Some Days you just need Flame Boots!
I was having a tough day of writing. Nothing was working. It was just a discouraging and uninspired day. I’d put heels on for my ankle, but discovered that though my ankle likes them other parts of my legs do not, so I put on nearly flat sandals to give my legs a rest. We all needed to get out of the house for lunch. I’d hoped it would help lighten my mood so out we went. I wanted a hamburger with lots of bad stuff on it, or ribs, or a lot of things I’m not supposed to have on Jennie Craig. I had a salad with enough chicken to do protein. I was very good at lunch. I felt positively punished as I watched the burgers and barbaque go past me. Jennie Craig says that if you have a strong craving it’s okay to give into every once in awhile. I should have remembered that, because I got full, but I was no happier after lunch. Even driving the Baby couldn’t cheer me up completely. Then my ankle started to throb. So I needed heels and boots to help the ankle feel better. But it was such a discouraging day that I needed something to lift my spirits. I looked around at my boots and thought, I know just the thing. Some days you needs your Flame boots! Today was one of those days. See my new New Rock boots below. Jonathon got them for my birthday, but they were back-ordered and they arrived almost two months after my B-day. But they’re here now, and my flame boots were exactly what I needed today. Is it childish to say that it makes me smile to look down and see them? Is it wrong that I feel better walking around in the shiny metal heels and gothic leather? Maybe childlike is more the word and I think that’s something I’m needing more of, an ability to take delight in smaller things like new boots. But regardless of how grown-up it may, or may not be, to feel cooler in my boots I wrote better in the afternoon. I wrote a fun scene and really enjoyed writing for the first time in awhile. I got nine pages all together today which is, I believe, the most I’ve gotten at one sitting since I took my month off. My muse and I both like the flame boots.