Feeling Hot Hot Hot...................

I swore I wouldn't utter a word about the heat this summer...............I made a promise to myself that I was going to bite my tongue and just remember what happened in Spring here in Montreal

BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS - the heat is repressive - makes everyone feel nauseous and cranky and just plain miserable and I'll complain if I want to - what kind of promise was that to make to myself anyway?

If I were a stalk of corn I'd look like this

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If I were a cartoon character I'd look like this

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What good is having 4 seasons - if all 4 of them are going to be horrible???????????
If each one of them leave you longing for the one you just had?

The heat goes on in southern Ontario and southern Quebec Thursday, with humidex values in the high 30s and low 40s.

CBC meteorologist Jay Scotland said temperatures should be slightly less warm than Wednesday, but still hot and humid.

Ottawa officially reached heat wave status yesterday — three straight days of 32 C or higher — and Toronto could follow suit today after a high of 34.8 C on Wednesday. The temperature was already 27 C in Toronto's downtown as of 7 a.m. ET.

"That would be seasonal average for a daytime high, and we're nowhere near the daytime high just yet," Scotland said.

For you Americans - the above is in Celcius - ( which took me 20 years to think in terms of  - and now thanks to blogging and most of it being American - I'm dangerously close to thinking in terms of Farenheit again ) it's in the mid 90's - which is one thing - but it's the humidity which brings it soaring past 100..........
104 with the humidity today to be precise.
By 7 o'clock in the morning it's 80 degrees............
Still think of Canada in terms of Snow and igloos?
( that would be just a leeetle further up north my friends )
Montreal and Toronto weather come dangerously close to being like Manhattan weather - and if you've ever been to Manhattan in July and August you know exactly what I'm talking about - and if you haven't been in July or Auguest - DON'T
And if you do go in July or August don't say I didn't warn ya!!!!!!!!!!

Right now these are looking pretty good

Ice Hotel Church

Ice Hotel

Ice Suite

Ice Hotel

Now excuse me - my Fairy God Mother just arrived to whisk me off to Alaska

Alaska Ice Sculpture

Oh - and please don't hold this against me next January - when I'm complaining about the cold and posting pics of heat waves..............

Have a great Saturday all
Stay Cool

HAIR ( flow it - show it ? )

GIVE ME A HEAD WITH HAIR
LONG BEAUTIFUL HAIR
SHINING, GLEAMING, STREAMING, FLAXEN, WAXEN
GIVE ME DOWN TO THERE, HAIR
SHOULDER LENGTH OR LONGER
HERE BABY, THERE BABY, EVERY WHERE DADDY DADDY............

Sometimes you have to be grateful for the little things really.
Quite a while back I did a post on chin hair ( HERE )

It hasn't got any better- there's still that long hair that grows unbeknownst to me - until it's basically blowing in the wind ( in fact I think I may have developed another one )

I spend far too much time worrying about hair - the ones that grow on my head - my legs - my chin - and other places not fit to mention.

LET IT FLY IN THE BREEZE AND GET CAUGHT IN THE TREES
GIVE A HOME TO THE FLEAS, IN MY HAIR
A HOME FOR THE FLEAS, A HIVE FOR THE BUZZING BEES
A NEST FOR BIRDS, THEIR AIN'T NO WORDS
FOR THE BEAUTY, SPLENDOR, WONDER OF MY HAIR

BUT - while I bitch and complain about the high maintenance of hair - and stand in front of the mirror with my tweezers blindly trying to get rid of them - and complaining about my lot in life - because why oh why do I have to have a couple of chin hairs growing out like whiskers on my face -
there's women out there that have it just a tiny bit worse............

I WANT LONG, STRAIGHT, CURLY, FUZZY, SNAGGY, SHAGGY, RATTY, MATTY
OILY, FLEECY, GREASY, SHINING, GLEAMING, STREAMING, FLAXEN, WAXEN,
KNOTTED, POLKA DOTTED, TWISTED, BEADED, BRAIDED,
POWER, FLOWERED, AND CONFETTIED,
BANGLED, TANGLED, SPANGLED................................
( AND SPAGHETTI !!! ) 

A woman who began sprouting thick facial hair after the birth of her child says she no longer wants to hide away and is finally embracing her beard.

Indonesian Agustina Dorman, 38, first noticed the stubble growth when she was 25, days after the birth of her first child.

Ever since she has hidden her face under a hijab whenever outside in Penaga village, Indonesia.

But the brave woman has decided to ditch the clothing and accept her condition - regardless of the stares and unwanted attention she now attracts.

Agustina - who also sports a mild moustache and chest hair - says that whenever she attempted to cut or shave the beard she experienced unbearable pain.

After several attempts to rid herself of the goatee, she was forced to let it grow.

And scared that her children - aged 19 and three - would be bullied for their mother's appearance, Agustina hid away under the hijab.

Among Indonesia's large Muslim population, Agustina could move about without attracting unwanted attention.

But she says her eldest child began to receive taunts from others who found out about their mother's unusual condition.

It led the brave mum-of-two to confront her children's tormentors by unveiling herself and freely walking around their village for the first time this week.

She hopes that through education about her condition, people will become accepting of her appearance.

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That chin hair of mine don't seem so bad after all.................

What do you think?

HAIR, FLOW IT, SHOW IT,
LONG AS GOD CAN GROW IT ?????????????????

OR
excuse me Madam - it's time to shave?

Now where's that damn mustache wax???
Actually I think it makes me look younger

 OH SAY CAN YOU SEE?
( MY EYES ?  THEN MY HAIR'S TOO SHORT ) 

Have a great friday all!!!!!!!