New shoes, shoes, shoes

I went shopping on the weekend and bought a few new pairs of shoes. Please let me assure you, after my rant post about expensive shoes yesterday, they were all VERY reasonably priced.

I bought two pairs of these...Neither in the green colour. I bought one pair in black and one in aubergine.

I also bought a pair of high heels with peep toes for work. I am pretty tall so I usually wear flats to work but some days and for some meetings I just MUST HAVE power heels.

I also bought a pair of black and white spotted flats with sling backs. They are awfully cute and I plan to start wearing them straight away.

I am very happy with all my new purchases but I think it will be some time before I need any more new shoes.

Shoes, shoes, shoes

I have been looking at the Peter Sheppard shoe catalogue and am horrified at how expensive the shoes they sell are! I mean honestly, who spends $350 on a pair of shoes? I don't actually care if the shoes were made in Italy by a deaf mute who eats only spinach out of the finest beige suede leather from Panama goats, I refuse to spend that much money on shoes.

If I am completely honest I did once by a very expensive pair of shoes. I think they were about $300, and they were purchased before I had a home (read: mortgage) or any real financial commitments. I should have known I was making a mistake when the salesgirl assured me that they were a classic style and would last me til at least the end of the season. I don't know about you but I keep shoes for years. I do not really care if they are in fashion so long as they and comfortable and cute on me.

Anyway, I bought the hideously expensive shoes. I then had to "keep them for good" which is something I don't do a lot since I strongly believe in using your nice/good things all the time. But in this case I made an exception which meant it was some months until I actually wore the shoes.

When I did finally wear them I was disappointed to find them uncomfortable and impractical. The backs fell off my heel and the soles were so flat and smooth I could slide on just about any surface. Wearing them was like an uncomfortable version of skiing, I constantly felt like I was going to fall down. And occasionally I did. Very embarrassing in expensive Italian heels.

I did learn my lesson though. I will never again buy such expensive shoes!



unless of course they were on sale.....

Eye camera and other randomness

I was driving home the other day and saw a young guy riding his bike on a semi major road while talking on his mobile phone. He looked silly and what he was doing was quite dangerous. I would have really liked to take a picture of him but since I was driving and without a camera I could not do so.

It got me thinking about how convenient it would be to have a camera built into my eye. I imagine it would be a quick day procedure to install. I could take pictures by blinking my eyes firmly - a little like Jeannie in "I dream of Jeannie" when she grants wishes. I expect that downing the pictures once I have taken them would be done wirelessly, I am not keen on having a usb port installed.

I think all bloggers should get an eye camera installed. Imagine the images that we could capture to the post and blog about!

Doppelganger week on facebook

I didn't want to change my facebook profile picture but I will publicly claim I look like this lady. What do you think?