Well, shoe shopping's a lot less fun, I'll tell you what.
I could squeeze you until you popped like warm champagne, and you'd beg me to hurt you just a little bit more.
Fuffy ,'Storyteller'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
brenda m - Oct 19, 2013 2:12:06 pm PDT #9494 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Jesse - Oct 19, 2013 2:14:32 pm PDT #9495 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Oh yeah, I just use one everyday bag at a time, and change twice a year.
Consuela! I can't believe I haven't thought to roast garlic -- I was just thinking I have too much sitting around. Good one.
Sheryl - Oct 19, 2013 2:19:53 pm PDT #9496 of 30000
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Went to the MD Ren Faire.(It's closing weekend, and there was a group performing that we like who wasn't there on the weekend of our other visit.) Traffic sucked mightily getting in to and out of the faire, but it was a good visit anyway.
JZ - Oct 19, 2013 2:20:01 pm PDT #9497 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I reached near-perfect shoe equilibrium a couple of months ago. Assuming I can keep reheeling and resoling the nicer ones, and find something similar to the cheaper ones when they wear out, I may never need another pair of shoes ever again.
No, maybe a pair of fancy Converse and a pair of Keds. But that's it, possibly forever.
Random overheard this morning, while sitting with Matilda munching bagels outside the neighborhood market near Deb G's house: Mom and toddler girl walking down the sidewalk, toddler chattering animatedly all the way. As they got close I heard her say, "...But then sometimes when there's no potty and you can't wait you just pull off your pants and PEE RIGHT THERE [helpfully squatting to demonstrate in case mom didn't understand what PEE RIGHT THERE meant]."
"But we don't pee on the sidewalk," the mom said firmly.
"Daddy lets us do it sometimes," the toddler chirped (they were past us by now, but I could see mom's shoulders go rigid with a nearly audible clang).
Busted, Daddy! Also, WTF, Daddy?
§ ita § - Oct 19, 2013 2:33:26 pm PDT #9498 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
just like some pair I already have
I don't have this sensory organ. I have returned shoes because I already have them--having them doesn't stop me wanting them. Others, apparently only I can distinguish between. I just have to mandate a shopping lockdown until there's a big gaping hole of shoe function.
...or form.
Jessica - Oct 19, 2013 2:51:25 pm PDT #9499 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
"Daddy lets us do it sometimes," the toddler chirped
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
le nubian - Oct 19, 2013 3:32:20 pm PDT #9500 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
"Daddy lets us do it sometimes," the toddler chirped (they were past us by now, but I could see mom's shoulders go rigid with a nearly audible clang).
This is the funniest thing. Daddy is so busted.
Atropa - Oct 19, 2013 4:04:40 pm PDT #9501 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
now I am in a state of perfect shoe equilibrium.
I will never reach that, thanks to Fluevog making new shoes, plus there being vintage Fluevogs I still covet.
erikaj - Oct 19, 2013 4:25:29 pm PDT #9502 of 30000
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
I finally found some dressy ones that don't fall off. So one day I can f2f without the whole Cinderella thing...narrow width, so that there isn't extra room at the back.
§ ita § - Oct 19, 2013 4:25:49 pm PDT #9503 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Fluevog has still made no shoes that fall into the intersection of the sets "shoes ¡ ita ! likes" and "amount ¡ ita !'s willing to pay for shoes". I am scared of shopping resale, just in case.
Why does this product niche even exist? Most of me is hoping you never need all those three things at the same time, but at least it's space-efficient? I just...toes and beer, man.