Happy Birthday to my niece Anna! She’s seven today! Yay! (Her present will be in the mail soon, I’m sure. Uncle Brad is a little scattered right now.)
I finally have my teacher shoes for the 08-09 school year. They are Doc Martens Liam Two-Eye shoes.
I normally get my teacher shoes in August, but I spent so much money on the pond, I didn’t have any left for shoes. After getting paid, I visited shoe stores like crazy, but I couldn’t find anything I liked. I was looking for giant, clunky shoes with a round toe. It was a popular style in the late nineties/ early two-thousands. I couldn’t find anything like that. Everything was flat and square.
I decided to go online, and that’s when I found these. They weren’t giant and clunky, but they did have an old-fashioned look to them. Plus, they had grommets! I was a little nervous ordering shoes without trying them on, but I decided to go for it.
The shoes came on Tuesday, but I was too tired to unpack them. Last night I wore them for a while. They’re extremely comfortable. I love them! They have laces, which I haven’t had in a teacher shoe for several years, but they are wonderfully different. Yay for new shoes!
Very cool – I like the stripes across the top. It makes them look like some sort of decadent Hostess dessert! Mmmmm…. shoes….
I wore Doc Marten shoes to school for the last 6 years. A pair would last about 2 years. We had a little bit of a scare that they had stopped making the kind that I liked, so I had a 4 year supply of teacher shoes in the basement for a while.
But they always wear-out in the same spot first, and I decided to give another shoe a try this time around. They are not quite as comfortable, but they are lighter and gortex lined.
Steel toe, huh? Do you kick people with them? Or just protect your tosies from big pieces of equipment falling on them?
I say they are for kicking 7th graders, but really they are so Lauren and I can dance in safety.
HA!
Hmmm, kicking middle school kids… I should tell Arron about those. I’m sure he can think of more than one student he could try them out on. 😉
Aaahh, I believe Lloyd is pulling a Costanza.
Leonardo only wears Doc Martins – he loves them! Enjoy!
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then shall it be seen
I love your haiku.
Not enough of those things here.
We should do some more.
It sounds like Yoda.
Or should I have said it thus:
Like Yoda, it sounds.
How is it that you people remember the rules for haiku writing? I don’t remember even discussing haikus in any of my formal education. Ever. And I have a great memory.
Must go find the rules for haiku writing.
I’m with you, Beth. And I believe I majored or minored or something in English.
Here:
http://haiku.cc.ehime-u.ac.jp/~shiki/Start-Writing.html
Rules for a haiku
Strange Japanese poem
Beth writes in the rain
Raining in Seward
No playing outside today
Mom thinks homocide
(Rain is my season word, and I have the 5-7-5 syllable thing. I don’t understand the cutting word, but for a Math and Biology girl, not so bad, eh?)
OK, Beth, you gotta know I laughed out loud reading your second Haiku – so much so at this hour that my normally-sleeping husband retorted from the bedroom, “You on Brad’s blog again?”
Funny people meet
In cyber space at all hours
Makes one laugh out loud
–by Henry Gibson (anyone out their old enough to “get” that one?)
Hi Max!
Nice nice nice nice nice
Nice nice nice nice nice nice nice
Nice nice nice nice shoes
Heh. The Japanese writers would be proud.
Come on, Peggy – you can do better than that! I know you to be great writer!! Seriously!!!
[How about….
Very very very very very
Very very very very very very very
Very very very nice shoes ???]
“…too tired to unpack them” hehehe
That reminds me of his “installing the shower curtain” post – just sounds like too much work!
I still haven’t gone through the mail that came while we were gone. I just don’t have the energy. I blame it on being pregnant and not anything else. In fact, as far as my work is concerned, they all thought I was attending my 5 year high school reunion! 😀
What do you do with your old used shoes? Do you throw them out? (Alright. For those of you that know me well, stop right now. I am not asking for old shoes! Come on, I have my limits.) Didn’t there used to be an old shoe drive for the homeless?
Not to mention it would be a cold day in h. e. double hockey sticks. before you would fit your feet in Lloyd’s shoes. Even if you did want them. 😀
Wouldn’t it be a shoe drive for the shoeless?
My Haiku
Doc Martens are cool
I am stealing Max from you
I love your cat LOTS!
…and by the way, that third shot of Max and the shoe string is, paws down, THE cutest shot of him yet. Kudos to the photographer. [When will we be able to see him in Catfancy or Cat-mopolitan magazine?]