That of course would NOT be me. (ha) Anyway. Remember, I just left Houston, TX. The place where some people liked to complain about the humidity. I honestly, really kind of liked the humidity. I'm really not joking either. I hated the feeling when I'd go to Utah, or less humid places, and feel the moisture just sucked up out of me. I would (maaaybe) complain...just maybe for a second or two, when in the middle of the summer it was like 100% humidity AND over 100*. You know, when you get out of the shower, and no matter what you do, your hair does not dry?
Two things come to mind. First, when the baby has a cold (in Houston mind you, where it is already very humid outside!) and they tell you to put a humidifier in her room. Very rarely did I see the wisdom there. Anymore humidity in the air, and we were going to create our very own thunderstorm right in the child's bedroom. And then second, this person shall go nameless to protect their identity, but they know who they are :). I'd walk into "said person's home" and she would have her HUMIDIFIER on full blast-for no apparent reason (at least that I can remember). I would always just giggle to myself, and think, "I don't think that is needed!"
But here I am, wanting, craving a little humidity in my life. It's plenty humid here-outside. But you turn the heater on...and all the humidity is gone. Today, I will head out to the Wal-mart and purchase a humidifier. I tried to do it the old fashioned way...boil water on the stove. Until, I started a fire, yesterday. Yes, ladies (and gentlemen) a fire. I had come in from the garage, and I must have created a little stir, and a receipt touched the electric burner (I do hate electric burners!) All of a sudden, Hunter and Hayden are yelling "FIRE, FIRE!" I yelled, "SCOTT!!" But luckily, the little receipt burned up and that was it. And that was it for my homemade humidity.
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Houston is humidity almost all the time. Portland I understand is never humidity. Now Chicago has it both ways, too much in the summer and none at all in the winter. Are we ever happy?
crikey heather! i can't believe you started a fire! i'm glad things turned out ok, but do go make a purchase today!!!
I miss the humidity in Chicago--and this is my reason--my hair always looks SO good, because it curls right up and is soft and beautiful! Utah is too dry and I actually have to make attempts to get my hair looking good.
Don't feel bad about the fire. I am ALWAYS starting kitchen fires you know-leaving a bag of pasta on the stove and turning on the wrong burner, same thing for plastic bowls and whatnot. The upside to that is my children already know how to quickly put out kitchen fires!
Good call -- go get a humidifier! And just FYI, I have melted more plastic bowls than I can even remember.
oh and heather - remember the time that hunter left the gas on the gas burner & we almost all died (including brand new baby hopey) of gas poisoning?!? there's pros and cons to each, i believe! ;)
that is Awesome heather. buy the humidifier already. Humidity and my hair don't get along but my skin sure loves it.
Electric burners are CRAP. hate them.
Its me!!! I LOVE my humidifier. I would marry it if I wasn't already (and if my TiVo divorced me). I really only use it in the winter when we have our heater on too. Even though it is humid outside and inside...seriously, we wake up to a literal cloud in the house. We call it "gorillas in the mist" Hee hee.
oh my gravy, that is hilarious!!! glad you didn't burn the place down trying to get your humid on. did you get the spongebob humidifier from target?! :)
Yes, stick with the humidifier that they sell, less danger there!
Sorry to disappoint Natalie, no spongebob for me today. I would have gotten Hello Kitty over Spongebob anyway. I loved HK as a kid.
We just moved from Houston, too, and I have to honestly say that I'll take the suck-your-bones-dry climate over the mold-on-your-skin climate any day.
I don't recall you starting fires when we were in YW, but, then again, you always were feisty.
That story cracked me up, Heather! A fire is some serious business! I would have been scared as all get out. The humidity misses you, Heather. :) Here's hoping you get more in your life :)
EEK! A fire?! And I gotta agree - I would rather be dry than moist. I hate that sticky humid feeling. But you do what you need to do :)
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