Category: Life

bookmark_borderplease, Jorge, please

Posted on by Christine Elias

I’ve been trying to coax Jorge in front of the camera but he’s stubborn. Felipe’s tried too and lord knows he can be persuasive. But no luck — Felipe even promised a dinner out on the town and maybe some dancing after. Nothing.

Jorge feels he can’t measure up after I plastered Felipe all over the internet. I now regret pimping Felipe for my own amusement.

This is Jorge’s cousin Fernando. As you can see, he went to the home of some folks with a rather different approach to home decor.

Fernando and Jorge look alike but Fernando is more furry — another sore spot for poor Jorge.

bookmark_borderGrit and leather

Posted on by Christine Elias

“Brand new leather soled footwear should never be worn in wet weather conditions, It is important to wear them on a dry day to allow a build up of grit on the soles, doing this will help protect the leather and extend the life of the footwear.”

Grit?

Ahem, I don’t want any grit on my new leather soled footwear. Grit is something I remove from my footwear — not something I allow to build up for a greater purpose!

So today I went to my local chain-store cobbler to install (apply? affix?) rubber soles to my new favorite boots. The soles were getting too gritty and damaged for my liking. (Leather on the bottom of a boot is perhaps not a good choice for items that see the outdoors.)

Total cost: $25.

Biker Babe Boots | Kenneth Cole

I dunno, this seems a bit much to me. Why is it that the more expensive the boot or shoe, the less durable they seem to be? It’s like the alteration conspiracy all over again.