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This heat is killing me. The worst part? We aren’t even breaking any records. It’s hot, but not OMFG I’m so hot I will melt if I stand still outside.
My bedroom doesn’t have A/C. In fact my bedroom is probably the warmest room in the house which is why the youngest child and the dog pile into bed with me each night. My daughter’s room is in the attic, it is OMFG hot up there but she has an A/C unit in her window. She just doesn’t like it.
The dog is a pussy and won’t go anywhere in the house alone anymore. Thank you all you people who light off firecrackers, I really appreciate it.
Prior to everyone else joining me it isn’t that bad. I have a ceiling fan and it does a nice job of keeping the air moving. Add a kid and a furry dog and suddenly the fan is just spreading warm air around, and gas, the dog has a lot of gas.
So I get up and go into the living room and sleep on the couch. Which means I watch TV at 2 o’clock in the morning. Because I can.
There is nothing good on TV at 2am. Nothing.
I try to fall asleep but the couch is really uncomfortable as a bed. It’s great as a place to sit but not to lie down. The dog hair doesn’t help the situation.
So I go back to my bedroom, try to move both of them out of my space and give it a try again.
I end up watching TV again (I have a TV in my bedroom and usually set the timer to fall asleep to it).
I get up and go back to the living room.
Where I watch TV again. I watch some cable news channel and see a story about Microsoft Tone. Kinda like Spellcheck and Grammarcheck but this one checks the tone of voice in your emails. I laugh because if I used this it would never let me send anything because I always have a ‘tone’.
I can’t remember being this uncomfortable when sleeping except for when I was in the last month of pregnancy, that time when you really need your sleep because it won’t be happening again for several years.
I’ve called a guy about installing central air. When I had the furnace replaced a couple of years ago we made sure it had some little doohicky so it was all ready to have the A/C installed when it came time. Last year it was 74 and perfect all summer long. The guy will be here later this week to give me a proper bid.
I am sure that once it is installed the weather will settle into something like 74 and sunny for the rest of the season. But at least I will finally get some sleep.
oh i can't imagine, i need my air or i go nuts. if the central air is too expensive they have a/c untis that can be moved from room to room instead of a window unit.
The window units are too expensive, they suck up the electricity and they don't really cool the house too much. They do take out the humidity however, and that helps a lot. Central air will be much less expensive in the long run.
It's so hot in my house that I start sweating as soon as I get out of the shower. It's gross. We have a window unit in the bedroom which is wonderful, but the rest of the house is awful. I haven't cooked in weeks because starting the oven or the stove just isn't an option.
I haven't cooked either and drying my hair with a blow dryer is out too. I can't wait for fall, that one time of year I look halfway decent and the house smells like home cooking and not McDonald's.
I'm sorry you're so crowded out during sleep in the heat! That's the one time no one's allowed within five feet of me.
I have the perfect sleeping couch. Do you know why I have the perfect sleeping couch? Because I laid down on about ten of them while furniture shopping. Yes, people stared at me, but I didn't care. They were just jealous they didn't have the guts to do the same.
p.s. I've had heat-induced cankles for the last month. Thankfully the heat wave broke and I can get back to my regularly scheduled ankles.
cankles? Is that what it's called? I thought it was my arthritis in my formerly smashed to smithereens left ankle and my right just blowing up in sympathy. I thought I had some kind of “condition” until I noticed the other day that after 4 straight days of a/c, all the time, I didn't have swollen feetsies. Nice to know I don't have something terminal…Thanks!
Can somebody please explain what cankles are? I've never heard the word.
Cankles are where calves and ankles blend into one. Think thick tree stump.
I had heat induced cankles the other day and they freaked the hell out of me. I thought it was more about pre menopause than the heat. This sort of makes me feel better.
I'm not the least bit surprised to hear that you tried out so many couches that way, I know how seriously you take your naps.
“Thankfully the heat wave broke and I can get back to my regularly scheduled ankles. “
AHAHAHHAHAHhaHAHhahahhahahhahaahahahahahhaha
I read Kathy's comment and immediately flashed back to the elderly women walking around with their hose rolled down around their ankles when I was a kid. Not a pleasant memory.
Well, lemme tell ya. It ain't a pleasant reality either. But I have my normal ankles back now. They're cute again.
