My brain is melting so I am revisiting a post I wrote last summer. Enjoy!
It’s sooo hot in New York. It’s STEAMY, damn it! In the immortal words of Neil Simon,”It’s like Africa Hot. Tarzan couldn’t take this kind of hot.” You ain’t just whistling Dixie, Eugene Morris Jerome! Anyway, yesterday was 90 degrees and about a million percent humidity, (ok a wee bit of exaggeration.) Today is more of the same as is tomorrow. And the day after that? Somewhere around 98 degrees. YIKES, when did I move back to the South?! I’m not sure if this has anything to do with global warming, the ozone layer being eroded on an hourly basis, or it’s just fucking summer time. I am SO not a summer kid! Give me snow and sweaters anytime over sweat and heat. I remember reading this book when I was younger and the author described a “sultry” night. I thought that sounded so sexy until I found out it just meant HUMID. Sigh.
My window unit air conditioner is blasting, the oscillating fan is blowing, and I am pretty sure Con Ed is going to put a lien on all my future earnings. Ally da Pup is comfy as am I. The dog walks are mercifully brief less than fun but hey what can you do? Nada I guess. I’m fantasizing about icy cold alcoholic drinks, a cool ocean breeze and Raoul the Cabana Boy gently waving a palm frond my direction.
Bigger sigh. Oh well. Pass the iced tea will ya? And NOT the sweet tea, Oob! That stuff is NASTY.
*shudders*
You’re right… sweet tea is very nasty. I make mine without sweetner and then add a little bit to take off the edge.
It is hot, isn’t it? We have had rain, rain, rain, and little summer. Everyone’s bitching. So now, the real heat bursts on the scene and suddenly, we want the rain. I’d settle for a few sunny, 82 degree days myself.
Enjoy your Sunday!!
We get some “sultry” days here as well. Kind of sucks, but I’ve always felt that it is much better than a snowstorm.
As David Letterman once said, “The best time to visit New York is the Summer…when all of the New Yorkers are gone.”
Come to think about it, I would really like Jamaica if there weren’t any Jamaicans there.
A lot of times we forget that New York is the same latitude as Madrid.
To compound the problem, heat rises, and New York is built on the theory that the only way to go is UP…
You need to move to San Francisco: The mild climate, the wide open spaces, the tremendous availability of eligible straight men, the freshly-packaged Rice-A-Roni…plus, uh, Marconi plays the mambo…uh…the Transamerica Building…they built that city on Rock & Roll–ah, hell with it, just stay where you are!
“I don’t know if I can stay here if it’s gonna be this hot.”
You po’ thing. You’re all hot and bothered and you don’t have access to Hefeweisen. Which is local beer. Which you don’t have any of. You po’ thing.
When I was a kid, my favorite passage of summer came from Jacqueline Susann.
The temperature hit ninety degrees the day she arrived. New York was steaming — an angry concrete animal caught unawares in an unreasonable hot spell.
Doesnt that make you go, “WOW”? Even though the words make no sense, it totally describes a hot day almost perfectly!
Much like your post…and hopefully, this heat doesnt melt you away too fast!
I imagine my reaction to the first taste of unsweetened tea was very similar to your first taste of sweetened. It’s what one is familiar with, and anything varying is just…weird.
It’s okay, Lisa. I know you still love me anyway! Stay cool!
And fyi, a truck drove by me yesterday and beeped his horn. It played Dixie.
I recommend nakedness…perspiration stains are so unbecoming yanno
Oh….and doesn’t alcohol dehydrate a person?
Sweet tea! There is nothing else! Tea by any other name… is not tea, in this transplanted Southerner’s mind.
Didn’t you grow up in the South? It’s sacrilege to drink unsweet tea!
I’m MELTING!!!! We had dinner tonight at someone’s house and the AC wasn’t working. My brain is a puddle, and as soon as I’m done writing this, I’m going to crawl into bed with the AC on FULL!!! Miss ya…
That’s not a palm front Raoul’s waving atcha ~waggling my eyebrows~
I swear I just used that exact quote on Saturday night when I was working. I had to go into the kitchen, I work at a restaurant, and I said those exact words!!! You need to move to PA and go shoe shopping with me.
