My appendix is boiling. I got in my car after work today and it was like driving home in an oven. My bottle of water, cold straight from the office fridge, was lukewarm by the time I got home 20 minutes later. My body is now emitting a kind of seismic heat signature that sharks are picking up all the way out in the Atlantic ocean.
Dudes? It is really freaking hot.
Like, mid-eighties hot. So hot you can’t really sleep at night because the covers are cloying and restrictive and pure unadulterated evil. The kind of hot where you fantasize about cooking food on the asphalt just so you won’t have to step foot in the kitchen. Washington was not meant to get this hot.
I know I complained the other day about us skipping the summer because our politicians cut it from the budget, but I never planned to summer on the surface of the bloody sun, now, did I? We are simply not equipped to deal with this kind of inferno. The puppy is melting, my husband is half-clothed, and I can’t seem to get off the couch. No matter how many fans we point in strategic places and how long we keep the drapes closed, we watch anxiously as the thermostat climbs higher and higher until a little spring pops out the top of it álá Looney Tunes.
If Wes and I are ever wealthy, we are taking a trip to Ireland and Paris. After that, though? Air conditioning. And a pool. And magical metabolisms so we can subsist off meatballs and brownies and always remain in the peak of health. Oh yes, my priotrities are spot-on.
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8 comments
Comment by EdgellACE on June 3, 2009 at 8:47 am
And being in Washington, I bet the humidity is K-I-L-L-E-R! I feel for you, even here in Ohio we were at 80 by 11am, just frickin rediculous! Damn this Global Warming! Al Gore what are we to do?!
Comment by Erika on June 3, 2009 at 9:20 am
-EdgellACE, Yeah, the humidity is horrid. It sometimes feels like walking around in a giant bathroom after someone’s taken a shower. Global warming, huh? It was snowing last month!
Comment by EdgellACE on June 3, 2009 at 3:20 pm
Yeah, same in Ohio. We have been down to 30 degrees several nights in May. Now it is freakin chilly at around 50 degrees, but its raining so feels arctic right now.
Comment by Erika on June 3, 2009 at 3:27 pm
-EdgellACE, The only constant is that, no matter what the weather is like, someone will complain about it :)
Comment by April on June 3, 2009 at 4:03 pm
I totally hate it when my kidneys boil. The liver is even worse.
Comment by Erika on June 3, 2009 at 4:05 pm
-April, Yeah, whoever put “Gentle tickling sensation” on the warning sign was a jerk!
Comment by Blanche on June 4, 2009 at 6:35 am
I saw the 85+ degree forecast on the Weather Channel and wondered if you were near enough to be subject to the heat wave as well. You don’t need your appendix anyway. Really.
Comment by Erika on June 4, 2009 at 8:35 am
-Blanche, Ha! Yep, right smack in the middle. Lucky for us, though, is that we remember our hot weather routine from last year and can get it pretty cool in our house before it gets too late!