I'm thinking Ruth Buzzy from Laugh In.
I have AC in my bedroom. Let me know when you're coming and I'll put on fresh sheets.
Somehow I don't imagine you have any 'fresh' sheets, but thanks anyway.
I think you just out-Mooged Moog, Jenn. Congratulations, and please except your award to arrive by air mail soon!
I meant expect.
Hilarious! I share your big-hair-in-heat-sucks-balls pain…
I think I like the category as much as the post 🙂
It was easier to lump everything in that category than trying to split it up, besides, there are a lot of things that piss me off. It probably should have been the name of the blog.
“big-hair-in-heat-sucks-balls pain” now that cracked me up!
OMG, if they really have made a program to determine tone in an email, I can never write again. Is that real?????
It is real unless I dreamed it,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa97417…, nope, didn't dream
it.
I live in California and it's been the coolest summer ever. Weird, be most everyone that lives in California has air conditioning. I can't imagine not having air conditioning. I hope you get some good sleep soon. 🙂
Me too. Most people around these parts have air conditioning too. My house really should because I have forced air heat which makes putting in the A/C easy. In my old house I had radiators so there was no duct work which is why I didn't have it there either. But that was an older house. All new construction in the last 80 years has the ductwork.
As a general thing I hate central a/c but this year? I'm loving it – Yesterday the windows were open all day and all night – delightful. Today – a/c went on around 9am – it was just too sticky in the house. Remember – it's not the heat, it's the humidity!
I would much rather have the windows open except it's really sticky outside. I'd have them open at night when it cools down but we sleep on the first floor and that creeps me out a little bit. I'm sure the dog would take care of business but I don't want to wake up to a bloody stump.
It is the humidity, I could handle dry heat.
When I travel to hot climates, I always find it incredibly difficult to get to sleep, so I can relate to your frustrations. It is such a horrible feeling, tossing and turning in bed, knowing you're tired but just simply being unable to drift into a calm sleep. It would drive me insane if I lived in a climate like that, though I suppose one gets used to it after a while. Hope all goes well for you as far as getting some sleep is concerned. Failing that, I'm sure there's always some brain-numbing shopping channel you could tune into at 2am 😀
There are some things that I simply will not watch, no matter how bored I am. HSN or any shopping channel, is one of them.
I have been reading all these articles about how AC is the worst thing we can do for the environment…and to this I lift a defiant middle finger. Sorry you are so uncomfortable, if your kid doesn't want the window unit…put it in your room. If not get some ice packs and put them on your pulse points to cool you down, those bean baggy hot packs also work grear out of the freezer (and they won't melt in your bed).
The problem is I don't have a grounded outlet anywhere near where the A/C
goes. I also don't have an outlet that isn't being used, grounded or not.
I'm not going to run an extension cord all through the house, because I am a
wuss about those things, it says not for cryin' out loud! I should just
sleep in her room, but then guess who would follow me?
Air conditioning is a necessity in our modern life. I am always grateful to live in our current time, v. just about any other.
I love it too, I often think about those women who lived 100 years ago without heat or A/C and I thank God or what/who ever is in charge that we have these things.
Good luck with the central air! I hope it works out. I could use Microsoft tone. I try to be nice but it doesn't always work.
The publicist loves the heat. In fact the male person has the windows wide open at night and is enjoying the evening breezes while she freezes under the sheet, blanket and quilt. It's a chilly 58 or so at night.
She HATES air conditioning.
I guess I should not add Stanley Farts to my soap line then, eh?
I am keeping my fingers crossed that that little doohicky is not only cheap but not too expensive to install!!!
I wish I had central air… there's an a/c in the kitchen but that's it, it's not too bad but just not 74 degrees!
M
Geeze, what I want to know is…where the hell do you live where you could have a summer that is 74 all summer long???? Get me a ticket, now!
Seems to me San Diego is like that all year long. That was an anomaly, you can see my response to Surfie above explaining it.
Only 74 all summer? For the high? Our LOWS are in the mid 70's! I couldn't imagine having to get through a summer without AC. I hope you can get yours installed soon. There's nothing worse than being hot and sticky when you're trying to sleep.
That was last summer, it was unseasonably cool and wonderful. I don't think I had the air on but once all last summer. That isn't normal. July and August are usually gross with heat and humidity. We do usually get into the upper 60s for lows during the summer which is not that bad.
