I want a rain-stick.

I find myself struggling for the words to express how I feel about rainy days. To completely short-sell my feelings and use a cliche term; I love it.

There are few things in life that I find I enjoy immensely, and I do mean truly enjoy. Among these things are spending time with God, spending time with Naomi, DJ'ing, the feeling you get AFTER working on a car, and rainy days.

Rain and clouds bring character. In movies, it frequently rains. It brings a different feel to life. I also makes it much easier to do crazy-sick burnouts (which I make a point to sneak in frequently). It inspires emotion, and I, personally, have many songs in a "rainy day" category on iTunes that are PERFECT songs for rainy days.

Rainy days make me want to listen to old-school Tiesto and eat Crab Rangoon at Saigon on Broadway. They also make me want to listen to BT's 'Emotional Technology' and drive my Stealth around in Tulsa, and while on that topic, they make me want to be in my dorm in EMR with the window open and the lights off.

Rainy days remind me of my 300zx, and the fun I had drifting that car on rain-soaked side-streets near my house.

Rainy days remind me of the time Naomi and I just stood in the rain, embraced in a great big hug, completely oblivious to the fact that our clothes were thoroughly drenched, waterlogged, soaked and ludicrously wet (it was raining pretty hard).

Rainy days in the Fall remind me of working on the Stealth with the garage door open while a chilly rain was about, pulling the engine, putting it back, bolting up the tranny, breaking s-hooks which drop my engine into the bay unexpectedly, and so forth.

I love rain. I really do. You'll always find me at my happiest on a rainy day. Or you won't find me at all, as I'll be out and about, eating crab rangoon with Naomi at Saigon after getting pulled over for 'exhibition of accelleration'.

Enjoy the rain.