Denny – I hate that stuff! Blech
Nat – I know, the weather has been icky of late. I would take that 82 degrees as well!
Andy – I’ll take the snowstorm thanks!
Zen Wizard – LOL. Yea, I probably will just stay put…
Golfwidow – Hehe
Hoss – I have never even HEARD of that beer! And yes, Po’ me
David – Got to love Jacqueline Susann!
Oob – Of course I still love ya! And I still hate sweet tea though
Mike – So, I should be naked but not drunk? LOL!
Philip – I DID grow up in the South and consider myself a Southern Gal. That being said, sweet tea still blows
Last Girl – OY, NO A.C.??? Yikes, poor you! No melting allowed
Miss ya back, let’s play soon!
Serra – You bad, BAD girl!
Stace – Great minds! And PA has some mighty fine shopping lol.
What does it say about global warming that this post is just as appropriate a year later?:)
Dropped by via Last Girl – just ‘cuz of the “Ceazer Salad” thing…. We’re melting up here in The Great White North, too, and most of us are pissed because we’ve been complaining for centuries about having cold summers. Now we’re all eating crow. Cold crow, ‘cuz it’s too freakin’ hot to turn the stove on. I’m starting to believe the Bible-thumpers about Last Days and all….
It’s just as steamy here in Michigan, but thankfully do not live in the concrete jungle… the one time I am happy to be in the ‘burbs with a pool out back… C’mon over, I’ll make you a fruity frozen libation and you can take a dip!
Stay cool, sistah!
I’m totally feeling your pain Lisa! And the weatherman says to CONSERVE energy by turning OFF our a/c units? Oh hell no!
it’s hot as hell here too, but I’m loving it! I go home, jump in my pool, come inside and crank the AC. But if I didn’t have the pool and AC? I’d be a bitch on wheels in this heat…
Hot as hell here in Southern California, too.
So, in the complete spirit of energy conservation, I’ve been cranking up the air conditioner, but not running the vacuum, dishwasher, or washer and dryer. That way, I also don’t get overheated doing household chores.
It’s a good system.
I’m dying, and Con Ed *so* owns my soul right now. I’ve had the AC on for the cats for the past three days. Last night it was too hot to turn it off and actually sleep, so it’s been on for 24 hours straight now. I have compromised, though. The energy saver setting is on 82*. Why do I never remember that at some point every summer here, 82* will feel like a gift from the gods??
I hate the summer heat.
Global Warming sucks.
Every one gripes about the weather but no one ever does anything about it.
I want to scramble an egg on my boss’s bald head. I think the weather conditions are ideal.
It was “purrfect” here today
climbed all the way to 71>>>>>>>>>>>>>>runs from flying window unit!
Janet – No kidding!
Les Becker – Welcome! And I hear ya about the heat. It’s just YUCKY.
Laurie – Change the sheets in the guest room, I’m on the next plane
Deb – Yea right. As if!
Dawn – Me is the bitch on wheels
Annie – Great system, I embrace your creativity!
Julie – “All hail the mighty Con Ed”
Brianne – Indeed.
Fuzz – Unfortunately I am not connected in THAT high a place
Marty – Enjoy!
Seamus – Better watch out, I have good aim
HARUMPH!!!!
I miss air con!! They don;t have it here! It’s whack! ONly the supermarkets!
ONce I had an air con that fell out of my NYC apt window! Hehe didnt know how to screw it in!
I’ll take hot over cold any day. AC works fine down here.
Long Island Iced Tea coming up! Make it a double! 110 F here! All this time during the winter months I think global warming wouldn’t be soooo bad. But now, not so much! Stay cool sweetie!
Lois Lane
I love that line from Biloxi Blues, and yes it’s way too fucking hot. Triple digits for days forecasted here.
I really wish somebody would swap Cali with Washington State soon.
Cheers
98 degrees!
Oh wait, you mean Farenheit, or whatever that crazy system for measuring temperature is.
We had fog here today.
Relief is in the air!!! YAY!