It's getting hot in here...

[judecorp]

Hot today. REALLY hot today. It's 7:30pm and it's currently about 93°. That's not typical up in these parts. Good thing Jen installed the window A/C in the bedroom on Sunday. In an hour I'll crank it up so it will be good for comfy sleeping.

We're pretty lucky with our house, though, in terms of staying cool. High of 97° today, still 93°, and it's somewhere around 80° in here with no A/C. Not too bad.

I went swimming with Morgan over at his apartment complex pool today, which was a very welcome break from the heat. The pool was a bit chilly but it sure helped when we got out and could actually sit outside for a while. Tons of people from the apartment complex were there, including several young girls, one of whom was pregnant and had a cute, big belly with NO stretch marks! (WTF?). I try not to be a majorly judgmental about what people do, but when she started smoking I got really irritated. Grrrr.

But the swimming was awesome!

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[fatfeistyfemme.livejournal.com]

mmm hot. It's warm here today, and I'm supposed to go swimming on Sunday for the Chunky Dunk -- but sadly, it looks like it might rain by then. *poo on that*

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I hope you have good weather for your swimming!! :)

[beckon-you-on.livejournal.com]

i never used to see this in california, but since moving to texas i have witnessed a TON of very obviously pregnant women smoking and/or drinking. makes me sad. but yeah, yay swimming.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't see it very often at all - usually just on TV. This was the first person I'd seen in person in a REALLY long time!

[rockymtnhigh.livejournal.com]

When I worked at a gas station, I REALLY wished I could refuse to sell cigarettes to pregnant women. Seriously, if a pharmacist can refuse to fill birth control because of their personal beliefs and values, shouldn't I be able to refuse to sell them cigs? Anyway, I'm with you on that. "It pisses me off" in my very best Cartman voice.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I would have a really hard time with that, too. I don't know what I would do.

[colleenod.livejournal.com]

I am going to a 4th of July picnic this weekend and sort of hoping they don't ask me to bring wine coolers or beer. I don't mind bringing those things, even though I won't be drinking them, but I have visions of myself feeling the need to explain to the clerk as I pay for them, "I promise, this isn't for me!" Then s/he'll probably stare at me like I'm nuts because I'm hardly showing.

If my grandmother was still alive, I'd probably find myself buying cigarettes while pregnant too and explaining that they were for my grandmother. I didn't approve of my GM smoking, but how do you tell a woman who has smoked since she was 18 that she should quit at 85?

And I am *so* judgmental sometimes of pg women. I was judgmental of a pg woman eating soft cheeses at a wedding this past weekend... or maybe just jealous that she was eating them and I wasn't. (It was an all-vegetarian wedding, and they had chosen lots of foods made with classy soft cheeses.)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha, I could totally see you saying, "Don't worry! It's not for me!" I think I would be tempted to do the same thing. Although you could send L in for the wine coolers or whatever. That's what partners are for! ;)

And it's true that people in their 80s get away with murder. I know that I would let my grandparents do/say pretty much whatever they wanted. When you were born in the 19-teens, you get a little slack.

Now see, I have partaken of some soft cheeses during my pregnancy. Most soft cheeses bought/sold in the US are pasteurized anyway, so it's a non-issue. But maybe not the fancy schmancy ones. (I never did give up blue cheese.) I actually had a sandwich made with deli meat the other day (entirely by accident - I thought it was a COOKED chicken breast sandwich when I ordered it), and I practically gave myself a meltdown, though.

Hang in there, you can do it!

[thatpatti.livejournal.com]

omg, i'm such a wuss. i start to get uncomfortable when the temp in the house gets above 71.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I can't deal with cranked up A/C all that much. I get really chilly in places that have the A/C around 70. Brrrrr!

[thatpatti.livejournal.com]

i loooove it. at night we put the thermostat on 67 and crank the ceiling fan on high. granted, it's FREEZING downstairs, but in the bedroom it's just right.

maybe it's because we're SO HOT.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

You know, I bet that's it. You are TOO HOT TO HANDLE!

When we had a two-floor place in Cbus, the thermostat was on the lower floor and we did set it much cooler than I would usually, because otherwise the upstairs was just too hot. So I feel you.

I like it cold when I sleep, but not during the day.

[thatpatti.livejournal.com]

poor neice katie slept on the couch down here the other night and she was all OMGZ it was FREEZING! oops. :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

HA HA HA HA, whoops.

I had that happen to me in reverse in this crappy, drafty apartment I was living in (with 4 other people) in Boston as a poor grad student. I was in the front foyer-type room (I guess when you try to cram so many kids into an apartment you get creative) with a wall of windows, and they were REALLY drafty. But the thermostat for the whole apartment was in my room! So I would set the thermostat in my room to 70°, and the heat would run and run and run. All of my roommates were in their rooms sleeping naked with no blankets (and sweating), and I was in my bed - in a down-filled camping sleeping bag in my bed! - wearing a sweatsuit, socks, gloves, and a winter hat.

