Coffee Crone: Taming Coffee Blog

March 16 2007

Off and Running

It's an illness, perhaps an addiction, mebbe a fetish. Yes, I am talking about my love affair with shoes. There is something magical about footwear. I can be dressed in faded once-were-black yoga pants that anyone with half a brain would have tossed out years ago, and as long as I have nifty shoes on my feet I feel well dressed.

Right now, I'm thinking that's a good thing.

In my new job, smart people dress for comfort. I spend my day running around with folks, helping them in various ways, some of which are pretty physical. It is not a pointy toe three inch heels kind of job. It is, instead, a running shoe situation. Ahhhh, running shoes, so many colours, so many styles!

When I lost weight, my shoe size changed. One of the big joys last year was replacing all my size 8.5 and 9s with 7.5 and 8s. And although I managed to buy about 15 pairs of shoes, I never quite made it to the running shoes/sneakers category.

Now one of the opportunities smaller feet present is that I can buy either women's runners, or shoes made for kids. Yes, a size 5.5 kids runner fits me just fine. Oh, the possibilities.

RT, after seven years together, understands that resistance is futile, though he is the first to admit that he doesn't understand why a rainbow selection is a necessity. I suppose he is also very glad that this particular addiction can be fed in $30 increments when one shops in the kids' department.

In any case, the search is on. I figure I can sneak one pair into the house every three weeks or so without either blowing the budget or ending up in divorce court. I may need a new shoe rack, but I'm up for the challenge of sneaking one of those into the house as well.

posted by taming at 04:24 | link | comments (7)|
motimers subscribe to taming
Del.icio.us Mo'Tags: work, homelife, girlie-girl

Comments:

#1 17 March 2007 - 04:00

I enjoy your posts so much! Thanks for taking the time. We went shoe shopping yesterday, and I find, late in life, that he may just like shoes as much as I do! But we both have very happy feet today. I'm heading in the opposite direction from you. Being forced by my broken foot into comfortable running shoes for the past year, I'm now shopping for sandals that are sturdy, comfortable, and pretty. Not a lot of selection there, especially for size 10 feet, but the search yielded results, and I have a few weeks left to break them in before we go to Spain. I simply must have pretty feet sometimes. It's about being a girl, I think, something I've come into late in life.

You seem to be enjoying your new job?

InMyLife

#2 17 March 2007 - 05:49

Uhmmm--it is about those purple things you have posted on the left (just below "email me")... probably comfie, but not sure if appropriate for the workplace...on the other hand, if it was me I go for comfie every time...and I too enjoy your posts..

JustMe63

#3 17 March 2007 - 05:50

ooops- meant the purple things on the right---yes I know my left from my right, just got up though...

JustMe63

#4 06 April 2007 - 08:00

Of course you need more runners -- you wouldn't want the kelly greens to get lonely hanging out there in your closet with all those stuck up pointy toe three inch heelers. If I can ever get you out west again, Vancouver has the greatest shoe store I've ever seen: Gravity Pope. Amazing. I bought the most fabulous shoes of my entire life there last year -- just seeing them in my closet fills me with strange joy. Must come west... must come west... Shoes are waiting. psim.

Anonymous

#5 13 April 2007 - 10:27

How timely! This is one of my current favorite tunes by Paolo Nutini:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlhPfFnstR4

Anonymous

#6 22 May 2007 - 16:04

update, update, update, update, update, update, update, update, update, update, update, update, update, update, update, update, UPDATE!

please?

love
nobody you know, particularly not anyone in Australia.

Anonymous

#7 16 August 2007 - 03:03

you're MIA!

Anonymous

Comments: