Blustery

It’s a Winnie the Pooh blustery day today, cloudy and gray with little peek-throughs of sun here and there, and stiff winds that make the 60-some degree temperatures feel almost cold. For the first time this fall, I’m seeing lots of leaves on the ground and lots of golden-red color on the trees. It’s October. The mists and mellow fruitfulness lasted a week, and now we’re headed toward full November. It feels like Thanksgiving. 

Today I actually left the house for a work-related thing. I leave the house all the time, of course, but I work completely at home. My CEO, a high-powered tiny dynamo of a female human, bought a table at the Montgomery County Business Hall of Fame luncheon (she is a Hall of Famer) and invited me to attend the event. I arrived late to find a huge room filled with all of the local movers and shakers, and me. My boss knows how introverted I am and I think she wanted to pull me out of my shell a bit. It was fine. Everyone was nice; and thanks to meetings, I arrived too late for the awkward pre-luncheon social hour, and had to leave immediately after the final presentation, so all I really had to do was politely greet everyone at the table, listen to the speeches, applaud as appropriate, and eat my lunch. It was delicious. 

I had to park in a parking garage, and I noted my location as I exited the car, smugly pleased with myself for having remembered not to forget where I parked. It didn’t occur to me until it was time to leave that I should also have remembered what the car looks like. It’s a rental. I remembered that it was a Hyundai, but I couldn’t remember what color it was, and it didn’t beep when I clicked on the key fob. I found it eventually. I’m still a little shaken up from Friday’s mishap, and learning how to drive a new car kept me just busy enough not to think about scraping guardrails and blowing out tires. I drove home without incident, finished my workday, and here I am. I’m going to change out of my luncheon attire so that I can go for a walk. I’ll need a sweater, and maybe even a jacket. Winter is around the corner.