We have rain!  All last week I kept waiting for the rain to come.  The weatherman promised some Thursday, Friday and all day Saturday.  I was so excited I wouldn’t have to drag out the waterhose to save my quickly browning grass.

Thursday came and went with only a few sporadic drops.  The same thing happened on Friday and Saturday.  All over the state, people were getting rain.  Saturday night the promised cool front was heading straight for us, but still not sizable rain.  It seemed like our town was just bypassed.

I was getting angry.  I was going to have to pull out that darn waterhose.  My family called to brag about their abunted rainfall.  How come north and south of us it was raining?

I was considering a rain dance, but I was worried was the neighbors would think of the naked woman prancing around her backyard.  (I am pretty sure rain dances are only effective when you are naked.  I don’t know why.)

Finally, as I was begging my brain to turn off at midnight last night, I heard it.  Thunder!  Then I saw it.  Lightning!  Was the rain finally coming?  Could it be true?  My brain finally shut down before I found out.

But, this morning.  Oh this glorious morning.  We finally got our rain.  Buckets and buckets of beautiful rain.  Things are already looking green.  Finally some relief from the 100+ degree temperatures. 

And then when I got to work this morning, my celebrations came to an end.  My office is leaking, again.

Water everywhere!  Notebooks ruined.  My computer, and all the electrical cords that go all with it, were sitting in an inch of water.  Hmm, I wonder if that will be a problem later?  Apparently the rain was so desperately wanted was too much for the forty year old roof.

And now I am suppose to be productive today?  Housekeeping in and out to vacuum up water, loud fans blowing, people coming by to say sorry and give me sympathetic looks, and a soaking wet to do list.  Really that is the problem.  Without my to do list I am lost.  What, make another one you say?  But you don’t understand.  My original was so pretty and organized and it already had stuff crossed off so it made me feel good. 

I will miss you to do list.  You will never know how important you truely were.