A Shoe Story (including good food)

One thing I've discovered over the years is everybody is different about money. What I mean by that is every single person has a list in their head of what to throw money at and what to hold tightly to their cash about. And it is different for everyone, like fingerprints. I can only describe myself here, but I would love to hear some of your examples. I spare no expense when it comes to hotels, food and entertainment and yet I am excessively miserly when it comes to decor, clothes and shoes. There are probably millions of people who are just the opposite. I've been wearing the same shoes, winter and summer for YEARS. It actually makes me laugh to see an old picture and see the shoes and think, "I had these shoes WAY BACK THEN?" So on Saturday I decided it was time for new winter shoes. I have two pair of Sketchers, one brown and one black, that I've been wearing for forever and although I am neither a podiatrist, nor do I play one on TV, I imagine that's not a good thing and if you've been reading my blog long enough you may remember my horrible aching foot trouble from my San Diego trip last January. So when My Sweetie came home that day and said we were going to go to San Diego again in January, my VERY FIRST thought was, "I will have to get new winter shoes." But being a total discredit to my sex, I absolutely hate to shop for shoes. I hate everything about shoe shopping. I hate having to take my shoes off. I hate thinking that some weird strangers have stuck their feet in these same shoes. (That's probably why I have my own bowling shoes although I haven't bowled in years.) But it was time to buy shoes. So I ventured out of my cubby hole. Well I got lucky and bought two pair of Rocket Dogs. In brown and black, because that's how I do things. They are the type of shoe that are so ugly they are cute, which you will see later.
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Well when we left the shoe store, My Sweetie wanted to go to the big pet store, but I was all stored out so I waited in the car. We were at the "Giant Shops by The Mall" or whatever it's called and I was looking over at Carraba's. I had only been there once one afternoon with my daughter and had always wanted to go back, but it was at the mall. It's not IN the mall, it's just in the mall parking lot. So when he came back, we decided to head over there. That was GOOD food. Whatever they mix into the olive oil for the bread is so garlicky delicious! And the wine I picked out went perfectly with the garlic. It was an Ecco Domani merlot and it was yummy. And the crabcakes! YUM city!

That's the olive oil and balsamic vinaigrette, my wine and My Sweetie's Appletini (We watch a lot of "Scrubs").

These were the crabcakes I had. They were so yummy and on the side I had zucchini fries.

When we got home I decided to take some pictures of my new shoes and Barney wanted to know what the fuss was all about.

And then today, Jake took a nap in one of the shoe boxes. When he does that I call it a Jake-in-the -box. He's the 18-year-old cat. Pretty limber, eh? Lilly slept in this same box later, but I didn't get a picture. I love my new shoes but I hated shopping for them and paying for them. I hope these last as long as the Sketchers did.