Rain Rain Go Away

The month of May is coming to an end and it has been a month of rain. So I thought I would post my Rain playlist. Here's hoping June is sunnier in which I will be playing Sheryl Crow's "I Wanna Soak Up The Sun" to celebrate.

RAIN Playlist:

Rain Delays - Crash Parallel

Here Comes the Rain Again - Annie Lennox

It's Raining Again - Supertramp

Purple Rain - Prince

Every Time It Rains - Ace of Base

Fire & Rain - John Denver

Red Rain - Peter Gabriel

November Rain - Guns and Roses

Singing in the Rain - Gene Kelly
It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls

Umbrella - Rhianna

Rainy Days and Mondays - The Carpenters

Rain - Madonna

Blame It On The Rain - Milli Vanilli
It's Raining It's Pouring - Old English Nursery Ryhme

Running Down a Dream

I am not sure why I took up running. I have dabbled a bit over the past three years but since January 2011 I have really made it a part of my life and routine. I find myself rearranging my schedule to make time for a run. I am not obsessed with it but committed. So I run 3 to 4 miles every other day. Some may say I am not a true runner as I am limited - for a few reasons - to my treadmill. But I always comeback with "at least I am doing it and not being a couch potato"
My ipod died last October and so I have been either running with no music (which is fine on the interval days as I am so focused on changing speeds every min) or picking up my hard rock husband's ipod. I do like a lot of the same music as him but I think there is a time and a place for different genres. So for Mother's Day I got a new ipod and spent the first night loading it up with what I think is a fantastic running playlist. I will admit a few of Grant's fav band ZZTop made the cut. So how did I pick from the millions of songs out there. Well I googled a few playlists to get started and then I started thinking of ones in my own library that have the right tempo- beats per minute. I loaded enough songs to get me through 10k, not that I am doing 10K on a regular basis but I am getting there. I can't I would listen to these some of these songs outside of running but they have a good beat to run to and that is motivating to me. If you looking for a new playlist here's one I recommend. Put it on shuffle, strap it on and go.

1. Real Wild Child - Joan Jett
2. I Gotta Feeling - Black Eyed Peas
3. Girlfriend - Avril Lavigne
4. Rolling in the Deep - Adele
5. Walking on Sunshine - Aly & AJ (I like this better than the original for running)
6. You Could Hvae Been A Lady - April Wine
7. Viva la Vida - Coldplay
8. Stereo Love - Edward Maya & Mia Martina
9. The Rockafellar S***K - Fat Boy Slim
10. Our Lips Are Sealed  - The Go Go's
11. Human - The Killers
12. Telephone - Lady Gaga and Beyonce
13. So What! - Pink
14. I Know You Want Me - Pitbull
15. Bad Day - Workout Mix Version
16. The Reason - Workout Mix Version
17. She Wolf - Shakira
18. Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
19. Hey Soul Sister - Train
20. Bad Girl - ZZ Top
21. La Grange - ZZ Top
22. Blue - 89ers & Rimini Rockaz
23. Running Down a Dream  - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

Public Washrooms - a rant

Grant and I had a lazy day at the lake. All the rain, we decided to take a drive and see what the locals had to offer. I probably shouldn't have had the 4 mugs of coffee and litre of water before our little roadtrip but I did and so we made a few pitstops throughout the day.
I decided that the women's public washroom must be designed by a man. Tim Horton's, Irving, Sobeys- they're all the same. The rooms are spacious. That's because they put everything to the far left. With the toilet just six inches from the wall and a big honkin' toilet paper dispenser that juts out from the wall about 6 inches, you wonder where or how to sit.
I looked around in the Tim's facilities and thought there's more than enough room to move everything over a foot and still be wheelchair accessible. Giving the engineers the benefit of the doubt I reasoned that the plumbing required such horrible placement of the toilet. That's fine, so why do they have to put that mammoth dispenser on top of it when there is 3 ft of empty wall in front of it. This I can not figure out.
Let's talk about the taps. Seriously. The pump tap has got to go.Holding it down with one hand while the water drizzles out on the other? Who invented this thing?
I have survived the toilet and the water, time to dry and get outta there. But wait the paper towel dispenser is mounted 5 1/2 ft up the wall. Standing with my hand in the air, waving and waving to trigger the dispenser. By the time paper rolls out, the water has ran down my arm getting my sleeve wet. Now I am not OCD (although it's in my lineage) but I try to grab the door with the paper towel to avoid the ickey germs of those who didn't bother to wash. And I think finally the designers got that part right and placed the trash can at the door so you can toss the paper as you leave.
I will admit the newer designed rooms are much improved. Outside the stall, that is. Inside? Well, some things take awhile to catch on.