Have a great day Flatlined. 
It’s been my understanding that not sweating is the symptom that distinguishes heat exhaustion from heat stroke.
According to wikipedia, however, it’s apparently the other way around. Heat exhaustion - Wikipedia
Flatlined, I wish you every possible good wish. May you enjoy every day with your Bill. I do hope he knows that he’s a very lucky man!
And pictures when you get back!!!
Enjoy your big day flatlined!
Not everyone sweats the same, either. I got pretty close to heat exhaustion one day, and I wasn’t sweating much at all - I’m not a big sweater. I can’t go by how much I sweat - I have to always hydrate much more than I think I need.
That’s the other thing - I think most people underestimate how much they need to hydrate. If you think you need a glass of water, you probably need two.
My completely shitty horrible day:
I get up really early (3:30) to hit the gym. Someone is on “my” machine, the one under the fan. Dammit.
Take the second machine over. Work out, hit the shower. The white skirt I haven’t been able to wear in a while is yellowed from hanging. Ugh. OK, maybe no one notices.
Head out to a photo shoot. My equipment in an old factory turned into an art gallery. Since I get $0 budget for photography, and the gallery is letting a lot of photography trainees take pictures, it can be a way to get good photography, for “free”. I hope. This is construction equipment-they think the incongruity of the machines and the art will be “cool.” Whatever. So I am being careful, and I lean a table against what I think is an door. A woman rushes over to me and says “Oh, please be MINDFUL of the art!!” Huh? I look again, and there’s a tiny little tag on the door, it’s an installation. A faux door. The little tag says $56,000. Sheesh.
So I finish up and head out to the bar to join my fella. He’s ensconced with his construction pals, and I’m bored, so I leave after 2 drinks. He gets home and asks for dinner. OK. I fry potatoes, a pork chop and eggs. He takes 2 bites and passes out. Lovely.
Scrape the food into the bin, clean up the kitchen and let the cats out. Relax. Maybe.
Wander back into the kitchen, and hear the kitties crying to come in. Turn on the outdoor lite, and open the door. There on the security screen door is a big assed scorpion. I can’t tell if it’s inside or out. So I shout at the cats, they run, and I SMASH the scorpion (he was inside).
Now I am waiting to see if my kitties ever come home again.
DummyGladHands: Scorpion? Ick!!! Did the kitties get home safely?
flatlined: Enjoy your big day, and best wishes!
I am so freaking sick of the sanctimonious anti abortion people and the anti gay marriage people. I am sick of these condescending old men feeling so morally superior because they would not murder a “baby” and they look down on anyone who would. Just don’t have sex, they say. And yet these same men are the ones who are angry that single moms are eligible for Medicaid and food stamps for these same kids that must be born. They are just really pissing me off today.
Corn Grates, flatlined. Have an awesome day.
Preach it, sister. Am I the only one who feels so TIRED because we have been fighting this our WHOLE LIVES? And I am 66 years old. And I am about to give the fuck up on ever getting anywhere with bigots.
flatlined, may your wedding day be the worst day of the rest of your life:D
When you return, bring photos of you in poofy dress.
Is Steve in a bow tie?
Nope. At 46, I’m just boggled - why are we still even discussing this? Why hasn’t this been considered settled for about 30 years now?
We’ve come a long way, baby, but we sure as hell have a long way to go yet. 
Yeah all those goddamned men. Not a single one has sat there with morning sickness that went on for weeks and weeks. Not a single one has ever stared at ankles that looked like golf balls or varicose veins or endless backaches. Not a single one has ever been through twelve hours of “easy” labor involving an epidural, sky high blood pressure, two doctors, multiple medications, a racing heartbeat and no food or water for half the day.
Or dealt with the bodily aftermath. Where sitting is best done in a sitz bath, your breasts manage to leak and ache at the same time, you gush blood like Niagra Falls and your belly looks like it’s been through a serious war.
There’s someone ranting about his love for fertilized eggs in another thread. I just don’t even want to read this shit anymore. I am so grateful I married a pro-choice man. It’s the same sexist garbage over and over and over again with some people. Pregnancy is not a potentially life threatening event involving serious sacrifice. It’s a minor inconvenience. A fertilized egg isn’t an ectopic or a chemical or a miscarriage. A fertilized egg is just the same as a grown woman. In fact the fertilized egg is BETTER than the woman as it is innocent and she is guilty of having sex. Because a woman is mostly a vessel and she damned well better be a grateful vessel.
Ugh.
Please, let’s not pretend it’s only men who are pro-life and causing all these issues for you. :rolleyes:
Well since the TX legislature is less than 20% women, I guess at least in that case it’s men causing all these issues. Just as an example.
You know what? Fuck all y’all who talk about how saintly we supposedly were in the '30s and '40s. “We didn’t have supplements to keep us healthy! We didn’t have machines to help us learn!” Yes, I know there was an economic depression and then a war. I know you didn’t have those things then, and now we do. And I know that’s not fair. You know what else? When you didn’t have these advantages, you were in poor health. And you were poorly educated. If we can do better for our kids and ourselves, why shouldn’t we? It didn’t make you better people because you were poor. We’re not bad people now. And no, we should not go back to Old Fashioned Values. Regression is never a good thing.
I was told yesterday that if I didn’t want to get pregnant, I just shouldn’t have sex. It is that simple. I guess we deserve all manner of pain for sinning by having sex. The punishment fits the crime I suppose. I told him I had a tubal so I can have ALL the sex! He hasn’t responded.
And Rick Perry. He just wants us wumenz to be safer when we do have abortions!! Because he cares so much about our health!
I’m your age, Cat Whisperer, and I’m tired. I’m tired of watching women’s right being chipped away all over the country. I’m tired of people’s sanctimonious bullshit, repeating the same lies and misinformation about sex. I’m tired of legislatures passing laws that are so obviously going to be overturned because of their ridiculous restrictions. I’m tired of the Republicans proposing NOT ONE fucking bill that has anything to do with jobs, the environment, or anything other than women’s uteri. I’m tired that we are still having these same arguments after all these years. I’m tired of hearing people say “oh, all politicians are the same” and then bitching when laws get passed that they don’t like or that place them in jeopardy (not so much the same NOW, are they?). I’m tired that a not-yet-person is more valuable to our society than living, breathing women.
Hell, I can’t believe we’re back to arguing about birth control.
It’s almost as if a cult-like following has developed for a fertilized egg. It’s practically worshiped through its stages of development until it actually emerges from the woman…then she’s labeled a whore, and the baby is viewed as a burden that no upstanding taxpayer should be forced to support.