Back to work tomorrow

My two weeks' vacation are over tonight, and I have to get back into the old swing of things at work first thing Monday morning.  It will seem jarring at first, but by the end of the day I'm sure I'll forget I was ever on vacation -- my job has a way of taking over like that.

In anticipation of returning to the office, I treated myself to some things this afternoon.  I bought 2 new tops for work, a new pair of sweatpants for my workout tomorrow (my current ones are literally falling apart) and a pair of jeans, and two really nice pairs of shoes.  And the really cool thing was that, other than the shoes, everything was a size smaller than I used to wear -- progress!

The shoes are an unusual thing for me -- I am missing the female "shoe gene", and generally regard shoes as a bit of an annoying necessity. My routine practice is to find one or two pairs that don't hurt my feet and don't cost too much, and wear them until they're trashed.  And then I buy one or two more, of a similar quality.  Today I went to a very nice shoe store -- the kind I generally never go to -- and got the young sales woman to find me two pairs of comfortable, yet stylish shoes.  They cost a lot more than I usually spend on shoes, but I'm determined to start to go for quality instead of value and comfort.  Here they are -- and here's hoping they're comfy AND stylish.

New shoes