WARNING: This is going to be a vent post. All those who shoe shop like it's a religion, you have been warned.
I'm going to make this very clear: I HATE shoe shopping with a passion!!! 
I know this may sound strange comming from a member of the female species, but it's been a constant pain in the butt for me for the past five or seven years now. Here's why:
I wear a size 11 in US women's measurements.
(There, I said it!!!) Tennie-shoes definitely aren't the problem; believe me, if I don't find anything I like in the women's section I just get myself an 8 1/2 or 9 from the men's (they usually have the more comfortable tennie shoes anyway). Casual/Dress shoes on the other hand are next to impossible for me to find. Most department stores carry one or two 11's in a few choice styles, and most of all the good ones are taken by the shoe-fanatics. =_=; (Damn you!!! *shakes fist in frustration*)
HOWEVER, it just so happened that today I was taken to one of the FEW shoe stores in town that ACTUALLY carries an ample supply of my size. (*le gasp!*) I didn't think much would come of it, but I actually made out like a bandit (for once). Hec, I even enjoyed myself (again--for once)! 
But do you want to know what's really funny about all that? ^_^ That same place of a God-send that I was taken to today will officially shut its doors in December. ^_^; ...*beep*...
As a side note, I'm also going to start using this as a means to announce when I have updated my story Tides of Fate or anything else related to it.
