Day 20- Oh I Wish That I had Jess’ Shoes… (groannnnn I do recognize that was awful)

These shoes were in the attic where they were still in the box unworn for about a year. I just found them YAY! 

 When I was 11 years old (around the beginning of the problem) I had a very similar pair of shoes, except they were white with a lower heel. I suffered that summer waiting to go back to school because I could not WAIT to wear those shoes. I had yellow socks, probably as the outer layer of a too many slouchy sock grouping but the yellow needed to be on the outside to show through the triangle holes (see???). I collected the perfect outfit then all of the pieces of the outfitted waited patiently next to the shoes to go back to school. There was an almost fluffy yellow skirt, a button up top with faux pearl embellishments and a yellow tank to go underneath (and possibly a white one with a row of tiny panda’s on it for layers!) and giant earrings. I’m guessing I had bracelets running all of the way up one arm and probably a swatch or two on the other. It was the 80’s, for the times I was unique, fashionably cute and interesting.

 All these years later a sweet girl I worked with walked by wearing these cute shoes and said she did not mind if I got them too, she also said that she just got them at Macy’s and they were on sale! Thanks Jess! YAY Again!!!

 It is never that easy it took 2 or 3 different Macy’s stores to get my hands on them but I was so excited to have them….then I forgot they existed for a year or so but that is what makes my shopping excursions to my attic SO much fun! These shoes caused lots of nostalgic smiles and they are black so they work with my life now!

Wear 1 *(July 2013)

Circa 2012

Cost  Approx $20

Comfort  6.5

Pair #23

Day 19- Sparkly Fit Flops

Nothing like NEEDING a pair of $125 flip flops that have fuzzy stuff and sparkles on them. They have FUZZY STUFF AND SPARKLES on them, which will cause me to have a negative desire to put them on my feet then drag them around on the ground all day because they might get dirty. These are the shoes I bought after the “Day 13- Warning Do Not Wear Hiking” shoes made my feet look and feel as if they had been through a blender and embarrassed me a little when I walked into a Vegas Hotel restaurant (that was on my “little” bucket list) to see an old friend with paper towels wrapped around and between my toes and sticking out from under the straps of my freshly abused Cole Haan sandals. I tried to pretend no one noticed but seriously? I suffered through a meal then I went into a boutique in another Hotel and sat in their tiny shoe dept. A precious sales girl saw my feet, heard a bit of my story and told me to stay seated while she brought everything she had that might resolve my problem to me. The nice girl also shared her personal stash of Band-Aids with me apparently the store made her keep Band-Aids on hand to cover her piercings (side-bar -I don’t get that, how does a Band-Aid across your eyebrow look better than a little piece of metal?) Anyway there is a price to fulfill a quest for foot relief and it is 125 dollars. So several Band-Aids, lots of thank you’s and $125 later I walked out in my new Sparkly Fit Flops. I likely would have paid more money (that I really did not have) in order to make my suffering stop but 125 it was. I only wore them to the bus and back to my hotel and though I could probably calculate out a price per step it was worth every penny. Now every time think I should wear them, I look at them I think not today they might get wet, and they are suede or suedeish or not today they will get dusty and if I wash them they may not like that… Shadow box? Maybe they need a shadow box.

Wear  3 * (June 2013)

June 2013

Cost  125

Comfort Rating 8 (not as comfy as the originals)

Pair #22

Day 18- They Were How Much... Your Going to Use Them as Walking FLIP FLOPS???

The beat to death Fit Flop, Flip Flops which were officially downgraded to yard work shoes after the “Day 13” shoe (“Warning Do Not Wear Hiking”) caused me to buy the “Day 19” shoe “Sparkle Fit Flops”.

Its not crazy that I use them for long walks (stretches of the Susan Komen 3 Day included) they were made for walking.

-Worn…umm almost out.

-Well worth the insane amount of money I paid for them, around $80 (if I am not mistaken).

-Circa 2008

-Comfort rate 9 (have to leave room for the ultimate perfect comfort which lets face it can not be achieved with a rope like thing between your toes)

-Pair #21

PS. Please pardon the lack of pedicure and appreciate that I cropped the other foot out of the picture, the damage from the Day 13 shoes was still visible and sad!

