The Vent and Rant Thread

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Urgghh. Hot and humid = horrible.

hot and humid makes me faint in public places, which is really embarassing. i mean, nobody faints anymore. fainting is so 19th century.

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

Urgghh. Hot and humid = horrible.

Oh, I don't know...walk down to the beach, read on the beach, bodysurf, come home, swim in the pool, read by the pool, relax in the spa, Zany Carter, lather, rinse, repeat. It's somewhat tolerable.

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Oh, I don't know...walk down to the beach, read on the beach, bodysurf, come home, swim in the pool, read by the pool, relax in the spa, Zany Carter, lather, rinse, repeat. It's somewhat tolerable.

OK - some of that I can deal with.

[ShortNCuddlyAm]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

hot and humid makes me faint in public places, which is really embarassing. i mean, nobody faints anymore. fainting is so 19th century.

I've come close to fainting in the heat, but that was dehydration more than anything. Normally hot and humid makes me irritable or sends me to sleep.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Oh, I don't know...walk down to the beach, read on the beach, bodysurf, come home, swimsplash about some in the pool, read by the pool, relax in the spa, Zany Carter, lather, rinse, repeat. It's somewhat tolerable.

here is what i could deal with.

[DixieGal]

I love hot and humid. The key is to make peace with sweat - your own and the splashback from others. Once you accept your sweat, then everything else becomes do-able.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm

I've come close to fainting in the heat, but that was dehydration more than anything. Normally hot and humid makes me irritable or sends me to sleep.

yeah, or that. i never can tell which of the three in advance though.

[nekokami]

I did actually faint once. It was very embarrassing. I think I was dehydrated. I was out long enough to have a short dream (though I think the actual time was under a minute) and woke up on my friend's kitchen floor very confused... I think I said "What am I doing here?" which worried my husband and friend quite a bit-- they worried I had hit my head or something. But it was just that I had had a dream about being somewhere completely different.

Last thing I remember prior to the faint was knowing I was about to go out, and setting down the kitchen implements and vegetables and sort of crouching toward the floor to lessen the fall.

Odd experience. I think it was about 20 years ago now.

[Patricia]

I've fainted a couple of times (generally low blood-pressure+postural hypotension), and found it very disagreeable. Lots of dizziness but no dreams. It is embarrassing because people make such a fuss.

[Greg Anos]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Oh, I don't know...walk down to the beach, read on the beach, bodysurf, come home, swim in the pool, read by the pool, relax in the spa, Zany Carter, lather, rinse, repeat. It's somewhat tolerable.

Take another pass for me.....

[RickyMaveety]

Originally Posted by nekokami

I did actually faint once. It was very embarrassing. I think I was dehydrated. I was out long enough to have a short dream (though I think the actual time was under a minute) and woke up on my friend's kitchen floor very confused... I think I said "What am I doing here?" which worried my husband and friend quite a bit-- they worried I had hit my head or something. But it was just that I had had a dream about being somewhere completely different.

Last thing I remember prior to the faint was knowing I was about to go out, and setting down the kitchen implements and vegetables and sort of crouching toward the floor to lessen the fall.

Odd experience. I think it was about 20 years ago now.

I've fainted twice. Once was when I was late for an autopsy, ran into the room without checking to see who was on the table, and passed out when the other pathologist flipped the face back over the skull, and I saw it was a friend of mine from elementary school and junior high. I'm told I just went stiff as a board and fell backward.

The second time was when I threw back the bed curtain expecting a live patient, and found a corpse with no face (she had been in a car accident and her face/head got caught outside the car window and dragged). Again, not what I was ready for .... and the result for me was night-night time.

I'm generally fine in a crisis .... it's those sudden nasty surprises that tend to send my brain into overload.

[Slite]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Oh, I don't know...walk down to the beach, read on the beach, bodysurf, come home, swim in the pool, read by the pool, relax in the spa, Zany Carter, lather, rinse, repeat. It's somewhat tolerable.

I object to that post, on account of it's immense jealousy-inducing qualities!

[badgoodDeb]

I don't object to it, so much, it's just that plane tix to Australia will be Sooooo expensive. But it does sound enviable!

[montsnmags]

Tonight, raclette (with a sticky lemon-syrup cake and icecream for dessert). Also, a lovely, local, sweet, white port we found at the farmer's markets today.

...and there's always a bed available for my favourite Xena-substitute (a comment which sounds far more salacious then intended).

Cheers,
Marc

[zelda_pinwheel]

raclette ?? isn't it summer time down there ???

...that all sounds good to me though... and it's winter here...