My Wonderful Morning

Here are the events that jumpstarted my morning:

1) got up, showered, dressed; as I headed out the door, the skies opened up and soaked me, as I ran to my car.
2) pulled out of my driveway and directly onto the shoulder of the road due to zero visibility from the rain
3) sat on the shoulder, in front of my building, for 20 minutes (panicking over the thunder and lightening, and watching the street flood)
4) forced to pull out on the road because the shoulder was flooding past my tires
5) got as far as the intersection (about 300 feet) where I was forced to make a u-turn due to road being flooded
6) headed up the other way, only to be stopped at THAT intersection because of flooding. Made yet another u-turn, parked in front of my apartment
7) got out of my car (by now, it turned into a drizzle), ran into my apartment, changed into dry clothes, hung out for 20 minutes.
8) convinced the rain finished, headed out again, only to be met with a deluge after stepping out the door. Clothing soaked once more.
9) ran back to my car to rescue it from the flooding streets; noted that both intersections were still closed
10) parked car safely under shelter of garage, ran in the pouring rain back to my front door.
11) changed into outfit #3 for the day; and it was only 8:30 at this point!
12) turned on computer, wrote this blog, will veg out here until the rain stops and/or I can get off my block! And all this to get to my completely optional 'summer job'.....

For those of you on the road, drive safely and be careful.