I Wasn't Aware

NO I'M NOT YELLING AT YOU, IT'S JUST THAT TODAY IS INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY AND THIS SEEMS LIKE THE BEST WAY TO CELEBRATE.

That's enough celebrating.  I can't type in all caps, it drives me crazy because it looks angry.  Yesterday was Reptile Awareness Day and I clearly wasn't aware.  Poor bearded dragons should have gotten to celebrate, but I was lacking in awareness.  I might have to give them meal worms today to make up for it.  In the meantime, let's look at some reptile shoes.

So first the bearded dragon gets split in 2 and then we step on its face?  Sooooo rude.

Oh. Dear. Gods.  Why do these exist?  And who buys them?

I need a palate cleanser after that last pair.  Baby turtles (turtle baby shoes?) are much better.

Poisonous frog rain boots!

Zazzle really does have everything.  Orange gecko high tops.  Black, orange, and white were my school colors, and are the school colors for all of the nieces (3 different schools in 3 different towns, all the same school colors). I should get these for the nieces.

 

OK, I know dragons aren't real, but these were too cute to pass up.  No one said reptile awareness day was only for real reptiles.

Enjoy your Saturday, whatever it might entail, just please don't type in all caps.

Leap Day

Happy Leap Day!  I understand the reasoning behind it, but it's still a little bizarre to me to have an extra day stuck on to the end of February every 4 years.  But it gives me a definite theme for posting, at least, so that's something.  Since it's Leap Day, I figured frogs were the way to go.  I've done frogs before, but when has that ever stopped me?

Awww...a Kermit the Frog hug shoe!  I'm happy that he looks way less terrified than the Ernie version of this shoe. 

I need these for Muppets watching occasions.

 

Such a studios looking little frog!  Is he off to private school?  The office?  

 

Well, huh.  I swore when I was getting shoes for this post that the second pair was blue.  I'm cool with purple, apparently I'm still stuck in the theme from yesterday, but it's still a little strange to see purple when I was expecting blue. These are both from my new best friend, Zazzle, (that link will take you to more frog shoes).  I would take these in multiple colors, actually.  I think the frogs are adorable.

These are kind of weird, and kind of awesome.  I like the colors on the black.  I don't think I would wear them, but I can still appreciate them.

 

The frog is a little weird in these (why is it blue?  (Why am I complaining about something being blue?)), but I still think they're adorable and I like the different colored laces.  The Potential Twins definitely need some.

Enjoy the day, and maybe we'll meet back here in 4 years time!

There is no memory lane today because I didn't start the blog until December of the last Leap Year.  Dang, missed it by 10 months!

3 Things:

1. Turkeys.  Which is kind of weird, but every morning on our way to work the hubby and I see a whole flock/herd/gaggle of wild turkeys in the same field.  The other day on the way to the office after running an errand I had to wait for 11 turkeys to cross the road in front of me (not sure if they were the same ones as the field), and it was a nice reminder to slow down and look at the turkeys every once in awhile.
2. I wore my awesome purple shoes today for the first time in forever.  Yesterday's post seems to be having a lasting effect!
3. I finished a project last night that was long overdue.  I'll tell you more about it at a later date, because it's quite cute, despite the 4,637,259 mistakes I made.

A Plethora of Holidays

Today was many things.  It was Monday, the 10th day of August.  It was another day in the office.  It was a day of dealing with icky car stuff.  It was a day of hubby grumpiness.  It was also many holidays, starting with S'mores day!  Mmmmm...chocolate.  I have no graham crackers, marshmallows OR chocolate, so I shall celebrate with shoes (shocking, I know).

I've posted these before, but I love their little smug happy faces.

I don't have any back story on these, so I'm not sure what's up with them.  Do they make cool S'mores footprints?  Because that would be awesome.

There's a fleep flop for everything!

Today was also World Lion Day.  We're going to avoid all of the recent Lion Scandal and just go straight to shoes.

These are hilariously scary.

Cute baby lions for cute baby feet.

Heehee.  Lion butt!

Today was also National Lazy Day.  Dang, I wish I could have taken advantage of this one. It's too hot here for what I would want to wear for Lazy Day

Lazy days definitely call for fuzzy slippers.

Or at the very least fuzzy socks.  My Facebook memories showed that six years ago last week I was enjoying a rainy day wearing sweats and fuzzy socks.  I clearly did not live in California at that time.  Lazy day is making me nostalgic for chilly, rainy days.

No more shoes, but 2 more holidays.  Today was National Duran Duran Appreciation Day.  I think School House Rock needs to a video on how a holiday gets created and recognized, because I'm not sure why Duran Duran has their own day.  I'm not saying anything negative, I rather like them, but their own day?  Weird.

Aaaaand it's National Spoil Your Dog day.  But that's every day in our house.  In fact, they got ANOTHER froggy yesterday.  We were at Ross and the hubby found it for just a couple of dollars, so of course we had to spoil our puppies. We've got quite the froggy family happening:

No Shoes

I've been headache-y, grumpy, and ininspired the last couple of days, so no posting. I'm still not feeling any shoe inspiration, but thought I would give you a quick froggy tour.

