Got a birthday greeting this morning from Jimmy Choo
If he really wanted me to have a happy birthday, he should have sent those low heel pumps I've been eyeing.
Recently I've been looking at plain black dresses and plain black shoes. Over the last several months there have been multiple deaths in my family and as I am the youngest of the first cousins, and I'm no spring chicken, I figure I'll need a few more outfits before much longer.
Yesterday it did occur to me that I might just be buying my own burial togs instead of dressing myself for the funeral of others.
The potential irony of the situation was not lost on me. I laughed at myself. Grimly.
Before anyone bust a gut - No. I am not paying several hundred dollars (plus) on a pair of shoes. Not even with that not-so-tempting "$50.00" off birthday discount.
But I don't skimp on shoes either. I need my feet.
I'll happily wear second-hand clothing and do, but I coddle my tootsies.
My feet have gotten me this far and I need them to get me on down the road a few more decades.
I abused my feet with 6-inch heels in my teens and early twenties and it shows. I've spent the years in between pampering them with flats, long soaks, and Vaseline.
I didn't see my shadow this morning, as I stood out on the grass, cold and damp, in my stocking feet.
While wiggling my toes in the still wet grass, remnant of the rain the night before, I thought about the years of living on those old feet.
The story they tell and the stories they could tell if they could talk.
Every year on this day I look for my shadow.
And every year on this day I think six weeks is six weeks away but today is the day I have, so today is the day I'll experience.
With a little help from my feet.
Wishing you all the best day ever and the happiest feet ever.
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No coupons or anything--just a hug. 
We should never skimp on hugs either! They feel wonderful!
Says the guy with the Fratelli Rossetti’s
And purses. 
Here's to many more! 
I'm hoping.
Vaseline is the best beauty secret.
May the hurricanes give you a break this year. 
That cake looks tasty.
There are 4 February birthdays in my immediate family. The previous May was a good month, I guess.
Getting older means those talks are a must and that's OK. As much as I didn't like the planning, we still managed to laugh our way through it.
Thank you again!
Enjoy your day!
I'm going to be lazy and then be lazy some more.
Happy happy birthday to you!
I also wore way high heels in my younger days. Not for years now, tho.
The foot docs would 'love' to reprimand this: Me wearing rubber beach type flip-flops year round inside. And out on property when warm. I won't drive in them tho'. Dangerous.
My feet expanded. Was size 6 1/2 decades ago, transitioned into 7, now size 8, sometimes 8 1/2. Blech.
I did buy a jewelry gift for someone recently on Amazon and clicked on a sweatshirt type top. It was by a designer and selling at $300+!!! Originally $700+. Yikes. Yah, it's cool, but no thanx. I hear yah re: Jimmy Choo!
Lesson learned from Grandma…I’ll be wearing the prettiest dress I own to my funeral!
I’m sorry you’re losing your cousins.
My husband asked me what I wanted to being wearing at that time and I said, "Surprise me".
It sucks. Though I'm closer in age to my second cousins, younger than some of them even, I'm more connected to my first cousins.
Thanks, again.
