I came home at lunch yesterday to take care of some high! drama! personal business (of which I’m sure you’ll hear plenty later), turned the key in the lock, opened the door, dropped my purse on the sofa, kicked off my shoes and… stopped.
What I present you with now is photographic proof that either I am hopelessly predictable/in a rut, or my belongings fraternize when I leave the house.
Personally, I like the latter option. It does sort of look like they’ve been caught at something. Especially those two sneaking off into the laundry closet around the corner. Don’t think I don’t know what you’re doing! I was young once, too!
Very nice assortment of shoes. You just made me want to go shoe shopping!
That could easily be a picture of my appartment! You have better carpet.
Wouldn’t you know it, but that “better carpet” is the reason for all my high! drama! personal woes. Stupid carpet.
I love it! My shoes used to have cocktail parties while I was gone, too, but then I adopted a puppy. Now the shoes have to party in my closet.
Hahaha, my front door looks like that, except you have way better looking shoes. I gave up trying to keep them orderly awhile ago.
That’s awesome.
Reminds me of the commercial where all the kitchen equiment/gadgets are partying b/c the owners went out for dinner. Love that the knives are watching a horror flick.
Maybe you should try advertising???
Hahaha! I love it….soon as I walk into my door I kick off my shoes there too…and I have several pairs of heels hanging out in the mudroom in various positions. I wondered if I was the only one who always did that. Guess not.
I love how although the shoes are abandoned in a somewhat carefree manner, they’re also for the most part quite neatly paired off. Also, I’m loving those fuchsia flats straight back.
Yet in that picture your carpet looks so drama-free. Who would have guessed?
Fuchsia flats = Bitten, by SJP. $8.89. LOVES.
looks like my place!!
I am the same way. Except that every time I walk in the door I have to go to the bathroom. The need starts with the key in the lock and it doesn’t matter if I went 5 minutes before, it feels like I haven’t gone all day. Run in, shoes off, purse down, bathroom (usually with the mail). If I am missing shoes I look by the door and if I can’t find my mail, I know its in the bathroom.
tmi?
Okay, 2 questions:
1. is it weird to have carpet after living in the city? it’s always the first thing i notice when i visit friends outside of NY. i step into their apartment and i’m like “ooooooh right, carpet, i forgot about this stuff”
2. do you have any other clothes from bitten? what do you think of them?
i bought a few shirts (i’m actually wearing one now) and they’re cute, but drive me nuts. they get super twisted in the laundry and i have to do some pretty fancy ironing to get them looking normal again. i know they’re super cheap, but i was expecting at least “old navy” type quality. i was a little peeved, because the whole point was to provide fashionable options to women w/o a lot of cash, but it’s not doing them any favors if the clothes fall apart after the first washing.
It’s always the shoes. I swear when I wake up in the morning, there’s more of them out than when I went to bed. I’m sure they’re just a’sneakin back in the morning, and I catch them on their way back in. Of course they try to fake like they’re just sleepin there on the floor, but I can tell where they been.
This is a habit that continues forever. My shoes liter my bedroom and my husband is like, “Why do you never put away your shoes?”. They just stay conveniently out in the room to be used on a later day.
This is what we call the Shoe Monster in our house. He lurks under the couch and then tosses shoes around indiscriminately while your back is turned. Beware the Shoe Monster.
Right there with you. I’m always asking my husband why the hell all these women’s shoes are in the bedroom, dining room and living room.
Ah, but it’s also evidence that you’re not in so much of a rut that you wear the same shoes everyday. You do have some very nice ones there. Hopefully they’re not also conspiring with the carpet in the high! drama! Watch your back! Er, your feet.
My shoe pile is right under my computer desk. I come home, sit down kick of shoes and check the internets. lol.
That is what my apartment looks like during the week, and then every Sunday I drag them all back to closet so that come Monday we can start the process all over again.
Though I’m guilty of taking shoes off haphazardly in the living room/dining room/hallway, my worst place is actually my car. Because I’ll put on some awesome heels for work, but then I think, “well I should stop by the grocery store or wherever after work, and there’s no way I want to do that in my 4-inch heels”, so I’ll grab a pair of flats to wear later that night. All the while intending to bring BOTH pairs back in the house with me. *sigh* Except the pair I’m not wearing when I get home usually spends a day or two out in the car until I’m looking for them again and practically tearing my hair out. I actually feel kind of guilty after leaving them out there, like a negligent mother or something. How weird is that?
What about the black peeptoes with the leopard print insoles??
LOVES!
you have incredibly clean carpet.
oh man…hilarious…cute shoes though!
I agree with comments on the cute shoes, the similar tendencies, the carpeting (I moved from Tx to NY and now carpeted apartments seem odd to me) . . . but really, what I noticed first was the SPACE! Maybe it’s the angle, but it looks like a nice open SPACE! Oh, right, you live in Texas, where cities grow OUT, not UP.
