Hotness...

[msfledermaus]

This is my least favorite time of year...the Hot bit. Really hot, really sticky, really unpleasant. I have long hair, so I feel like a suffocating sheepdog if I don't tie it up or something when I go out into the "soup". I don't like using a/c too much, but I will happily wallow in the stuff now that it's July and my bluff is well and truly called. Too hot to knit, but I do it anyway. Too hot to spin, but I want to do it anyway. Hot, hot hot...

There are a few strategies I use to get over the hump until I get cooler weather. These strategies are:

Spring rolls. Lots of 'em.
Popsicles, when I remember to buy them.
Cold baths...sometimes with a bath bomb. Oh gods, that's a really good one...Mmmm...
Reading something comforting. Hey, when's the new Harry Potter out, anyway?
A silk nightshirt for sleeping in. Sweet soft comfort.
Club soda with some kind of exotic juice, extra ice.
State Fair. Things on sticks really make me very happy--and the rabbit and sheep exhibits!
Sweet corn. I can eat corn on the cob until I pass out. Really.
Telling myself about all the good things I'll do when autumn comes...


So there you are...

Comments

[halfmoon-mollie.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks. here's one for you - freeze a bottle full of water - plastic is best for this - and when you go to bed at night, put it in bed with you. somewhere that your skin isn't going to come into direct contact with it...in the morning, put it back into the freezer and repeat.

Iced tea with exotic juices - or maybe just added to the soda water - and lots of ice is nice. Refreshing.

And...the new Harry Potter probably comes out NEXT year. Have you read "A Gothic Romance" by Joyce Carol Oates? I don't usually like her stuff, but I liked that and it occupied a good share of one very hot summer for me.

Stay cool, mausie.

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Ooh, haven't tried the cold water bottle trick....you're brilliant, you are!!

Aw, no Harry Potter, seriously?!? I heard some whack rumor they were shooting for the 7th or something. Drat. I'll have to find that book you enjoyed so much...

*fans self*

At least workies has the best a/c in the business. Ahhhh, cool air...

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

It's hot there? I wish it was hot here. It barely got to 80 yesterday.

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

You can have our heat wave, really you can...if I could shovel it up in a box it would be all yours!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It worked. We're in the low nineties. Perfect!

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Hey, least I could do for you, Maaaaan!

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Are you off work today? have a weekend on a weekend, for a change?

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Not so much...working...*grumble*
But at least I get the 4th off. But Mondays and Tuesdays are off for me anyway:P

[andi-lea.livejournal.com]

Look at positive you - "My least favorite time of year"
I would have said "I hate summer" - Which I do.

It got up to 98 here yesterday. I miss being able to have the windows open. I love outside air.

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

If I'm not positive about it I get razzed by the People Who Love Summer...:P

I do like my "Keep out of direct sunlight" t-shirt, too--that should have made the list.

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

You've got bunch of long thick hair. After you pin it up for a while, does it sort of hurt your scalp? Mine does.
I like halfmoon_mollie's idea of a frozen water bottle.

[msfledermaus.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, if I'm using lots of pins. I futz with my hair anyway, just out of habit.

And I have to try that frozen water bottle trick...wowww, why didn't we think of that?!?!