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For some strange reason I’ve been on a shoe kick lately. Yes, I’m broke but you’ll have to take my word for it these were necessary shoe purchases…well mostly. When I cycled last weekend it rained and I had some difficulty keeping my wet shoes from sliding off of the pedals. While crossing a five lane highway my left foot slipped off and I rammed the pedal into the back of my ‘bad’ leg, gouging out flesh and nearly giving myself a heart attack as I tried to regain the pedal (and my composure) and hurry my behind out of oncoming traffic. Cleated cycling shoes $70 … not piercing my leg with the pedal again, priceless. Stay tuned though, it’s been a while since I rode with cleats, there is bound to be at least one post about forgetting to ‘click out’ at a light and falling over. Oh yeah. I’ve done it. Twice, no less – it’s truly talented.
Then, while flipping channels I stumbled over a pair on the Home Shopping Channel and I swooned. Seriously. Over shoes. I haven’t swooned over shoes in years. The women in my family have terrible feet, and I didn’t miss out on that particular inheritance. Normally when I see cute shoes my response is ‘feh – can’t wear ‘em anyway’; it’s a ‘sour grapes’ kind of thing. Anyway, this is the pair that stopped my clicker finger. Let me be very clear: I’m not cool enough for red shoes, and I’ve no good excuse to order the black.. They would undoubtedly look foolish on me and I would sell a cat to own them…maybe two – we’ve got spares. This is purely a case of ‘me wants the precious’ … be sure to say that with lots of spit. I did not order them, proving that I do have a tiny amount of will power.
Next I ordered walking shoes. I wear mine daily, both for my walks and as my work shoes so I go through them pretty quickly. Believe me, if you have bad feet you replace your shoes the moment they start to break down otherwise you are visiting your Podiatrist. Mine doc also happens to be a friend, but I’d rather buy him dinner than pay an office visit to see him. While ordering my walking shoes I saw these and um these and they jumped into my shopping cart. I promised myself I’d return one and that the one I kept would replace my walking shoes as my work shoes. Does anybody believe this? Sigh, didn’t think so. I know I ordered them to satisfy my ‘want’ for the swooning pair … sorta like wanting chocolate cake and eating a carrot instead. Odds are you’ll still get caught with the cake. At least if these are comfortable they will see daily wear where as the pumps might see the light of day twice a year. With luck they wont fit and I can return both pairs and the buyers remorse as well.