Wednesday is just hot and sweaty...

[shadowkat]

It's beastly hot here - but I have air conditioning. So it's about 71 -73 degrees in the bedroom where the AC is, and 77-79 degrees in the rest of the apartment. Outside? It is currently 82F/22C with 65% humidity, during the day it was 90F/30C with 80% humidity, felt like 100 F/40 C.

I've been online shopping - I needed to get new Bose Headphones - the current ones are wearing out, and the warranty expired. (The head phone muff is coming undone.) So got new ones on sale - at a 43% discount. So shaved off quite a bit. Also, picked up some more storage related items (baskets, large utensil holder, medicine organizer for a counter), and a collapsible but secure and safe step stool. I desperately need one - I have insanely tall cabinets and windows. I'm almost 6 feet, they are 8-9 feet.

Yes, I live in a tall person's apartment, which is good thing.

I'm looking for a tv dinner table/lap top table, but the one I saw advertised on Instagram via Amazon - I cannot find. So I gave up finally.
The other one is rather pricey, although tempting.

And...I got my organizers today - two turnstiles, and a coffee/tea shelf that I have to put together. I took the box they both came in along with all the other boxes (book shelf and towel/pillow box) down to the basement for recycling on the way to pick up groceries. I was out of protein greens (pea shoots, spinach, argula, and shard).

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Work is work.

Wales wants to take a six month paid sabbatical from her job, to do what I don't know. Probably just lay about. I would like a two week vacation to travel somewhere - but I can't get more than a week at a time. So, am making due and trying not to envy those who can do more. I'm flirting with Ceiliac Cruises and Road Scholar cruises and trips. Also Viking River journeys. But also pricey. And I'd need a smaller cruise and the ability to take motion sickness pills - I'm prone to sea-sickness. I love the ocean, but my body prefers to be on solid ground. It could be worse - my sister-in-law gets motion sickness on a swing. It's an inner ear thing.

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Time to go to bed, perchance to sleep, even dream But I don't want to?
I'm not really much of a sleeper. Never have been. This can't be good for me?

Comments

[kazzy_cee]

At least you have air con! I wish we did sometimes...

[shadowkat]

Yeah, most of Europe doesn't. That's the problem - you usually don't get above 20C or 80F. New England, NY, Pennsylvania, DC, and NJ used to be like that. I didn't have A/C growing up in PA, or when I first moved to NYC in the 90s. But now, it's required.

It's become a necessity in NYC now. Also, I have radiator heat that I can't control during the winter, fall and spring - which can make the apartment temp anywhere between 80-90 degrees, without a/c.

[trepkos]

Should be illegal not to get more than a week off at once. How could you travel out of the country?

[shadowkat]

I can't travel out of the country right now - which is annoying.

I waited all this time to get 26 days of vacation time - and they won't let me take - two-three weeks at once to travel. I may push it next year - it's hard, because I currently have a boss who doesn't believe in traveling, never travels, and has never taken more than two days off at a time, and has 68 vacation days.

[trepkos]

I think that kind of restriction would be illegal over here. Can you not get the Union onto it?

[shadowkat]

Yeah, been there did that - around 2022, and have the battle scars.

I'm holding off doing it again until absolutely necessary.

They let me take the vacation days, they just don't want me to take two-three weeks at a time. But I may try again next year, with a planned vacation in the spring, not sure yet. Right now, I can't afford to take a long trip overseas, other expenses, etc - also the current political environment makes it dicey and I'd essentially by traveling by myself.

[yourlibrarian]

It's amazing how much of a difference body temperature can make to a pleasant or unpleasant day. As it happened I had been grocery shopping before I read this, and I actually thought to myself as I was passing some refrigerated sections how much of a difference it makes just to be appropriately cool or warm in terms of feeling relaxed and content.

Plus it makes a world of difference to sleeping or not sleeping at night.

[shadowkat]

Definitely. I can't sleep if my bedroom temperature is above 75. I can usually go up to that temperature. But anything above that I sweat and am uncomfortable. I can sit comfortably up to 79, no humidity, but add humidity, forget it.

Menopause and medication obviously have some affect? I discovered that high blood pressure meds make me more resistant to heat, and anything over 80, makes me feel fatigued and wiped out and susceptible to heat stroke. So I have to be careful about how much time I spend in the heat, and what I'm doing.

Also, my internal body temperature runs hotter with menopause, and if my blood sugar is up? That also has an affect.

It's a cocktail of sorts?

[yourlibrarian]

Yes, those are definitely factors and I'd say that temperature range is exactly the same for me. In fact right now it's 79 in our apartment and I'm at the computer but I still have a fan on me.

[shadowkat]

I've a fan on me at work, even though it's probably 78 in my office. Because I took a walk - and it was 83 outside (feels like 85).

[slaymesoftly]

Viking is expensive, but amazing. I wouldn't cruise with anyone else now, river or sea. Not everyone's cup of tea, but that's what those of us who love them like. No casinos, no "art" auctions, no children, no photographer following you around, and so on. And smaller ships, so smaller groups.

[shadowkat]

I keep flirting with Viking. I've heard Oceania is good as well - at least for anyone who is Ceiliac.

But I honestly think Viking may work best for me - since I don't want the kids, auctions, casinos, and huge resort. I really don't want to be in a floating city. And I think river might work better or Mediterrean cruises? (I get seasick easily.)

[slaymesoftly]

No seasickness on the rivers! LOL (My husband joked that if the ship went down, we could just swim to shore - also a plus). Most of the ship cruises are going from one port to another, and usually aren't really "at sea" all that much. I would think the Mediterranean ones wouldn't have to cross much open water at all. We did have some time at sea on our Scandinavian cruise, but it wasn't bad. No one got sick (that I know about) when it was a little rough.