Summer rain

Does anybody else love the summer rainstorms? It has to be a favorite of mine. i really want to go out and walk around in it. There is something so cleansing to the soul about rain after a long period of sun and heat. i've got my window open right now, and am deeply breathing in my favorite smell.
It's funny because my roommate and i were talking about summer storms yesterday, i think it was yesterday...

So right now i'm on this super Neil Diamond kick. Now i say anything else, i have to confess that Neil was my first concert, i was in the 5th grade. i went with my mom, some aunts, a cousin, my grandma, and my great-grandma. It was a family affair. How's that for some rare liz facts: likes Neil Diamond. Now i must also confess that it was a difficult bus ride home tonight... Only because it took all that was within me not to belt out I am... I said at the top of my lungs:

i am, i said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair
I am, I cried
I am, said I
And I am lost, and I can't even say why
Leavin' me lonely still

Although 'love on the rocks' is has sentimental memories, as i used to sing that one uh, at the age of 6 "you find you're out there, walking in a stove" (it's actually a storm, not a stove, as really who wants/is able to walk in a stove). However it you were my mom, you would have tried logically to figure out how this played out in my head... (he was small, and it was all fire, no coils from the oven).