ReadingLirael, As You Like It, The English Patient, Heart of Darkness, Suikoden III, Candidate for Goddess
Watching House, Rick Mercer's Monday Report, Gilmore Girls, Scrubs, Corner Gas, Aishiteruze Baby, Prince of Tennis, Hikaru no Go
Playing The Bard's Tale, Katamari Damacy, Curse of Monkey Island, Final Fantasy VI, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness, Pretty Barbie Dressup Party Final Fantasy X-2(group gaming)
Back-burner Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, Star Ocean: The Second Story, Final Fantasy Tactics: Advance, Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast, Planescape: Torment, Final Fantasy VII
Obsessing Firefly, Erik and Ray, Impulse/Bart Allen, Ford Prefect, Monkey Island, Nostalgia.
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Is by Meimi, that wonderful Goddess who brings joy and happiness to the hearts of Ingrids.
This time, Meimi brought joy by doing a layout of Isumi Shinichirou and Waya Yoshitaka, of Hikaru no Go. It is full of wub.
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Can I get a sword stick like Koudelka?
5/23/2004 04:30:11 PM
"You can't do that to a squirrel! They have unions!" - Collin Sri'vastra, Friendly Hostility.
If anyone can suggest to me a good way to break in shoes quickly, or to soften the leather so it doesn't DIG INTO THE BACK OF YOUR FOOT UNTIL IT BLEEDS I'd appreciate it.
Now, the store where I work has a dress code. And normally I wouldn't mind, but it extends to footwear, which I find baffling. I don't normally notice what people where on their feet unless we're talking about clunker platform boots with ten inch soles or something ridiculous like that. on top of that, I'm a cashier. I stand behind a counter and you cannot see my feet. And yet, I have to wear polishable black dress shoes.
So, my parents visited on Friday, and we went to the mall, and bought me two pairs of shoes that I described as feeling 'weird', but it was generally put down that this was because a) they weren't broken in and b) for the past four years or so, I've only worn hiking boots, and before that, running shoes. It's been, I would hazard to guess, about ten years since I last wore footwear that didn't have laces.
Friday night, I put on the shoes, and walked to work. Within a block, my feet were hurting me, but my feet were already sensitive after three days of training and being on my feet all the time. I got to work and took off my shoes to check my feet.
I had bleeding, ugly sores on the back of both heels.
Now, we're not allowed to have money on us when we're working, and we aren't provided with lockers (there are lockers, but not enough for everyone who works there - fresh trainees haven't a chance of getting a locker) so I, obviously, had no money to go and buy, say, bandages, gauze, any kind of cleaning gel.
As for the store providing free first aid treatment? These people won't provide their employees with -pens- and won't give them even a tiny discount on buying things from the store.
So I rolled my socks up, grimaced, and limped my way through all four hours of training. And then I limped all the way home. When I got back, I took off my shoes, peeled of my socks, and found out that not only did I have two very ugly, very dirty, kind of oozing sores on the back of my feet, but I had also acquired a large blister at some point, which had popped itself.
I bathed, soaked, bandaged my wounds, and today I'm still walking funny.
I work Tuesday night. I really, really want to minimize the stressful agony that actual working will cause but I have no idea how long it'll be before I can walk comfortably in these damn things. I have learned over the years that I have unfortunately sensitive feet. I dont' seem to form much in the way of calluses, despite the fact that there aren't many people my age I know who walk nearly as much as I do. When I bought the current boots I have, they did indeed cause blisters, hot spots, and a lot of pain, and it was -months- before they were comfortably broken in. We took them to a gentleman of my father's acquaintance and he beat them with a hammer and it -still- took forever for the blasted things to be comfortable.
He told me that the next time I bought footwear, I should take the time and spend the extra money to buy something of high quality, preferably of Italian or Brazilian make, to minimize the pain that breaking the shoes in would cause.
Why didn't I listen to him?
Limp limp limpin' along, Almighty Ingrid, Signing Off
I don't have much first-hand experience with this, so I'll have to rely on a few websites.
I don't think it helps that you're walking in those uncomfortable shoes, but since you don't have a locker...don't know if anyone would steal your boots.
I don't suppose you can exchange those shoes? Some suggestions for buying well-fitting shoes:
It does help! Definitely some good tips, although some things aren't possible (like only wearing the shoes for an hour a day while breaking them in, eesh). But some good ideas on products to buy to help. I'm going to look into some of that stuff when I go grocery shopping tomorrow.
On one hand, I don't -think- anyone would steal my boots, because I have freakishly small feets, but on the other hand, I'm not sure how management would feel about me leaving my boots lying around. And you never know if someone else will have freakishly small feet too. So probably best to play it safe, because I do -not- want to be stuck with these hell shoes as my only set of footwear.
