on a Fish Trapped Inside the Wind.

I walked around as you do, investigating
the endless star,
and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked,
the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind.
~Enigmas, Pablo Neruda

I was over at the therapist and read about her shoes. She keeps 150 pairs. I’ve known about this fascination with footwear among the female kind (the therapist thinks ‘girl’ is ‘so pejorative.’) Lita, the ex with silicon enhanced boobs and trust fund enhanced ego keeps around 300 pairs or something. My sis probably owns about 150 or so, too. I don’t really get it. How do you chose what to wear? Do you keep them in a particular arrangement, sorted by type? Luck? Colour? Age? Fluffiness?
If you ask them directly in person, they get all defensive and emotional and funny about it, so I never did.

The other question I have is another etiquette riddle.

Actually, no. It’ll be the same question every time, you guys know them all already. Maybe it’s just me. I can handle most of my things just fine. I know what to do with most of my things except one. I know who to call and when to call and why I’m calling for most, except one. It’s my kryptonite.

I met this girl the other night, Canadian. She’s cute and I might see her again. We chatted her up at a bookshop and ended up with two bottles of wine. Maybe I should start meeting new people. Should I? It has a funny guilty thing to it. I don’t know. You put a lot into something, you expect to see it to the end, no? Not necessarily getting the return – sometimes you just lose – but you want to be sure that it is indeed time. To lose, that is. How do you know it’s time?

I should see Olive again. At the very least she keeps my head from exploding. Other times, she makes me smile. We’ll see how it goes.

Don’t worry about this second part really, I’m only thinking out loud. Tell me about the shoes.
Off to the party now. We’re having a party here and there’re about 80 hungry pretty people here.

Oh, it rained last night. First time in many months i needed to use the windshield wiper. I tried sending some of them rains, too. See if my power still works.

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Published:: October 28, 2006 / 5:52 pm

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Cazzie!!! 10.28.06 / 6pm

You asked if you should be meeting new people? Well, it looks as though the powers that be have already played their hand..you have met other people already. Stop trying to figure things out, stop trying to think too much..watch the thinker..your thoughts can make things complicated when they realy are simple..you may just miss THE ONE through thinking if you should or should not get to know other people.
Be you and have fun..mostly just enjoy

I have a handbag fetish..not a shoe fetish..and a book fetish..I cannot go past a book shop!! I buy for me or the kids but I do always buy a book.

The Melbournian 10.28.06 / 6pm

No great shoe fettish here. Limited closet space. Mine are arranged as follows: Two categories – closed shoe or open shoe or if you like -winter/autumn and spring/summer and then into: a. Evening b.business/smart dressy c. casual

How do you know when? The same as how you know anything….you just do. You just know. Its a cliche, but its also like knowing when something feels right. You might not necessarily be able to explain it, but you dont have to. You know. If you have to raise a question, well….then perhaps you have your answer?.

All the same Tree, it never hurts to spend time with another human being that makes us smile.

Be, do and spend time with… people that make you happy. Seek your happiness, where ever that may be.

treespotter 10.28.06 / 6pm

hi guys…

well, yes. as much fun as Superman can have.

I’m still looking.

and oh, does it rain this weekend?

Steph 10.28.06 / 8pm

Jebus I’m a lightweight in comparison. I have 62 pairs!
I keep them in their boxes with a polaroid pic on the front to show me what’s inside.
Very anal i know.

Then i put them in order like, boots first, closed in shoes, heels, stiletohs, sandals, flats, thongs and joggers.
Did that help? lolzz.

LisaBinDaCity 10.28.06 / 8pm

Women and their shoes are a BIG deal. I wrote a post about it and got a bajillion comments.

It’s all about shoes, baby

jb3ll3 10.28.06 / 11pm

That’s one of the reasons I decided to pursue a friendship with Psychotherapist. She was respectful of the shoe collection. I think I just lapsed into it–the path of least resistance. They are sooo easy to get, so easy to have. People accept shoes as long as you don’t get in their face with them. You slide into a nice, cushy chair, some man in a good suit smiles at you and starts fiddling with your feet and you just give into the moment. Mine are arranged by the height of the heel, the highest heels beginning at the very top of closet. Please do not let this get around but I can’t keep all my shoes in one place. So I have them in 4 different closets. Please don’t be judgemental. I posted an all time record recently. Last June, I bought 32 pairs of shoes at once. Then went to Italy and bought a dozen more pair. sigh. If you could find shoes, maybe everything else in your life would just…smooth over and out?

dhani 10.28.06 / 11pm

yes!!! go meet someone new!!! that is probably the best idea i’ve heard from you for the last.. gee, i don’t know. ( i pretend don’t get your question about shoes, i only have around 10 pairs… but i love shoes. i love trying them on)
there’s no point going round in circles. call me? LOL

where’s sammy girl? i’d like to know her opinion. ;P

wanda kamarga 10.29.06 / 12am

you remind me now! i’ve never really counted how many pairs of shoes i have, but i dont really get defensive when it comes to women and shoes…

i’m a coffee addict, i get defensive when people critisize me about my coffee addiction.

i’m also a korean and japanese drama addict. but it’s a guilty pleasure, so i dont care if people critisize, hehe..

..oh do i have to count the sandals and the clogs too?

