Boot News

While reading one french fashionista's blog today I spotted the bottom black slouchy boots from online UK retailer Asos and went to the website and found these brown ones as well. While I can't be french, I will certainly pretend to be. Especially if they wear awesome BOOTS!

I love latinos and...boots of course

As some of you know, I work in customer service. At times it is trying to deal with angry customers, but the sunshine in my sometimes gloomy work day is the hispanic population I encounter. I don't know what it is about America, but somehow we just don't spread the love like the Latinos do. (Myself included, I'm not latino, though sort of...ish...). After one frustrating exchange today, to my surprise the spanish speaker I was helping was overcome with gratitude after my attempts to answer his questions. "Gracias,! Gracias mi amor! You've done a wonderful job! Blessings on you and all your family!". I really think it is a latino thing, to be able to spout angry rantings one minute and heartfelt appreciation the next. I love it. Muy Amable! Muy Amable! They always end calls this way, regardless of what was said. While many english speakers will barely mutter a disgruntled thank you.

In other news, my boot obsession lives on. I think obsession may be too soft a word for the crazed hunger that drives me to scour stores and websites relentlessly. I wonder if there is some kind of treatment for bootmania. I feel that might include excessive calf excercises that would make it impossible to fit into a boot. I realize it's getting out of hand but I justify it by telling myself I'm the Brangelina of boots and I'm saving the world by adopting a pair in every color. I found another pair on Etsy, and although they serve a different function than dream boots I & II, they trump both in all ways. I can't even begin to express it, let me start by thanking 1982 for saving the ideal pair of boots for me. These not only rank highly in aesthetics but in function! They're fleece lined, with rubber soles! So basically they're perfect for hiking the Andes (with my hispanic amigos), traipsing from the metro stop to my flat in soho (or really from denney hall to the institute building), and dancing the napoleon dynamite dance with my sweatpants tucked into them (which I actually did early this evening-to test them for quality of course). So while there are many things for which I thank the 80s, at present I am most thankful for my newest boots. Hopefully my appetite is satisfied for now.

Chinese Boot Ghosts

The highlight of my week was coming home from Sacramento to find a tiny package sent to me from Shanghai, China. I had been wondering when the international olympic committee was going to get wise to the mix up in Beijing and send me my golds already, but instead of bling, I opened my teensy package to find what appeared to be the little plastic bootshapers I had ordered on ebay! After my lengthy boot saga I couldn't bear the thought of ruining my dream boots parts I and II with closet crumple-age. The bootshapers are like little boot ghosts. They're small and white and inhabit the body of the boot keeping them alive, not to mention they can walk through walls, and make erie noises at night. oooo. Your boots can now maintain their shape. ooooo

Dream Boots-Take 2

Take I Take II ♥

My obsession with ebay, ranks almost equal to my obsession with facebook. The difference is that after spending hours on Facebook, I am left with nothing but secondhand memories and occasionally some hot gossip whilst my hours of scouring the auctions on ebay reward me with clothes and shoes galore with which to clutter up my closet. Hooray! Along with my obsession with ebay came my quest for the brown boots of my dreams. My quest has lasted for nearly 2 years! Much to my astonishment I won my pair of brown dream boots today! I can hardly believe it and won't really believe it until they arrive on my doorstep in 2-5 business days. My dream boots were not easy to find, and when found not easy to win. A few weeks ago I found a pair of boots that nearly met my qualifications, so I thought what the heck and bid on them. Though happy with Dream boots round 1, sometime last week I stumbled upon the Dream boots and of course I had to bid on those. I am now quite happy now with my soon to be little family of brown boots, and I'm willing to adopt any more that might need a good home. I feel that my meticulous long range shopping methods reveal a few things about my personality A. I'm a completely inefficient and indecisive shopper B. I am much too particular Or C. I'm the worst kind, high maintenance but thinks she's low maintenance "I just know what I want and how I want it " (When Harry Met Sally-Thank you very much). Or D all of the above.