Now another year older...

And I still get told I look under 20, though not quite high school age anymore.  Oh well.  It's weird because I don't feel older, but who does?  Took my parents out for brunch(breakfast for mom, lunch for dad is the idea, though this time neither of them had eaten all day) and was going to pay when my dad stole the tab from me.  Same as last year...Sigh. Not that I mind too much, but it's supposed to be my  treat to celebrate their involvement in my birth.
Vacation to Island Park was fun but short, basically spent one day there then left. But floated a new river this time, and visited the lake(after waiting out a microburst) before heading back for dinner.  Had fun making smore's, my dad found these dark chocolate pretzel and nuts clusters that we tried.  Like the dark chocolate pretzel thins better, but worth a try anyway.
Mosquitoes were out in force, got bit three times in the car on my legs.  Now I'm having to avoid itching any of those areas. Plus one of them is on the only area I got a bit of a sunburn.  Sigh.  Double itch...
Second set of worksheet training turned in, but they want me to fix a few things and try again.  Doesn't help that what I sent to them got messed up so part of the problem doesn't show up on my copy...Grrr.  Rest should be simple.
Had our water cut off for most of the day yesterday so they could replace a valve near the storage tanks.  Not a big deal as there were only two of us home and one of us(my brother) was asleep most of that time anyway.  So I just avoided using any water from the tap for a few hours.
Started out as a sunny day today but by the time I finished rent work it had gotten cloudy and muggy again. Figures...

Muggy....

Though the 4th wasn't.  Glad I didn't have to do anything in the morning, just had a long boring shift at work. Sigh.  Heard and saw plenty of fireworks while closing up, then walked out into smoke thick enough to choke on-not fun after work-so I wasn't much in the mood to watch more when I finally got home.
Have a kind of 'final' interview for the Japan job, basically a repeat of the 'lesson' one plus a self intro in Japanese.  This is to determine where I'm placed as far as I can tell.  The lesson is the same as last time-think I'll just use paper and markers, the whiteboard doesn't show up on the camera well at all-just with a new person.
Really hope the whole sore for the rest of the day thing with rent work goes away soon, getting really tired of it.  Granted, doing hour and a half segments might have something to do with it...Only did an hour today and not nearly as sore.  Being laying pavers along the front flower garden, which is tricky but fun.  Have to dig up stuff that's spilled onto the driveway(almost a foot actually, with dirt) and a good six inches into the garden itself so the pavers aren't on the driveway either.  Good arm workout though...
Cloudy most of this week, bit of rain on tuesday, hence the 'muggy' title.  Makes me sweat differently(and more most of the time) while working outside. But it's not as hot....