So Shoe Me

There's got to be a way to make a living on this.

I'm like the valedictorian of shoe shopping peer pressure.  The magna cum laude of friendly encouragement to purchase shoes, if you will. 

I spent yesterday at lunch (while my car was apparently running in the parking lot) telling my friends about that endless.com shoe website and their sweet deal to give you $5 towards every shoe you purchase and request overnight delivery.

Today, I get this photo from my friend:

Julieshoes

How distracted can I get...

Between getting my house ready to put on the market (it's on now... please go buy it), dealing with the mountains of paperwork for purchasing our new house, work, kid, family etc., apparently, I can get a little dizzy and distracted.  Today a co-worker told me that I had left my lights on in my car in the parking lot. 

"That is so weird," I thought, since my car has auto shut-off yada yada yada...  So, I promptly forgot about it and then an hour later someone came by and said "I think your lights are on..."  "Oh right! I forgot, I'll go now."  I was really hoping that my car battery was going to be ok since it was now 1pm and I'd been at work since 9am. 

I go down there and PHEW!  My battery was not dead.  Because my lights weren't on...  my car (pardon the yelling) ... WAS STILL RUNNING!  Right.  The car was running, unlocked, with the keys in it, since 9am in my public parking lot.  I went through 1/2 a tank of gas apparently.

I really need to focus and breathe......

Because I'm not busy enough...

Amelia, my mom and I went to the Wiggles on Monday night.  We had great seats... well, "great" if your definition of "great" is as close as possible to four grown men dressed up with fruit on their head, clapping their hands off and dancing with fruit, a dinosaur, an octopus and a dog... then yes! Our seats were Great! 

All my life I've wanted to sit in the front row.  I think of all the shows I would have killed to be close to the stage: U2, Prince, Eric Clapton, etc.  But, no.  The first show we get front row seats for is the Wiggles.  I'm quite sure Amelia appreciated it.

 

Wigglevid

Movin' on up...

We're in escrow!  We will be in our new house by the end of next month!  Ack! 

Please find someone to buy our house... stat.

This has completely obliterated my ability to sleep.  I've been up since 2am and have already watched all my backed up episodes of What Not to Wear.  I see a lot of sleepless nights ahead.

Queue -

Quick - What's #27 - #32 in your Netflix Queue - sort of close to the top, but keeps getting bumped down?

27 - The Turandot Project (Mike's Opera stuff)

28 - Billy Elliot (We've been bumping this down since it came out)

29 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (hmmm... I think this should get bumped up)

30 - The Last Shot (Alex Baldwin is all kinds of hilarious - just watch 30 Rock)

31 & 32 - Seasons of K Street (Steven Soderberg series on DC.)

Back to the reason for the blog...

Giraffeshoe

Let's just all take a moment to appreciate these pretty new shoes.  It's all my friend Sandi's fault since she is the one that sent me to this big online sale at endless.com.  I promptly turned around and peer-pressured my co-worker to look at the shoe sale.  She bought 4 pairs.  She is also the one who I coerced into buying the black boots on my birthday. 

As my bookclub discussed last week, I've got a talent for "encouraging" shopping amongst my friends.  Just don't know quite how I'd make a living of that yet.

Sandi's shoe

I do get some personal satisfaction with the growing shoe obsession amongst my friends and co-workers.

The other day I got an email from Sandi enclosing only this photo to the right.  I could only have been prouder if I had been there during the purchase.