ShoeTopia: Happy

After last night's wallowing session I promised to do a happier post tonight, so here it is. Today was actually a really good day. A dear friend/angel called me this morning to ask about the storage unit and see if she could help. I'm dreadfully tired of asking people for help, but she was so sweet and somewhat insistent. We went to the storage unit place and found out that they screwed up with their advertising and aren't having an auction in June, so we actually had another month. Notice they didn't let us know that particular bit of information. But the good news remains that the storage unit is safe. We are going to get our stuff out of there and close out our contract. They have raised the rates 4 times in the last 2 years and our monthly fee has doubled, so we need to just to find room at home for everything.

Anyhoo, I was going to write tonight about my awesome friends anyway, this awesome friend just gave me one more reason. I've been thinking that for all of it's crazy stressfullness, 2017 had been lovely in terms of catching up with friends. I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the Camp/Author Friend being here for a visit and how wonderful it was to see her. I hadn't seen her in a couple of years. In fact, we tend to hang out in June: The last time she visited was in June, and the only time I have been to her house was in June.

A few weeks before that a friend from seminary was here for an overnight visit. (Oh dear, she needs a nickname, and I've already used Seminary Friend...) This particular friend is possibly one of the coolest people I know. She's hilarious, smart, engaged, passionate, and since I've known her has lived in: California, Washington, Ohio, New Mexico, England, Boston, Washington DC (twice), Niger, and is soon to move to Belgium. Oh! I will call her the World Traveler! On a side note, I am from Montana and married a man from Ohio. The World Traveler is from Ohio and married a man from Montana! Really, it's just another reason to love her. I actually wrote a post about her visit, which I just now remembered.

In March (I think? Hooray for Swiss Cheese Brain!) The Texas Friend was in the Bay Area with her significant other who was on a business trip. I hadn't seen her in almost 7 years, since I went to Dallas for a visit in 2010. She was the happiest I had ever seen her, which was really really great, and was a balm to my own heart.

Last week, I had a lovely Skype chat with The Coffee Friend who very sweetly agreed to be on my Bible Study Podcast. I haven't seen her in person since 2006 when I was driving home from internship and spent the night with her and her husband in Wisconsin. I'm so glad I got to chat with her and catch up. It was the Sunday after that her beloved Labradoodle died, and I'm glad I got to talk to her before that.

I've said before that I have amazing friends, and 2017 has simply been more proof of that. I am grateful to all of you who have loved and supported me even when I'm grumpy, depressed, freaking out, wallowing, whatever.

Now, on to shoes! I went to my handy-dandy ideas folder tonight and just chose a bunch that made me happy:

Today was Bring Your Dog to Work Day, so I had to include these. They're Mary Janes! Also, it's much easier to bring my dogs to work when I'm working from the home office...