Yaaaaa Rain!!

Today is Saturday, March 11, 2006

I am in Arizona and it is finally freaking raining! It’s not like it rained for 5 minutes then stayed cloudy nope, it’s coming down like cats and dogs. Where the hell did that saying come up from any way?

I love google….

Raining cats and dogs

Meaning

Raining very heavily.

Origin

This is an interesting phrase in that, although there's no definitive origin, there are several speculative derivations.

The first thing to say is that the phrase seems to be unrelated to the well-known antipathy between dogs and cats, which is made word in the phrase "fight like cat and dog". In fact "raining cats and dogs" doesn't make a great deal of literal sense and the explanations below that attempt to link the phrase to felines, canines and weather seem rather feeble.

Here goes though - take your choice.

1. It comes from mythology. Witches, who often took the form of their familiars - cats, are supposed to have ridden the wind. Dogs and wolves were attendants to Odin, the god of storms and sailors associated them with rain. Well, some evidence would be nice. There doesn't appear to be any to support this notion.
2. Cats and dogs were supposed to be washed from roofs during heavy weather. This is a widely repeated tale. It got a lease of life with the message "Life in the 1500s", which began circulating on the Internet in 1999. Here's the relevant part of that:
   
   I'll describe their houses a little. You've heard of thatch roofs, well that's all they were. Thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. They were the only place for the little animals to get warm. So all the pets; dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs, all lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery so sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Thus the saying, "it's raining cats and dogs."
   
   This is nonsense of course. It hardly needs debunking, but, least there be any doubt...
   
   Dogs lived in thatched roofs? No, of course they didn't. Even accepting that mad idea, for them to have slipped off when it rained they would have needed to be on the outside - hardly the intuitive place for an animal to shelter from bad weather.
3. The phrase is supposed to have originated in England in the 17th century when city streets were filthy and heavy rain would occasionally carry along dead animals.
   
   The idea that seeing a dead cats and dogs floating by in storms would cause people to coin this phrase is far fetched, but just about believable.
4. Another suggestion is that it comes from a version of the French word, catadoupe, meaning waterfall.
   
   Well, again. No evidence. If the phrase were 'raining cats' or if there also existed a French word, dogadoupe we might be going somewhere with this one. As there isn't lets pass this by.

Alright maybe I’m sorry I looked that up. There’s more links but I randomly picked this one. It was raining all day and it was freaking cold. It was so cold that it supposedly snowed in Scottsdale and people saw snow on the four Superstition Mountains. How freaking cool it that, snow in the suburbs of Arizona!! I wanted to go and play in what little snow we got but my car would have issues since it’s messed up. I guess that just means I need to get my ass in gear and snow board this year, I mean the snow is trying to come to me it’s been so long. heeheehee.

I enjoyed it considering that we never get rain and snow for that matter. I hope it does it again, plus we need to have our normal thunderstorms.

I remember the first year I moved out here with my family there was some new things that happened. First the thunderstorm that were like light shows and loud as fuck. Then it was the hottest summer Az had in years (freaking great for me let me tell ya). The thunderstorms scared me at first because they were so loud and crackly sounding that it literally sounded like and looked like it was in your house. It took me a little while to get used to now I love them.

Ok so on with Saturday. I painted a lot of my house today while it was raining but didn’t make it to the gym. Oh well. I’m eventually painting my entire house including the outside as well. I’m trying to get my house ready for my wedding this October. I’m excited for it especially the honeymoon, we’re going on a cruise!! I kinda want to have a big wedding but I’d rather be able to spend a monster crap load on the honeymoon. I guess I’m going with a normal traditional wedding dress. I originally wanted to go with a Goth type almost renaissance dress but for one the ones I was finding were like $3000. Plus Amatsu is wearing a zoot suit, that wouldn’t go very well. So boring white tradition it is. I’ll figure out a way to spice it up, I know I can J

I know people don’t care about my wedding but all I know is that Pam and Rachel better be there, or I’ll hunt them down!

So Attention! Attention!

October 28, 2006 DO NOT MAKE PLANS, except for hanging with me! ;)