Quest

So next weekend I'm going to a wedding.  Something new and different for me, I know. :)

Anyway, I have this new dress that I will be wearing, it's black and white, it's very cute.  

I decided that what this new dress really needed was a pair of new shoes to go with it.  I had something very specific in mind.  I wanted a pair of burgundy colored, patent leather pumps with a round toe (with my freak toes, I can't pull off the pointy shoe).  I thought that would be the perfect amount of color to go with the dress.  I figured that as per usual, because there was something so specific in my head, there was absolutely no way I'd find anything close to what I wanted.  I was prepared for this inevitability.

After work I went to DSW to see what I could find and imagine my shock when suddenly, there they were.  The exact pair of shoes I had in my head, albeit with a slightly higher heel.  They were perfect, they were glorious.  They were $170.

My poor little heart sank.  In my endeavor to be more fiscally responsible, there's really no way I could justify spending $170 on such a specific pair of shoes that I probably wouldn't get that much wear out of.  I forced myself to put them down and search the rest of the store.  I searched the entire first floor, the special occasion shoes, the everyday shoes, the flats, nothing caught my eye.  I went up to the second level and searched the entire clearance room, there was nothing.  I searched the first floor again.  There were a few pairs that were similar and probably would have worked, but nothing as perfect as that first pair.  I decided that I might as well just try them on at this point, what was the harm in that (dangerously close to convincing myself to spend the money)?  It's probably a good thing that I did, actually.  The heels were just a little too high and as I'm pretty clumsy without 4 inches of heel, I decided that was the final nail in the beatiful shoe coffin.

Happily, I was able to console myself with these classy babies:

They won't go with the dress, obviously but they're just so adorable!  I decided I couldn't possibly be expected to live without them.  Maybe not the perfect fairy tale ending to this particular shoe tale, but a good one nonetheless.  And let's be honest, it's not exactly like I'm lacking in shoes, I'll definitely be able to find something to wear with my dress.