Sorry it's been so long since my last update! My life has been so crazy these last few days... We got a new guy at work who needs to be trained, Boyfriend's birthday was this weekend, Gordon Ramsay (yes, THE Gordon Ramsay!!) is coming on Saturday, I'm still adjusting to my new life in the city... It's all just a lot to process. There may be a post about that in the near future just so I can sort through it all. For now I just need something mindless though.

Friday night I went to dinner at a fancy restaurant in downtown Edmonton with my parents and the meanies made me wear shoes! But I snuck them off under the table. :D




Work is going well, and Tuesday I started training with our new guy, Nurel. After work we went out for some bubble tea and went shopping, since we were already in West Ed anyway.



I have a feeling that working at a restaurant in the biggest mall in North America is going to make me both fat and broke as I'll likely be spending all my money within the doors of the mall. Oh well, at least I'll enjoy myself. It's a radtastic mall.



Nurel helped me pick out a new outfit to wear to work: a leopard print blouse and a black pencil skirt. Pictures to follow. While walking around in the mall, we saw a beautiful curtain of lights and wanted to take pictures in front of it.



It looks better in real life than in this picture. After that Nurel started getting kinda creepy and wanted to set up a date, and I was like, "Uh, I gotta go home and make dinner for my brother...." because seriously this was the first day I'd ever met him and I'd spent way too much time with him already and didn't want to spend any more time with him than I had to. I mean, come on, he's my coworker. I try to keep my business life and personal life separate for the most part. I end up in trouble otherwise.

Anyhow, Nurel walked me to my car and then I went home, stopping for gas and Tim Hortons. The guys that work at my local Shell station love me and have a running joke that I drive all the way up from the states just to get gas there, since my vehicle still has plates from Tennessee, where my dad lived before we moved up here. (My mom and little brother were already up here.) The gas station guys wanted to take a pic of me getting me daily energy drink fix and I was all to happy to oblige.



Tim Hortons was next on my list. Timmy's is my go-to comfort food. Their hot chocolate is amazing, and timbits are the greatest thing ever. Their soup's great too. And I was still stinging from a nasty fight with Boyfriend, so I definitely was feeling some Timmy's. They have a "no shirt, no shoes, no service" policy though! I was so disappointed the first time I found that out, but almost all Tim Hortons have 24 hours drive through services, so it's ok. The guys at this Tim Hortons love me and know my order, so I threw them off by getting a different size hot chocolate than normal.



They got really excited when they saw the camera on my dash and wanted to take a pic with me, so I let them.



Then they wanted just one of me.



By then my food was ready and I was starting to hold up the line, so I had to leave. All the workers there waved bye to me and I drove home. I drank my hot chocolate and ate my timbits and actually felt in control of my life for the first time in days. I came crashing back to reality only a few short hours later when Boyfriend tried to act like everything was just fine and happy after this weekend when really it just couldn't ever be fine and normal again because of some very hurtful and thick-headed things he did. I spent several hours talking to him, crying most of the time, until I finally just got the courage to break up with him. I spent the rest of the night watching Johnny Depp movies and gorging myself on strawberry Haagen Daas. My only ventures outside my house today were to get more Johnny Depp and ice cream.

One of these days I'll get back to posting what I'm actually supposed to post - pictures of my barefoot life - instead of unloading all of my emotional messes on y'all. More posts are coming, I promise.

Hi Sierra!

Thanks a lot for posting an entry to your diary in spite of all the hard work and what's happening in your life, breaking up is never easy, I am sure you will recover of this.

It's cool to see you walking barefoot at the mall, they have already startet to set the Christmas decorations, arent't they?

Hope to see more pics soon, specially of your soles, how are they adapting to the city, are they getting rougher? A good thing of city streets is that they are, for sure, makig your soles black.

Don't forget about the dares, OK?

See you!

Here's a topic in the forum regarding the dares and questions:

http://forum.city-feet.com/index.php?showtopic=2514&st=0&#entry8259

Really sorry to hear about you breaking up.

That gallery you pointed too is cool. Are you planning to do pictures like those? I hope you do!

Thanks for posting. I was missing you and your feet. Shame yopu cant see your feet in the garage piccies

Btw, its a shame your folks made you wear shoes to the meal.I would LOVE to see you get all dressed up for a fancy resteraunt and take pics before during and after the meal - without shoes obviously - perhaps some other time??

Sorry if you have broken up, couldn't find where you say that in your post but everyone seems to think you have so perhaps Ive missed it!

One more question, How did your co-worker react when you kicked off your shes to walk round the mall in your bare feet?

Thanks

I might be doing picture like the gallery, I'm not sure. I just like it.

My coworker was shocked when I kicked off my shoes. He expected me to put them back on right away, and when they disappeared into my purse he was very confused. It was hilarious.

Thank you everyone for your support! My breakup has been pretty suck-tastic, but reading your comments and emails helps me remember that life goes on and that very few people actually treat me as bad as he did. Thanks so much, guys.