Shoe Shopping

Another pound and a half down, divas! This chick is just a smidge off from having lost 10 pounds even -- that's 1/4 of the way to my goal, and it's all seeming a lot more doable now! Funny how some progress and momentum can really make a girl happy and determined to see the plan through! Now, I need to implement some exercise, because I know it will seem to zoom past a lot quicker if I burn more calories through exercise!

Every fabulous diva should have a great pair of shoes for every mood. If you're a mom with habits like I've developed over the past several years -- you've got a couple of pairs of boring but favorite shoes (probably flip-flops or clogs and a pair of sneakers) that you wear all the time and several others that sit in your closet looking pretty, but you never wear. I thought it time to start making over the shoe section of my closet with some fierce kicks to replace the dowdy, drab and manly ones that have been occupying my closet the past few years.

I went to one of those warehouse sized shoe stores that carry every middle range shoe designer you can think of. There must have been thousands of different styles, colors and brands under one roof. I swear I walked through the front doors and violins and harps started playing -- like I'd walked in from a delirious week in the desert with a stinky spitting camel, into an airconditioned mecca oasis.

My goal was to pick up a pair of platform sandals to wear with my new jeans and some open toed sandals to wear on our forthcoming trip to the sunny southwest for spring vacation.

I was surprised to find that even though I was on a mission to fierce-ify my shoe selection, I kept finding myself drawn to the old standards... flip-flops, ballet flats, and tennis shoes. How unfabulous of me! I had to force myself to veer into the more feminine choices -- heels -- forged from more glamorous fabric than canvas.

8 years ago, before my second child, I wore a lot of heels. I was modeling and acting and since heels create the illusion of longer more slender legs, I wore them nearly every day. I remember how great and put together I felt every single day as I dressed for work and sauntered out the door in my very feminine shoes... what the heck has happened to me? I want to resurrect my old habits of dressing up and feeling great instead of dressing down and feeling... well...not.

More evidence that I am in dire need of this self-imposed diva MAKEVOER...

At the end of my shopping trip, I ended up with the sandals and platforms I came for -- both hot looking and very feminine and I'm really pleased with the choices.




This could have been ugly... The way I was shopping before I caught myself wallowing in the pig sty of my old habits, I could have easily ended up with clown shoes and combat boots. The goal is a couple new pairs of shoes a month -- and the garbage can for the man shoes and unattractive flats that are now clonking around in my closet.

Hasta La Shoe-sta

The Diva