{"id":10222,"date":"2026-06-27T17:25:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/?p=10222"},"modified":"2026-06-27T17:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T15:25:58","slug":"im-melting-im-melting-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/im-melting-im-melting-4\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;M MELTING, I&#8217;M MELTING!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being this hot this long turns me into a wicked witch. I almost wish someone would douse me with a cold bucket of water. It&#8217;s been in the 90s for 2 days (34C today) and I don&#8217;t know how anyone stands it in countries where this is the norm or worse. How do people stand it?? I have minimal clothing, ceiling fans, and a regimen of opening and closing windows and blinds as the sun moves, to block the worst of it, and I&#8217;m still cranky and sweaty. I&#8217;ve managed to do a few things today, but if I had a fainting couch to collapse on to, I would. Instead I park myself inbetween chores under the ceiling fan in the living room and drink ice water until I recover.<\/p>\n<p>All of Europe is suffering under an uncommon and severe heatwave right now, and it&#8217;s not even July yet. What are we going do to if temps climb even more? I&#8217;m sure Kathey and Russell are snickering at me from their home in Texas, where their outside temperatures are in the HIGH 90s, just like I used to snicker at people moaning about the cold when I lived in Chicago. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had to close most of the windows for most of the day, as the superheated air outside isn&#8217;t moving at all. When I went out earlier to drop a bag of trash in the bins, the heat actually felt like a WEIGHT on me. Heavy and suffocating, with no breeze. Ugh. Temps are supposed to drop down to the low 20s in a couple of days and bring rain with them, but it sure can&#8217;t happen soon enough for me. I hate this heat.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mood: cranky<br \/>\nMusic: Caroline Polachek\u2014So Hot You&#8217;re Hurting My Feelings<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being this hot this long turns me into a wicked witch. I almost wish someone would douse me with a cold bucket of water. It&#8217;s been in the 90s for 2 days (34C today) and I don&#8217;t know how anyone stands it in countries where this is the norm or worse. How do people stand it?? I have minimal clothing, ceiling fans, and a regimen of opening and closing windows and blinds as the sun moves, to block the worst of it, and I&#8217;m still cranky and sweaty. I&#8217;ve managed to do a few things today, but if I had&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-10222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-littlemisssunshine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10222"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10224,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222\/revisions\/10224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}