Vortexia's Secret

people do silly things when it's either starting to rain, or it's just about to rain. since bad weather has been following me wherever i go lately, i have noted several examples. people washing their cars even as it starts to sprinkle. and when the sprinkles turn to heavy sprinkles, they still keep washing. it will turn into full blown rain in a few, so put down the hose and the suds and let the rain do what it's gonna do. now i would consider it a semi-intelligent move if the person saw it was about to rain, and ran out there with suds in hand, then left the car soapy just as it started to sprinkle. that's the lazy man's car wash. the rain washes the car, and you go out afterward and either enjoy the clean, dry it off, or drive it around until the water droplets stream off (depending on your level of laziness). this leaves me to wonder why i haven't done that before. oh yeah, because i never really wash my car. i clean the windows when i get gas sometimes, but that's about it.

another foolish thing that people do when it's about to rain is continue to mow their lawn. that's a pretty risky game in my opinion, since you're banking on getting to safety in time. you'd be pretty screwed, though, if you kept mowing away and the sky just opened up and poured on you instead of giving you some warning sprinkles first. or if the lightning preceeded the rain. either way, you're walking behind a motor that's not protected from rain, and may have to carry the sucker back inside if the ground has gotten too muddy.

some people think it's foolish to swim in the rain, but i actually have to admit that i love doing it. of course you have to watch for lightning and get out if an electrical storm starts up, but otherwise it's fun. you go underwater and when you come up, you're still in water. i don't know, it appeals to the child in me.

in other random news, since rain and lightning go together a lot of times... (watch carefully as i weave together these strings of thought.) mayhem and i discussed at one point how we'd love to try to make sea glass in that oh-so-dangerous way that they showed in sweet home alabama. i think i would be willing to consider living in a small town if it were near the beach. scratch that, i'd start packing the minute i heard the news if i could do that. have a cute little home near the beach, and my cute man with me. since a move like that is nowhere in our future ($$$), we talked about the possibility of doing that on our honeymoon, since we'd like to go somewhere tropical. on the honeymoon note, i also now understand why it is the man who is traditionally supposed to pay for the honeymoon. as we have talked of wedding plans off and on, he is always the most excited when discussing honeymoon locales. he has spent his spare time looking at different possibilities and researching possible destinations. he has talked to a couple travel agents when he's come across them and just gotten their opinions on where they'd suggest. i think men more naturally think it's fun to plan the honeymoon than the big wedding day. (see? all of this from sea glass.)