September Love

I love September. Always have.

As a nerdy kid who lived 20 minutes away from school, I never saw most school friends over the summer. I liked school, love school supplies (notice that's still present tense!), and socialized at school. September meant school starting up again. Never a fan of hot-hot temperatures, September means cooler weather. My birthday is September 27th - and I have always loved my birthday.

I started this September off with FOUR days off in a row. I added a Friday vacation day off before Labor Day weekend. C went away to his caving/camping trip, so I had the house all to myself. Nothing to do but watch movies and crochet, get my walk in every day in the morning before it started sweltering. So that's exactly what I did. I made lots of progress on my three ongoing projects. I really like having the three projects going at the same time. That way, when I get a section done on one, I move to a different project.

One day I spent a while with E. He is a mostly agreeable, hilarious companion. He had an idea for me to make a video of him playing his videogame to post on YouTube. I don't have a video camera, I told him. He answered that we should go to the Dollar Store and get one. So I tried to explain that things like video cameras and flatscreen TVs and computers aren't at the Dollar Store. He thought we should try anyway! ... We like going to movies together, and he said he's like to see "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" again - so we went. I told E that I don't like scary movies since they give me bad dreams. Sitting and waiting for the movie to begin, he told me, "Grammy, if you get too scared, you can put your head on my shoulder." {SO SWEET!!!} Then, during a scary part of the movie, I did lay my head his skinny little shoulder - and he patted my arm. Such a tender, sweet, funny, wonderful boy.

And of course, there is the Wedding this Saturday! My beautiful Jessica marrying her James, with E walking her down the aisle. She has done a fabulous job organizing and planning and preparing for the Grand Event. I truly hope it will all go smoothly and that they all have only joy and happiness for ever and ever.