Weekly simming 29&30/2018

[katrisims]

Well, time to do weekly simming, even though there's not much to report. I missed last week's, as I was having my sixth flu within the year at the time and didn't feel up to it. Between that, traveling and the ongoing heatwave, I haven't really done much simming. I did write a few captions here and there for the Broke week before I got sick, but that's about it.

Summer vacation has often been one of the best simming times I've had during the year, but if the heat goes on like this, then I suspect that may not be the case this year. It's simply too hot to sim! Well, in any case I'll be doing something fun and relaxing, possibly a little simming if time and temperature allow.

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[esmeiolanthe]

I hope it cools down for you soon! Do you know why you keep getting the flu so often?

*does not hug, because that's too hot -- waves a fan in Katri's direction instead*

[katrisims]

Well I like the warm, although I got to admit that this is a bit of an exaggeration. :D They are predicting that the weather should cool down some soonish, we'll see. Funnily enough, I'm traveling with the folks to Cyprus in a couple days, so it'll probably be even slightly hotter - this was not the kind of summer that we expected to have at home when we booked the trip! Fortunately, we didn't pick, say, Portugal... Well, we're looking forward to the air conditioning, the sea and the food that someone else makes. Not to mention the air conditioning.

I talked to a doctor at occupational health in the spring about the recurring flus I've been having. Apparently having 5 to 6 flus a year is still normal for an adult, even more than that for a kid. The doctor also said that things like changing towns and changing jobs affect this, and I did both, so I'm presumably being subjected to a lot of new viruses. So at the moment I'm hoping that it's just the new bugs and it'll start easing up from here. Fingers crossed!

*waves fan back at Esme* Or how is it for you, would handing mittens be more useful? *hands Esme mittens too, just in case*

[esmeiolanthe]

Mittens are SUPER useful in the winter, but it's warm here now -- although I think probably not as warm as you have! But I have a lovely big air conditioner, and lots of money in my pay-for-the-electric-to-run-the-air-conditioner fund, so I'm in great shape. (I set aside $80 a month for my electricity all year, but in the winter I only use about $30-40 worth, which means that there's lots of extra money there for the two months out of the year that I absolutely NEED the air conditioner.)

Oooooh, yes, new jobs and new towns always have nasty new viruses! The good news is that once you've had a particular virus, you will never get it again. (The bad news is that there are hundreds of viruses out there that all have pretty much the same effects so they all *feel* more or less the same.) Get well soon!

[katrisims]

Whoops, late reply is late!

Oh, a lovely big air conditioner sounds nice indeed! And that's a clever plan for making sure you can use it when you need it, too. :) It seems the heat wave passed here during my absence, so it's in the comfortable range again, but I bet after a summer like this a lot of Finns are looking into air conditioning solutions!

Thanks! Fortunately, I did get better again pretty quickly. I just hope that now that I've been here for some time the bugs would start to ease off, it's been a pretty rough year in that sense. Fingers crossed!