challenge

there i am, sloshing home in my too-warm winter boots because it's raining and i don't want soaked footwear, carrying two heavy shopping bags and grateful to six months of boxing training because i'm now strong enough to hold an umbrella *and* heavy shopping "in the holster" for a while without taking a break (and manoeuvring the umbrella against the wind, of course). the entire walk home i cursed the fact that it's not cold enough to be snowing yet...

for all of you who think i'm crazy for loving the cold weather, tell me this: do you need to take an umbrella out when it's snowing? NO, YOU DON'T. do you need to worry about wetting everything when you step inside? NO, YOU DON'T.
come on winter, BRING IT ON!

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just as i got back to my building, i noticed for the first time what's written on the umbrella pg left me that i've been using for the past six months:
MERDE
IL PLEUT
too damned right. what crappy trick-or-treat weather!