No Shirt, No Shoes, No Problem
Just last week I had the space heater running during the day and the electric blanket turned up to eleven at night, and now we're in a record-breaking heat wave so unforgiving I spent most of Monday vacillating between two states of near-unconsciousness--the first from hyperventilating in trying to keep Wombat cool by blowing on him, and the second from melllting! mellllllting! melllllllting! Every year I rationalize my discomfort by saying that buildings in the Bay Area don't have AC because it never gets very hot here, and then every year it gets very hot here. What gives?
If you're somewhere hot right now, allow me to share a tip with you: Wearing a skirt will not make you feel cooler. Wearing a skirt only makes your thighs stick together and the backs of your knees sweat. You will look cute but you will suffer for it, and there are no prizes for suffering. When it's hot, this practical lady will wear slacks of cotton or a cotton blend, as you might find in the modern denim "jean." This is especially convenient considering this practical lady is still five pounds up and therefore only fits into one pair of these so-called jeans. This practical lady needs a wealthy benefactor and a shopping spree.
As for Wombat, he continues to take after his father, by which I mean he now spends his days in naught but a diaper. (Oh, grow up; you know what I mean.) The last time he did that was when we had him stripped down on a sheepskin rug in front of a fire, a diaper placed strategically under his leaky bits because we needed to return the rug to its owners in good condition.
Now that the days of sheepskin rugs and roaring fires are behind us, however, you can find our little family enjoying the out of doors in various degrees of white-trash style: raggedy flip-flops on the beach, exposed bra straps on the front porch, shirtless and shameless here, there, anywhere, any chance we get. If only we had a spare bathtub full of moonshine.
Wish your thermometer were here...
We live in Oakland, too, and my husband works at home. The only refuge he has is going to a coffee shop on the corner. He wants to spend $275 on an AC unit. Is that crazy?
The heat wave is about a month early this year, eh? Usually it's in mid-May (as evidenced by my aunt getting heat stroke during my graduation at the Greek Theater).
Hope y'all find ways to keep cool! (also, you know, you could invest in one of those little fan-topped spray bottles to cool the baby rather than blowing on him.)
I am fearful that it will be, like, 99º on Saturday and all of us will explode.
Ok, just checked Accuweather and it says high of 68º. WTF.
I know! It's supposed to rain sometime this week. We just took the baby to the grocery store sans pants and when we came out it was windy and practically arctic and I felt like a bad mother. Mother Nature's a bitch.
they promised us 82 today (unseasonably warm by, like, two months here) but instad it's cloudy and windy and cold. i'm jealous of your sweaty thighs.
he is getting so big.
Can you send the heat my way? That would be swell.
He just gets cuter...
Also. The visual of Simon in a diaper is tres awesome.
hmmm... I walked to work today, in my winter coat.... Warm sounds good!!
The heat is coming to Ontario this weekend and of course I'm moving tomorrow and driving out west to Vancouver. So that figures, I've been freezing my butt off all week!
But now you've got me worried about whether or not they have AC in Vancouver buildings!
It was 98 in San Antonio three days ago. I hate the cold but what the frick? We've got months of summer ahead of us, 98 in April is NOT cool.