August Montage.

In an effort to actually blog about the past month, I have decided to put a different spin on things and create a montage of events rather than just going through everything. That would be pretty boring. It's my first shot at this and it would be much cooler if it was small clips of everything, like they do in movies, but since I'm not an editor, this is all I got...

In the past month I...

Flew from LA to NY, spend a rainy week in NJ where my (almost)entire family was on the east coast for the first time in ten years, flew from NY to Denver on one of the bumpiest and scariest flights of my life, flew from Denver to Vail in the smallest plane ever and experiencing the worst turbulence of my entire life, prayed for 25 straight minutes on the smallest plane ever, experienced all that Vail has to offer including beautiful sights and 3 days of altitude sickness, explored Vail with two rowdy little girls, learned just how hard it is to clean up 3 cans of silly string off hardwood floors, ate french fries for dinner 5 nights in a row, drove from Vail to Denver with 4 people (2 being kids) and 9 suitcases, ate McDonalds french fries in the Denver airport, flew from Denver to LA with two kids, ate an entire package of chocolate on the two hour flight from Denver to LA, experienced the worst ear pain of my life, lost three pounds, slept a total of 8 hours in 4 days, learned how to french braid hair, learned how to bake a multi-level multi-colored Kosher/Organic birthday cake from scratch, did 345 loads of laundry, read exactly 6 pages of my new book, slept for 14 hours straight one weekend, tried to fight a Paparazzi, got soaking wet in a dirty fountain, carried a sleeping kid from the dinner table to bed approximately three times in one week, spent an entire weekend with 4 kids at an Oxnard beach house, listened to massive amounts of Bon Iver, drank fresh squeezed juice in Malibu with one of my favorite people, saw an amazing movie with my amazing boyfriend, cried exactly once, laughed more times than I can count, saw all of my friends graduate from USM, hugged more people than I can count, got yelled at by three different women at a Kosher market, learned how to make pumpkin chocolate chip bread, swam exactly once, lived off avocado and hummus for 6 days in a row, said goodbye to my childhood house, saw/experienced hail for the first time in years, got free food on a Virgin America flight because it was the 7th time I had been on a flight with one particular flight attendant, listened to Tom Petty (and fell in love), committed to going to Hawaii, got a raise, got a new bag that I love, said "I love you" at least 50 times, ate the best tortilla soup ever, watched a few good movies, watched a few bad movies, watched the entire first and second seasons of Gossip Girl, burned more incense than I can count, and decided I want to live in Topanga.

Goodbye August, it's been real. Hello September, let's do this thing!