It's been raining for two days straight - I've heard rumblings that it has to do with Hurricane Gustav.

Rain usually makes me want to stay in bed-although in every instance where it does rain, it's never on a weekend so I can't sleep in an extra little bit. It's on a week day when I have running dates with friends and work for 8 hours during the day.

So I pretend a little.

One of the production guys at my work was complaining about how wet it was yesterday.

I said "Just pretend you're in Seattle."

"Why Seattle?"

I grinned and looked at the huge mug of coffee in his hand that he refills on the hour, almost like clockwork. "Home of Starbucks, hello!" was my answer.

He grinned back.

See? There are ways to survive the rain.