One Hot Top Ten List

So, do you think your biological temperature tolerance (pseudo-scientific term) grows weaker with age?

I mean when I was a kid, I could have a great time whether the temperature was below freezing or in the three digits. If it was cold, I ran around the yard faster. If the weather was hot, I took off more clothes. Pretty sound logic, right?

Well anymore I feel like I can only tolerate temperatures in the range of 65-75 (except of course if I can be in Hawaii--then I can endure up to 90 because I know the end result will be a fabulous tan).

I think the temp. here is CV is currently 85 and I am dying. 85??!! I know it's pathetic, but it's true.

I am glad that it is Sunday because I have an excuse for not doing anything that may require my body temperature to increase. No exercising. No cleaning. No cooking with the oven...it's crockpot today baby!

So out of sheer avoidance of the heat, I am blogging my next top ten list:

Top Ten Ways to Beat the Heat

10. Eat chilled watermelon

I did today and it totally worked...for about 10 minutes...good thing there's more in the fridge...

9. Hang out in the frozen section

Do you know THOSE people who go to Costco or Sam's Club with someone else who has a membership card JUST so they can try the free samples? Well, if you don't, now you do because I am one of them.

If you are trying to beat the heat, you can use a similar tactic. Hang out at the grocery store frozen section. You don't have to have a membership to do it (unless of course you opt for one of THOSE fancy stores) and the air is completely free.

Added benefit? The grocery stores carries oodles of magazines you would never pay for, but you know you are helplessly curious to read so you can find who is the next Hollywood disaster case. So grab your People Magazine and chill out with the your new buddies Breyers and Red Baron.

8. Clean your fridge

Yep, this is the one time you will welcome that rush of cold, stinky air.

7. Wear a dress

Hate the stagnant air "under there" that especially accumulates on hot days? Wear a dress and let that air circulate--keeping you cool and your loved ones close by.

6. Roll in some dirt

I have yet to try this one, but it seems pretty effective for most other creatures in the Animal Kingdom, so why not people?

5. Do a "Cleopatra"

Yeah that's right, get some poor soul (a.k.a. your husband or a kid in need of some reprimanding) to fan your body, fetch chilled drinks, and do pretty much every little menial task that would potentially cause you to break a sweat.

4. Blast from the past

Got any picutres of an ex-friend, ex-love, or ex-love of your spouse? Just taking a glance through these memorabilia is sure to leave you a little frigid.

3. Wear deodarant

So maybe this one won't make you FEEL any cooler but, at least you will SMELL like you are.

2. Move to Alaska

Oh wait, scrtach that. I forgot, Alaska's summers are worse than Arizona'a--Hot AND humid AND mosiquitoes. I'll stick it out here thank you very much.

1. Watch a documentary on climbing Mount Everest

This one works really well and just proves that you can have mind over matter:

"(meditating) ahummmm, ahummmm, I am not hot, ahummmm, I am on a Himalayan, snow-capped peak, ahummmm, it's cold, ahummmm, I think I have frost-bite, ahummmm, where's my sherpa, I'm hungry?!!"

--A