after the summer away, and scores and scores of old friends are moving back to the area! Eek, nothing makes me excited like friends, friends, friends.
• I think I may have read too many books this summer…I don’t know if that is a possible thing, but oh my, it feels like it is. I’ve read, reread, and sought out many books and my book wish list is growing rapidly. It does not help that I read them in several hours and then immediately crave more fiction.
• What on earth took me so long to watch Sherlock? I watched a Study in Pink last night with David, guessed the ending, fell in love with Watson, and now I’m hooked.

There’s so much more I could ramble about, but I’m leaving it here. Joanna and Nathan’s wedding is not one to be missed.