The madness of August

This is one of those posts in which I hope to subsconsciously lower your expectations. But August really has gone crazy. On the first weekend of the month I was away until the Saturday. Admittedly that was a holiday, but not a holiday in which I actually got done anything that needed to be done. Then I went to Canberra the next weekend. This was not the best of timing but I had been intending a visit since December last year, and so I finally made it. It was very pleasant, but neither washing, cleaning or personal admin happened when I was there, obviously. Then on the weekend just gone was our church camp. There weren't a whole lot of people there - considerably less than half the congregation I'd say - which was something of a shame but made it very low key and really quite relaxing, only same problem as before in that I just wasn't doing anything at all at home. Now next weekend I am going to the ENGAGE conference up at Katoomba. So that makes this coming weekend the only one of five in August that I am home, and it is full of things to go to and stuff to do. It's madness. The thing about going away for the weekend is that you sort of lose the Thursday night too, in getting ready to exit straight after work Friday etc, and it feels like days around it just get smothered in the catch up. And so August seems to have just disappeared.