Not really a problem we have over here. If we do have unusually hot weather, a large fan is usually enough to cool us down. Unfortunately we don't need much heat for my cankles and feet to swell up so I can't get shoes on at all!
I recall you don't have screens on your windows either, something about not needing them because you don't have bugs or something. If it weren't for all the rain I'd be living over there.
It depends what part of the UK you are in. North is wettest. South is close to the continent, so is warmer and dryer. No screens here, but we made our own, purely to stop the gnats and spiders getting in. They make for indoors as evening approaches. Nothing like as bad as your homes though.
I feel for anyone who has to suffer through this summer without air conditioning. It feels like satan's workshop in my living room when I walk out of my air conditioned bedroom. At times I want to just hold up in there and not come out until the season changes. And honestly the heat itself might not be that bad if it didn't feel like a collective sauna due to the humidity. Personally I am not a fan of saunas and I really don't like “enjoying” the pleasure with others.
Occasionally at 2AM Criminal Minds is on either A&E or Ion…not sure if you're into that show but when I have insomnia, this happens a lot, I watch this until I fall asleep. Of course you might not be into shows about serial killers so other than that I've got nothing.
I'm not a sauna person either. I can't think of anything I would least like to do than sit in a room and sweat with people on purpose.
I don't mind serial killers but I don't want to have nightmares either. Is Numbers on? That was a good show.
If you daughter has an air conditioning unit in her room, why don't you go up there and sleep? Clearly, I'm missing something here.
Especially the son and the farting dog will be in mom's room.
The son is in his man cave in the basement where it is cool and comfortable, except for it smells like a dirty, wet sweat sock after it has been left in a locker for a few months. Which is why I don't go down there.
Because her bed is not big enough for a grown up with a larger than a size 4 ass. Plus, I have this weird thing about being upstairs while my kids are on the first floor, that momma bear thing.
Forget the heat– the dog has gas?! No wonder you're acting crazy lately, you can't breathe!! Bleccchh.
Between the kids and the dog, the house really smells. Good thing I have the windows open.
UGH! I've felt like this for the last month. Our apartment is in the basement so there's no way to install air conditioners in the windows. There's no air circulation. Next time you're up at 2 a.m., we could watch Golden Girls together… or Rosanne… cos you know, both of those shows are ALWAYS on after 1 a.m.
They are both always on, and I always mean to watch them because they were great shows, okay, Rosanne was kinda lame after a while, but the Golden Girls was awesome. I have been known to watch episodes of I dream of Jeannie on demand.
I seriously feel your pain. Because I would DIE if I didn't have AC in my bedroom!! A fan is simply not enough for me. I absolutely can NOT sleep if I am hot. I need FREEZING COLD conditions and cozy blankets!
“There is nothing good on TV at 2am. Nothing.”
Well, if you like Chelsea Lately, she comes on TV at 2:30 & 3:00 am on the E! Channel – with back to back episodes. Good chance you will laugh.
🙂
I don't want to start laughing at 3am. I want to fall asleep, which is why I watch the History channel. Unless it's ancient aliens and then I am up for the first 15 minutes.
Good idea!
I literlaly think I'd die without air conditioning. Unless I moved to northern Canada, and who wants to live there besides moose and prison escapees? My advice: You can't install it quickly enough.
By the way, I disagree that nothing good is on at 2 a.m. Have you watched the infomercials for Bare Minerals makeup? Fascinating!
I have watched that infomercial, I have the whole line, and I have a Magic Bullet that broke after the first use.
I usually watch the History channel, currently I've been watching the documentary about Ben Franklin. I'm asleep in minutes.
Okay, princess here. I hate living anywhere that has no AC. My in-laws don't have AC. They have window units upstairs in the bedrooms, but nowhere else. And a ceiling fan pushing around hot air ain't refreshing.
Your inlaws sound like trouble. No A/C and Hellman's. I bet you don't do many holidays with them.
Sounds like you aren't having much fun in the heat. Hope you can get some air in there soon. It is 100 degrees here and supposed to go down to 93 so we are having a huge cold front here. We just might have to put on a sweater.
Good luck on the air. It really is worth it.
Have a great day.
