{"id":86,"date":"2009-04-27T22:53:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-28T04:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydnieann.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-04-27T22:53:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T04:53:33","slug":"these-boots-are-made-for-walking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"These boots are made for walking&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; in snow.\u00a0 Ah, springtime in the Rockies!<\/p>\n<p>Today, we will be discussing the weather.\u00a0 And, of course, ME!<\/p>\n<p>Last week I made the executive decision that spring was here, and I would no longer be wearing tights and closed toe shoes with my dresses.\u00a0 I would also be painting my toenails.\u00a0 (I left my toenails unpainted all winter for probably the first time in at least 10 years&#8230; they seemed to need the break from being so high-maintenance.)\u00a0 That executive decision worked out GREAT last week &#8211; it was so nice!<\/p>\n<p>Today?\u00a0 Snow, tights, and boots.\u00a0 Fortunately, I am a big fan of my boots.\u00a0 For a couple of years, I&#8217;d been looking for some nice tall boots to wear with skirts, but with a flat heel (stoopid arthritis).\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t find anything that I liked enough to justify spending the money on, so no boots for me.\u00a0 I made myself feel better about not finding any by convincing myself I&#8217;d look all stumpy in them anyway.\u00a0 Then when I was in Amsterdam in November, everywhere I looked, women were wearing these great tall boots!\u00a0 And even the short round girls looked awesome in them!\u00a0 (That sounds much cattier than I mean for it to sound&#8230; it was just astonishing how many awesome looking boots were strolling by while I was walking around in clunky loafers&#8230;)\u00a0 So, I went back on the hunt for boots!\u00a0 I still didn&#8217;t want to pay a ton of money for them though, cause I didn&#8217;t really think I&#8217;d get that much use out of them.\u00a0 I found a pretty plain black pair, and a pair of brown riding boots, both at Chadwicks for some crazy low clearance price, and bought them!\u00a0 \u00a0I&#8217;m wearing the brown ones today.\u00a0 I feel like such an equestrian.\u00a0 (Except for the part where I don&#8217;t have a horse.)\u00a0 A couple months after that, I found some super awesome (and super cheap, again!) biker looking boots at Target.\u00a0 And ALL of them look awesome with skirts (I think&#8230;)!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been wearing boots all winter, and I&#8217;m thinking now that I might actually invest in a more quality pair next winter, now that I know I&#8217;ll get lots of use out of them.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see how my bank account is feeling about boots at that point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; in snow.\u00a0 Ah, springtime in the Rockies! Today, we will be discussing the weather.\u00a0 And, of course, ME! Last week I made the executive decision that spring was here, and I would no longer be wearing tights and closed toe shoes with my dresses.\u00a0 I would also be painting my toenails.\u00a0 (I left my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}