100+

This has been the hottest summer I can remember! This summer we have had 40+ days of 100+ degree temperatures! But not gonna lie, I don't really mind too much. I don't like the cold very much, so the heat is just fine with me!

One fun thing you can do when it gets this hot is bake cookies. I know, I know, bake in a hot kitchen when it's practically baking outside?! But actually, you can bake outside..........in your car! Just put the car in full sun and put the cookie sheet in the dash with all doors and windows sealed for about 2 hours, longer if it's not so hot, shorter if it's 109 like it has been here! Just a warning: they won't turn out brown and smooth like oven-baked cookies, so if you wait for them to turn brown you will have hard, dry cookies! They will still look like cookie dough, so just look for them to be mostly dry looking and check them if you're not sure. Just don't let too much heat out!

Thursday was my last day to watch the girls. I've been babysitting them for 2 years now almost every weekday for at least 2 hours, it's going to be strange to not see them! I am happy-sad, I am really going to miss them and all the random crazy things we did, but I am not going to miss trying to get them to practice piano and clean up their lunch dishes! I guess that's how life goes, eventually everything moves on!

I've also had my last day at the jewelry store Wednesday. I went in to teach the next girl how to maintain the books and file the paperwork, which took a long time because there are 2 programs and several steps for each transaction. The hardest part is putting each transaction in a category, such as supplies or utilities, because the list is a mess with extras and strange wording. The files are the same way; it's an adventure trying to figure out where to file something! Hopefully she'll be able to wade through the mess (which I did not create, I just inherited!) without too much trouble.

Now that I'm finished with all my jobs, I've got to find a new one! I've never had to apply for a job, because both the babysitting and the jewelry store jobs were given me by a recommendation, so I'm a little nervous about getting a job. I just hope I can find something that's not in food service or heavy people contact! (I'm not much of a people person)

The rest of the week has proved to be quite crazy! Yesterday, being my birthday and the wedding of my small group leader and the tax-free weekend, was rather hectic. I did get a way fancier party on my birthday than I could have ever had otherwise, lol!

Props if you actually made it to the end of of this post, I tend to ramble when I have a lot on my mind :)