Yea, that reminds me of my apartment and I’m always cursing late at night as I stumble to the bathroom and trip over the various pairs strewn around my apartment.
K
O good, I thought I was the only one!
“Shoe Story” by Pixar and Disney.
So funny…and so true! Every couple of weeks or so I have to put them all away and give the ones still in the closet some attention….
The picture brought a chuckle…I have the same “look” but mine are sneakers.
What I found odd, though, was the comments on “specific” shoes…I just saw shoes…not cute fuschia or animal print-whatever…I guess now we know why I don’t get weak at the knees with the words “shoe sale” like many women.
See, but your shoes all live in the same general vicinity. Mine scamper to random rooms (Whichever room is the first I go into when I get home.) I will go around the house looking for a pair of shoes, talking to myself (mostly, although husband answers) and saying “How can I lose something in a place this small? It’s only 1200 feet!” At which point my husband helpfully points out that it’s 1200 square feet. I know that silly!
But the point of this rambly is yay for you for keeping them all in the same place, even if it isn’t the closet. You do better than me!
That’s so damn cute!! and funny!
What size do you wear? I see a couple pairs I want to borrow!
They all look guilty. Blue light the carpet!
Too funny. I do that too, much to my father’s annoyance growing up and now to my husband’s.
haha!
i SO love this picture
and great shoes, by the way!
lovin the black ones in the bottom left corner
That is a great picture!
Yay, shoes! Shoes make me happy
It’s also great to see that you and I have the same taste in heel height. I’m getting to old and frumpy to wear anything higher than a couple of inches anymore. Perhaps I need to buy shoes like yours. Your feet are certainly not old or frumpy!
Hi Fish, I have been a fan for a very loooong time… like 2003 or earlier??? Obviously haven’t been around for a while (hello, motherhood) and when I saw this photo and the wall to wall carpet, I thought, “Wow, the NY apartment looks brand new,” and then read on and…. you’re in Dallas? When, why, how, who? You need a sidebar quick update for folks like me who got lost along the way! : )
Big Idea!! Move the shelf project from wherever it was going to be…to right in front of you as you walk in the door. Thus you display your shoes on the shelf…and voila…ART. I think it could be quite poetic. “Walk a Mile in My Shoes”
OMG! That looks like MY apartment! So glad I’m not the only one!!
Nice shoes, I say!
Hmmm… I thought it was an installation at the Whitney. There might be Grant Money in this somewhere.
I do love the shoes, and yes you have nice carpet HOWEVER I have to comment on the fact that there seems to be no color on your walls fish. The carpet, the walls, the furniture- it all looks the same color. Please tell me you have some bright red or patterned throw pillows some where! You have such a colorful personality and paint such a vivid picture with your words but your walls are plain. Put some color in your life girl!
I have a similar pile, except that it is a pile, rather than a scattering. Maybe my shoes are just more boring than yours – otherwise, I think it’s that my dog has finally decided his actual toys are better playthings than my shoes!!
Happy Friday, Fish!!
(Hoping the hig! drama! personal business is under control…)
That’s great! I do the same exact thing. I tell John that my shoes have parties when I am not home and that’s why they are always out and about…he he. Must be a girl thing!!
I LOVE this photo. It’s weird how this blogging world can make you say…”I would totally be friends with this person!” Thanks for that.
For Amy who is worried about the lack of color in my life, first I say, caaaaaalm down. You see one wall in that shot.
Second: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thisfish/sets/72157600165384044/
Yeah, that looks familiar! My black pumps are partying with the tartan heels, and the brown strappy peeptoes are sneaking off to the desk. Ah, shoes – one of the things that it just feels pointless to put away!
By the way, love the apartment. Very nice decor!
Clearly, your shoes have a fun and interesting life…and that’s the ones that got left behind
OMG, are you pregnant?
Love it. and jealous you have space to actually walk out of your shoes as you walk into your apartment. In the land of Korea (present residence) I have a meager one foot by two foot space where I MUST take off my shoes at the door inside any given apartment. Needless to say… I almost died coming home one Saturday in the wee hours of the morning to my designated space piled with shoes worn all week.
This is exactly what my living room looks like. I always have a minimum of eight pairs of shoes lying around. It’s really shameful! (But your shoes are lovely.)
Lizzie, that made me laugh. I’m Asian and we were not allowed to wear shoes in the house growing up. I feel guilty wearing shoes inside anyone’s house still.
In my apartment, all my shoes end up on my shoe rack inside the door as soon as I walk in, or carried to the shoe rack in the bedroom closet. My roommate is a neat freak so same deal. Her daughter, who is 20 and a total klutz by the way, parks hers on the entry way tile right before the edge of the living room carpet, where she promptly trips on her size 10′s the first time she heads back from the living room to the hallway. It’d be funny if it weren’t so irritatingly old.