The Heat Is On
Posted By Kristabella on July 19, 2011
It is hot here in the Windy City. We are under some sort of heat bubble, or so the weather people are saying. It’s led to temps in the 90s and then high humidity levels on top of that, which leads to heat indexes of 100-110. It’s hot times in the city! Literally.
This morning on Twitter, Dunkin Donuts asked whether we would prefer, at that moment, the current weather or something along the lines of the blizzard we had in February. At that moment, as I was sweating profusely on an air conditioned bus, sharing sweat with my neighbor, since we were jammed in like sardines, I am not sure which is worse.
I love summer and warm weather and flip flops and beer gardens and patio dining. But when it is like it is currently? It’s no worse than a snow storm because you can’t do much outside. You just take less showers. I really need it to just be like 80-85 and sunny every day. With no humidity. That would be nice.
The heat makes me tired too. I get home, like on nights like tonight, after being jammed in a stuffy train for an hour, and I’m ready for bed. In fact, as I type this, it isn’t even 9 PM and I’ve already brushed my teeth and taken out my contacts. Sleep is not too far behind.
It also makes me do stupid things. Like drink too many vodka drinks and act like a fool in front of people. (Although, let’s be honest, that happens no matter the weather.)
It also makes me forgetful. Seeing as I noticed this evening, oh at about 8 PM, that my flat iron was left on in the bathroom ALL DAY.
(The heat also dehydrates me which is why I was home for two hours and didn’t have to go pee once.)
I am always so good about checking to make sure it is off. I mean, we’ve all see the Friends episode, yes? Where Phoebe’s place gets burned down by a straightner? (“My hair is straight. Straight, straight, straight.”) I KNOW the dangers of those heating devices. Which was why I spent MORE on one that I THOUGHT had an auto-shut-off! Because I’m forgetful and lazy and sometimes stupid! I like to buck the system off the bat and ASSUME I’m going to be stupid and prepare for it!
(DID I MENTION IT WAS ON THE COUNTER RIGHT NEXT TO THE SHOWER CURTAIN???!?!??)
Turns out, spending $80 on a flat iron doesn’t guarantee that it has auto-shut off. I cannot thank whomever enough for making sure there was a house to come home to tonight. I am so, so, so, so thankful. And LUCKY. And I will be even more vigilant about making sure I turn it off every morning. This will not happen again.
Trust me.
Hopefully this should also remind me to shave OFF! my leg hair.
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That is super scary!
I can imagine how that heat totally sucks. Our normal summers are 110-120* for weeks – but with low humidity. So eek! I do not envy you. Our summer has been cool so far, and they did a comparison on my local news tonight and they showed how hot it is all over the mid-west. Terrible!
Okay, I’m babbling a bit – I should go to sleep.
Turn it OFF! 😉
Love the “reminder” sign!!!! How can you be Papa’s grand daughter and not check every electrical appliance in the house ten times before leaving to make sure they’re shut off? He must have been watching over you yesterday!
When I was a kid, I left a light turned on — genius that I was — under a blanket, where I had been reading. I’m just lucky that only my blanket caught fire. And that my parents didn’t kill me. I also learned another valuable lesson though: If your makeup mirror gets so hot that it melts the mirror part, it’s probably not a good idea to give it to a kid to use as a reading lamp.
That’s probably the reason they didn’t kill me.
I’m with you about the heat. I would prefer mild and partly cloudy every day of my life to the crap we’re having now. When it’s too hot to take the kids out to run around, so they do it in here, dammit.
The problem with an $80 flat iron is that it’s probably made for a salon and they never want them turned off. I need a salon quality flat iron with an idiot function so that it shuts itself off. Pretty much anytime we’ve gone out I’ve had to text the sitter after we left to have her turn off my flat iron.
I’m one of *those* that would take this crazy heat over the storm/temperatures we had in February, although I did get a day off for said storm so maybe I need to rethink my stance? 🙂
In the winter, everything is gloomy, flowers and trees are dead, and it’s just blah. At least with summer, even with this excessive heat we have been experiencing, everything looks pretty, and alive. Plus, on the completely vain side of it, I’m able to sport a healthy glow!
And, this is coming from the girl who drives an hour to work WITHOUT functioning AC in her car! And, might I add, it’s quite attractive to get out of my car after driving to/from work and sport the “I look like I peed my pants” look but really it’s the “I’m sweating profusely so it only looks as though I peed my pants” look. New fashion trend maybe?
80-85 with no humidity…that would be bliss 🙂 It is really freaking hot in New York too, yesterday I took the time to walk downstairs and purposely walk through the open fire hydrant. It was an awesome and completely quick way to cool down 🙂
Dying here in the DC area. The other day, I have 2 beers and then when I left, the heat combined with that tiny bit of booze and made me feel AWFUL. It was so sad.
I can’t wait for cold weather! I am so looking to move north so I can get more of it. I need it to be in the 40s more. (Honestly, I like it colder, but whatever.)