Only in North Carolina I had central air conditioning. Here I have a teeny tiny window unit that I've never turned on and looks weak enough to only cool off a closet.
I had been bragging about not using air conditioning for my third straight summer, but that streak is over! Today we hung sheets up in the house to limit the square footage that poor air conditioner must cool off and flipped it on. It has dropped the temperature in the living room from "I've died and ended up in hell" to "I've died and been reincarnated as a turkey in the oven." We're hoping to hit "Maybe I still do want to live" by the end of the night.
Now we are all sitting in the living room wearing various degrees of clothing. That is all you need, or should want, to know on that matter. But, because I never know when to stop, at least 7/8 of us are in underwear only.
So if you're looking for a good sweat lodge, come on over. Just bring a towel to mop up the 8 puddles of family members you'll find inside.
If it doesn't drop down away from 100 degrees soon (that is 37 degrees for you Celsius people) I'm might consider moving to Antarctica. Or trying to fit my bed inside our stand up freezer. Or consider an all popsicle diet. Or try to stop rambling (but I can't because it is too HOT to think coherently).
I suggest rolling around nekkid in ice cubes. For various reasons... not just for the cooling off. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThat Steph. Always thinking. I would like to throw rolling around in ice cubes that have tiny little unicorns in it.
ReplyDeleteHey! I'm in my underwear most days whether it's hot or not! Oh...TMI? I don't know when to stop, either.
ReplyDeleteI've lived here for 5 years and it is never this bad! This is just a totally crazy, fluke heatwave. I'm melting right along with you - no central air! We do have 3 a/c units upstairs though so we are surviving. I suggest you invest in more a/c units! It's totally worth it.
ReplyDeleteI'm right there with you. My house doesn't even have any sort of A/C. Just some noisy fans that aren't helping! Here's hoping for a cooler day tomorrow!
ReplyDeleteHere in Arizona, land of 115 degree summer days, we have to turn of our air conditioning between noon and 7 pm (there's some complicated thing there about demand rate and our bill). It gets pretty hot in those hours.
ReplyDeleteAnd here's what we did when I was a kid in Chicago when we only had one window unit in my parents' bedroom: the most miserable nights of the year we moved all of our mattresses in there. Seven girls and my parents. Then my dad got central air!
I thought we had it bad with 85º, 200% humidity and no air conditioning. I'll stop complaining now.
ReplyDeleteI am so with you, Charlotte. We haven't hit 100 but close and the freakin' humidity! Only thing is no A/C here. I haven't worn a shirt in days. I think that bikini top look that is actually a bra really is appreciated by the male children living in my home (how else can I embarrass them now they are not little?).
ReplyDeleteAnd, it is summer. I want to sleep in! This crappy weather has me up at 5 am so I can get my run in before it is over 80F.
Oh, goodness, Charlotte, we're suffering with you! It has been absolutely miserable here in PA!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad for my overly air-conditioned office at the moment. But I'm REALLY feeling for the summer campers stuck in our dorm rooms here this week!
This reminded me of my childhood, growing up in Florida without a/c--my mom would hang wet sheets up in the house to cool us off at night so we could sleep better.
ReplyDeleteHope your weather gets better soon!
we don't have a/c here in Colorado Springs either...just ceiling fans--which normally do just fine except for a couple of weeks in August, then we seriously consider buying an a/c unit every year.
You have my sympathy. We expect that kind of weather in AZ. I grew up in Iowa with no air conditioning, but a basement that was several degrees cooler where the kids took refuge when it got too bad.
ReplyDeleteHang in there.
What?? Sorry...can't concentrate on reading this....my central air is running and my kids are so cooled off that they are running around like crazy...guess I will have to come back and read it when it is a little warmer around here.
ReplyDeleteNothing worse than heat! Sorry you're so miserable! I'm glad I checked my SPAM folder -- apparently, my system thinks you are SPAM now. I unspammed you.
ReplyDeleteYou know, even when you're incoherent and melting you're pretty dang hilarious.
ReplyDeleteI agree that ice cubes are a girl's best friend.
There's only one thing to do. Go to the mall for hours. It's cool there.
ReplyDeleteI'm from Phoenix. I lived in Dallas for a while. I now live in Orlando. I have lived every single version of a terrible summer.
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain.
As humid as it is here in the south, I can't imagine life without air conditioning.
ReplyDeleteHope it cools off soon!
It hasn't hit the horrible heat wave here-- but I am certainly concerned about it coming like the past few years. No one has air conditioning here either. The heat and humidity was awful in Florida--but we had AC. Makes a huge difference!
ReplyDeleteHugs to you-- oh wait-- too much body heat!
How about a high five?
No air conditioning!!!!!???!!!! I'd never survive. Although my car's kind of sucks, so you probably feel like I do whenever I have to drive more than 20 minutes. My poor boys are red faced and covered in sweat!! Good luck, go to the pool.
ReplyDeleteI barely recall overly hot and humid (80% average) summers from growing up in the almost New England area. These days I live in a desert which is hot, but dry. My sister and I were commenting awhile ago how humid it was out and that it was funny that we thought it was so humid after our growing up years. I think it was in the 40% humidity range, lol! I hope you find your perfect summer weather again soon :)
ReplyDeleteWHen we lived in NYC, we just had one fairly inconsistent window unit. We'd huddle around like a frontier family around their campfire. At night, we'd crush into one room and everyone would sleep there and we hung blankets and sheets around, too! Happily, we moved to the civilized South where everyone has central air!
ReplyDeleteCan I just mention how little I miss east coast, humid summers??? Sorry for your pain though.
ReplyDeleteHumidity and summer heat are not my best friends. When I used to live in Missouri I thought I was like to die.
ReplyDeleteI didn't.
BTW, came across your site via Cheeseboy.
feeling for you - really - it may be hotter here, but the lack of humidity makes it bearable... well, as long as I spend the day down in the basement with no lights on.
ReplyDeleteNow that's hot. I hope you get some relief soon. :)
ReplyDeleteI like the popsicle diet idea.
ReplyDeleteMy parents were just in boston and they were sweating their butts off!
That sounds miserable! I remember when our air conditioning broke when I was little, my mom had us all wet down our shirts. I think my brother even put his in the fridge first. ;)a
ReplyDeleteYes, yes, yes!
ReplyDelete(Although I am pregnant, so anything above 75 degrees routinely feels like a roasting oven...)
The lack of air conditioning in my house is a major issue. More major for my husband, because I routinely strip out of most of my clothes and steal all the fans to point them on me.
This summer is so weird. I think our coasts have swapped weather because it's downright chilly here and we should be roasting. I ain't complaining . . . just saying it's weird.
ReplyDeleteUgh! I feel your pain. It's been so hot and muggy here in Ottawa, Canada as well. Unbearable really! (Especially when neither house nor car have A/C). I am hoping a storm rolls in and cools things off real soon.
ReplyDeleteLast week I found my daughter's blanket rolled up inside the freezer. She and her sisters passed it around to relax at bedtime.
ReplyDeleteToo bad for them that I like the warm weather. We do have A/C, but I only use it during the late afternoon and only when the weather is over 90 degrees. I'm sure if I had to deal with humidity it would be a different story, but I love basking in the warmth of summer while I try not to think of winter's approach.
When Kent was on his mission in Mexico, where it frequently reached 120 F, he would take a shower in his underwear right before bedtime, then throw buckets of water on his sheets and mattress, and turn the fans to blow directly on his bed. At 2:00 a.m. he awoke bone dry and repeated the process to be able to sleep. Ugh.