Shoes Again!

Thanks to the shoe gods who raise all heels and keepme supplied in leather and snake skin shoes! I can wear them again. Heels, that is. I sprained my ankle awhile ago and was doomed to break down and get a pair of crocks. I am finally able to wear my high heels again. My ankle is no longer wobbly!

Today for church I was able to wear my black Anne Kleins. Here are my pretties!

What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond buckled shoe!
~~Aileen Mehle~~

Slow Cooked Macaroni and Cheese

Slow Cooked Macaroni and Cheese
Carnival of Recipes

This is a recipe that I love to make in the winter time. It is down home comfort food. I plan to make some late this evening for dinner on tomorrow. One of my coworkers made this for a luncheon and it was the hit out of all the food there. He did not use the tomatoes. Just all the other ingredients. I have made it with and without the tomatoes. It is still yummy! As one of my friends likes to say, "It is slap your momma good!" Enjoy!

INGREDIENTS:

• 2 cups elbow macaroni, cooked, drained, rinsed with hot water (about 3 cups cooked macaroni)
• 2 tablespoons real bacon bits
• 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
• 1 can (14.5 ounces) stewed tomatoes, undrained
• 1 1/2 cups (6 oz) shredded mild Cheddar cheese
• 1 (10 3/4 oz) can condensed cream of mushroom soup or cream of celery

PREPARATION:

In a slow cooker, combine macaroni, bacon bits, onion, undrained stewed tomatoes, and Cheddar cheese. Pour mushroom soup over top. Mix well to combine. Cover and cook on LOW for 6 - 8 hours. Mix well before serving.

What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond buckled shoe!
~~Aileen Mehle~~

Ease in Forms

Web Forms can be made very easy these days with the help of Forms4free. It literally can be done in about 5 minutes and you do not know need to be en expert in HTML code. For a modest cost of $19.95 you will get a formmail file that you actually download to your website to create webforms for your site. The benefit of this is that it is not being done remotely and then sent to you. Using the wizard within the program will allow you to process the HTML form yourself. This also cuts down on spam by preventing the email address from being removed.

A working form is guaranteed so after you do purchase the program you are not left with problems. There is a staff there ready to help and to address any concerns that you may have. With no remote processing, your forms will look more professional as well. Check out Forms4free, you might just have to make that switch!

What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond buckled shoe!
~~Aileen Mehle~~

Violin Wars

dirty Fila has been playing the violin since the 4th grade. Now she wants to stop playing. She goes to high school next year and she has informed me that she no longer wants to play a stringed instrument. Can we say violin war? Can we say Hell No! I think that it is very important for kids to have some extra curricular activities. It looks good on college resumes and it helps them to be more well rounded.

I reviewed her sign up sheet for next year and she had drama down as her special area. We had a long discussion and I changed it back to strings. She was not happy but she turned it in. Later about a week ago, she let it slip that she had changed it back to drama before turning it in. Now parents had to sign that. I will be looking into that for this fall. She needs to be taking strings. She has come to far to stop now. When she gets to college if she does not want to play, then make that change.

She needs to wear her violin shoes for just a little longer!

What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond buckled shoe!
~~Aileen Mehle~~

The Right Equipment

Well, as you know I love hiking boots and I do love my Sperry topsiders. If you read in a prior post this week I wore a pair to the beach and they got soaked. Shoes are not the only thing you need when dealing with the sea or the ocean or the beach. If you are doing any sort of activity, you also need to have the right equipment. While Sperry's are the perfect shoe for boating or fishing as they are made to get wet, they are not the only equipment needed for a perfect day of fishing.

For fishing, after purchasing those topsiders, you need to get the correct equipment for fighing, hiking or boating. That place would be Raymarine . They have all the top quality brands of fishing equipment to help make fishing a breeze. Brands like Astron, Garmin and Standard Horizon are some of the most trusted in the marine electronic industry.

Now it does not matter if you fish for a living or just sometimes for leisure. They will have all you need from radars, sonars, GPS systems and fish locators. To top it all of, they even had equipment at discount prices. In addition, they carry the fishing fundaments like rodholders and pliers.

If you need assistance, dedicated professionals are available from 9-6 on weekdays and a half day on Saturday. The company strives to make fishing easy, so when you pull away from the deck you will be just thinking about catching the big one and not worrying about faulty equipment. So be sure to check our Raymarine for all your electronics. They have all that you will ever need for going out to sea.

What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond buckled shoe!
~~Aileen Mehle~~

Thursday Thirteen # 5

Thirteen of my Favorite Scents!

