I’ve been traveling for the past couple of days. While I have barely started on my journey, I have a feeling I will be needing diet pills when I get back home. I’m not even joking. I feel like I’ve gained thirty pounds from all the food I’ve been eating. And it’s not like, oh hey, I have nothing to do but eat. I’ve been seeing so much food that I’ve either never seen before or have never even tried. I can’t wait to actually get to Guam though. Granted, I’ll probably gain another forty pounds. And by the time I know it, all this hard work I’ve done to get in shape will be for absolutely nothing. 

How have you guys been? What have I missed? I feel so bare without the internet at my beck and call.

I totally forgot to mention this, but the link pops up as a twitter update anyway.

I have a DailyBooth. I’ll try updating it from this island.

I’m always talking about this brush, and it’s finally being re-released. 

I’m going to need to snatch up three more.

After all that talk about cash registers and credit card machines, I started thinking about what I’m going to do with my shop. How awesome would it be to play store with both the shop and my future, hypothetical cash register? 

I often wonder how people do it. I know there are always advertisements for home basesd business opportunities online, but how do people do it offline? How do they start businesses with absolutely no help at all? To not have something thrown at them so easily? 

And then the next question arises–if there are so many opportunities online, why have I not picked up on them? Why is it that I don’t make a nice little salary online? After all, it seems pretty easy. 

It’s so weird. It still hasn’t hit me yet. Or maybe it has. Maybe it has hit me hard. That’s probably why I can’t stop thinking about the future. Or, the here and now. Because this IS my future. This is reality. I can no longer claim “student” as my occupation. I’m officially “unemployed” and it blows.

As I was looking through this month’s issue of Fitness, I noticed a pair of shoes that looked oddly familiar:

The pink canvas on hemp wedges are totally hot this summer, I must admit. But for $170, it’s a bit of a stretch, especially for something that looks like they’d be worn out within a month. The funniest part? I had just bought a pair that looked remotely like them for a mere $19.99.

While there is an obvious difference (the straps), everything else seems to match perfectly. In fact, the color of the pair above are slightly washed out in that picture, which, by the way, came straight off the retailer’s website. In real life, both pairs are identical in color. 

That goes to show that when choosing women’s shoes, you don’t always have to buy the one that’s most expensive. There will always be a better place to look for similar styles at cheaper prices. 

And just so you know… I bought my shoes at Payless. Who would have thought?