Author Topic: I CAN'T STAND THE HEAT! (Read 7279 times)

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'?

B E C K · « **Reply #1 on:** Jul 18, 2005, 09:45:37 PM »

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.

Fiero · « **Reply #2 on:** Jul 18, 2005, 11:35:29 PM »

Maybe an attic fan?

ChelseySuzie · « **Reply #3 on:** Jul 18, 2005, 11:49:32 PM »

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.

Wickedly Yours E · « **Reply #4 on:** Jul 19, 2005, 12:46:26 AM »

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.

B E C K · « **Reply #5 on:** Jul 19, 2005, 01:33:47 AM »

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.

Wickedly Yours E · « **Reply #6 on:** Jul 19, 2005, 08:34:58 AM »

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.

Merla · « **Reply #7 on:** Jul 19, 2005, 11:29:06 AM »

Sleep with a fan blowing right next to you.

Bernie · « **Reply #8 on:** Jul 19, 2005, 12:18:55 PM »

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. 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.

Faye Valentine · « **Reply #9 on:** Jul 19, 2005, 02:41:21 PM »

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Sleep with a fan blowing right next to you.

I was just going to say that.

Thanks god I have AC

Rama · « **Reply #10 on:** Jul 19, 2005, 02:46:24 PM »

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.

Bernie · « **Reply #11 on:** Jul 19, 2005, 03:03:15 PM »

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.

Rama · « **Reply #12 on:** Jul 19, 2005, 03:06:52 PM »

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.

Wickedly Yours E · « **Reply #13 on:** Jul 19, 2005, 03:20:36 PM »

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.

PapaMidnight · « **Reply #14 on:** Jul 19, 2005, 08:52:40 PM »

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.

Derrick · « **Reply #15 on:** Jul 19, 2005, 08:54:02 PM »

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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.

B E C K · « **Reply #16 on:** Jul 19, 2005, 10:37:01 PM »

What about a nice cold shower before bedtime, E?

The D · « **Reply #17 on:** Jul 19, 2005, 11:21:08 PM »

I'd say sleep naked.. but I don't even want to think about that.

Derrick · « **Reply #18 on:** Jul 19, 2005, 11:43:45 PM »

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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.

Wickedly Yours E · « **Reply #19 on:** Jul 20, 2005, 08:53:01 AM »

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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.

Derrick · « **Reply #20 on:** Jul 20, 2005, 10:51:42 AM »

Take a frickin joke. Or take some happy pills.

Buckbeak · « **Reply #21 on:** Jul 20, 2005, 02:06:50 PM »

*attacks Tom* You leave him alone!

Wickedly Yours E · « **Reply #22 on:** Jul 20, 2005, 03:38:16 PM »

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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.

Bernie · « **Reply #23 on:** Jul 20, 2005, 04:21:38 PM »

*fills Emmy's bathtub with frozen margaritas*

This should take care of more than one trouble for a while.

Derrick · « **Reply #24 on:** Jul 20, 2005, 09:49:39 PM »

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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.

Wickedly Yours E · « **Reply #25 on:** Jul 21, 2005, 08:41:38 AM »

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.

Derrick · « **Reply #26 on:** Jul 21, 2005, 08:51:47 AM »

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.

Wickedly Yours E · « **Reply #27 on:** Jul 21, 2005, 12:43:46 PM »

And that's what they call "Management material". Ba ha ha.

The D · « **Reply #28 on:** Jul 21, 2005, 04:55:49 PM »

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*attacks Tom* You leave him alone!

Merla I assume...

Needs less gay HP name

Rama · « **Reply #29 on:** Jul 21, 2005, 05:06:51 PM »

You mean that wasn't the real Buckbeak? I'm crushed.

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