This heat is absolutely driving me up the wall. Now it wouldn’t be so bad I suspect except for how long it’s been going on. This summer seems hotter than the last couple and going on forever.
I’m roasting in here! The temp according to Weather.com is only 14C… only!? My apartment is at least 20 something even having had the front door open and blowing a breeze through with the fan aimed outside. I’ve been drinking so much water that my eyeballs are floating, I’m still sweating buckets and I have to go to the bathroom damn near every hour!
I’m beginning to think our fool of a caretaker has turned up the furnace early. The same guy who let the pilot lights stay unlit for almost a month last winter allowing our pipes to almost freeze and leaving us with the sound of ice moving through the walls for a time after he fixed everything.
I’ve gotten a couple of reprieves mainly when it does decide to rain and it cools down to a comfortable level, but I just wish it would cool down a little more right now so I can feel comfortable!
[sub]Disclaimer: Some of these side affects are also partially a result of my being pregnant. The whole slightly higher body temp and less bladder room. But it still pisses me off and I wish it would cool down![/sub]
Even though you’re pregnant, I don’t see how you can feel hot when you give the temperature in Celcius like that. 20? 14? Those are cold temperatures! Think if you lived someplace Fahrenheit!
I would be going absolutely up the wall. I’ve never been good with warmer/colder temps. If I get too warm (probably not helped by the fact there is no breeze, I live on a top floor apartment and I’m pregnant) I sweat a lot and drink tons of water. I even jump into cool showers/baths or go to the wading pools downtown and at the legislature. Basically unless I have a/c it’s too hot.
Colder I can deal with slightly more at least until it dips to -20C or less and then I have to bundle up and even indoors my toes and fingers are usually cold all winter. Of course our apartment doesn’t have very good insulation so that doesn’t help either, that combined with the fuckwit caretaker (when he gets to fixing something it gets fixed but it takes forever to do so. ie the pilot lights on the furnace. Despite calling and complaining that there was no heat and even the water was pretty damn cold several times it took him about a month to get it fixed and then had firealarms going off all day in the middle of winter with half the house having little kids and the other half sleeping for night shift. He couldn’t seem to clue in something was wrong when half the building complained it was cold until several of us threatened calling inspectors in.) I never seem to get completely warm in the middle of winter unless I’m wearing fleece and mocassins, which I usually do.
I figure I must be some kind of lizard who can control internal temperature to some extent but most relies on outside sources to be comfortable. I know I’d die or go nuts if I ever go to Cali or Las Vegas on vacation longer than a week…
Speaking of Las Vegas…
Its still god damn hot here- about 100. Isn’t it September? I have lived here all my life and still can’t get over how horrible the summer is. Tired of burning my ass on my car seat…
And the weatherman is a jerk- supposed to have a “massive cool down” this week… which apparently means that we might get down to the mid 90s.
Want to turn off my A/C and get into my winter mode.
I’ve found that slipping a hot water bottle under the covers at the foot of my bed makes sleeping MUCH nicer in the wintertime. It’s even better if I remember to put the bottle in about half an hour BEFORE I get into bed, and then renew the hot water just as I get in bed. I do wrap an old towel around the hotwater bottle, otherwise it’s too hot to touch. I remember my mother heating stones in the oven after dinner, and then using them as bedwarmers. Again, they have to be wrapped in towels or blanket scraps, but they do take the chill off the sheets nicely.
As for the heat and being pregnant, I can sympathize. I was pregnant in San Antonio in mid summer…I gave birth June 26th. San Antonio is HOT and HUMID, and we only had a swamp cooler for cooling the air. I took a lot of cool showers during that time.
I don’t have a water bottle at this time and I keep forgetting to get one. Maybe this year I should invest in one. I used to take one to bed with me at night all the time in the winter when I was younger.
I can’t imagine being anywhere else where it gets hotter than here. I’d probably go nuts.
