I found my soulmate...
Jul. 8th, 2012 03:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
susandennisI was sitting here listening to the ballgame on the radio and watching it on muted TV (one of the TV announcers today makes me homi/suicidal), knitting away - cool and comfortable and a wild hair worked its way up my ass.
I have wanted to go to the fabric store down the street and get something wipe-able for my table. All of a sudden, today seemed like the day. Without another thought, I was out the door. Into the blazing heat and the sun. Off to the fabric store which is really an outlet and located in an old wooden warehouse on the second floor - no A/C. By the time I got up the stairs there, I was a panting sweating fool. But I persevered and found exact what I wanted.
The clerk who cut my cloth and checked me out asked how miserable it was out there. I said that I was a heat whiner - "it's never really as miserable as I tell myself it is." And she answered words I *NEVER* hear in Seattle.
"I hear ya. Personally, anything over 70 is too hot."
YES! Exactly!!
Half the people here want it as hot as it can possibly be and whine that it is never hot enough. The other half want it as hot as it can possibly be until it gets to 85 and then they start bitching about the heat.
But 70 is what is reasonable. So now I know there are two of us.
Back home, ironed the fabric and pinked it to size - it is perfect - exactly what I wanted but now I am an exhausted sweaty mess. Actually, I was when I sat down to write this but some nice iced tea and A/C and stillness has fixed it a little.
Mariners in the 10th and I'm not going to move again.
I have wanted to go to the fabric store down the street and get something wipe-able for my table. All of a sudden, today seemed like the day. Without another thought, I was out the door. Into the blazing heat and the sun. Off to the fabric store which is really an outlet and located in an old wooden warehouse on the second floor - no A/C. By the time I got up the stairs there, I was a panting sweating fool. But I persevered and found exact what I wanted.
The clerk who cut my cloth and checked me out asked how miserable it was out there. I said that I was a heat whiner - "it's never really as miserable as I tell myself it is." And she answered words I *NEVER* hear in Seattle.
"I hear ya. Personally, anything over 70 is too hot."
YES! Exactly!!
Half the people here want it as hot as it can possibly be and whine that it is never hot enough. The other half want it as hot as it can possibly be until it gets to 85 and then they start bitching about the heat.
But 70 is what is reasonable. So now I know there are two of us.
Back home, ironed the fabric and pinked it to size - it is perfect - exactly what I wanted but now I am an exhausted sweaty mess. Actually, I was when I sat down to write this but some nice iced tea and A/C and stillness has fixed it a little.
Mariners in the 10th and I'm not going to move again.
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Date: 2012-07-08 11:01 pm (UTC)I agree with you guys; anything over 70 is a little much. I don't function well in the heat at all. So far, my state has managed to escape some of the beastly heat that is wrecking havoc, but July is young yet. We usually get slammed late July/August.
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Date: 2012-07-09 12:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-07-09 01:05 am (UTC)seattle is generally perfect for me... although I'd like fewer hot day and more snow days.
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Date: 2012-07-09 01:15 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-07-09 12:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-07-09 02:22 pm (UTC)And they are pretty darned comfortable, too.
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Date: 2012-07-09 01:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-07-09 02:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-07-09 04:47 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2012-07-09 04:57 pm (UTC)We get that maybe once a month or less in Seattle and only in the winter. We have lots and lots of cloudy, drizzly days but not so many real rain days.
Cool temps and a little damp is a good description.
BUT, the air is amazingly not humid most of the time. I live 2 blocks from the bay. I can leave a saltine on the counter for a couple of days and it will still be crispy. I swear. I have never understood it but I've always loved it.
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Date: 2012-07-09 05:34 pm (UTC)Average temp for my home is like 70-80 daytime and 50-70 at night. Can be pretty humid but never really sticky like east coast sticky. Technically San Diego is a desert. Only get 9 inches or less rain per year.
I am looking to end up somewhere greener, with more space between me and my neighbors, and a city that is more liberal. I would love to be between 15-20 degrees cooler. Now I just have to talk my hubby into it. Not realistic for it to happen for 15-20 years unless his career takes a turn up north. in 20 years I will have our houses paid off and I figure we could cash out and pack up when we hit 60-62.
Almost ended up in Vancouver Wa a few years ago but glad he didn't take that job because that same company laid him off and closed that office anyway. It would have fallen apart 6 months after the move :P