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Shiny shoe shopping and a Japanese dinner
Mar. 16th, 2011 12:42 pm I made up my mind and acquired the most lovely pumps yesterday. Shiny patent leather with 5” heel and 1” platform. They're very comfortable, just the perfect height.
I enjoyed shopping at the high end corner of the dept store. Contrary to popular belief, most sales clerks are very pleasant and helpful (whether you buy or not).
Just as I made the purchase, I felt a super strong wave of migraine coming (coincidence? Lol) and the man ran all over the place to find me a glass of water so I could take a tablet.
Anyway, here they are (had fun with the mirrors of my angle wardrobe):
My metalware supplier, who is firstly a leather supplier, sold me a bottle of leather relaxer and this stuff is amazing. I don't know how I could live without it. I have a few pair of shoes that are a bit narrow on some spots and this product makes temporarily leather really pliable so you can insert shoetrees or just mould it by hand to enlarge it a bit. It is in fact the product shoe maker use to shape the leather in the form of a shoe. I tested it on some old pairs I never wear because of the discomfort and it worked seamlessly. Yay!
But I digress. After shopping I met up with my best friend, NL., and we went to rue Saint Anne, not far from the dept store to eat Japanese in a restaurant I've visited a few times a year for about 10 years now. It is really the only place I genuinely enjoy eating yakitori. I love the place also because it's the only restaurant of the area where I don't feel rushed to eat (most of them have long queues outside in the evening, but this one is a little bit pricier, not really actually, it's more that the other restaurant are very very cheap.) Maybe not the best timing to go eat Japanese, but the people at the restaurant seemed unaffected, and the boss, who always recognize me despite my visiting really every 6 months, showed me photos of the baby a friend who used to work there just had.
So we had one yakitori menu and a few little separate things: Japanese omelette, onigiris, karaage (fried chicken) and shared everything. We drank grilled rice tea and umeshu (plum wine). Lovely lovely evening.
I was pretty energetic for the past two days and it felt so good. For the past two weeks I was very tired for the first days of the week and energetic from Thursday on. Today, well, I'm a bit wrecked lol. I ended up walking quite a lot yesterday and rushing things to manage to have some time in the evening. But I have my new assistant coming today and I am hoping she will help me quite a bit with things. It's her first “real” day (not counting the 2 trial days) ! :)
I enjoyed shopping at the high end corner of the dept store. Contrary to popular belief, most sales clerks are very pleasant and helpful (whether you buy or not).
Just as I made the purchase, I felt a super strong wave of migraine coming (coincidence? Lol) and the man ran all over the place to find me a glass of water so I could take a tablet.
Anyway, here they are (had fun with the mirrors of my angle wardrobe):
My metalware supplier, who is firstly a leather supplier, sold me a bottle of leather relaxer and this stuff is amazing. I don't know how I could live without it. I have a few pair of shoes that are a bit narrow on some spots and this product makes temporarily leather really pliable so you can insert shoetrees or just mould it by hand to enlarge it a bit. It is in fact the product shoe maker use to shape the leather in the form of a shoe. I tested it on some old pairs I never wear because of the discomfort and it worked seamlessly. Yay!
But I digress. After shopping I met up with my best friend, NL., and we went to rue Saint Anne, not far from the dept store to eat Japanese in a restaurant I've visited a few times a year for about 10 years now. It is really the only place I genuinely enjoy eating yakitori. I love the place also because it's the only restaurant of the area where I don't feel rushed to eat (most of them have long queues outside in the evening, but this one is a little bit pricier, not really actually, it's more that the other restaurant are very very cheap.) Maybe not the best timing to go eat Japanese, but the people at the restaurant seemed unaffected, and the boss, who always recognize me despite my visiting really every 6 months, showed me photos of the baby a friend who used to work there just had.
So we had one yakitori menu and a few little separate things: Japanese omelette, onigiris, karaage (fried chicken) and shared everything. We drank grilled rice tea and umeshu (plum wine). Lovely lovely evening.
I was pretty energetic for the past two days and it felt so good. For the past two weeks I was very tired for the first days of the week and energetic from Thursday on. Today, well, I'm a bit wrecked lol. I ended up walking quite a lot yesterday and rushing things to manage to have some time in the evening. But I have my new assistant coming today and I am hoping she will help me quite a bit with things. It's her first “real” day (not counting the 2 trial days) ! :)