[thatpatti.livejournal.com]

hee!

[(Anonymous)]

I can attest to that! (Being a roommate in that oh-so-crappy house!) I was the sweaty one in the back room, but after you moved out I moved to the front room and realized how *truly* drafty it really was. I made curtains from fleece blankets, and, yes, turned the heat up, too. :) -Jill

[evewasframed.livejournal.com]

i would have punched her in the face. for real, yo.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I would have liked to see that!

LOVE THE ICON.

[evewasframed.livejournal.com]

As they say on Lockdown: Women in Prison: "Your face ain't pregnant!"

Re: LOVE THE ICON.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. I think I'm a little frightened. :)

[mayna.livejournal.com]

80 degrees, I would die and wouldn't get up off the couch. When I'm not preggo I can handle 80 no prob. I don't know how you're doing it!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I'm a hot weather person. It's about 83 right now and I'm starting to get uncomfortable, but the window A/C is on in the bedroom so it should be cooler in there. I'm headed to bed really soon.

It's supposed to be a hot one tomorrow, too. Maybe I can con Morgan into going swimming again!! ;)

Seriously, though? It doesn't bother me all that much.

[mayna.livejournal.com]

I need our air set to 72 or 73. When I'm not pregnant, I don't need the air on at all until it hits 85. Wen I was pregnant with Maylie, they'd have the heat set to 74 in the office (granted we're wearing long sleeves too), an dI felt like I was just doing to pass out.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Weirdo. ;)

Seriously though, heat is okay with me, but the sticky humidity can take me down now that I'm pregnant. It's that clammy "can't breathe" feeling that I can't deal with more than just feeling warm.

[etherial.livejournal.com]

"Excuse me, could you not smoke here? The toxins you're releasing are going to harm my baby."

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Heh. Well, she was so far away from me at the time that I could hardly even SEE her cigarette, but yeah. I should have given her the what-for.

[ladysapphire.livejournal.com]

whenever i walked into work.. when i was working... which was at a mall.... i would always see pregnant women smoking... i just wanted to go up to them and smoke.... whats worse are the women who are at the hospital who are about to give birth and they walk outside with their IVs in tow and light up in the parking lot... one woman was hiding in her man's car.. probably because she knew how stupid she looked!

[ladysapphire.livejournal.com]

"i just wanted to go up to them and smoke"

I ment to say "i just wanted to go up to the and SMACK them!"

OOPS!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Ha ha ha ha ha, yeah I was wondering about that.

p.s. Those little guys are CUTE!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, that would have freaked me out! That's almost as scary as when I see people smoking WHILE ON AN OXYGEN TANK! (Yikes, I move far away from them!)

My mom was a big chain smoker when she had my brother and me. She told me that the first thing she said when she recovered from labor and delivery (they gave her some kind of knock-out gas, so when she woke up they would tell her if it was a boy or girl) with me, they told her I was a girl and was healthy and she said, "Can I go have a cigarette now?"

GOOD TIMES!

So take off all your clothes

[skatured.livejournal.com]

*I am ... getting...so...hot.....I'm gonna take my clothes off!"

Why am I the only one who has that song in my head now? Huh? We finally broke down and turned on the A/C yesterday... "it wasn't the heat, it was the humidity."

I think it's going back off tomorrow since it's supposed to cool down a bit. And really, we did it for the animals. ;)

Re: So take off all your clothes

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

The animals could cool off in the basement but they don't seem inclined to do that. I don't know why. Silly animals!

Now you got that song in my head and I am totally going to have to kill you. WATCH OUT!

[amyura.livejournal.com]

Do you hate me? I have no stretch marks from Julia.

I do have stretch marks on my hips and thighs from puberty, when I assumed the stereotypical Italian figure, and on my breasts from when my milk came in and I went up to a G cup. FUN.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Nah, I don't hate you. Stretch marks are totally one of those "nothing you can do" things. I didn't have any until about a week and a half ago... then I had these two cute little ones... now they are everywhere. It's so bizarre.

I have some puberty and fatty stretchmarks, too, really sexy. Actually, they have grown since the Big Belly Explosion and they have angry red tips. Like flames on a car!

Woah, I don't even know what a G cup looks like. I've never seen a C cup, personally. I like being small, but we'll see what the milk does.

[eeka13.livejournal.com]

I'm an H, so subtract a little...

:o)

[lorac.livejournal.com]

I spent a few of the hottest days of last summer hiding in a lounge in William's office cause our temporary place only had AC in the bedroom.

I think we're totally going to need to invest in a baby pool soon though! Geesh it is hot today.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I wish I could play in your baby pool! :)

[(Anonymous)]

My friend was born in 1978 and her mom's always been a smoker. Her mom told her that she first noticed my friend kicking as a baby because the ashtray resting on her belly would jump a little bit. Wow.
Thought you'd like that one.
Meredith :)