The Sphere
General Garbage => Tropical Paradise of Hard Shelled Fruits => Topic started by: Wickedly Yours E on Jul 18, 2005, 08:30:37 PM
-
Running the AC is expensive, so we don't run it during the night. Lately, I've been waking up at 2:00 in the FREAKIN' MORNING From the damn heat! I'm getting sick of it!
Any idea's of staying cool while you're freakin' sleepin'?
-
Fewer clothes? I feel ya, though. Our new house doesn't have central air, so we have one small wall unit to keep us cool. Since my room is on the opposite end of the house, the Texas heat is killing me. And with a bank account about a thin as a starving Ethiopian, I'm not getting a window unit anytime soon. I think I'll go back to sleeping in the living room.
-
Maybe an attic fan?
-
We don't have central air either. Last night I slept downstairs because even though it rained and cooled off considerably, my room was still 10200 degrees.
-
I'm simply going to say that I can't "Wear any less clothing" when I'm sleeping, in regards to that.
And I do have a window, and it is cooler at night, but not that cool! WARM WINDS DAMMIT! It's always TEN or more degree's warmer out where we live compared to town. STUPID HILLS.
-
I'm not gonna ask the dumb question and assume you have a fan. Not that they help. Merla had like three or four in her room once and it was still an oven.
-
Good choice. We do have a fan, and it's not a very big room, but here's the real reason it gets hot, and it stems way back to when a construction crew constructed the house.
Here's the short version: They did a piss-poor job (Not JUST in this particular instance.) and there's no insulation between my room and the roof. And besides the construction beams, I doubt there's any real wood in our ceiling at all anyway.
-
Sleep with a fan blowing right next to you.
-
Oh man, I'm a veteran at this. :(
Get a shallow pan, like a baking pan for brownies, fill to the rim with ice, place on table level with you and aim a fan so that it's blowing over the ice. I made it through 5 days in August once like this after lightning fried the central A/C unit.
An old-fashioned ice bag on the back of the neck also helps. Or save the ice bag for your feet and get a Chillow (http://www.chillowstore.com/). I've seen them as low as $17.99 online. If your feet & the back of your neck are cool, the rest of you will feel cool as well.
Also, go to Target and get the cheapest plain bedsheets you can find; usually under $20 bucks for a full-size set. They will be very thin and rather stiff, thus they will stand away from your skin instead of draping snugly, which traps heat. Learned this from my grandmother, though I'm not going to starch & iron sheets in the summer like she did. :P
-
Sleep with a fan blowing right next to you.
I was just going to say that.
Thanks god I have AC
-
Sleep underground. That's what I do.
Seriously, if you house has a basement, move into it. It's a constant tempature underground. If you are still hot a single fan should do the trick.
-
Can they do basements in CA with the earthquake threat? :huh: Wish we could have them here, but that's asking for an indoor pool sooner or later.
-
I think so. The building codes are crazy on that sort of thing however. But if you want to live on top of an active fault line you deserve the hassle.
-
1: There is no basement in our place, the closest thing to underground is the dried up pond.
2: I do have a fan, but I got to set it on swivel so it also hits the little bro.
3: Sometimes I get a rag that's damp with cold water, but that doesn't seem to help as much as I'd like it to...Might try the neck trick though.
-
There's those pillows filled with i think buckwheat or something that supposedly absorb the heat from your head. Or one of those eye masks that you freeze then wear overnight. I'm sure that'd keep you cool. If you're already barely clothed (if that) then your head and feet are all you have to worry about.
-
Running the AC is expensive, so we don't run it during the night. Lately, I've been waking up at 2:00 in the FREAKIN' MORNING From the damn heat! I'm getting sick of it!
Any idea's of staying cool while you're freakin' sleepin'?
Get a second job.
-
What about a nice cold shower before bedtime, E?
-
I'd say sleep naked.. but I don't even want to think about that.
-
What about a nice cold shower before bedtime, E?
That never worked for me. My parents were too cheap to buy an A/C for Rhode Island, yet they could spend 200+ a night going out to dinner. >.<
It was because it's only hot for like 3 months in RI, but in those three months it's a fuckin scorcher.
-
Running the AC is expensive, so we don't run it during the night. Lately, I've been waking up at 2:00 in the FREAKIN' MORNING From the damn heat! I'm getting sick of it!
Any idea's of staying cool while you're freakin' sleepin'?
Get a second job.
Listen you dumb son of a bitch, If I could get a first job I'd be fucking happy. DOn't you get on my shitlist too.
ANd I do shower every night before I go to sleep, last night I did try putting some ice in the damp rag, seemed to work very well.
-
Take a frickin joke. Or take some happy pills.
-
*attacks Tom* You leave him alone!
-
Take a frickin joke. Or take some happy pills.
It ain't a joke to me. I spent most of the summer looking for a job, and all I managed to snag was three day's worth of employment at a temp agency that hasn't called me in a while, so pardon me if I feel that my entire summer plan is wrecked. When you comment that I should get a "second job", to me it sounds like you're badmouthing my efforts to get a job in the first place. Maybe you didn't mean it that way, but that's the way I see it.
-
*fills Emmy's bathtub with frozen margaritas*
This should take care of more than one trouble for a while. :)
-
Take a frickin joke. Or take some happy pills.
It ain't a joke to me. I spent most of the summer looking for a job, and all I managed to snag was three day's worth of employment at a temp agency that hasn't called me in a while, so pardon me if I feel that my entire summer plan is wrecked. When you comment that I should get a "second job", to me it sounds like you're badmouthing my efforts to get a job in the first place. Maybe you didn't mean it that way, but that's the way I see it.
Maybe your lack of humor is keeping you from being hired. People like hiring fun people who joke and are friendly.