Day 17- Earthquakes, Hurricanes And Tornado’s Oh My!

I believe no matter how difficult a journey the destination is often worth the path. Sometimes it’s a tough path to a pair of cute boots!
These Harley Davison cuties came from my “Birthday Do-Over” in 2011. My birthday is August 26^th. I start stressing the possibility of sitting around doing nothing about 2 years in advance (not exaggerating much). In spite of the perfect plans, something inevitably goes wrong. Perhaps someone cancels, perhaps everyone is busy (work day, vacations ect.) regardless something goes wrong. Don’t get me wrong there are normally outings, gifties and/or cards but for some reason on THE day something will likely happen and the plans get cancelled. If I spend the day sitting home alone massive boohooing is something that will totally happen. In 2011 I was planning to go to see my grandfather and then to go to Seacrets in OC MD for lunch. This is how the day...make that the whole week unfolded: it started with an earthquake (I don’t live anywhere near CA), there were tornado watches, the media beat the wicked weather possibilities to death, a hurricane blew through on my actual Birthday, an out of town guest was stranded indefinitely, Grammy had no power and needed oxygen, the water on the sidewalk was halfway up my leg, while trees are landing on peoples houses and tornados were touching down in the next town over…well… birthday cancelled. "Noooooo!" and though I can “Nooooo” all I want to some things outweigh my day.  I am not above doing things by myself just to scratch them off the “list” and sometimes in inappropriate weather but even if I had not been needed at home I couldn't just traipse off to the beach mid hurricane since it had been evacuated. Family and their safety always come first and with out whining or complaints. It just is and as it should be but life getting in the way of my day, humbug! So I stayed home, battened down the hatches, helped all of the people with all of the things AND rescheduled my day :) . I still get a birthday, so I moved it to September. My dad took me to see Papa, then we headed over to OC MD, low and behold and neato it was Bike Fest time!  So in the end I got to spend a day with Daddy, see Papa, eat at Seacrets, see awesome bikes and amuse my Grammy because I do things like move my Birthday. While we were out Daddy bought these cute Harley boots for me from one of the vendors (and they came with free Harley flip flops). All that family time plus Biker Girl Stuff makes me really happy= Good Birthday (“Do-Over”).



Wear 3 *(Jan 2014)
August 2011
Cost Gift (and I don't remember)
Comfort 5
Pair #20

Day 00x4- I'm Back

It’s been many shoes and a long time since I attempted to keep up the shoe stories but the experiment continued. The best I could do was put it on life support ie. take pictures, make notes and hope that I would have time to put it all back together later. Of course after a while it all became over whelming and turned into a project much like I imagine cleaning out the attic would be...which may be why that’s not happening. Anyway, I managed to get this back on track (I think) so you never know about that attic.
If I had to turn this blog in somewhere and it counted for half my grade I would be in BIG trouble ;)
See you soon! (with Day 17)

Day 16-1992

Sometimes I just have to buy a pair of shoes because they look like a pair of shoes I once had…orrrrr more likely like a pair I still have some where but are soooo worn out they are just embarrassing. There is no concern about whether or not they are now or ever were in style, I like what I like and likely still like what I used to like, if they are selling it it must be currently acceptable and since when do I worry about those kind of details anyway.

Another tid bit… I can’t remember how many times I went to college, what I ate for dinner, or names of many people who’s names I should know BUT I can tell you with reasonable certainty I bought these in 2011 because they looked like a pair my grandmother gave me for Christmas in 1992 AND I am really hoping I find those in the attic too!!!

Second wear for these ( I believe I wore holes through their predecessor), the comfort rating is 5.

Here I go wearing boots in the summer again but they are light and more importantly it was raining and I loathe getting my feet wet in rain, not to mention boots are much easier on cuts and blisters (still recovering from hiking 15 miles in Crazy High Heels and some Silver Strappy Sandals)

Wear  2  *(July 2013)
Circa 2011

Cost  *30

Comfort 5

Pair 19

6-19-18 wrecked boot box in the basement dry rot

Random #2 Socks are awesome...

I wore a very matchy, very cute, little black outfit to the airport....and then the take off the shoes thing happened grin emotic