Thursday Thirteen #11: August Wrap Up

This is the August Wrap up. 13 very significant days this month.

1. I made 3 years with The Company. 8/1
2. I am finally divorced. My great grandmother’s funeral. 8/2
3. I sent my son off to start Kindergarten. I didn’t cry or have a panic attack. 8/5
4. I began the process of changing my name – e.g. my SSN#, driver’s license, bank accounts, etc. My son also gave me a heart attack because he didn’t get off the bus and the bus driver thought he was on the wrong bus. 8/5
5. FINALLY convinced Preston to get rid of his crappy 95 Honda Accord. Nothing wrong with it, just don’t like Honda. 8/10
6. We traded in 3 of our 7 cars – 2001 Volkswagen Jetta, 99 Chevy Blazer, 95 Honda Accord. Yes, all our cars run, legal, and insured. Insane huh? Preston bought me a 2004 Toyota 4Runner for my birthday. 8/13
7. I turned 24 years old. 8/16
8. I celebrated my birthday with 4 other family members of which I didn’t even know they birthdays fell in August. Hell I only knew 3 of the 4 people on that cake. But it was awesome. 8/17
9. I attended my first official open house and school book fair, as a parent. o.O I finally bought my son a Recaro Car Seat, w00t! 8/20
10. I bought supplies to start a hobby of soap making. 8/23
11. We went to the beach twice on complete opposite sides of the island. I hate the beach. But I had fun. 8/23-24
12. I attempted to body board and ate shit failed, but it was TONS of fun. 8/24
13. Best one, I had my son for the last 5 weeks. J. always had an excuse ….. reason ….erm…. screw it, he was always too busy to pick him up. 7/20-8/28

I write it out it seems like I had on hell of a busy month. I guess I did, it went by pretty fast.