Wedding Receptions & Back to Bare Feet!

Me & my beautiful (and as bare feet-addicted as I am) friend, Jocetta, at a wedding 9/14/12

... Well, that title might be a little misleading, because it's not like "bare feet" ever went away or anything! But I'm currently in the middle of a nice, fun stretch of being invited to three different weddings over a four-week period, so it's nice opportunity to do one of the things I love doing most: wearing flip-flops to wedding receptions (because it's still warm enough in September in NY to rock the flops), slipping those off about 45 minutes into the 4 hour chunk of partying, and then spending the rest of the reception barefoot, like most of my amazing female pals do as they take off their high-heels as fast as they possibly can. Life's just better barefoot, especially on a smooth dancefloor with a few drinks in ya'! But I just end up happily staying barefoot for almost the entire length of the reception, whether it's shuffling up to the bar for more drinks, bouncing around from table-to-table chatting with friends, or, of course, rocking the dancefloor! If you've never danced barefoot on a marble floor, I mentioned in an earlier blog how incredible the coolness feels to the bottoms of your bare feet.. Well, it's still absolute pure heaven! My beautiful female friends were onto that game a looooooong time ago, the "Taking Your Shoes Off" game, and I'm so glad I learned that life lesson from them! Hah, and, as I also mentioned in another earlier blog, I thank God, my Mom, & the Genetics Fairy frequently for blessing me with feet that are nice enough to pull off the "Bare Feet Fun Party Gorilla" act! LOL! Yeah, if I had gross, disgusting feet, then this silly game I play would never work! It also doesn't hurt that I am a pedicure-addict and take beyond-immaculate care of my feet, and rock these crazy colors/designs on my toes! People at weddings still go nuts over my toes, and for every uptight person that thinks, "You're a guy, you're not supposed to be barefoot. It's inappropriate.", there's a dozen people that say, "I LOVE that you're barefoot! That's so fun! And can I get a picture of your toes?!" Heh heh, those are my kinda' party people.. :)  ..It doesn't matter, because my bare feet & crazy toes are here to stay! Pure shoes-free HAPPINESS!

A FANTASTIC sign that my friend saw on all the tables at a wedding reception she was at, and she texted it to me.. Now tweaked & edited to make it PERFECT! :)

The Best of Summer Bare Feet 2012, and Hello, Autumn..

Life, especially in the summer is best when BAREFOOT  :)

     Summer's winding down, the kids went back to school today, so I guess it's time to recap summer's best barefoot moments..which would be pretty much "all summer long" (Hello, Kid Rock!), because if I'm not on the clock workin' the job, then there's a good chance I was happy & barefoot, anyway. Shoes still suck, feet naturally just WANT to be free, and a tiger can't ever change it's stripes! So, going clockwise in the photo here: 1. Barefoot shopping at Stop & Shop! Hah, this is something I've done since high school, not bothering to put shoes on to run to the store, mall, etc. .. I just don't care! Here, I was driving home from work on an 86 degree August day, and was driving home barefoot, having slipped my flipflops off for the hourlong commute. I remembered that I needed a few things from the grocery store, so I pulled into the Stop & Shop lot, parked, and exited the car. I looked at my flip-flops, and thought, "Naaaaaah", and just non-chalantly strolled into the store barefoot! My pal, Lorraine, tells me that when I do this, this whole thing of going into stores barefoot & not caring, that I have a "Barefoot Swagger" about me! LOL!! Ok, then! Barefoot swagger, it is! Now, if you've never gone into a supermarket barefoot before, then you really have NO idea how good those cold marble or slate floors feel to the bottoms of your bare feet!! Most females that dance barefoot at weddings (like my big gorilla ass does!) know what it feels like, because it's the same sensation as the marble floor at a nice catering hall! Pure HEAVEN on bare soles! Put it this way, it feels so good, it's worth the "risk" of some surly manager walking up to you to reprimand you for breaking the "Shoes Required" rule! Whatever, dude!  ..2. Sunrise & bare feet, and no photo filter on that shot. Those colors are natural..  3. My 4th of July toes (in HDR).. 'Nuff said on that, my toes just rock, ALWAYS! Especially in the course of reppin' the US of A..  4. Paid for a fantastically refreshing pedicure one Sunday morning, then spent the whole rest of that day barefoot, outdoors, and completely trashed my newly pedicured feetsies! Oh well, that's what soap & water, and hopping up and down one one foot in front of the bathroom sink, before climbing into bed is for! :)
     So, in closing, summer was great, as it usually is.. but bring on the fall, I say! I'll still be flipfloppin' with jeans until the temps drop into the mid 40's! And I have three weddings to attend over the course of Sept. & Oct.. I WILL be flip-flopping into all those receptions, for the express purpose of slipping those babies off & rockin' those parties barefoot ALL night long! Get ready! Plenty more silly, funny, shoes-free pics to come!