1. The Ocean: There is nothing cleaner than the clear, fresh scent of an ocean breeze. I wish I could bottle the smell of the ocean and take it home with me when I leave! The air in the city is just not the same.
2. The fragrance Knowing by Estee Lauder. This is my first preference for a winter fragrance. It smells so good I can just about eat it with a spoon. I get lots of compliments when I wear it , so it must agree with my body chemistry.
3. The smell of my child, dirty Fila soon after she was born. You know that special smell that babies have. To me it was a heady perfume. I can remember that smell in my mind's eye.
4. The smell of Safari by Ralph Lauren. Something about that smell of sweet old leather drives me wild. I am currently out o f it. I need to buy some more.
5. I love the eucalyptus spearmint line of aromatherapy products by Bath and Body works. If I can't get to the ocean to de-stress, then I can use my bath salts, scrubs and creme
   
6. Flowers, but only certain ones. Not the really smelly ones like paper whites. I love the smell of petunias, peonies and hyacinths.
7. Pluff mudd: I grew up in the south near the ocean and that black icky mud of the marsh has a smell. It is decaying plants and marsh animals and methane gas. The mud actually "pluffs" when the gas is released. I love the smell of pluff mud. When I smell that I know I am home.
8. The smell of nice cologne on a well dressed man. The key here is well dressed. If you were to place a man in scrubby jeans and sneakers next to a man in a suit and let them wear the same cologne, the man in the suit would smell better to me. There is something about a man in suit with nice cologne that takes me away.
   
9. Rain: the smell of rain is just cool and refreshing
10. Irish Spring Soap: if anyone has noticed I have been away from blogging since last November and am just getting back to blogging.( My last "13" was back in October and I had just begun to participate.) My father was ill and he died on December 22, 2006. He always used that soap. When all the funeral arrangements were being made and I would pass near the bath that he used, and I would always catch whiffs of that soap coming out of the bathroom. He had an 8 pack of it that he had recently bought before he died. About a week after he passed away I took a bar home with me and opened it and set it out in my own bathroom. I wanted to keep the smell of my father around for just a little while longer. He always smelled clean. I will always love the smell of Irish Spring soap.
    
11. Christmas Trees: there is nothing like the smell of a fresh Christmas tree. I love it so much that I buy the candles and room spray from Bath and Body works that smell just like it. I can have that smell in March and July. dirty Fila is constantly hiding my can of room spray. I have been using it a lot this past month. She is always complaining,"Mom, it is not christmas, stop spraying that christmas tree spray !" She has even begun to hide my cans. Lucky for her, you can't hide much from a mom!
12. Chocolate: I am a chocolate-holic. I love the smell of it. Love to eat it and drink it. There is no intervention that will work for me.
    
13. I have saved the best for last. The smell of new shoes just out of the box. New leather shoes are intoxicating! The smell does not last long. The first time you open the box once you get a new pair home, take a sniff. Nothing like it! I bet most people never even relish that smell of new leather or even pay attention. Nothing smells as sweet as a new pair of shoes!
    

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What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond buckled shoe!
~~Aileen Mehle~~

College Shoes

When I think back to college I do remember the sort of shoes I wore back then. This was in the early 1980's, so prep, punk rock and disco were in. When I was preppy I wore espadrilles, when I was doing out dancing under all those disco balls on the weekends I wore heals and when I was in school, I lived in those flat cloth chinese mary janes. I loved those shoes. I wore them day in and out. So did everyone else. They were less than $20 and so comfortable.

Comfort was key in those days to get us through all that studying. After 4 years I had a degree and was thinking about grad school. I did put that off after deciding to go to work. I wish now I had not. I should have gone right on and did it all at one time. They say hindsite is 20/20. Well, I still have the opportunity with an online degree program.

I have been reading about the masters program at Capella University. It is an established school that has been around for 15 years or more. They offer 82 graduate and undergraduate specializations and 16 certificate programs. So there will be many options to choose from. Instead of wearing my mary janes, I can wear my bathrooms slippers! With the program since it is e-learning I work from home when ever I want. The time is up to me.

As an adult learner, this program would be perfect as it would allow me to balance home, work and school. In addition, it will be changing my future as an advanced degree will open more financial doors and career opportunities than I have now. I would be able to download assignments, read notes and contribute to class discussions all by way of my computer or laptop. What could be easier than that? Don't wait! Make the move. Go on and get that degree. I really think that is the way I am headed for this fall. At least part time to begin on my masters. I have waited way too long to get started.

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What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond buckled shoe!
~~Aileen Mehle~~

Valentino Shoes 2007

Valentino Metallic Bow d'Orsay

$650

The sexy, feminine peep toe is back! Again the metallic shines on!

What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond buckled shoe!
~~Aileen Mehle~~

Pierre Hardy Shoes

Gold is always in, in my book. These shoes by Pierre Hardy have the midas touch! He has some great summer shoes in his collection! I would wear any of these! Love them! wel, mayeb I spoke to soon about the tennis shoes!

What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond buckled shoe!
~~Aileen Mehle~~

Virginity Lost

I lost my virginity today. I have waited a very long time. I went to the beach and it happened. No more was I pristine or, new, as in factory condition. I stepped into the water, almost got over my head and what can I say. It happened. I was swept up in the moment. The wind, the ocean breezes, the water.

Water lapped all around me and I knew I had been christened! I only went 1/2 way at first, but decided to go all the way. In I went. I walked into the ocean and got totally soaked! I must say I have never felt that way before. It was quite an experience! It was my first nautical experience.

My name is Sperry Topsider and today, Tinker wore me to the beach and jumped into the water with me on! I have never been wet before!

What did you think I was talking about? I am talking about shoes!

Shoes! Only shoe-ese is spoken here!

What I do is kick them in the pants with a diamond buckled shoe!
~~Aileen Mehle~~