Rain

SWEET: I know I've written about this before, but I love the rain. It's raining right now, and I'm sitting beside the open window just listening to it. I'm not sure when I started to love it so much. It's wet, usually cold, and makes me look like a hot mess anytime I go out into it. But for some reason ... I'm in love with the rain.

I think it goes back a few -- maybe more than a few -- years, when we were in the middle of a drought and I was writing about it for the paper ALL the damn time. Seriously. Every day. It was dry -- the stories and the ground. And then one day the heavens opened up and it rained. Big, soaking drops. And I remember standing at the door to the balcony of my apartment and watching it and being like YES! RAIN! And I think ever since then, I appreciated the rain so much.

SWEET: Guilty pleasure alert: Jersey Shore. Seriously. Watch it. You don't have to tell anyone. But it will simultaneously entertain you AND make you feel better about your life. What's better than that?