All About The Benjamins

Topic: Rain, Rain, Go Away
Key Words: Nursery Rhymes, Rock Bands, Saturation
Word Count: 287
Tomorrow's Likely Topic: Northern Exposure

Over the past couple of years I've taken vacation near Memorial Day and basically turned it into a mini-Summer break. Though I didn't plan to match last year's Memorial Day trip to Europe, I did take last Friday off and did plan to accomplish some things. I did, to continue the theme, plan to tell you about it.

Then it started raining. And it never stopped. All weekend. Houston, we are saturated.

One of my favorite rock bands is Breaking Benjamin; they have an Andrew Dice Clay like habit of turning nursery rhymes into songs. One of their best efforts in this category is "Rain, Rain Go Away". Weather like this makes you want to break out music from your favorite musicians, and just listen. While you might hope Breaking Benjamin's nursery rhyme message would actually affect the weather, you know that if it doesn't, you'll catch up on the emails you need to send, you'll probably discover a cool cable station you didn't know you had, and you'll generally veg out and recharge. That's what I did. Other than the run on Saturday morning, I just took the weekend as it came, underachieved, and actually had a fun weekend. I had planned to run today, a sprint workout, all in the hopes of actually getting four runs in this week. Not meant to be though. One of these weeks I'll actually execute my training plan, and run my full number of miles! I need to. I'm guessing Oprah's trainers didn't let her veg on rainy Chicago weekends.