I Like Getting Caught in the Rain, Too!

So when we were praying for moisture, maybe we should have been more specific. Not that I am not grateful for the snow, I'm just not that enthusiastic about it. No one who took four hours last night trying to get home would be enthusiastic. Yes, that's right. Four (4) hours. The first three hours I travelled a total of 3 miles. I got on the freeway at the Lehi High entrance (since I work there) around 5:00, and reached the second Lehi exit (by the brick plant) around 8:00. At that point, I should have gotten off the freeway and gone to my parents' house to spend the night, but I figured I was already in it for three hours, I might as well go the whole way. Besides, I missed my sweetheart.

The good thing about this episode is that it introduced to me to my new favorite cheesy song: "Escape (the Pina Colada Song)." It's a crack up! Before I begin explaining why this is my new favorite song, I feel I need to let everyone know how this came to be.

The other day, I was making a CD to be used during my Sophomore English class (we were talking about the different emotions that cause people to do things they do by looking at songs), and since most of the songs were on other CDs, I had to bring my carrier upstairs, and alas, I have yet to take it back down to the car.

Around Christmas, Joe gave me a CD that I have been wanting for a while: "Let Your Love Flow", a collection of exceptionally cheesy and sentimental songs compiled by Target (I think it's still there. It has great hits like "Let Your Love Flow," and "When I Need You." It's very Delilah-on-Kosy-esque). This is the CD that so happened to be in the player at that time. Since the radio was playing lots of commercials and heavy music, and my CD case was still safe and warm in my house, I listened to "Let Your Love Flow" through around three to four times.

The funny part was that Joe called me once an hour to find out where I was (to make fun of me...not to check if I was okay), and everytime he called, the Pina Colada song was on. So I would sing it to him. A couple of times, he put me on speaker phone so his boss could hear my version of Pina Coloda, which sounded something like this: "If you like pina colada, and getting caught in the rain, blah whe er lady er.....midnight....eh flres..." (I didn't know the words, but that has never stopped me before, and it never will.)

Now, I am sure most of you know what song I am talking about, but you are not aware of the lyrics. Let me tell you, this story/song is GENIUS!

"I was tired of my lady

we'd been together too long

like a worn out recording

of our favorite song

So while she lay there sleeping

I read the paper in bed

and in the personal columns,

there was this letter that said..."

Now, let's talk about this before I move on. I LOVE that the singer says, "I was tired of my lady." I think it's really hilarious for some reason. I mean who comes right out and says, "I was tired of my lady?" Who says "lady"? And who reads the paper in bed? It makes your hands black. Obviously, this singer is a man amongst men. I also like how he refers to his significant other as a "worn out recording". Such romance! I've got news to you, pal. She doesn't want you, either.

"If you like Pina Colada

and getting caught in the rain.

If you're not into yoga

If you have half a brain

if you like making love at midnight

at the dunes on the Cape

I'm the love that you'd looked for

Write to me and escape..."

So picture this: this guy, not entirely satisfied with his relationship sees this personal add while his significant other is sleeping. He reads it, and thinks, hey, this isn't weird at all! This person likes to drink, stay out late with a cape, wants someone who has only half a brain, and is willing to meet someone who would answer a personal add! There is no way this person (who just wants someone who doesn't like yoga) is not mentally competent! Great idea! (Funny side note: It was about two hours until I figured out that the lyric was "if you like making love at midnight in the dunes on the Cape." The first few times I seranaded Joe on the phone I sang, "if you like making love at midnight with the dude on the cake." Way off, Sampsonite. But, it makes sense if you think about it metaphorically). The picture in my head last night was too classic. Like this would ever be a good idea!

"I didn't think about my lady

I know that sounds kind of mean

but me and my old lady

have fallen into the same old dull routine

so I wrote to the paper

took out a personal add

and though I'm nobody's poet

I thought it wasn't half bad

Yes, I like pina coladas

and getting caught in the rain

I'm not much into health food

I am into champagne

I've got to meet you by tomoorow noon

and cut through all this red tape

at a bar called O'Mally's

where we'll plan our escape..."

Okay. First off, I think it's hilarious that he says, "though I'm nobody's poet, I thought it wasn't half bad." Yeah. He copied her! He's a regular Lord Byron. And then, what about the part in her ad that said "if you have half a brain." What is he admitting about his intelligence level by answering with his 'orginial' response? Hmmmmm.

"So I waitied with high hopes

and she walked in the place

I knew her smile in an instant

I knew the curve of her face.

It was my own lovly lady (sure, now she's lovely, not old)

And she said, 'oh, it's you..."

I don't know about you, but if I were so desperate to get away from this guy that I was willing to run away with someone with only half a brain that answered a personal, only to find that the idiot was the answer to my ad, first of all, I would be very upset that he had been reading the personals behind my back, and even answered a personal behind my back. Most of all, I would be really put out. I probably would say, "Oh. it's you," too. The funny thing is, he doesn't realize that this probably isn't the best reaction he could have had.

"Then we laughed for a moment

and I said, I never knew

That you like pina coladas

and getting caught in the rain

and feel of the ocean

and the taste of champagne

if you like making love at midnight

in the dunes on the Cape (or with the dude on the cake, whatever...)

you're the lady I've looked for

come with me and Escape..."

