ILLUSTRATION FRIDAY: 100% ...(OR NOT!)
5 TOP TIPS TO AVOID SLEEP DEPRIVATION ON HOT SUMMER NIGHTS (Based on true events endured last night.)
1. Don’t under ANY circumstances get sunburnt during the day that the weather bureau forecasts hot conditions overnight. Do you have any idea how much heat radiates from sunburnt areas?!!
It was worth it for all the fun we had boogie boarding at the beach yesterday! Oh yeah, and I FINALLY bought AND WORE shorts for the first time in 10 years...the lilly white legs were always going to be an easy target for those nasty UV rays!
2. Boot your husband out of bed BEFORE you try to go to sleep in these conditions. You are already generating enough body heat to power a small country town and you don’t need any help thanks very much.
I promise that Raymond J made his own decision to try to sleep outside on the lovely new Sun (or should that be “moon”?) lounge that I gave him for Christmas.
3. DO NOT give in several hours later and try to join your husband outside, as the mosquitos have already sucked him dry and are looking for their next victim.
(This one is self explanatory.)
4. Don’t think that a lovely “cool” shower at 2am will make any difference at all. It only makes you wide awake and the cooling effect wears off the split second that you turn off the taps.
(Did I mention that this was based on true events?!)
5. Sleeping with your feet at the headboard and your head at the foot end makes absolutely no difference to either your body temperature or the temperature of the room. Neither does sleeping on your back, or your side, or your tummy, or……
Hense the sleepless night in Melbourne. Arrrggghhhh! Yeah, don’t worry I really CAN hear all of you parents out there screaming “welcome to my world”! All I can say is how the hell do you do it?
(And NO I AM NOT PREGNANT!!)
1. Don’t under ANY circumstances get sunburnt during the day that the weather bureau forecasts hot conditions overnight. Do you have any idea how much heat radiates from sunburnt areas?!!
It was worth it for all the fun we had boogie boarding at the beach yesterday! Oh yeah, and I FINALLY bought AND WORE shorts for the first time in 10 years...the lilly white legs were always going to be an easy target for those nasty UV rays!
2. Boot your husband out of bed BEFORE you try to go to sleep in these conditions. You are already generating enough body heat to power a small country town and you don’t need any help thanks very much.
I promise that Raymond J made his own decision to try to sleep outside on the lovely new Sun (or should that be “moon”?) lounge that I gave him for Christmas.
3. DO NOT give in several hours later and try to join your husband outside, as the mosquitos have already sucked him dry and are looking for their next victim.
(This one is self explanatory.)
4. Don’t think that a lovely “cool” shower at 2am will make any difference at all. It only makes you wide awake and the cooling effect wears off the split second that you turn off the taps.
(Did I mention that this was based on true events?!)
5. Sleeping with your feet at the headboard and your head at the foot end makes absolutely no difference to either your body temperature or the temperature of the room. Neither does sleeping on your back, or your side, or your tummy, or……
Hense the sleepless night in Melbourne. Arrrggghhhh! Yeah, don’t worry I really CAN hear all of you parents out there screaming “welcome to my world”! All I can say is how the hell do you do it?
(And NO I AM NOT PREGNANT!!)
Comments
and i concur with tony, NY is cold!!!
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Hope you sleep better tonight :o)
Love your illo!! :o)
Very funny illo, and it's fun to read your story, too.
I'll come back on your blog too !
And Bobo Cat - I could NOT live in Malaysia dealing with the heat all year! Great place to visit though no doubt!!
{{HUGGSS}}
I feel your pain though. Valencia, CA summers get up into the triple digits quite often...but it's a dry heat, y'know (0;