Very Important Purchase
Jun. 8th, 2005 07:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
constanceToday, I don't know what happened. I ate my turkey sandwich quickly so I could go to Target to pick up some things--cat food, dog treats, down blankets on clearance (SCORE!)--and there I was walking, pushing my little buggy, thinking of MY NEW DESK FORGIVE ME IF I GLOAT I NOW HAVE A DESK BECAUSE AS BOW POINTED OUT I AM A ROCKSTAR AND ROCKSTARS MUST HAVE L-SHAPED GUNMETAL-AND-CHERRY DESKS OKAY I HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT IT WAS I WAS TALKING ABOUT, and I heard my name being called, and I searched over the store and finally zeroed in on the shoe department and realized my name was being called by the world's girliest pair of shoes actually constructed for adults: a pair of pink leather ballerina flats. With tiny bows. And a cutout sunburst pattern.
I wasn't going to get them, I really wasn't. PINK SHOES. I mean, yeah, I love pink with a passion that in a thirty-five-year-old woman is probably very misguided indeed. But PINK SHOES. I don't think I have owned PINK SHOES, shoes entirely unusable in an actual ballet class, since I was old enough to go to school. Certainly not since I was old enough to be briefly convinced by Satan that pink does not look good on redheads (for the record, this is a filthy lie). How often will I be able to wear PINK SHOES? I thought. Not very often, I answered myself. But then, I remembered that I just bought a little flowery skirt that will go nicely, and then, I saw that the PINK SHOES were half price, and I don't know, the next thing I knew I was leaving the store with them.
I still can't explain what the shoes (they are pink, did I mention that? With little bows!) are doing on my bed right now. But I will tell you this: I love these shoes, and as if to demonstrate her wholehearted approval, Olive the Cat has been positively wallowing on them, rolling around on them as if they were made of catnip, and I know this is probably because they smell like the Snausages that were sharing the bag with the shoebox (and Olive loves her some stinky dog treats) but I am choosing to believe that it is just the universe's way of telling me that every grown up lady needs a pair of little pink girly flats to wear with her little pink girly skirt.
Thank you, universe. For once, I am wholly with you.
ETA: Thank God for digital cameras!
PINK SHOES, which are much pinker than my crappy phonecam
would have you believe (just a shade shy of Pepto Bismol, really,
wait--they are Calamine-colored!)
Olive the Cat hovering protectively over the PINK SHOES
I wasn't going to get them, I really wasn't. PINK SHOES. I mean, yeah, I love pink with a passion that in a thirty-five-year-old woman is probably very misguided indeed. But PINK SHOES. I don't think I have owned PINK SHOES, shoes entirely unusable in an actual ballet class, since I was old enough to go to school. Certainly not since I was old enough to be briefly convinced by Satan that pink does not look good on redheads (for the record, this is a filthy lie). How often will I be able to wear PINK SHOES? I thought. Not very often, I answered myself. But then, I remembered that I just bought a little flowery skirt that will go nicely, and then, I saw that the PINK SHOES were half price, and I don't know, the next thing I knew I was leaving the store with them.
I still can't explain what the shoes (they are pink, did I mention that? With little bows!) are doing on my bed right now. But I will tell you this: I love these shoes, and as if to demonstrate her wholehearted approval, Olive the Cat has been positively wallowing on them, rolling around on them as if they were made of catnip, and I know this is probably because they smell like the Snausages that were sharing the bag with the shoebox (and Olive loves her some stinky dog treats) but I am choosing to believe that it is just the universe's way of telling me that every grown up lady needs a pair of little pink girly flats to wear with her little pink girly skirt.
Thank you, universe. For once, I am wholly with you.
ETA: Thank God for digital cameras!
PINK SHOES, which are much pinker than my crappy phonecam
would have you believe (just a shade shy of Pepto Bismol, really,
wait--they are Calamine-colored!)
Olive the Cat hovering protectively over the PINK SHOES
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Date: 2005-06-09 12:53 am (UTC)They are lovely shoes, though, lovely lovely lovely! You made the right decision.
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Date: 2005-06-09 01:15 am (UTC)...What is it that rockstars have against Firefox, hmm? (Though I approve of the shoes, too!)
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Date: 2005-06-09 12:47 am (UTC)I don't know, man, my cat is pretty cute.
Date: 2005-06-09 12:55 am (UTC)I am not sorry I bought these shoes, even if I never once wear them in public. It makes me happy, just knowing I own them.
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Date: 2005-06-09 02:36 am (UTC)Also, you could not possibly be 35. Surely you've miscounted a few birthday candles, because you look all of 22. A very wise 22, to be sure, but still. 22.
I hope you can read this in your lightless living room!
Date: 2005-06-09 03:34 am (UTC)I can email you the pictures if you still can't see--apparently, my webhost hates some browsers. I've tried talking to the webhost, but there is just no reasoning with blind prejudice.
Re: I hope you can read this in your lightless living room!
Date: 2005-06-09 03:45 am (UTC)And thank you! Baby faces unite! (Just not in bright sunlight, because *wince*- it's not kind, at least to me.)
The browser tip was just what I needed. I'm now using IE and can admire your fabulous new girly shoes right handily. I hope you have the proper floaty floral skirt to go with them!
Re: I hope you can read this in your lightless living room!
Date: 2005-06-09 03:53 am (UTC)And my birthday is in just a couple of days! I plan on celebrating by doing nothing, do you hear, nothing! AhaHAhasdhaahaAhaahaa!
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Date: 2005-06-11 02:04 am (UTC)I'd be more pleased if I'd gotten to talk to you, though! Damn it, I'm sorry I missed you. Will you maybe be around on Sunday?
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Date: 2005-06-11 10:50 am (UTC)I'll be around tomorrow but I'm going to the movies in the evening. I could try to catch you during your late morning/my late afternoon though? I'll log on around five-ish my time and see if you're about then.
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Date: 2005-06-14 02:12 am (UTC)And don't forget to take your medicine!
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