Too Much To Dream

...should be dragged out into the middle of the Mojave Desert, pinned to the sand with stilletto heels, and left for the sun to kill.

Andrea, are you mellowing?

Well, I feel better now that I'm home and have had a glass or two of the grape. But -- what's this? No more wine? Kill! Kill!

I'm with you on that one. Backless shoes are quite possibly the silliest damn thing women have ever worn.

I'm so glad I'm not alone on hating backless shoes. I've never been able to wear them without accidentally kicking one of them off my foot while walking. Not to mention I have to be sure my heels are clean before I wear them outside. I HATE THEM!

Goodness. What a completely gorgeous cat. What a sweet little face.

Oh, I am such a cat whore.

D.

Yeah, really. A backless shoe is properly a flip-flop. I've stared in perplexity at those backless tennis shoes in shoe stores for a couple of years now. Still haven't figured out what the hell that's all about.

I got to stare at tons of backless tennis shoes today. And then I got to try to find a pair of decent casual shoes that weren't some weird pastel color (all on sale for under ten dollars, gee I wonder why) or inflicted with really weird-looking soles. I found a pair that fit nice, and they were flats, but the soles had these bizarre wings sticking out, so that it looked as if I was wearing a pair of fins from an old Chrysler. And the shoes were dark ketchup red. At least the sneakers I finally got were a heathery color that won't show dirt right away.

Oh yeah, my cat. She's sweet all right. Until she doesn't get her way, and then she's a little demon... I wonder who she resembles... I made the mistake of playing chase-the-string with her tonight. She loves chase-the-string. She won't let me do anything else but run around the apartment dragging the thing (and old drawstring from a pair of pants) so she can chase it. I finally had to put it away because I twisted my knee, so now she is sulking.

The only backless shoes MB likes are the scandinavian clogs [they don't 'flip-flop']; other than that, she agrees that the rest are just suckage.

uhoh, I'm in the minority here.

I love backless shoes. Adore them. The closer to barefoot I can get, the happier I am. Now I don't wear the stiletto backless ones - I'd fall off and hurt myself. But I'm all over less is more in just about anything to do with clothes, including shoes.

I will agree, however, that some of the shoe fashions, including some backless ones, are nothing short of some cobbler's drug-induced nightmare. It's funny, though, seeing these hip young things wearing the hiphuggers, platform shoes and belly shirts that were in style when I was in my early teens. And they think they're so cutting edge and soooo much more "in" than momma and daddy ever were...

Hey, if I want to run around in bare feet I will! It's one of the advantages of living in Florida, I guess. But I have flip-flops for those bare-but-not-quite-barefoot look. Mules don't stay on my feet at all. For one thing, there's no toe grip. Women who wear them have to shuffle around like geishas -- or at least that's how I walk in them. (I used to like clogs, but they are structured differently, and don't seem to fall off my feet.)

Seventies fashions, yeah... but of course, if you tell a teenager that you wore hiphuggers and the like when you were their age, they just look at you, as if to say, "Yeah, but you looked like dorks!"

It's a relief to know I am not alone in my reaction to backless shoes and weird shoe colors. I stick with Easy Spirit and Aerosole. They are often on sale, have conservative styles, and are very comfortable.

I don't mind the cropped pants because I am very short and this way I don't have to hem them.

Andrea - are you trolling for dirty jokes here, or what?

Don't you remember the horrific episode of the Tonight Show, when Raquel Welch brought her cat on the show and placed it on her lap?

Trying to be clever, she asked Carson, "What do you think of my pussy?"

He didn't even break stride.

"I don't know, but if you move that damn cat I'll tell you."

That got him a hundred thousand dollar fine from the FCC, as I recall.

I refuse to show pictures of my two cats on the web, for this very reason.

Andrea - are you trolling for dirty jokes here, or what?

Don't you remember the horrific episode of the Tonight Show, when Raquel Welch brought her cat on the show and placed it on her lap?

Trying to be clever, she asked Carson, "What do you think of my pussy?"

He didn't even break stride.

"I don't know, but if you move that damn cat I'll tell you."

That got him a hundred thousand dollar fine from the FCC, as I recall.

I refuse to show pictures of my two cats on the web, for this very reason.

Urban legend alert.

Andrea, there is one country that makes mules for women who actually walk and don't have four bumboys carrying them them around on litters...sit dowwn...France. They have these cool suede inserts that keep the damn things on your feet so you can not only walk, but not look like a penguin while doing so. They also make shoes wider.