Nov. 19, 2007
The Joys of Shopping.....Sorta......Well, Not Really.....
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I've decided that I hate (strongly dislike?)(no, I think, verging on hate)......... shopping for jeans and boots. Maybe I should write a country/western song? All I need to do is throw in a broken down truck, and I think I've got a song. :) I don't think that the makers of jeans are considering that rare shopper who happens to be 5'1" (read: short) who weighs roughly 115 pounds. Would it be that hard to make jeans that could fit a short woman who is thin? Seriously, I can't be the only person who fits this description. I believe that I tried on every pair of pants that were in the ladies department of Kohl's recently. I can think of better ways to spend a couple of hours. On the bright side, I think that I managed to burn quite a few calories in the process. :) And then there's boots. Before I moved to the North (midwest...whatever. It's north to me)....I never had a use for boots. I used to just wear sandals all of the time when I lived in the south. Well, sandals and Indiana winters are pneumonia waiting to happen. So, of course, I'm picky about boots just like I am about all of the other clothes that I wear. At least I'm consistent. I need boots that I can wear with dresses, so they need to be boots that go over my calves. No problem, right? Wrong. I exercise a lot, so my calf muscles are pretty pronounced (read: big). Zipping boots over my calves is near torture. Every time, without fail, I manage to get my skin caught in the zipper. My reaction to this, tends to cause every other woman in the shoe department to stare. And I wouldn't be me if I didn't have to have the right color, now, would I? I'm not into black or white shoes. So, black boots are out. I like brown. Apparently every other woman in the city who wears size 6 shoes likes brown boots better too. In my head, I walk away with thoughts of the "shoe natzi" in my head "No shoes for you". (remember the "soup natzi" from Seinfeld? "No soup for you"?) What the heck, since I'm on a roll with my country/western whine....what is up with the heals on shoes for the last several years?? Do people really wear sandals with two inch heals? Sandals with heals?? Ya know, I'm a 36 year old woman, I really don't prefer boots with big, huge, clunky heals. Call me old fashioned. (ha,ha)(that was a joke, please don't call me old fashioned.) :) Hmmm, maybe this has more potential for a blues song than it does a western song? How about a mix of the two. Bluester n. Funny how my spell checker keeps underlining this word in red as if it isn't a word or something. Go figure. :) |