...Or maybe I should take up swimming.

[taste_is_sweet]

I couldn't go walking last week because either the weather sucked or I had a fever. I didn't go walking the week before that because I was feeling too low to haul my ass out of the house. I couldn't go walking yesterday because of the fucking end-of-the-world deluge heavy rain. It rained again last night, booming thunder and everything. Luckily not for long.

The rain stopped, finally, late this morning. Glee! I thought. I can finally get some exercise!

It started raining again five minutes ago. And not just rain. This is man the chandeliers rain. This is get two of every animal, no matter how small rain. This is rain where I'm a little worried my husband will get swept into the fucking ocean before he makes it to his car. This is rain where--all joking aside--I'm looking at the TV to see if the flash flood warnings for my area of Texas have been updated. Not yet, which is something.

But I can't go walking in this. Hell, I wouldn't want to cross the street in this. Damn it.

Okay, it's calmed down some since I've been typing, so maybe all is not lost and it'll stop in the next half hour. Otherwise, sheesh. I'm trying to take care of myself, here! Give me a break, weather, okay?

...And just as I typed that, it stared deluging again. o_O I get the point already.

ETA: I got to walk! The rain went away completely, and I got to go out for half an hour. I would have walked for longer, but the sky got dark and I didn't want to drown on the way home. But still, I feel all accomplished and sweaty. Cool. :)

Comments

[claudia603.livejournal.com]

Scary!!! I can't bear to go out when it's like that. It rained a lot last night here, but not like that!

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean! I don't think I ever saw rain like this back in Ontario. This is the sub-tropics, and it's really something. We've had a river running next to our back fence before, from the overfilled creek on the other side of the fence. It's definitely awe inspiring. Sometimes terrifying, too.

[wpadmirer.livejournal.com]

Hey, if it keeps raining, you may have to take up swimming. (grin)

Want me to send you a snorkel?

WP

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

Maybe scuba gear. :D

Though...it might actually have stopped again. Wild. Of course, I don't want to go out there and get soaked. Hrm.

[tigertale7.livejournal.com]

Oh man, send some of that rain this way will you? I'm sick of living in a tinder box! ;-)

Also, do you have Freecycle there? Maybe someone has some used equipment you can get there. Maybe a stationary bike or a treadmill? Might be worth looking into at any rate.

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

I wish we could! Believe me.

I used to have an Elipse machine, but got rid of it because I wasn't using it enough and it took up a hell of a lot of room. I'd love a treadmill, but we really have no place to put it.

I might be lucky, though--it looks like it might be okay to venture outside again. That was fast....

[katden.livejournal.com]

There's always canoeing.

[taste-is-sweet.livejournal.com]

I can canoe
At a quarter to two
In a van when the traffic jam-loops.
Canoe?