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

[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).