The Melbournian 10.29.06 / 3am

Melbourne Weather report:

Regarding your powers to send rain, well I have to say, surprizingly, it did…yesterday… but you out did yourself. In addition to rain, we also got hail and snow – 50km out of the CBD!

Very impressed. Next time, you might want to tone it down a bit…we could do without the hail and snow.

But I dont know how you managed to pull that off -in the absence of a full moon?

treespotter 10.29.06 / 3am

steph: Steph, trust me, i consider that a healthy amount. Enough, is probably the word tho others here might find that offensive.

lisa b: yes, i’m learning that. very slowly.

jbelle: tell me something, when you go shopping, do you have a caddy with you?
your husband/bf/caddy is a blessed man.

dhani: i’m sure i’ve other great ideas, only you probably this one best :p

wanda: you don’t count them, but i bet you would know if you lose one. It’s interesting that you compare it with caffeine addiction. There must be some chemistry there.

melbournian: I’m a little unstable these days, so do excuse me. It works best in full moon so at other times i lose the details

how? well, really, the answer is there somewhere, a few miles off the CBD.

The Melbournian 10.29.06 / 4am

Wow your up early Tree!

That is curious – you loose the details, but know where to find the answer. Well I suppose that is handy knowledge to have

Have a good day.

sa 10.29.06 / 4am

i know i don’t own nearly enough shoes! It’s not entirely a bad idea to get more.

Meeting new people is good. But if you’re still missing someone else and do so only to play another one of your games then you know very well how it will turn out. You said it somewhere there before, if you think you meet the right one, and you believe that there’s still things to do, and you feel that is to be the right thing, then why waste your time?
you betray yourself which is worse than most bad things doing it. Go hail the storm and ride the thunder and be done with it. When you return home you will know inside you if you’re doing the right thing. You will feel better. you ought to stop thinking and start feeling things. they always know better.

Why do men have to make it so complicated? You should learn to listen better. You know what makes you happy. you know that better than anyone else.

say hi to the trust fund baby. (it does look great, doesn’t it?

Melbournian: you wait until 3am in full moon and this guy works his magic.

Dhani: hello to you!

and oh, ace, i need a new pair, one of them fuckme shoes.

M 10.29.06 / 4am

I feel like I’m missing the girl gene after reading that. I tend to just chuck ‘em off and into the closet not worrying about where they go or what they do except when it comes time to wear shoes again and I’m stuck on my knees sorting through all the crap!

Yes, sure – meet new people! why ever not?

BTW, i read the comment and i sound like i told you off. what i really mean is, go do what you *feel* is right.

meet new people if that makes you happy.

don’t meet new people and then beating your head with it afterwards.

mist1 10.29.06 / 5am

I wake up in the morning and I wear the shoes that are calling my name the loudest. There’s no decision involved. Some people can talk to animals. Some people can channel the dead. I hear shoes.

treespotter 10.29.06 / 5am

melbournian: gut feeling does that, primal. You’re also up early, i just don’t sleep.

sa: i don’t have a shoe fetish, but sometimes i do feel like spanking.
and for the record, I do listen. Only the message changes every two days or so. These days, i just left the phone at home.
and yes, it does look delicious :p

m: you’re definitely pretty unique. Maybe you can share tips with the others here. Doesn’t matter to me tho, i don’t get it either, i’m only fascinated.

mist1: no you wake up in the morning and find me instead. it’s 5 in the am! here, at least

M 10.29.06 / 7am

oh my god – by “unique” you mean retarded don’t you? lol

Zen Wizard 10.29.06 / 7am

I was going to say wait exactly a week and call the Canadian female.

I will defer to other Love Coaches out there, but in this case you obviously can’t call her on a Saturday night–so this would be a rare case where you wait a week and a day.

Remember this mantra–”The phone is not your friend!”

Canadian women are cool, but the same rules apply–the phone is like the trailer to the movie; don’t keep yakkin’ too long and give her the whole movie.

Just set up another time and get off the phone.

Something you said about “feeling guilty”–I “induce” that you “feel guilty” about the woman you are “missing” in the previous post.

The key verb is “missing,” and not “shagging,” so forget her.

konnyaku 10.29.06 / 11am

some of my friends (guys) have more shoes collection than i do. well, im not really a shoes collector. but these guys have a seasonal brochure of some brands and go buying the shoes every new season starts.
well, pardon my ignorance but it seems to me that the shoes are all sneakers xD

for me, i choose to wear the shoes that go along with my clothing and where im going.

treespotter 10.29.06 / 12pm

M: LOL, unique as in not common. That’s a compliment.

wizard: LOL, you have this on a template somewhere, don’t you? I never really follow that wait a week rule thing. For me, either i call them immediately -the weekday after- or else i would never remember to call them. I’m bad with long term memory.

as for the phone not being a friend, well, yes, you’re talking to a man who lose his phone on regular basis.

konnyaku: those metrosexual types? well, i hardly keep track of seasons, never mind syncing my dresscode. I do like buying shoes tho, so i probably have more shoes than most guys, but only because i tend to be impulsive. I have more basketball shoes than games to play them with.

The Melbournian 10.29.06 / 5pm

Sa – if we had sun, wind, rain, hail and snow in the last 24hrs, then 3am at the full moon, should be a doozie

Tree- am up early, because like you, I am also an insomniac

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