This picture is the result of another surgery today. Soon there won't be any fabric left to stitch back together. Chalupa just can't not gnaw on poor froggy. But only original froggy. Froggy 2.0 is a different story. I ordered another one a couple of weeks ago so we would have a backup, and here is the result:

2.0 gets nothing but calmness and snuggles. I have no idea what goes on in my puppy's head. 

Hopefully I'll be back to shoes tomorrow! 

Updates and Wombats

A couple of updates.  First, I have yet to kill the ivy!

Look at how lovely and healthy it's looking.  Maybe I'm not a murderer after all.  Poor Froggy is not s lucky as the ivy, though:

I'm not sure if you can tell, but all of the stuffing is now out of his head, and he's dang near been decapitated.  The hubby is still asking me to sew him up.  Really?  How long are we going to torture poor Froggy?

Now, on to the theme for the night.  The other day the hubby was having some internet issues with is iPad and asked me to check and see if I had internet.  He told me to Google something random, like wombat, to see if I could get online.   I had no issues, but noticed that when you type in wombat the 2nd thing that pops up is wombat poop.  Yesterday the hubby was again having internet issues and asked me to check again.  This time as my check I decided I needed to find out more about wombat poop, and the hubby and I learned this interesting fact:  Wombat poop is square!  Really, you should watch this; it's quite fascinating.

 Obviously tonight's shoes will be wombat-themed.

How cute are these?

I like both of these pairs, but I wouldn't want to stand on the poor little wombats.

I guess this is a wombat?  Or possibly a sheep?  Maybe a wombat and a sheep had a baby?

Not shoes, but wow.  Wombat screen-printed socks.  Somebody loves them some wombats.

Now that I've shared with you the squareness of wombat poop, I think my work here is done.

Poor Froggy

Last summer a good friend of ours gave the puppies 2 squeaky chew toys as gifts:

Tallulah and Chalupa liked Froggy and Piggy just fine.  They played with them some, fought over them some, but weren't rough with them, and thankfully didn't discover that they squeaked.  After awhile the started to ignore Froggy and play only with Piggy. Even if I would try to entice them with Froggy they would want Piggy instead.  Until a couple of weeks ago when someone apparently flipped a switch in Chalupa's head and he went bonkers over Froggy.  Soon, poor Froggy looked like this:

And by the following day all 4 limbs were off and some of the stuffing had been strewn about.  Chalupa goes absolutely bat-you-know-what crazy when he sees this thing, and the hubby can get him completely spazzed out just by picking it up and waving it around a little bit.  Because Chalupa has taken such a shine to it the hubby talked me into sewing all of Froggy's limbs back on and sewing his squeaker back in (I'd tried to surreptitiously dispose of said squeaker because the hubby delights in squeaking it non stop until I want to get violent with him, but got caught, dammit).  So I sewed and the hubby kept Chalupa from attacking me and Froggy until he was out of surgery.  Chalupa immediately took him under the coffee table and went to town.

By the next day he had managed to get all of the stuffing out of Froggy's torso and rip off one of his limbs.  Once again I got the puppy eyes from both Chalupa and the hubby, so here is what Froggy now looks like:

No more torso stuffing, and holes sewn up as best as possible where poor Froggy had been shredded.  He made it through today with all of his limbs, so we'll see where it goes from here.

I know I just did a frog post (exactly 2 months ago, actually), but in honor of Froggy's sacrifice for Chalupa's over-exuberant love, I have to go with more frog shoes tonight:

These frogs seem appropriately sad in light of their brother's plight. (heehee...rhyming)

I posted these last time in blue, but green looks more like a lily pad.

Here is a video of Chalupa-Froggy love.  In the meantime I'll just go back to making up more verses to "Froggy and Chalupa" (sung to to the tune of "Froggy went a-courtin'" of course).

Froggy

I have been a weepy, phlegmy, miserable, grumpopatamus the past few days.  Sinus infection is still hanging around despite showing signs of maybe improving on Sunday.  So physically I feel crappy.  I've also been weepy, not totally sure why, but I alternate between weepy, frustrated, pissy, and just plain blah.  So mentally I feel crappy.  Good times.  I'll spare you the details of this latest round of depression.  Instead, we'll go with the happier fact that today is National Frog Jumping Day.  Why?  Who cares?  It gives me a happy topic for a post, and I don't have to cry all over the keyboard (which is doubly gross right now since the crying produces LOTS of phlegm).  Let's look at some frog shoes.

I'm guessing those are lily pads, and not green chocolate chip cookies?

These came in a variety of colors, but of course I chose blue.

Purple frog shoes!  I find these hilarious, and kind of want a pair.

These frogs look slightly drunk.

Froggy slippers!

OK, these are adorable, and I need to make some.

I'm not sure why, but these scare me a little bit.

Those might actually be aliens, but I think they're frogs... (I got sucked in by the blue again).

Happy Frog Jumping Day!  And since any time I think of frogs I get Froggy Went a Courtin' stuck in my head, here it is for you to listen to as well.