Hold the phone, folks! Wasn't he going to cheat on her? Wasn't she going to cheat on him? But they both like pina coladas. So the world is right, and they will for sure never fall back into being like "a worn out recroding." All because of a pina colada. Those crazy kids! So I think this song is hilarious in a really twisted sort of way. It gave me great joy last night for about four hours, anyway.

And it gave Joe joy when I sang it to him.

The first four or five times, anyway.

Not so much the last three.

He didn't really appreciate me texting him the lyrics, either.

I'm It...Again

So, Stephanie Butterfied tagged me, and I really don't mind, since being tagged in this game doesn't have anything to do with running. I'll try to make this quick:

10 Years Ago
Ten years ago I was a sophomore at Lehi High school, in the second half of my school year. It was the first blissful months of my first heavy-duty crush (that lasted about 7 years), the crush that turned to love, and the love that left me heartbroken and insecure through most of high school. You know that song, "The Dance" by Garth Brooks? You know that part that says "and I'm glad I didn't know/ The way it all would end/ The way it all would go./ And if I ever had the chance/ I could've missed the pain/ But I'd have to miss the dance." So, it basically means that all that pain was worth it because you had that one moment? Not true--if fact, a bucket full of lies. If I had known then what I know now, I would have run screaming in the opposite direction completely, gotten out of my seminary class (where I frequently flirted with the so-said-crush), and enjoyed dating and kissing lots of different boys. I really regret the time and effort that was put into that idiot. But it's all over now, and I have eternity with a wonderful person that loves me completely and has single-handidly squashed the insecurity and the self doubt that had continually built up over the last seven years--and he did it all in the first two weeks we met.

Snacks I Enjoy
So I love snack foods. Mostly potato chips and dip, but that just isn't possible anymore--Weight Watchers would kill me. So lately I have been snacking on Mango--when they are cut into strips, they look like french fries and are sweet, so it makes me feel like I'm not missing anything (I love french fries, too). I eat A LOT of 94% fat free popcorn. I also have been getting into the 100 calorie packs, specifically the Cheeto Astroids. I also LOVE LOVE LOVE rice krispie treats--I always make room for those in a diet.

Five Things On My To Do List Today
1. Grade the "Black Cat" packets
2. Go to the gym
3. Mail Joe's love letters...
4. Pick up the house
5. Begin reading The Great Gatsby (for the 19th time) and revamping the unit

Things I Would Do If I Were Instantly Made a Billionare
1. Buy Joe's shop for him and let him run it.
2. Go to New York City and find Stacy and Clinton from "What Not to Wear" and make them go shopping with me.
3. Pay off the condo and buy another nice house (somewhere pretty--like Montana, or Washington, or Oregon) with several acres (for Joe), the Garage-mahal in the back (also for Joe), a wrap-around porch (for me), and a maid.
4. Buy Nat and Joseph a really nice house, with money for Elise's college fund
5. Pay off Yarley and Tim's house and truck. Give money for Taylor's and new baby's college fund.
6. Help Rory with college and invest in his new business.
7. Get my dad started in a post-retirement business he wants to do (like flipping houses)
8. Give money to Joe's sister for Alexias's and Hunter's college fund.
9. Pay off Joe's sister's house.
10. Buy a condo next door to Disneyland for Becky.
12. Buy a Honda Pilot (brand new!) for both Kristin and me.
13. Help fund Mitt's Romney's next run for president
14. Open a used book store
15. Buy infertility doctors to work with me only.

Three of My Bad Habits
1. Swearing--I really try to work on this. I am getting better.
2. Procrastination--I rarely do things unless I HAVE to. I work best with deadlines
3. (This is gross) clipping my toenails and letting the clippings fly.

Five Places I have Lived (plus one)
1. American Fork, Utah (I am told. I don't remember)
2. Orem, Utah (eight years)
3. Highland, Utah (two years)
4. Lehi, Utah (fifteen years)
5. Cedar City, Utah (three months)
6. Bluffdale Utah (currently, three years)

Jobs I have Had
1. Papa Murphy's Pizza Artist
2. Bread slicer at Mountain Mill Bread
3. Hostess at Thanksgiving Point
4. Checker at Kohler's Grocery Store
5. Teacher at Lehi High School (still there)
6. Helper at Awbree's flower shop (for a couple of weeks one summer)

Things People Don't Know About Me
1. I am very insecure--currently on the mend, thanks to my sweetheart
2. I don't like to meet new people. I like them to meet me.
3. I have a hard time beginning a conversation. I can do my end, but I never initiate.
4. I hate the telephone. I don't even know where my cell is right now, or if it is even charged. And I don't care.
5. I hate the summer. It's way too hot.
6. I am afraid of dogs--big dogs that bark loud, and little dogs that yap and jump on you. I don't mind medium-sized dogs as long as they are quiet and the don't jump on me.
7. I am very ticklish
8. I read the whole Twilight series, but I don't think it's the best book in the world. It's kind of ehh.
9. My favorite movies are Say Anything, Stranger than Fiction, Where the Heart Is, and His Girl Friday

I Tag
No one. I don't mind playing, but I don't like initiating.