Mar10

You know how I've been frustrated lately that everything is taking a million times longer than it should?  Here is the example from today to give you an idea of what my life has turned into:  The hubby has a training coming up in Pittsburgh, so we needed to make arrangements.  It should have taken a half an hour, an hour max to get done.  3 1/2 hours later, 5 phone calls, numerous transfers, 8 customer service agents + an additional 2 phone calls to the bank with several transfers and 4 more customer service people, I finally got him registered and a flight booked.  This is just par for the course for us lately.  It doesn't matter what I'm trying to accomplish, it always feels like a huge battle.  And then I want to eat my feelings.

But let's move on.  Today is Mario Day.  As Super Mario is one of the few video games I have ever attempted, I figured I could find some shoes to celebrate.  Strangely enough, this isn't the first video game post I have done.

There are lots more, but I'm not really in the mood for shoes tonight.  I KNOW.

Memory Lane: 2013. 2014 (holy weirdness, Batman.  You should go look). 2015 (upside down cake!).

3 Things:

1. We found a house to rent!  It was both a really quick and an excruciatingly long and painful process.
2. It's been raining again, which is awesome.
3. Speaking of awesome, today is The International Day of Awesomeness!  I find this hilarious (and awesome), but it gives me a chance to say thank you to all of you awesome friends and family in my life.  Thanks for being awesome!

Video Games

I don't know why I was thinking about video games today.  I don't play them, and have never been good at them.  Maybe because the hubby was talking about the playstation today (we don't have a playstation, we have an xbox--he never gets that right).  Even if I did play I don't think I could master the controller for that thing.  There are approximately a million different button combinations; just watching the hubby play makes my fingers cramp.  I'm more of a word game kind of girl, I guess.  Certainly not good with the hand-eye coordination.  Anyway, we're going to look at some video game themed shoes with games from my childhood.

Space Invaders shoes for the whole family!  My brother had an Atari, and used to play Space Invaders.  The graphics were basically nonexistent, but there also wasn't blood shooting all over the screen.  I played a little when he would let me, but I could only manage the really sloooooow rounds.  I'd totally wear the shoes, though.

 

Mrs. Pacman (apparently Pacman himself is too manly to be on shoes).  Those darn ghosts got me every time.

 

And Super Mario Brothers.  This is the one I tried the hardest at once the Atari was replaced with the Nintendo.  I got fairly good at a few levels, but my brother always used to laugh at me when I would make Mario jump because I would use my entire body as if it would help.  I prefer to think that I was simply way ahead of the Wii and it's body motion controls.  I can't remember which level always got me, but now that I've found the shoes and written this paragraph that stupid theme music is stuck in my head.  I HATE that theme music.

Let's just say I'm better with shoes than video games.  I could wear video game shoes, but can't actually play them, and I'm OK with that.  The Nintendo was really only my friend for playing Jeopardy and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego.  Ooooh...I should totally be Carmen Sandiego for Halloween this year!

Red shoes!  Fun hats!  Awesome trench coats!  And 10 months to attempt to squeeze into all that Lycra.  Yikes...