Victory Boots!!

Some years ago, I was online shopping, as one does when she is a big fatty and finds it tiring and sweaty wandering around actual stores (although I still spend WAY too much time online shopping, in spite of my current significantly-less-sweaty status). Because all miracles can be found on the interweb, I discovered that they make knee high boots with wider calves! I decided to take a chance, and I ordered a pair. They arrived, and I was delighted to find that, with the help of some plyers, they zipped up!! I loved those boots as though they were a third, somewhat more stylish child.

Last year, I put them on, and...*horrors!!!*...they were too big around the calves! After my initial delight that I'd gone from having to use plyers to get them done up to having to wear extra thick socks just so my legs didn't slide around in them, I was sad, because come on! BOOTS!

Today I was in Marshalls (from whence all good things come), and it's fall, which means it's BOOT season! And there I saw these really adorable black boots with a do-able heel...and after I had wiped the drool off my chin, I started to walk away, knowing that visions of those boots would be dancing in my head for weeks. And then I heard a little voice in my head. It was Deb! She was saying "just try them on! They'll do up! They'll fit!" And because Deb is very insistent, and also often right (and also magical), I tried them on.

THEY FIT!!!! (did you hear the angels singing? There were definitely angels singing!)

And I bought them! Even though I am totally broke, and it will mean my children will be eating Kraft Dinner for a couple of weeks (they were only $50...don't call child protective services just yet), the victory boots are mine! And they are HOT! Yay!