Oh, the humidity!

One of the reasons I was excited to move from Texas to New Brunswick was to have an enjoyable summer free from stifling heat. When we first arrived here, it was pretty damn cold, and I was pretty damn excited about that. Now it is not so cold. In fact, it is pretty warm, and coupled with that warmth is an extremely high level of humidity (between 94-99% over the past week). Combine this warm weather and high humidity with a lack of air conditioning in both my house and office and you have a summer that is so much worse than Texas!

First of all, I am just sticky all the time. Second, because we have to have the windows open to cool the house down, EVERYTHING IN THE HOUSE IS WET! The bed is wet, the clothes hanging in my closet are wet, and in the garage, the floor is wet. Papers and wood are curling and warping, skin is constantly perspiring, and I cannot even explain how disgusting it feels to crawl into a soggy bed at the end of a sticky day. Ugh.

I was so excited to live without an air conditioner and be able to feel the nice breeze through my open windows. And at first, that was nice. I almost wrote a blog post about how much I love opening the windows in the house and feeling the fresh air blow through. I am glad I didn't because right about now I would sell my right pinky finger for some central air!

I am sitting in my office right now, dripping with sweat. My formerly straightened hair is frizzy and wavy. I look like Monica from the episode of Friends where they go to Barbados and her hair turns into an afro. My co-workers tell me that this level of humidity is not normal, and that it will be better soon. Somehow I doubt that in a place where we are surrounded by water. Sackville is on the Bay of Fundy, has the Tantramar River running through it, is surrounded by marshland, and is also home to a decent-sized lake. According to various sources that I found by googling "Where does humidity come from?" it depends on the source of the humidity as well as various other weather factors. All I know is that right now, it is gross.

I am off to purchase a fan for my office and several dehumidifiers for the house and garage.