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Each Day Already is a Challenge
A Texas Sunrise
 
A friend, William Taylor, took this picture. He visits Surfside Beach with his dogs almost every morning, watching the sun rise while the dogs prance about at the water's edge.
This is only about ten miles from where I lived in Lake Jackson, Texas. Sadly, I only visited this beach about four times in the six years I lived nearby.
Each day is a challenge. A challenge to get by without thinking about the fibromyalgia pains. A challenge to stay awake when chronic fatigure wants to take over. And a challenge to navigate through fibro fog.
I haven't been writing as much as in the past. For years, I wrote at least 500 words a day. Now, I'm lucky if I write 500 words in month. Sigh.
For more information about what my day (or life) is all about with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, chronic pains, IBS, depression and everything else thrown in, check this out:
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I just want to rant a minute about shoes. Huarache sandals, to be exact.
I have rather ugly toes and when I lived in warm climate and everyone was showing their tootsies, I had to find shoes or sandals that would be cool while not focusing on my ugly toes. I have a few pairs of...what do they call them?...maybe fishermen sandals? They cover the big toes.
Then one day back in about...oh, maybe 1990, I discovered what Payless Shoe Store called huarache sandals. They were fantastic. Just what I needed to keep my feel cool and my toes covered. The first pair I bought was on sale for 5 bucks. Couldn't beat that. Cheap shoes don't last a long time. So? I purchased the same pair of sandals once a year from 1990 to 2003 when I moved to Michigan. Those sandals I bought in 2003 are rather shabby by now. I only wear them around the house as comfy slippers.
Anyway, I decided to see if the Payless site still showed these sandals, and sadly, they do not.
When I Googled "huarache sandals" and came across a picture that was probably what the real huaraches looked like back when that song was on the radio. You know the one? Was it the Beach Boys? I forget and the only words that pop into my head are, "huarache sandals too..." Back when I was listing to that song 1) I had no idea what the words were saying
and 2) even if I had known, I didn't have a clue what those sandals were. They were rather ugly, I suppose, not at all like my huarache sandals from Payless.
Continuing on in my huarache search I discovered that everyone is calling their shoes by this name. Really. There are 3 inch heels with this name. And there are Nike tennies with this name. What's up with that? |
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