BigShoes

Really? Okay, it’s time for some shoe news. I like to do that at random and make people visit my site aimlessly. Yes, I might be talking to you, you didn’t happen to search the terms Pink Floyd and Converse in the same search did you? I’ll bet you searched Danica Patrick and shoe size, or something like it though…if so, you probably don’t even know who Pink Floyd is and I can’t fathom why you need to know her shoe size…wait, maybe you are Danica Patrick looking for your shoe size…never mind.

Who is thinking up these things? I know it is so hard to make the leap from the Dora or Spiderman shoes to adult shoes; I need something to bridge my footwear years until I wear those flat granny-like shoes with comfort support. And if I’m not a Pink Floyd fan (I am, really), then I can wait for their line of AC/DC and Metallica shoes…hmmm, very tempting, AC/DC! By the way, what is the average age of the members of these three bands rolled up together? Exactly folks, novelty sneakers at our age, really? Angus Young could get away with the Converse sneakers. At our age the word novelty should precede the word tie or something you don’t leave the house in, like slippers.

I’ll tell you who thinks up these things, the same people that thought of this Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Pink Floyd…yes the baby just looked at you and thought “Really?” I know adults who have a hard time listening to Pink Floyd…I’m not going to tell you what the baby will think when you present them with this Pink Floyd Hammers Onesie.

I know. You’ll both be rocking now. Don’t forget to pick yourself up a Pink Floyd lighter to match your Dark Side of the Moon Converse sneakers this Spring!

If you really must pick up the Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions of Pink Floyd…then rethink the Pink Floyd Hammers Onesie and pick up this Pig Power Infant Creeper…I didn’t make that up, that is what they call it? Must be a regional thing.

Well, you can all return to your regularly scheduled web searching.

Yes, I’ve started doing the Entrecard thing. I love it. I love the new blogs I visit, I love to see who is visiting BigShoes and WritelyApplied, but of course I’m limited in by time for drop reciprocation of late. So my Entrecard rounds are sometimes every day (or evening really) or every few days…and in a bad week…once a weekend. Add to that the fact that after my first month I didn’t rush to list all the top droppers for January. It seems that the top drop list at Entrecard is a running thirty day tally with no distinction of who dropped the most in the first thirty days.

So to rectify that situation I added a nifty widget of my top droppers to each of my sites so my top droppers will always be present and come March 1 or February 28th I hope to find the time to login in at Entrecard and see who led the BigShoe visit list.

Numbers aren’t everything though, and I do value each and every dropper and hope to meet some great bloggers as we build a bigger community at BigShoes and WritelyApplied.

Welcome all…and if any get a chance, pop over to WritelyApplied to read about Edgar Allan Poe’s contemporaries as we celebrate Poe’s 200th birthday on the 19th of each month. Would you believe Lincoln and Darwin both are celebrating their 200th as well?

Yes, I’ve been awarded the Lemonade Award….twice in the last two months nearly. Both Clean and Sober and Healthy Perspectives have awarded me the Lemonade Award for doing what I do best, wearing the BigShoes with attitude I am sure.

Meanwhile Philly Today has plugged me as “Honest Weblog” by awarding me the Honest Scrap Award…so cool!

Well, hopefully not to the chagrin of all, I accept their well meaning sentiment in bestowing their awards on me, however the chain stops here. Sorry, as much as I’ll scream I won! I won! from the rooftops the chain must stop here as BigShoes likes to share the link love in other ways.

BigShoes from this point forward will recognize the Awards and Awarders and I will share links with my readers, but I cannot pass it on. However, so that you all know that your recognition of BigShoes will not sit in the nether region of missing sock land with the chain letters requesting that I send a tea towel or a recipe to a friend, relative or who are you and how did you get my name and address…I have set a place aside so that my blog friends are recognized as blogs that recognized BigShoes. You’ll find them here at the BigShoes Awards page.

Sonnets from the Portuguese, XIV
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

If thou must love me, let it be for nought
Except for love’s sake only. Do not say
‘I love her for her smile–her look–her way
Of speaking gently,–for a trick of thought
That falls in well with mine, and certes brought
A sense of pleasant ease on such a day
For these things in themselves, Beloved, may
Be changed, or change for thee,–and love, so wrought,
May be unwrought so. Neither love me for
Thine own dear pity’s wiping my cheeks dry,
A creature might forget to weep, who bore
Thy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby!
But love me for love’s sake, that evermore
Thou mayst love on, through love’s eternity.

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