July start

Life is quiet again around here and not much is happening but I thought I'd touch down base.

My bullet journal calendar this month.

I had my 67th birthday on July 1st and we celebrated by going out to lunch.  Not the greatest picture but it was hot and muggy on this day and I made use of the restaurant's Japanese fan.  Look at that frizzy hair!

And for my birthday Tetsu bought me a new Kindle!!  I was thrilled with the new Kindle, but I was also thrilled that it managed to sync with my Amazon account.  I had fretted over whether it would or not as we bought it through Amazon Japan and there was a side note about not syncing to Amazon stores in other countries...  I was afraid we'd ordered a Kindle that I wouldn't be able to use, but it synced beautifully and I'm back to being able to checkout books on the OverDrive app from my Los Angeles County Library.  Being able to use the California library has done so much for my book buying budget as well as giving me access to audiobooks on my iPhone.  

I am back at the pool and I must say, in this hot, humid and miserable weather a plunge in the pool in the evening is rather wonderful.  Sometimes I even get out of cooking dinner and we just snack on fruit and yogurt when we get home!

Also because of the heat, I resorted to driving back and forth to the school for crosswalk duty three days last week.  I'd prefer to walk as I consider the walk as part of my working time while I pick up trash and stop cars at various streets when the jr. high kids go by on their bicycles, but there's no sense in collapsing from heat stroke!

I also worry about Tetsu being out in the heat as he doesn't seem to feel it as much as I do and will spend hours out in his garden or cutting weeds in neighboring lots without any shade.  I try to entice him under a sun umbrella every couple hours with an ice cold drink but he doesn't much look after himself.  He is annoyingly fit and trim and healthy looking though, whereas my sedentary and snacking lifestyle isn't anything to brag about!