Rain!!!

It is raining in SoCal! Woot!

And, I got to drive home in it, from a great party down at the Brocks' place in Long Beach. It was overall a very fun evening involving many old and a couple new friends, Taboo, chocolate-dipped fruit, a couple different kinds of cheese, and some apple cider. On the way home, I benefited from my "Night-Driving" playlist... the first song up was a perfect one for the first rainy day in a long while... and a good example of why you should carry around an umbrella.

"Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say,
'please share my umbrella.'
Bus stop, bus go, she stays, love grows
under my umbrella.
All that summer we enjoyed it
Wind and rain... and shine
That umbrella, we employed it
By August she was mine

Every morning I would see her waiting at the stop
Sometimes she'd shop and she would show me what she bought
All the people stared as if we were both quite insane
Someday my name and hers are going to be the same

That's the way the whole thing started
Silly, but it's true;
Thinking of a sweet romance
Beginning in a queue.
Came the sun, the ice was melting
No more sheltering, now
Nice to think that that umbrella
Led me to a vow." - The Hollies, "Bus Stop"


Good ol' sentimental Hollies. :-) Also, I've found that it's a great feeling when a Linkin Park song starts up and it's in time with your windshield wipers. It worked out well.

Anyhow, other recent events include Brenhaug's bachelor party, my acquisition of some new Legos, and some major Christmas shopping (during which I ran into an old friend from high school, even - it's funny when the clerk at Borders comments on a book you're purchasing from the "religion" section... and he's met the author... and he's a theology student at Fuller... and a guy who went to your high school whom you haven't seen in 6 years). It's been good times. But for now, I'm tired.

Buying gifts is fun. I worry that I may have inherited my grandmother's addiction to buying stuff for other people. :-)