2007/11/14 22:35
National Do Something Wacky On the Internet Month
I love all the spinoffs that NaNoWriMo has wrought. If it weren't for this bad boy, of course, I wouldn't be posting every day this month (despite missing the second by 11 minutes, and I'm still upset about that). But there's also apparently a NoBloShoeMo, where you post a picture and a story about a different pair of your shoes every day.
Well, I couldn't do that. I'm a dude. I'd be twiddling my thumbs for 24 days. Here's all I got.
My everyday shoes. NSS, Sports Authority, $19. I tend to gravitate toward skate shoes for my normal bummin'-around day-to-day wear shoes, because they don't chafe, they don't slip and they're pretty cushy inside. If that makes me a poser, then so be it.
These cheap-ass Target slides ($11) probably see the most action these days. A lot of days I don't have time to sit down and tie shoes (or even, indeed, shower) before Avery is demanding her daily walk or Kucha her thrice-daily ball game. So I step into these and get on the ball. It's time to replace them, but I can't find any sandals without that stupid little thong by the big toe right now.
I once had to wear these every day. These are the most expensive of all my shoes, at a whopping $30 at Burlington Coat Factory, and also the most uncomfortable. What's the message? I almost left them in the garbage can at my office on the last day of work, but then I wouldn't have any dress shoes for the periodic special occasion that demands them.
Back in high school, I wore basketball shoes as a matter of course. Now I only wear them to play basketball, which (sadly) hasn't happened in nearly a year. Eventually I'll get back to a time and place where I can join a pick-up game or even start shooting around in the driveway again. Clearance rack, Big 5 sports, $24.
The Big 5 clearance rack is my friend. Eighteen bucks for these puppies. I planned to get up off my ass and go hiking in the Sandias more often. That fell through -- we basically kept on going once a month, and here there are no mountains -- but I'm glad I have 'em because they make the dogs' extended walk a lot more stable. These are also the only brown shoes I own (not counting the slides), but only because they apparently don't make hiking boots in black.
There was a point in the '90s when everyone was wearing sport sandals. So I fell for it and got a pair ($22 at Oshman's), wore them just about every day in the summer of 1997, and promptly shelved them when my teen angst finally kicked in at age 20 and they were deemed inappropriate for mourning. Now I only wear them to the beach.
And that's it. Like I said, I'm a dude. Avery almost has as many pairs of shoes as I do, and she's been around for 1/60th as long. Chicks and their shoes, dude. Still, Sed might pull up short in this thing -- her shoes monopolize an entire corner of our closet, but I don't know if she has 30 pairs.
However, next year I'm all over NovemBeard.
Well, I couldn't do that. I'm a dude. I'd be twiddling my thumbs for 24 days. Here's all I got.
My everyday shoes. NSS, Sports Authority, $19. I tend to gravitate toward skate shoes for my normal bummin'-around day-to-day wear shoes, because they don't chafe, they don't slip and they're pretty cushy inside. If that makes me a poser, then so be it.
These cheap-ass Target slides ($11) probably see the most action these days. A lot of days I don't have time to sit down and tie shoes (or even, indeed, shower) before Avery is demanding her daily walk or Kucha her thrice-daily ball game. So I step into these and get on the ball. It's time to replace them, but I can't find any sandals without that stupid little thong by the big toe right now.
I once had to wear these every day. These are the most expensive of all my shoes, at a whopping $30 at Burlington Coat Factory, and also the most uncomfortable. What's the message? I almost left them in the garbage can at my office on the last day of work, but then I wouldn't have any dress shoes for the periodic special occasion that demands them.
Back in high school, I wore basketball shoes as a matter of course. Now I only wear them to play basketball, which (sadly) hasn't happened in nearly a year. Eventually I'll get back to a time and place where I can join a pick-up game or even start shooting around in the driveway again. Clearance rack, Big 5 sports, $24.
The Big 5 clearance rack is my friend. Eighteen bucks for these puppies. I planned to get up off my ass and go hiking in the Sandias more often. That fell through -- we basically kept on going once a month, and here there are no mountains -- but I'm glad I have 'em because they make the dogs' extended walk a lot more stable. These are also the only brown shoes I own (not counting the slides), but only because they apparently don't make hiking boots in black.
There was a point in the '90s when everyone was wearing sport sandals. So I fell for it and got a pair ($22 at Oshman's), wore them just about every day in the summer of 1997, and promptly shelved them when my teen angst finally kicked in at age 20 and they were deemed inappropriate for mourning. Now I only wear them to the beach.
And that's it. Like I said, I'm a dude. Avery almost has as many pairs of shoes as I do, and she's been around for 1/60th as long. Chicks and their shoes, dude. Still, Sed might pull up short in this thing -- her shoes monopolize an entire corner of our closet, but I don't know if she has 30 pairs.
However, next year I'm all over NovemBeard.
Well, I wear them six times a year, there's no damage and no appreciable wear, they still fit, and they don't smell bad. So why?
Sed has at least thirty pairs of shoes. Her feet are small and therefore the actual amount of shoes is deceptive......
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