Rainy Days

Ok, so like usual, my thoughts automatically drift to music. The Carpenters to be exact. Rainy Days and Mondays to be exacter. : ) "Hangin' around, nothin' to do but frown, rainy days and Mondays always get me down..." Man, I used to l-o-v-e some Carpenters when I was growing up. I remember listening to them on Mama's 8 track player. And one year for my birthday I got one of their albums on tape. Some kind of compilation that had On Top of the World, We've Only Just Begun, Close to You, and of course, Rainy Days and Mondays. I remember laying on my daybed listening to that tape on my boom box. Good times, great music, even better memories. I still break out the occasional Carpenters mix on my iPod. Did you know Karen Carpenter was anorexic? She died at the young age of 32 from a heart attack which was contributed to her battle with anorexia. So sad. She had an awesome voice! I'm currently listening to various Carpenter songs via You Tube, and all I want to do is sing at the top of my lungs!!!

Ok, so back on topic. Rainy Days.

My absolute favorite picture of me and my "grad girls" (Jennifer Bridgett, and Nicole) is one we took this past Spring after Psychology one night. It was soooo cloudy and dark, we all had our umbrellas up, and we forced Matt (Nicole's husband) to take like seventeen thousand pictures of us standing in the rain under our umbrellas. It is such a cute picture!!!

When I'm feeling especially child-like, I love to play in the rain. Not when it's thundering or lightning... just raining. If the rain isn't falling too hard. Back in college, I spent many rainy days playing outside in the parking lot of Spring Chase with my roommate Jax. Good times.

I wrote a poem about rain this weekend. I like it.

Rain always makes me sleepy. I was feeling pretty good when I woke up this morning, but as soon as I realized it was raining, I got very, very sleepy! My eyelids are soooo heavy right now. It's taking every bit of energy I have to hold them open. I thought that we were past all of this summer rain stuff, but I guess not. Someone (my Daddy, I think) told me "they" said we were going to have one of those crazy hurricane seasons again. (I'm guessing "they" are the weather.com folks... or Fox News. That's pretty much all he watches other than shoot-em-up-bang-bang westerns.) Thinking about hurricane season takes me back to college. I remember that one year when we had all of the really bad hurricane weather. I can't remember when it happened... I'm guessing 2004 or 2005. I just remember having classes cancelled. Like five or six days out of the Fall semester. And then again, it may not have been that many days... it was probably less than that. It just really seemed like a lot. I remember being so scared during some of those storms. When someone asks me what my favorite memory of college was, a lot of times I'll answer with "hurrucane parties during that CRAZY hurricane season." And then I get stared at like I'm a complete idiot. I can practically hear their thoughts - Is she STUPID? Doesn't she know you can get killed if you're out in the middle of a freakin' hurricane??? I always go ahead and assure them that our hurricane parties were just a bunch of scared BSU'ers getting together at the J's in Spanish Mission to wait out the storm. We played cards and board games, watched movies, and just fellowishipped. Good times. I do remember specifically looking out of the sliding glass door in the living room and into the grassy commons area behind all of the apartments in that section and seeing trees practically bending in half from the crazy wind. That was a crazy feeling. Even so, it was a great memory... and fun times!!!