Tonight Vinay and I attempted to run on the green belt. We had made it about a mile in when a slight drizzle started. We decided to go just a little bit further.. then the sky opened up and a monsoon came beating down on us. Now Nay looks at me and says “just a quarter of a mile more” and I’m like..”are you crazy??” The wind is blowing leaves off the trees, the sky is black and runner boy nay wants to go a quarter of a mile more. I was concerned the wind might suck us up at any moment and toss us across the river. It was blowing so hard we looked like one of those reporters on the weather channel…you know the crazy ones that stand outside during a tornado in a silly yellow rain suit (as if that will keep them dry) saying things like “wow..this wind is really blowing out here.. look at those trees they are snapping into.. incredible.. crash, boom, splat, then the camera angle turns sideways because the weather man has been knocked flat on his bum.”
We turn back and the rain just keeps coming down in sheets..I am squealing like a goose the whole way back and it was getting difficult to see beacuse all the water is running into my eyes…. seriously.. no joke - it rained so hard it knocked my contacts up into my lids.. so I am running behind Nay, blind, trying to close and open my eyes to fix the contacts (if you wear them you understand what I am saying here.) Now I am blind as a bat without them so I am yelling (although he can barely hear me because of all the rain) “Nay… my eyebrows aren’t working.. Nay my eyebrows aren’t working” Nay is like “what.. what are you saying” at this point I am just yelling “Nay… Nay…where are you” because I can see nothing. I’m not sure if i have lost the tacts or what because all I see is blurry water, but I keep running behind him trying to get his attention.. and then I feel the tall grass. Now if you know the greenbelt.. you know it is paved in the middle.. and on one side is really tall grass and then the river.. Nay says he looks back to see me headed, in a dead sprint with my eyes closed mind you, straight toward the river over the hill! He starts yelling “Stop NI-COLE Stoooooop”.. which I did the moment I felt tall grass on my legs!
He said he knew we had problems when he was standing directly in front of me and I was hollering.. “nay where you at!” So after fiddling with my contacts to no avail he finally says..”Nicole, can I stick my finger in your eye.. I can see it!” That’s right, Nay had to stick his finger under my lid to get my contact back into place, which trust me took a few moments! Hilarious! He said a lady ran right past me and I didn’t even see her! What a sight we must have been, standing there in the pouring rain, in the middle of the greenbelt, soaked like two drowned cats, I am yelling “my eyebrows aren’t working (reference to purpose of eyebrows post) and Vinay with his finger in my eye rolling my contact around both of us laughing.. and me squealing because I am wet. Nice! On the run back, (because it is still coming a torrential downpour.. I’m not talking a slight drizzle here.. we are talking thunder, lightening.. dogs named toto flying around the house kinda rain storm) we passed a man hovered under a tree so like a scene straight out of rocky, I threw both hands in the air and yelled “wooohooo” all the while still sprinting down the greenbelt in the rain. Yeah I am pretty sure he thought I was nuts too, but he laughed regardless.. maybe he thought we might tackle him if he didn’t.
So we pile in Nay’s car (because he has leather seats) and head to my house. After a warm shower and a few pics of the soaked duo, we all headed to Cootie’s to celebrate Wendy’s new job. Here are some glamour shots of our walk down the cement carpet! Yeah the people there thought we were nuts too. I went out ahead of everyone.. so as they came out the door I was rapid firing off photos (like peter the paparazzi)..capturing them in their moments of surprise! To view the silly photos check out the friends folder.
eyebrows out,
rainwoman (Kmart definately Kmart)
no wonder your mother is under so much stress. running toward the river ? thank god he watches over you.
I have a 7 dollar bill I can sell you for 10 dollars.
Cooties rocks!! Even the $6.50 “pretend there is alcohol in the sangria” Sangrias! Party on group!