I think my shoes are trying to kill me...

Okay, not really. But I do apparently need to learn to walk properly in heels, as I've nearly turned my ankle twice today. Trying to break in a fancy pair of Oxford-look heels, that remind me of a 1920s secretary's shoe. (HAH! Google search, and you will be rewarded. Those are the exact pair of shoes I'm wearing over there to the right.) The heel could, of course, be much worse, but this is enough of a challenge for me.

The good news, of course, is that I'm doing okay in them aside from the shoes trying to kill me, so if I practice walking in them a bit more, I should be fine to wear them on Friday night. Hurrah!

And what is Friday night, you may ask? Abney Park is playing in Seattle, and I'm working the merch table as always. I've started referring to myself as the erstwhile stowaway on the Ophelia, in fact. :) I just haven't managed to go with them for any out of town shows yet... :) So at any rate, this means snazzing it up in my steampunk best, which includes the vest and bloomer set that I bought from Brown Button, and the snazzy shoes above.

I'm still working on the rest of the outfit, as I don't want to look entirely like I stepped out of a Tim Burton movie (the vest and bloomers involve black and white stripes). I'm thinking a black skirt and white and black striped tights are a must, but then hopefully get some olive drab into the equation with my shirt or jacket. I also have to be very careful to not get too many competing patterns involved here, which is a shame, because I have two skirts I've made that I really would love to wear... but I've been waiting to debut the vest and bloomers for a good long while now...

*sigh* The perils of the only occasionally fashionable... :)

Whee!

Had a pretty nice weekend, despite the fact that I think I almost melted on Saturday. It got up close to 90 degrees, and while 80 wasn't bothering me much (mainly because I was inside most of Friday), 90 was a bit much. However, we now have a fan for the living room and two for the bedroom, so I think we can survive the summer.

Saturday was Exalted, and we decided to play outside until the bugs started bothering us and we couldn't read the dice anymore. :) Pretty good game all around, but it seems that my games always start trickling off around 10:30. This may have to do with the fact that I generally turn into a pumpkin around 10:00, even on the weekends. Ah well, I think it was a good game, and the good news is that we're finally reaching the portion of the game where there are things to follow up on. So it's back to Nexus for the next game to follow up on some things. The end result of this for me: less planning is necessary.

Sunday, I went to the University District Street Fair with a bunch of EtsyRain folks and families, and it was a pretty good time. My only complaint is that I opted to NOT wear my silly black straw hat, and ended up with a partial sunburn on my face for my efforts. It's kind of funny, really, because you can basically see where I actually hit my face with the sunscreen stick. This means the middle of my forehead is still white, but right at my hairline is red. This may also be a product of only having SPF 30 to use for my face, while I slathered on the SPF 45 for my tattoos and other exposed body parts. However, I have now seen a commercial for SPF 75, and I think I'm going to get that before Mayhem, in July.

And now, a fashion question for my friendly readers. What shoes do you wear with a knee-length, very wide A-line-ish skirt, when you have to walk quite a bit? Yes, I'm looking for practical shoes. Or justification that I can wear my Docs with a skirt and not look too dorky. :) (Wait, who am I kidding? Mostly I don't care about looking dorky. But I'm still asking the question.)

End of the Work Week Wisdom:

"And if its cold, you know, just deal with it."
--Jerome, on short skirts

Brought to you by Jerome and I talking about girls and the need for excessive amounts of shoes and clothing. :)

Seriously, though, I discovered something last night. I have 6 pairs of boots. One pair is too small. One pair is too big. One pair has very high heels that hurt my feet if I wear them for too long. One pair has one of the zipper pulls broken, so they have a key ring hanging off of them at the zipper. The other two pairs are acceptable. That, my friends, is ricockulous.

(I also have 6 pairs of sandals / flip flops. 3 pairs of sneakers or in vaguely that style. 2 pairs of dressy shoes. That's a grand total of 17 pairs of shoes. Wanna know how many I wear on a regular basis? 2-3 in the winter, and another couple in the summer. And yet I realized I didn't have dress shoes that went with my outfit for game tomorrow night. Wha?!)

As for clothes, well, yeah, I suppose I have a lot of that too. The case in point that brought about the above comment was the fact that I have something along the lines of about 12 schoolgirl skirts. But that is apparently acceptable. :) And yes, there is a lot of my clothes that I don't wear often, but I also have three somewhat distinct wardrobes: work clothes, casual clothes, and game clothes. I'm not sure which of those makes up the biggest chunk of my overall wardrobe. Let's just hope it's casual clothes and move on... :)

Right. So now you all know how silly I can be. Hurrah! :)

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In other news, I'm feeling considerably less stressed today than I was yesterday. This could be because it's Friday, or it could be because I went home from work yesterday, made a dinner that sounded really good to me, and went and spent the majority of my birthday gift cards. So by the time I got home, dealing with in-weeks was a breeze, and then I ended up getting online and talking to people for a while... so grooviness all around. :)
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