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I just had my hair cut and it's all glossy and bobbed and shiny. In fact I am nowhere near cute enough for my hair.

In other news it's 30C and stinking hot at 7pm, I'm wilting in front of the fan, and I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow because my left ankle and foot are strangely swollen. It may well be due to the massive bruise I had from bashing that same leg excruciatingly hard about 10 days ago, plus the heat (it did actually look briefly better after two hours in the air-conditioned salon getting hair, hands, and feet done), but I am afraid all the same. What if it's something horrible and serious? There are chronic conditions I already have that might be causing it, who knows, and even worse ones I hope I don't have. :-(

[Edit:] Since two of you asked, here's a photo, taken by standing in front of the blinds in the lounge and holding the camera up and snapping till I got one centred. It's out of focus but it's the best I could do, sorry. Actually I think my hair looks better in RL, esp since I seem to have mussed the fringe up in the process.

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Get some AC in your house! What is wrong with you?

The hair sounds nice. I want a picture! :D

We're not rich Americans here, and we earn nothing like US or UK salaries. I don't know anyone with aircon, just offices (but not mine). However I do want what we call a heatpump (goes both ways) installed which amounts to the same thing; we should be able to afford one downstairs. Sadly it's not quick or easy; they have to come round and look at the house first.

Lake Taupo's at a high altitude; I'm so looking forward to lower temperatures and humidity when we go on holiday at the end of next week.

Of course you are cute enough for your hair. It's your hair! :-)

And I do hope the leg is not something awful. I'm finding this news perhaps scarier than is warranted, because that's how my leg problems started, so please keep us posted.

That just seems so ridiculous, ahahahaha. Sigh. :/ Not even a little one-room aircon? I've seen those for sale before. Heck, one friend even had one you just added ice cubes to. It was like a air, but ice-cold air. It was delicious in summer. I just feel for you, especially since it's in the 40s (erm, ferenheit, obviously) here, which is very pleasantly cool bordering on cold. I hope the holiday is nice and relaxing and cool, anyway. <3

My house has a heat pump; it's lovely. Of course, it was put in when the house was built, so I know nothing of the logistics of adding one.

So sorry about your leg and the heat. Hopefully, both will improve. Have fun on your vacation.

Sounds like you're earning your holiday, but God only knows there must be better ways to earn time off than that :-(

I am nowhere near cute enough for my hair.
Sure you are...

Ack! 30 degrees at 7pm? ick...how about air conditioning? Dip in a nice cool pool?

Hope your ankle and foot prove to be ok.

I just can't wait.

I wish I hadn't posted about it now.

Thanks! It's more than a week away but I can't wait.

Both of those are for rich people here, but I've had it--we're buying a heatpump, sod fixing up the kitchen.

good luck at the doctors, it sounds like it is bruise and heat related to me.
You can buy small aircon units here for a couple of hundred, but I don't know anyone who has one

Oh, no. I didn't want to worry you. :( I just want to be sure that you get taken care of.

Like Vila I was already nervous. :-(

I hope so. Um, that's about $700 for us; I'd rather pay the $2000-odd and get a proper big heatpump. Preferably two so we can do upstairs too. Sigh.

All these are not happy news precisely :( It is a pain in the ass to had such a feet with that heat you comment. Here Summer have similar temperatures as such you have now and I know what it is to have pain in the foot or whichever part of the body. Here we never could buy an AC either because our economy is quite bad as well. As you can imagine I sympathize with you absolutely.
I would send you a virtual hug but I can understand that in your situation what you need the least is a sweaty hug!
*My best wishes of recovery*

Just concentrate on the cute hair, then. See how much better it is than mine? ::points at icon::

Edited to fix a typo.

Oh, dear. I hope the ankle turns out to be nothing serious. If it were a chronic condition causing it, wouldn't it be more likely to affect both your feet, or is that wishful-thinking logic?

NZ seems like such a bemusingly odd place, from my US perspective. Half the stuff you describe there -- hair salons with espresso bars, the movie theater where they wait on you, etc. -- sound incredibly posh by my standards. (Not that Americans generally use the word "posh," but it's too descriptive not to borrow. :)) And yet things like air conditioning, which we regard as sort of basic (at least in the parts of the country that get as hot as where you are) seem to be thought of as extravagant luxury there. (Not everyone can afford aircon here, most certainly, but you do have to be noticeably poor not to manage at least a single-room window unit, whether you can afford to run it all summer or not. And every public building, restaurant, etc. is air-conditioned almost without exception.)

Here in New Mexico, we mostly use evaporative coolers, which are cheap, inexpensive, and very simple to operate and maintain... and which don't work at all when it's humid.

Yay for your haircut. You'll have cute holiday hair!

It sounds like the holiday will be a relief in all kinds of ways. That weather sounds dreadful, I'm sorry. :-(

I hope the doctor has useful things to say about your ankle and foot.

Gracias! (Sorry I don't know it in Catalan.) Yes, a virtual hug is the best at this time of year. Even the cats are too hot to allow on my lap.

Ha! Buster in colour!

Yes, that does sound like a combination of bruise and heat. My ankles routinely start to swell once the temperature gets above about 25 C (given my low blood pressure, you wouldn't think they would, but they do), and if I were living in the conditions you are, I'd very probably be swollen from knee to foot. :-( The bruising will make you more prone to that, even if you aren't normally.

Keep it elevated as much as you can, and put an ice pack on it (wrapped up in a towel, because it shouldn't directly touch the skin). If you can bear to use a compression bandage in that sort of heat, that will help too. I used to be in the St John Ambulance, so I know all this.

Hope it goes down soon, and you have my great sympathy!

If it were a chronic condition causing it, wouldn't it be more likely to affect both your feet

That's my thought too. I'm hoping.

Most restaurants here are not air-conditioned--I can't think of one that is--and neither are houses. Large offices are though and till now I was lucky. The accountant's going to push for a heatpump at work, but I won't hold me breath. Yeah, sadly those evaporation cooler things just wouldn't work here.

Of course this summer is much hotter than usual, being a rare and record-breaking La Nina one.

As for espresso coffee at the salon, I didn't order any today; I want for a refreshing black tea instead.

*peers around for pic of shiny hair* It's been very warm, hasn't it. I'm still fairly comfortable with it, but every week it seems to be a bit hotter...

Hope it goes well at the appointment *crosses fingers*.

My haircut is so good, I was still getting compliments this week when it was due for a trim. It looks even better now though, and all smooth and glossy too. :-)

The weather's great; just about 5 degrees too hot. This summer is a record-breaking one in all sorts of ways.

I hope so. Greg thinks it's due to the huge bruise I had--there's still a great lump where I bashed it--but it's right up near my knee.

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