BOOTQUESTE2010!!

BOOTQUESTE2010!! was a singular and distinctive failure so thanks for bringing it up. ::SIGH::

okay, so here's what happened. at work, they gave us target gift cards this past solticefesttide which is cool & all compared to the last few years's gifts which include nothing and also nothing and one time a cheap brass ornament. so, a gift card, that's nice. okay, so i didn't want to just buy like deoderant and batteries with my gift card - i wanted to buy myself a gift. i know, right? so i started looking at target.com to see if i could find a nice gift pour moi from the comfort of my lazybutt chair. i found a pair of boots. woowoo! i liked 'em, and they were on sale and all since it's not boot season anymore. so i was all set to purchase them + the killers cd.

but then i thought - hey, maybe i'll go look at them in the store. now on a scale of wack to genius that thought rates right up there with the looseleaf notebook for practical usability. so i took myself over to target and that's right - they were sold out locally. why? because it's not boot season anymore. now, this got me to thinking - hey, maybe i'll go look other places b/c boots are probably at slashed prices all over town and i am sure to find a bargain. now, while this seems like a looseleaf-notebook idea, turns out it's more of a raw-cookie-dough idea. really, REALLY good at first but sure to make you sick before long.

i went to - macy's, sears, penney's, dillard's, journey's, shoe carnival, rack room, payless, k-mart, kohl's, and walmart. i found nothing in my size in a style i sought. i found one pair in my size at walmart but when i put them on i realized they looked more like the dairy-barn boots from back in the days of the bootbin than they looked like real-boy pinocchio boots. i found a possible pair at kohl's. they fit and they were an approximation of one of a small range of possible allowable styles. so i carried them around the store for 30 minutes before deciding they were not right. i gave them to the cashier who was really very nice about my handing over stuff instead of money and said she'd put them back for me no problem.

i got in the car and came home, went in the closet and found 4 pairs of shoes to give away. so instead of more shoes i now own fewer. i am quite certain that giving up BOOTQUESTE2010!! substantiates my sanity but i am left with a lingering taste for adventure and the odd desire to play putt-putt.