update: brenda vs. nature

my three lovely sisters and i are doing something called the eowyn challenge-- specifically the walk to rivendell.  we're planning to walk 458 miles (the distance from hobbiton to rivendell) in less then a year-- about ten miles a week.  today was day one.  the weather was a bit cooler than it has been recently, so i decided hey!  i'll go for a walk at lunchtime!

 it looked like it might start raining outside, but i (being a former girl scout), am always prepared.  i had a little black umbrella in my bag and i thought surely i would be fine if it started sprinkling.  sure enough, not too long after i started on my walk, it started raining.  but it was no problem!  undaunted, i opened up my little umbrella and continued on my pleasant autumn stroll.

and then the rain was joined by its rude little friend, Freakishly Strong Gusts of Wind.  and F.S.G.W (or "FissGew") does not LIKE little black umbrellas.  oh, no.  it feels that all little black umbrellas must immediately be destroyed, and before i knew it, with a mighty "fa-SHWUMP," my umbrella flipped inside out.  INSIDE OUT.  LIKE IN A CARTOON. 

but i would not be stopped.  i turned my umbrella right side out again and continued on.  F.S.G.W. was extremely offended by my pluck and vigor and decided to attack me with its full brute force.

auntie em, auntie em!

i made it to my destination-- a bookstore close to my office-- and hid out with a cup of hot cider for a little while, waiting out the rain and wind.  when the rain stopped, i ventured outside.  aaand, surprise surprise, it immediately started raining again.  but i made it the rest of the way back to the office, damp and disheveled, but unconquered. 

in the battle of brenda vs. nature, there was a clear champion today.