Your mission, should you chose to accept it....

This heat is insane. How can it be this hot all the time? Jeeze. I am counting down the days until fall, hurry up and get here! Went to the pool today and came back looking like this:

 

Please excuse my creepy long fingers. This photo really doesn't do my lobsterness justice. I'm a very lovely shade of burnt-as-hell-red all over, except one side of my forehead? Whatever. The sun hates me and my skin hurts. Boo.

Life as a barista is okay so far. I'm over halfway through training, I can make all sorts of fancy coffee and tea drinks! This weekend and today I worked opening shifts. Saturday and Sunday we're there at 5:30am and Monday through Friday 4:30am. I got up this morning at 3:25am. Insane. That's not even getting up early, it's staying up late with a nap. It's super nice to get off before noon though. Almost worth getting up in the middle of the night.

Brendon and I are in the midst of watching the Mission Impossible movies since there's a new one coming out and we've never seen any of them. They are so corny! So much ridiculous, over the top action. Explosions! Fast cars/motorcycles! Kicks to faces! Make out sessions! Tom Cruise is pretty cute though, even if he is nuts. Too bad he's so short.

Exploring!

Wednesday I got my first sunburn of the summer. My sister and I headed out to Canyon Lake to relax and catch some rays (trying to fight the paleness). Unfortunately there were swarms of these terrible tiny white bugs that caused extreme itching whenever they landed on you. It was the strangest thing I've ever experienced. They look like pollen floating around, and they made every exposed area burn and itch, so in a swimsuit you're screwed. So we just chilled in the water with only our heads poking out. Not a bad solution, the water felt great! But if you have any idea what these bugs or whatever are, we'd love to know! I tried googling them, but had no luck.

 

Thursday Brendon and I did some exploring downtown. We wandered around Congress and got Brendon some new glasses at the neatest shop ever. If you're in Austin and in need of some specs, Stars In Your Eyes Optometry is the place to go. On our way over we saw tons of little shops and eateries on South Congress. We are going to go back and explore that section next, and it's just a hop skip and a jump from our place. I love being so close to everything!

 

We also stopped by the Capital to steal some ac, use their bathroom facilities, and be tourists. Although I've been there tons of times, it's still pretty neat. You have to go through a metal detector now to get in! Who knew? They had the same thing going on in the courthouse in Denton. Times they are a changin'.

Thankfully I am feeling MUCH better and am able to enjoy life again. Pretty much back to normal aside from a lingering cough. Yay! And it RAINED the other day, or night actually. It was a pretty good storm! Nothing like the craziness we got in Denton, but I'll take it. Of course the next day it was back to being sunny again. Perpetual sunshine and heat, there's no escaping it.