Some Rain Funk for My Rain Funk
I need some Wellies. Cute funky ones. Maybe a cute rain coat, too, but definitely the boots. It would distract me and make me happy about jumping in puddles. Like that's fun or something.
Actually, it is fun, when you live in a place where it "rains occasionally". Like when it's warm, and you have a lot of sun for a long time, and then there's a big storm with thunder and lightening, and it's cozy inside, and then the sun comes out again, and that ozone smell makes life seem fresh and bright and green, and you go out and splash in puddles under a rainbow with a unicorn. That's fun.
What's not fun is when it rains every friggin' day for weeks and weeks, it's cold, everything smells of mildew, rainbows are the stuff of legends, and the unicorns have gone to live in Arizona. What's not fun is when something called a sunbreak is what "happens occasionally".
Some cute Wellies would be a spot of brightness in a landscape of grey. The resulting lift of spirits would, much like my sunlamp, basically be a heavy dose of the placebo effect, but who the hell cares.
I have a picnic to attend today people. Yes, I said a picnic, an event for some of the kids in the school district. No, the weather has not changed, thanks for asking. Now ask me if I feel like going and standing around outside in the rain, in my poncho and scarf, eating potato salad, acting like I'm friggin' happy to be there. I need the rainboots today, goddamnit.
Bill Cunningham, NY Times
See? Cute! In boots like that, you might actually enjoy the rain. Even a rainy picnic. Then again, they probably live in a place where rain "happens occasionally". One of those places where you can say things like, "Yeah, it rained this afternoon." Inferring, of course, that rain is an event that doesn't happen all goddamn day, all fucking month long, 10 months out of the year.
You see why I need the cute boots?
These babies scream SPRING!
That's hot.
Love these funky pink and black twirls.
And if the rain's really got you down, and you're looking for a whole'nother kind of pick-me-up, you can always go for something like these:
Personally, just looking at those makes me cold, but hey, if you live in a place where you actually experience that phenomenon known as a "warm summer rain", these might be right up your alley. So to speak. There is no such thing as a "warm summer rain" here in Seattle, not even in summer, let alone June -- or as they've been calling it, Juneuary -- so I will not be sporting these hot cloppers, but I may show up to work one day in some of those other puddle stompers.
Nothing like a bright and shiny distraction to keep a girl from flying into a homicidal rain rage.
9 prescriptions:
I KNOW you could work those heels, but the clear plastic would fog up and then the condensation would drip down, and you'd be slippin' and slidin' all over the place. Not pretty.
Of course, you could always wear them with those fabulous Seahawks socks you have.
Boots? Here, borrow mine:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7OU7Nezg7Ls
Like all of them, especially the ones in the second pic. But the clear plastic? Ouch, in so many ways.
We call them Gum Boots -(australia) and I had to buy a pair because of all the rain - I live on a flood plain and was wrecking my shoes when I left the house - so off into Woolies - bypasing all the amazing gum boots in the speciality stores - and found me a wonderfully comfortable pair of black and white polka dot ones - I look quite the picture in them... if I do say so myself.
I think you need to find a pair with smiley faces plastered all over them; A subtle reminder to yourself that "this too, shall pass".
Go with the Pucci print ones.. couldn't hurt after all.
So, did'ja get any boots? were they adorable? The spirit sings when the toes are tarted up, or so they say (actually, I just made that up, but it sounds good, right?). I was going to ask how you've been, but I see you and it have been gray, grey, and wet with a side of mildew. I too am trying to scrape my sorry stuff together and re-enter the life I once led. Anyway, hang in there kiddo, and I hope to see around the (cyer) neighborhood.
I think the clear plastic/pink ones would make your feel sweat and then when you walked you would make that clicky/sticky foot noise. I vote for ones with frogies!
oh man..my granddaugters would freak out over those..
rain...?....rain?...
there was some wet stuff that came from the clouds the other day...it might have been rain...if it was reallllllly rain...i might just start believing in santa claus too....
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