shoes, shoes, shoes

target is the down fall of my bank account.
i could equally argue that my job is the down fall of my bank account.

so i can completely understand why the combination of shoe shopping at target for a show that i am working on was a deadly combination. COME ON....SHOE SHOPPING for actors and pass up the chance to purchase something for myself...fat chance!

no worries, since i was at target, the dent was only around $20. not too bad.....

but what is better is when my shoe shopping escapades is enough to make the cashier drool! that's right by the end of my little shopping evening...the total was four pair of shoes for the actors on the theatre's bill and one pair of shoes for me on my bill (my credit card :()

luckily the cashier understood and shared in my joy of find a good part of shoes and relayed to me that "shoe love" was a generation thing in her family....her mother loves shoes, she loves shoes and her daughter loves shoes...aaaahhh the sound of a fabulous tradition that was rightfully passed on.

i shared that i my "shoe love" was not a generational thing......in fact, i think i have bought more shoes for my mom than she has bought for herself. she has always thought it amazing and funny and a little out of her grasp as to why i felt the need to search out great shoes when she herself is the basic pump shoe in black and the basic sandal in black and the high heel in a strappy black type of woman. it took me a while to convince her that there needs to be a brown somewhere in there too.

and sneakers...forget about it...never has this woman owned a pair of sneakers. not a pair of keds, not a pair of running shoes, not a pair of anything that resembled sporting footwear and she is a fairly active woman-sandals are the answer.....so i can only blame my "adidas love" on living in the city and realizing that a good pair of sneakers is the secret.

so where as my mom has taught me many things in my life, how to spot the perfect shoe was not one of them. never fear, all is not lost, as I am now teaching her the theory of "shoe love" and i think that she is catching on!