Day 145
It has come down to this … I’m wearing a tube top.
I know, I know … they went out of style in the ’70’s. Okay, they were never in style … but I still wore them in the 70’s. So, sue me.
Just don’t take a picture.
Seriously. I’m not Wal-Mart photo worthy … but almost.
Sigh.
I know I should not complain because I am far better off than a zillion other people and am only one of millions in this country who have been affected by the heat in recent days. Too bad … gonna complain anyway!
It’s hot. HOT. But if you are reading this in the continental United States you are saying, “Yeah – tell me something I don’t know.”
Well, for one thing … the heat index was 110 today in the Chicago area with the temp around 100-101. I was surprised that today was the hottest day here in the past 7 YEARS! How is that possible? In years past I would come to visit and it was ALWAYS hot here. Hot and steamy, jungle-like in its stagnant air. How could today be the hottest it’s been in so many years? I don’t know.
What I do know is that no matter how hard you try to get the remnants of a milkshake that has spilled in your car up from the carpeting and upholstery – you never quite do. And when you let that simmer in a car that is in the sun, without any windows open, in temps that are over 100 degrees and then open it up … be prepared to meet the smell of all smells.
Akin to what I can only surmise to be like that of a high school boys’ locker room after a hot wrestling match … or football game … or some other sport where they sweat 40% of their body weight off and have sweat soaked everything in a confined area and then mix it with boy smells and hormones raging, too. Yeah … NICE aroma for sure!
In any case … YUCK! So, out came the baking soda and it is doing a good job in absorbing that stinkiness!
I moved to Chicago thinking I was going to have a hot summer. So far I’m right and still people keep telling me this is “nothing” … yet. Oh yeah … can’t wait! More days a’comin’ for this attire I’ve been sporting!
Denver, typically is hot in the summer. It has not been uncommon to have 40 or more days of 90+ temps in one summer season. But it was that dry heat. Yeah, it was oven-like but not draining and though it could have its hot days it always cooled off nicely at night. In 30 years I have not seen a summer like they have had so far. I never thought that those in Colorado would be experiencing what they have been. They’ve had 6 days of over 100 degree temps (in a row) and things are burning up – not only with vegetation being roasted but literally – with fires all over the state (and the western states,too). The devastation in the Springs area looks like it is straight out of some horrific disaster movie.
So, I sit here and complain about the heat, sitting next to my fan, drinking my iced tea with lemon, with the room air conditioner running, in my black tube top and feel like a baby. A sweaty, sticky baby … but a baby nonetheless.
My heart goes out to you who are suffering discomfort from this nation-wide heat … as it is purely miserable, I’m sure for so many. And with 1000 heat records broken today or yesterday … forgive my complaining as I’m know I’m not the only one who is hot.
Or for that matter … wearing a tube top.