So I disappear for a while and then come back with posts about my animals. There's much more to my daily grind than my fur-children, but they're not nearly as fun to write about as these will be. What are these? These are something I stumbled upon just recently.
The backstory: Years ago in the land of the hill country far far away, there was a young little Hieu. And little Hieu loved shoes. I didn't dare afford the mall store shoes on my student budget and so shopped the incredibly well stocked racks of discount stores like Ross. On one of the late night shopping sprees, I came across a very sexy and very edgy pair of motorcycle boots by
Guess. Black supple leather, thick straps that wrapped underneath the high heel in a very motorcycle/bondage style, shiny hardware, and it was my size. It was also $70. My DearFriend™ talked me out of them. If I didn't have the money, she said, then they weren't meant to be. I didn't have the cash. And to this day, I still miss those boots.
Nearly a decade later: I had finally settled into a career and was looking to start a new wardrobe. I enlisted DearFriend™ to come along and help me find some shoes. It had to be comfortable and it had to have style. And at her suggestion, I ended up with a pair of
Dankso mary-jane styled heels. For a very painful $150. They're only comfortable with socks, the cute factor is low, and so sadly, I don't wear them very often. I also don't shoe shop with DearFriend™ anymore either.
Fast forward to last week: The boss is always noticing our treads. The new and exciting, the ones that need to be polished, or just let out to pasture. One of the girls got me looking at the 'newest' shoes on the Sak's website and low and behold, I came across
these. Leather. Studs. Red. Black. If you know me, these are me. So me. And I wasn't going to let these get away like those boots. No way. These said: see me, buy me, wear me, love me.
And so, by a gracious miracle, these babies made their way to my feet. As the boss says, my first 'real pair of shoes'. And contrary to what one would think just by looking at them, they are incredibly comfortable and I could not be more happy with them.
These days, Peanut's taken to sleeping in the laundry basket. Whether it's full of clean clothes or not. It's
box-like, and that's good enough for him. It's also very close to his
spaceship.
We've finally been getting some rain here!! The last time we had rain like this Wilson let us know he wasn't a fan of walking on anything wet so we got him some rain booties. Cute huh? He walks a little funny in them at first, but he gets used to them. The best part is they let him brave the wet scenery for a potty break. 
This sassy couple tied the knot a month ago in with a very spectacular James Bond themed wedding. It all started off with an Aston Martin... Phu was able to borrow the beautiful DB9 from a very gracious friend who drove it to the Botanical Gardens for quick photo session with the bride and groom. Awesome!
For the big 4th of July weekend, we took off to the capital to hang out old friends and watch the fireworks over Town Lake - which I believe is now called Lady Bird Lake. There was dinner at Mangia's and scary moments with bees and other winged creatures.
Nicholas and I stayed at a hotel by the lake and we brought Wilson with us. He's a pretty good traveler and got to meet a couple of other doggies at the hotel.
I really enjoyed the view in the morning and then getting to finally watch the bats come out of the Congress Street bridge when the sun went down.
And there was the awesome fireworks show over the lake.
Yaaa! Knocking off the cobwebs on my webilities I was able to come up with
this... neat! Now my
flickr pictures won't squish the really important side of my page. That side over there to the left with the links to things you know you want to click. That picture up in the banner is from the
Desert Springs Resort. See all those palm trees? I've discovered I like palm trees. They don't make nasty invisible pollen bits that make my sinuses and eyeballs swell. Palm trees have that 'resort' kind of feel. Like I don't really have to work. Really. Just more or less lounge in the shade and sip mango infused drinks. Enough about the trees.
I took a hiatus for a couple of months. One, to come up with something snazzy like this. Two, the little sister got married. Three, I adopted...And four, I failed to take time for myself...bad me... I'm back now. And I know you missed me.
