{"id":5398,"date":"2011-01-10T21:25:05","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T03:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=5398"},"modified":"2011-01-10T21:32:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T03:32:40","slug":"chings-new-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=5398","title":{"rendered":"Ching&#8217;s New Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got some Christmas money from my biological father (Fredo) so I went on a bit of a shopping spree over the weekend.  My first stop was a manicure and pedicure at Mani | Pedi  (on 37th Street; next to Orange Leaf) with April.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/5336133841\/\"  title=\"2011-01-08 13.03.19.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5129\/5336133841_86406978f4_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"2011-01-08 13.03.19.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/5336340783\/\"  title=\"2011-01-08 13.59.09.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5090\/5336340783_8e8bc378c4_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"2011-01-08 13.59.09.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I felt a little bad because I hadn&#8217;t shaved my legs in over a week.  LOL.  That&#8217;s what happens when you&#8217;re married, though.  Unless you are married to Cory. I guess he is really picky about that stuff.  I told April that if you let your leg hairs grow out long enough then they&#8217;re not prickly anymore.  They just feel a little fuzzy.  =P<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/5336958484\/\"  title=\"2011-01-08 14.09.17.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5122\/5336958484_35bbfabe32_z.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"2011-01-08 14.09.17.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I felt worse when Angel took over.  He was probably thinking, &#8220;Man this chick has hairy legs!&#8221;  He was a good sport and didn&#8217;t say anything, though.  Of course, he might have been making fun of my hairy legs in Vietnamese, and I just couldn&#8217;t understand it.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/5345116944\/\"  title=\"2011-01-08 14.34.54.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5249\/5345116944_d5c9f7b9fa.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"2011-01-08 14.34.54.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fredo gave me enough cash for the nail spa, some frozen yogurt from Orange Leaf (next door), a red wool peacoat (to replace my red Abercrombie one that I&#8217;ve outgrown; I got this new one at Sam&#8217;s Club and it was a fraction of the cost), a black rain trench (to replace the Guess one that I&#8217;d gotten from Wilsons Leather a couple of years ago that has been continually losing buttons), a couple of pairs of Injinji socks, and a pair of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/vibramfivefingers\" >Vibram FiveFingers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/5337474745\/\"  title=\"2011-01-08 21.38.23.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5243\/5337474745_c6df36601a.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"2011-01-08 21.38.23.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=5243\" >Brian had gotten a pair last month<\/a>, but they are a little pricey so I didn&#8217;t get any.  He&#8217;d been wanting a pair since the beginning of the year so he deserved them. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/5340951840\/\"  title=\"2011-01-09 16.56.48.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\"><img src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5250\/5340951840_e5d5124595.jpg\" width=\"480\" class=\"pic\" alt=\"2011-01-09 16.56.48.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rather than lose my money at the tables in Vegas, I figured that I would buy myself a pair.  I&#8217;ve always been pretty pragmatic.  The FiveFingers were the only thing relatively expensive out of all the things I bought.  Everything else was pretty cheap.  In fact, I think I still have some cash left over.  I&#8217;m thinking I may use it for some more Orange Leaf.  Brian&#8217;s never tried it.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I tried to break in my new FiveFingers, which I&#8217;d gotten on Saturday, yesterday while we were at Sam&#8217;s picking up some essentials.  Except it started snowing and the ground was covered in snow by the time we got out of the store.  It wasn&#8217;t my most brilliant idea.  Brian and I got a kick out of our footprints, though.  Our footprints looked like someone had walked in the snow barefoot.<\/p>\n<p>I was going to try them at Zumba today, but I didn&#8217;t make it because of work and weather.  I&#8217;m debating on whether to go to Zumba tomorrow.  I think I should because I really need to take the shoes out for a test run.  Have any of you guys worn FiveFingers?  How do you like them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got some Christmas money from my biological father (Fredo) so I went on a bit of a shopping spree over the weekend. My first stop was a manicure and pedicure at Mani | Pedi (on 37th Street; next to Orange Leaf) with April. 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