Sean, I think that you have just relinquished your SoCal citizenship.

HA! They can have my citizenship card when they pry it from my warm, sunbaked hand. And I will STILL rail against the ghastly fashions one sees around here sometimes!

Hey, buddy, I LOVE my flip-flops. Thou shalt not disparage my happy SoCal feet!

Pregnancy feet aside, I can't stand wearing flip-flops in the city. I need my feet to be much further away from the ground if I'm not in closed-toed shoes.

Hey, buddy, I LOVE my flip-flops.

Love them all you want, are you wearing them to school?

Hubby not only despises all things remotely flip-flip, but any shoe in which the ankle is not secured. He doesn't care how high-fashion it is, if you slide your foot into it and don't wrap something your ankle, you are sleazy in his eyes. I have flip-flops, and I wore them to the store the other day with him, and it nearly freaked him out. He says it's because when he was a kid in Hawaii, the only people who wore flipflops were the old Samoan ladies and the people shuffling around bumming money off of people.

My beloved is a man of varied and passionate tastes.

Oh, great. And I'm wearing loafers.

I just think they're too casual for most uses.

I am, however, baffled by people who can wear backless shoes of any kind with success. I tend to just walk out of them (with the exception of one well-fitted pair of Swedish clogs).

And speaking of horrible fashion crimes that, should I raise my voice against them will get me expelled from SoCal.... I've said it before and I'll say it again, I hate the cammo-cargo-capri-with-drawstring-legs look that I see all over this city.

I can't do flip-flops, because the thingy in-between the toes hurts - a lot. The only pair of flip-flops I had that worked were platform-like, almost like super-chunky getas.

Wedges, however, I can rock. As long as they're well-built.

Oh, and if we're discussing Trends We Hate? I've got a few:

1) This whole flowy, unstructured, over-the-hips top thing, especially the empire style. I have yet to see those kinds of tops truly flatter a woman with curves. I like empire, as long as there's structure underneath the bosom. These don't have it.

2) People wearing clothing that is too small for them and therefore muffin-topping all over the place, which ties in to:

3) Ultra-low-rise jeans. These flatter no one. NO ONE!!!!!

Grrrrrrrr.

While I think it is crazy to go too overboard with Grammar school graduations, apparently the nephew received a presedential honor yesterday at his graduation and an science award. The proud auntie tag just won't close.

We're headed off to the beach for a few days in a couple of minutes. I should be darkish unless the family starts driving me crazy. Have a good weekend, everyone!