walk in the rain

Sunday was unusually warm here (before it got all cold again on Monday) and it rained that evening. What choice did we have? Braeden and I went for a warm walk in the rain. It was lovely. I had forgotten how nice it is to walk down the street during a fresh cloudburst, hand in hand with someone you love.

We need to relax like that more often.

laundry

Whenever I do my laundry it rains. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal but we don't have a washer/dryer in my house so I have to use the one in the basement of Campus Plaza. Not only is it inconvenient because it's far away, but not all the dryers are created equal so sometimes you have to run it twice, AND it doesn't take quarters it takes a card which you have to refill, using only $5s, $10s, or $20s. Really people? And, as I mentioned before, it always rains when I do my laundry, making it that much harder to get my clothes home all nice and dry. Sometimes I feel like the truck driver in So Long, And Thanks for All the Fish who hates rain and it rains on him wherever he goes. What he doesn't know is that he is a rain god and the clouds "loved him and wanted to be near him, to cherish him and to water him" (p. 10, 1984 Pocket Book edition).

Maybe my laundry is a rain god and if I washed my clothes more often Utah would no longer be a desert. Things to think about.