10 good things what I am forcing myself to write

10 good things, because every day has good things in it even when you're just treading water and clinging to your copes

1. Talked to various and sundry circle members today, which was lovely. :) You know who you are!
2. Had a very long lie-in. I think I have quite a sleep debt to catch up on, so the extra sleep was much needed.
3. I am clean again. Also yay for being able to take a self-sufficient shower and not fall!
4. The dog continues his job of being redunkulously adorable and cuddly as long as no one is making food in the kitchen.
5. Clean sheets last night.
6. Snuggles with partner in clean sheets.
7. Therapy today with therapist of awesomeness.
8. Beautiful weather! And leaves beginning to turn.
9. Coffee which I did not have to make, and it was also a delicious coffee.
10. I snagged part of the last homemade fig bar, which I also did not have to make.

Shoes and My Feet

Today after therapy we went to DSW Shoe Warehouse. This was ostensibly to look for shoes for partner, who is having trouble putting shoes on because of back pain and so needs sensible shoes with no laces or fancy buckle things. However my beloved black semi-fancy sandals are also dying (as in, I can feel rocks underneath my feet when I walk in them and it is painful) and my wonderful 2-year-old Merrell's are probably dead but also MIA. So, yes, shoes are in order.

Usually I have...issues...with shoe stores. I have non-standard feet, let's put it that way. Or at least, I used to? They seem to have shifted somewhat, perhaps due to orthotics or maybe some shoe manufacturers have finally figured out that some people have wide toes and narrow ankles. But I still have a habit of pouncing on shoes that fit and hoarding them like precious treasure, based on experiences of going to five shoe stores and trying ever frelling shoe on and none of them fitting.

The Merrell's I mentioned? They are men's, in the smallest size they make, and extra wide. I have to order them online when they are not sold out. They're my second pair and I dread the day when the manufacturer stops making them.

Earlier this year my grandmother came to visit and we went shoe shopping for her, and lo! I found a pair of shoes at Goodwill that fit me. (Purple Clark dress shoes, zomg.) And then at T. J. Maxx I also found shoes that fit (the black ones, above). So I've had much better luck lately at wearing shoes that are not hard to find and ridiculously full price.

Today at DSW I managed to find decent walking shoes that are snuggly; Merrell slip-on black dress clog thingies; and also Teva sandals on super sale markdown as it's the end of the season. ALL OF THEM FIT. WHAT. EVEN.

Taken as a whole, they are slightly out of my budget. However, when one factors in the potential spoon cost of trying to find shoes that fit all of these niches (walking, dress, sandal) again at a reasonableish price, I decided I would eat the cost and just get them all now.

I feel like a dragon atop a hoard of shoes...