Eccentric

This is the kind of thing I would put on in the morning and then before I left the house I would chicken out and change something.

I swear the first two or three times I put on red lipstick it didn't make it out of the house. I have since overcome that particular twinge, but I still lack to courage to publicly sport some of my more daring fashion preferences. In New York I could be a little more bold, because pushing the envelope is generally celebrated there. In Orem, Utah? NOT so much.

Someday I'll live in California again, and while they are less averse to the eccentric, they are super laid back, and sometimes when I fashion-ify myself there I feel over-dressed.

Part of me says: "I do what I want!"

The other part of me squeamishly says, "But people will think I'm weird!"

I need opinions on this... Being taken seriously is pretty important to me. Can I indulge some of my more quirky fashion tendencies without completely undermining my credibility?

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe...

But I don't think it was this shoe.

The next time you're in New Zealand, see if you can book a night or two at the Boot and Breakfast. It is literally a house, shaped like a boot, and built for two people.

It makes me so happy when people actually carry out eccentric ideas... Like maybe the world isn't all that bad if I can spend a night in a house shaped like a shoe.