-
Now you know that's not true. If that was true then there'd be no humorless assholes in the work place to make a job even more an enriching experience.
-
Hey, Im just speaking from personal experience.
And those humorless assholes never stay long, unless they know someone. But usually those assholes are friendly only to the bosses.
-
And that's what they call "Management material". Ba ha ha.
-
*attacks Tom* You leave him alone!
Merla I assume...
Needs less gay HP name
-
You mean that wasn't the real Buckbeak? I'm crushed.
-
Damn. I was wondering what Hippogriff meat tasted like barbecued.
-
Like my ass.
-
You've tasted your own ass?
I guess having those four ribs removed really did pay off.
-
I'll bet he looks great in a corset now, the bitch. <_<
-
Did anyone hear some noise coming from a little mouse that likes little girls? NO? I didn't think so.
I think hippogriff meat tastes like chicken.
As for ass meat I read it was the best part of the human flesh according to those airplane crash victims. You know that soccor team that was stranded in the mountains of south america. They let the dead bodies freeze and then ate them in order to live. There was even a movie about it.
-
I'll bet he looks great in a corset now, the bitch. <_<
I do damnit. Better than William Shatner.
And I bet assmeat tastes the best. Especially mine.
-
I think hippogriff meat tastes like chicken.
Depends what part you get it from. The whole ass section should taste like horse.
-
So should you.
-
Just one part of me tastes like Horse.
-
And you would know. ONLY you. It's sad really.
-
As for ass meat I read it was the best part of the human flesh according to those airplane crash victims. You know that soccor team that was stranded in the mountains of south america. They let the dead bodies freeze and then ate them in order to live. There was even a movie about it.
the movie is called "Alive" and its about an uruguyuan football team (yes, football) whose plane crashes in the andes of chile
-
Soccer, this isn't Uruguay.
NANDO! LEMME EAT YOUR SISTER!
-
You mean that wasn't the real Buckbeak? I'm crushed.
:lol: :lol: :lol:
-
Knock it off. Continue to be mad at eachother, I demand it.
-
Go suck something, ya frickin closet case.
-
Soccer, this isn't Uruguay.
NANDO! LEMME EAT YOUR SISTER!
its football, damnit
:slaps tom:
-
*Dodge*
Listen, you frickin immigrant. You live in our country, you use our words. Or else you're a filthy Canadian, and even they call it soccer.
-
Well we could try to rename Football here in America, but what would we change it to? Handball? Even with the fact that it's already taken, that name sounds kinda silly. Smash And Dash Ball? Well that just won't work as a Hank Williams Jr song. I'm sorry it has to stay Football. And since we are America, the rest of you people have to change it. ^_^
-
How about ButtSlap?
My nephew was watching a football game when he was about four with my dad & asked if the players who scored were in trouble because everyone would run over to spank them. :lol:
-
Hmmmmmmmmm.....
" Are you ready for some Butslaaaaaaaaaap!!!!"
Yeah, I think that could work.
-
*Dodge*
Listen, you frickin immigrant. You live in our country, you use our words. Or else you're a filthy Canadian, and even they call it soccer.
Listen little bitch, its FOOTBALL and i have said ONE THOUSAND TIMES that if i could i would go back to my country RIGHT NOW.
-
THEN LEAVE! And real football owns the sissy sport of Soccer. Silk Shorts, coordinating goalie/player colors, the inability to use hands? FAG SPORT!
-
Knock it off. Continue to be mad at eachother, I demand it.
But anger feeds the darkside. Besides, I can't help it if that was funny.
Its football, damnit
I think you should compromise and call it "fútbol".
-
See, that I wouldn't mind, since it's a spanish word. But if you're in America, you spell it in your sissy language, or you use our word.
-
THEN LEAVE! And real football owns the sissy sport of Soccer. Silk Shorts, coordinating goalie/player colors, the inability to use hands? FAG SPORT!
I can't leave till i finish school, im fucking trapped here.
AMERICAN football is a fucked up sport. everybody knows that football is waaaayy more difficult than the american football
the inability of using hands is for fags? wtf?
-
THEN LEAVE! And real football owns the sissy sport of Soccer. Silk Shorts, coordinating goalie/player colors, the inability to use hands? FAG SPORT!
I can't leave till i finish school, im fucking trapped here.
AMERICAN football is a fucked up sport. everybody knows that football is waaaayy more difficult than the american football
the inability of using hands is for fags? wtf?
You say that as Teddy Bruschi is bearing down on you.
Pele sucked.
-
fuck you and fuck american football
-
Go Pats.
-
the inability of using hands is for fags? wtf?
[doHTML]Yeah, I would say the opposite. American football is suspiciously gay. Look at those tight shiny pants, those ass slaps, tackling with all of those big sweaty men grabbing each other and tossing themselves into <S>an orgy</S> a pile....[/doHTML]
-
But they don't penetrate each other.
-
Except in the Locker Room.
-
And Soccer players don't?
-
But they don't penetrate each other.
two words: circle jerk
-
Is that what you did this weekend?
-
She was trying to find absurd athletic comparisons to make.
-
Oh, I was just thinking of what she did with the Philly Eagles.
-
But they don't penetrate each other.
Maybe they save that for when they get in lines and bend down in front of each other, presenting their backsides like a bitch in heat...
-
(http://www.cglff.dk/images/film2004/im_so_excited.jpg)
-
Is that what you did this weekend?
how could a girl do that?
-
By getting a penis.
-
Or already having one.
Still, EW.
-
*angelic smile*
-
Your halo's on fire.
-
I think Tom was alluding to someone sitting in the middle of said circle.
-
I get it now. So she'll wear a skirt of penises. Very "Silence of the Lambs", I must say.....
-
Your halo's on fire.
ACK!!!