Ahhhh

I actually got out of the house today!  The puppies and I went to hang out with SKD, and had a fabulous time soaking up the sunshine and splashing in the river.  It was the first day under 100 in something like 10 days, so it was lovely all around.  I posted this to my Instagram and Facebook pages when we first got there:

Several people commented on the sign of the apocalypse that is me in flip flops.  I do wear them occasionally, especially for watery events.  I had my Keene's too, but wore my flip flops.  I don't know, y'all...I have issues.

Anyhoo, this got me thinking about water shoes.  When I was in college and working at bible camp Teva's were what the cool kids were wearing.  I was never a cool kid and I had knock-offs that never fit quite right and definitely weren't cool  So tonight I went looking at Teva's just for the sake of nostalgia:

These are all the happy medium between my Keene's and my flip flops.  The auntie actually gave me a pair of similar sandals when I was home last time but they broke the first time wore them, sadly.  Oh well.  It was a delightfully lovely day despite my lack of cool-kid footwear.

Rainbow Ballet

My voice is all scritchy scratchy tonight.  I've been trying to catch up on podcasts so I did 4 bible study episodes today.  It might not sound like much, but each episode is a little over a half an hours, so that's 2+ hours of me blah blah blahing.  So now my voice is scritchy scratchy.  

Today is National Dance Day, so between that and 2+ hours of talking about God's promises I ended up searching for rainbow ballet flats.  Here are a few selections:

I have no idea what this Rainbow Ballet is about, but I would definitely go see it.

Lipstick

We were at the office until 9 last night.  But I got to sleep in until 8 this morning!  The hubby is working from home today, which is something I pretty much never get to do.  At least my day has involved chocolate.  These sentences pretty much describe my mood today: up and down, back and forth.  Whatever.  It's National Lipstick Day, so let's look at some lipstick shoes, kay?

I've never really liked lipstick and haven't worn it much.  I either can't find a color I like on me, or I find something I like and then the wind blows my hair into my mouth and it sticks to the lipstick, or I have lipstick on my teeth.  I'm a terrible girl. In the last year or so I've started wearing Burt's Bee's tinted lip gloss, which I actually like, so maybe there's hope for me yet.  I'm not sure I have a burning desire to wear lipstick shoes, but I really like this last picture with the black shoes and pops of color.

Now if you'll excuse me I have to go back to vacillating between emotions.

Milk Chocolate

Today is National Chili Dog Day, National Hamburger Day, and National Milk Chocolate Day.  You know which direction I'm going to go:

Milk Chocolate WOODEN shoes?  They should have rethought that from a marketing perspective.

Chocolate shoes in a box shaped like a purse!

If someone really really really loved me they would buy me some milk chocolate shoes to celebrate this historic day.  I'm just sayin'.

Scotch & Soda

As I mentioned last year, July 27th is a rather eclectic day.  For instance, it's Take Your Pants For a Walk Day, which I failed at again this year as I'm wearing a dress. It's also Bagpipe Appreciation Day, which is awesome in my book.  As I did both of those last year, this year I'm going with National Scotch Day.  Actually, that goes with the other themes.  The bagpipe-Scotch connection is obvious, but I think having some Scotch first might make taking your pants for a walk seem like a totally logical thing to do.  It turns out there is a line of shoes called Scotch & Soda, so here are a few selection:

I don't particularly love any of them, but nor do I hate any of them.  I'll let you decide if you love, hate, or are indifferent.

Puppets on Facebook

Today we left the house at 6:30 am and got home at 8:30 pm.  It was a rather long day.  To break it up some (and because I apparently don't have enough to do *cough* sarcasm *cough*) I logged into various Facebook accounts and had the puppets and Pedro converse with each other.  Very few people noticed.  Or possibly they did, decided I've completely lost my mind, and backed away very slowly.  Here are some Muppet shoes to commemorate my craziness:

I and the PB would like all of them, please.  The puppets would too, but they don't have any feet...

Red Shoe Day

Today is International Red Shoe Day, which is a day of remembrance and which you can read more about by clicking on that link.  So here are some red shoes.  Because remembrances are good.  And I like red shoes. 

I'm tired.  I'm tired of heat and I'm tired of headaches and I'm just tired in general.  So I'm leaving you with these (mostly) cute red shoes and taking my tired @$$ to bed.

Good Day!

I did 4 podcasts today.  I'm still trying to catch up on the Bible Study one, which I seem to be perpetually behind on. BUT I did 2 Book Review Podcasts with the Camp Friend (who is now the Author Friend) and we talked about both of her books!  As a reminder, they are Letters to Zell and New Charity Blues  and you should read both of them, because she is awesome.  And I had sooo much fun talking to her today.  It was an honor to have her as my first-ever podcast guest, and I hope I did her and her books justice because I really don't know what I'm doing yet on this whole podcast thingamabob.

I also just discovered that today is Auntie's Day!  I HAVE an auntie and I also AM an auntie.  Dangit, I should have been home to celebrate with everyone.  Rude.  I will say that I love my auntie very very much and am so grateful for everything she has done for and been to me in my life.  I am also proud to be an auntie and hope my nieces know how much I love them.

Try not to be too shocked, but I'm not really in a shoe mood tonight, so I'm just going to share a picture of me and my auntie:

Weren't we cute?

Also a picture of me and my dad's sister, who died a couple of year's ago and who I miss terribly:

And my twin aunties.  Of whom I clearly need a more recent picture:

Except how awesome is THIS picture?

And that is all.  The end.

Hammocks

Yesterday was the Bean's birthday.  I can't believe she is now a teenager.  It was just yesterday that she looked like this:

Awww...wasn't she the sweetest baby bean?  And I didn't post on her birthday.  Worst. Auntie. Ever.  I actually had the post planned and everything, just got tired and forgot to do it when I got home.  Anyway, she recently told me that purple is still her favorite color but that blue is also her favorite.  Sniff.  Sniff.  I'm so proud.  So here are some blue and purple shoes to help her celebrate her 2nd day of being an official teenager.

Love them.  I think we need matching auntie-niece shoes, don't you?

These are kind of weird and kind of fun.

If we wore the same size we could get both pairs and each wear one of each!

Yesterday was also Hammock Day, which sounded pretty fabulous.  I think the Bean and I could have definitely found a beach somewhere and hung out in a hammock to celebrate her birthday.  She likes flip flops, and these came up under hammock shoes.  I like the bright colors.

 

It's a whole series of fun hammock fleep flops!  I would even put up with the damn thing between my toes if it meant spending a day in a hammock with the Bean.

Happy Belated Birthday, Bean!