They are my new shoes, and they make me happy.
They especially make my feet happy. I have had plantar fasciitis on and off for prolly 14 years (which may or may not coincide with the number of years that I have been overweight). If you are not familiar, plantar fascitis is when you injure the tissues in your heel and it takes forever to heal. Runners get it alot, and coincidently so do people who buy a cheap pair of clogs that do not have enough cushion or arch support, but you wear them everyday anyway and ignore the developing heel pain because you love them so much until one day you wake up and can't walk.
I have tried many types of shoes and inserts over the years, with varying degrees of success and price, and I can honestly say that these shoes are the most comfortable shoes I have ever owned. Seriously. They are like "Shape-ups" by Sketchers, but are supposedly just as good for about 1/3 of the price. (My dad in me just did a little happy dance over that - he loves a good deal, and so do I.) They have curved heels, which takes the pressure off your heel, and also apparantly give your legs a work out as you walk in them. Bonus. Sounds like a gimick, I know, but the reviews all say that they work. I don't care about that so much as the comfort. They are like walking on big cushy clouds. The only downside is that because the heel is so curvy there is a slight rocking motion and if I lose my balance I may just tip right over backwards like a weeble.
I was on a shopping excursion with my sister in law, Donna, today and might I say we had a marvelous time! We spent a significant amout of time at one of my favorite stores in downtown Winona...Hearts Desire, where we sampled various dip mixes and drooled over the cute snowmen (ok, maybe that was just me). Then we got beverages and sat and talked at Blooming Grounds, the best little coffee shop evah. I got an orange-mango-guava green tea smoothie, which if you are looking for something cold and icey and fruity, is THE bomb.
Then we spent way too long at Shopko, where I did my usual...picking out things I want and/or need, then after walking around the store for another hour or so I begin to have buyers guilt and put things back before I buy them. Hey, at least buyer's guilt is better than buyer's remorse, right? I should have gotten that jacket, tho.
Speaking of jackets, I have lost mine. Both my winter one and my spring/fall one. It's the weirdest thing. So if I have been to your house in the last 6 months, and you have either a white, black & burgandy Columbia jacket, or a long navy jacket with a hood and a hole in the right pocket hanging in your closet and you have no idea where in the world it came from, please let me know as they are mine and I am cold.
I love to journal, and I've decided I'm going to be turning a corner with my blog. I plan on getting a little more personal. A little more descriptive. A little more rambly and possibly a little more boring...but hopefully not. I am not focusing on entertaining anyone (althought that quite likely will happen as I write more about our crazy life), but rather, I want to documenting memories. In writing or in pictures, I want to be able to look back and read this and remember the day to day stuff that makes life what it is...a journey. OH! Have you ever noticed that journal and journey are nearly the same word?
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