Neutral Face

So, I went to print out my return stuff to send my Zappos shoes back, and now they have the black loafers I want in the size I think I need! Yay! So, I am ordering them.


I can't decide if these shoes are awesome or ugly. I think they walk that line.

I do not know why the text above is trying to be a hyperlink to no where. I think it has something to do with me being picky that the post starts before the picture...oh well.


I cannot find black Mary Janes. I think that's what I really want and I need to replace the pair I had to throw away last year (I had them since I was in middle school ... they were my band concert shoes) when the heal detached from the rest of the shoe.

But I still kind of secretly want these boots.

Unhappy Face

I went shopping all last weekend to find a cardigan, jewelery, and shoes for the Garker wedding. I bought nothing. I decided to just order some shoes from Zappos and possibly wear some jewelery that I already own. Well, I just got my shoes from Zappos (cute Mary Janes and some awesome black loafers to replace the ones I wore out last year and threw away at the beginning of some in hopes of making work hard all summer to replace them -- but totally forgot). The Mary Janes don't buckle and the loafers are half a size too big. No problem, I thought, I'll just return them and order new shoes in the correct size. Yeah, that would be great if they actually HAD them in the new size I need.

So, now I'm shoeless again. I was looking for different shoes on Zappos, but they really don't have anything in my size. I think I'll look at Lois's big feet size catalogue.

Now I have an unhappy face. I was so looking forward to getting some new shoes today!

Listening In

Things Ben’s Discussing with his Grandma

1. Our wedding. The pros and cons of a cruise wedding versus Newton White. The patio and atrium.

2. His nickname for the caterer I like.

3. Why he doesn’t want to have children now and how waiting until we’re thirty until we have children will save us a lot of money.

4. That I want to have beach wedding … (No, I’ll have a wedding in a botanical garden or other lovely place like that, but I don’t want to get married on a ship in a Baltimore harbor. I mean, really, I’d just rather get married in a cesspool. Oh wait, that’s what most of Baltimore is.)

5. Apparently someone in his family is having a kid. I think they’re young. Ben, Bart, Nick, and Drew are the young ones – mostly everyone else has kids or is old enough to have kids without comment to their youthfulness.

6. He’s trying to get his relatives to name their child either Benjamin, or, the ever popular Benjamina. Well, his grandma’s name is Alfreda and his aunt was Freda, so it might not be totally impossible.

7. Unrelated but Al Pachino said, “Get out of my face you lactose-intolerant f***.” This would be a good thing to say if you ever ran into Jerry Seinfeld and he was really pissing you off.

8. I was wrong, it’s not a young person having a baby, just a person that I don’t think most people expected to have a baby.