Do you ever go outside in that heat? I couldn't do it. 90 is too hot for me, of course we have nasty ass humidity which makes it feel a whole lot hotter.
I cannot deal with heat. It makes me crazy (er). On the two or three days a year it turns hot here, I cry until Alex takes me and Harry and Honey to a motel with air conditioning. I'm so glad it's almost always 67 degrees and partly cloudy here, and 57 degrees over night.
I'm waiting for Nicky to pick me up in that bus she was going to rent (air conditioned of course), we're on our way. Man, I bet you live to be 120 or more because of your no stressing about the heat or cold. You probably spend less money trying to equalize those things either. Geez, life isn't fair.
Can you send the A/C guy over when he's done at your place? I feel like the witch in the Wizard of Oz…
“I'm melting….I'm meeeeeltiiiing!”
He's supposed to come by today, but so far nothing, not a word. Of course
yesterday was the hottest day of the year and it will be in the lower 80s
for another week and then we will have winter. Which means I will put it off
until next year and I will repeat this all over again.
But, yeah, I'll send him north.
You get that bus yet?
Working on it….
I'll remind you of this post when you post about being cold in the winter… that will help, right? (yea, you can slap me now!)
One thing I have to say about our heat… it is oil, which is expensive, but it really warms the house quickly. It has been 105 here and the A/C can't keep up, but you can't expect it to with the heat like it is…. If I was a millionaire I would buy you central AC!
I appreciate it, and I know you would. Too bad people like Bill Gates don't read my blog. That thought kinda cracks me up. Can you imagine Bill Gates hanging out reading blogs all day, commenting and such?
I have my annual complain about the heat post (which aired in May this year) and my annual bitch about the cold post which usually airs in January. I know I will bitch about it, no slapping necessary.
P.S. I love how the google ad is for pre-pregnancy supplements and vitamins. Hold on, I'm going to click it. LOL!
Oh, because of the cankles? Hah!
I hear ya… It's been up to 107 here and I want to shave my head and become a nudist. I can't imagine fur and dog farts are a great addition. lol
Good luck with the central air! I'd be dead without it.
107!!!! Is that even livable, don't people just spontaneously combust at that point?
WOW…can't believe that you have made it this far into the summer without a/c. I am a 74 degree summer and 68 degree winter person. When my hubbie was complaining of the power bill the other day, I told him to shut off the lights and the TV…I would rather live in the dark than without A/C. He thought I was joking, until I told him firmly to step away from the thermostat:) Am enjoying your blog and look further to looking around more. Thanks!
We have a/c but they are window units and don't really do much more than lower the humidity, which is good. Of course my electric bill is sky high. We've been living in the dark because I keep all the shades closed to keep the heat out, which is really messing with my SAD.
Here in Tarheel country, we've been setting records on almost a weekly basis. I moved here to get away from cold weather not realizing that the climate was going to change and the whole world would be warmer.
It really has been unbearable this summer. The dog walking duties three times a day have become a real source of contention between me and Mrs. Rambler. Care to guess who does most of the walking? Hint: I sweat off two pounds a day.
If I could lose 2 lbs a day I'd be all over that but it seems I retain water (source of cankles) and end up gaining weight. Plus I am prone to eat ice cream when it is hot.
The best move we ever made here on the Ponderosa was installin' central air years ago, now we go ahhhhh as we enter our bedroom. Good luck and enjoy the cool when installed.
Ya'll have a wonderfully blessed day! :o)
God – don't even get me started (yes I have a tone). Last week we reached 103, 104, 105 it was above 100 all week long – with probably about 100% humidity. We broke all sorts of records because usually it is only about 99. I HATE summer – I start dreading it in February.
I'm torn between really wanting a ceiling fan for our bedroom and being terrified that the ceiling fan would somehow detach from the ceiling and the blades would slice off my head. We do have A/C, but when you are married to a stingy husband, it's really like not having A/C at all.
I have a ceiling fan but only because I watched an episode of Mythbusters
where they dealt with this very scary phenomenon. The blades of the fan can
not cut your head off. They tried a million different ways, even putting a
Hemi motor on the fan and still it didn't do much damage to the test dummy.
As for it falling off, just make sure it's installed properly, like to a
stud. I'm sorry you have a/c but don't really, that's worse than not having
a/c, it's just a tease, and a mean one at that.