A MARILYN EXPERIENCE
So I had errands to run downtown today...thinking parking always sucks and I don't want to waste money in a garage and I'm only a few well, sorta blocks away plus I super need the exercise. So I get ready high heels and all wearing my new black DKNY skirt (I actually already have one in white). It's a deceiving skirt because it's pleated all the way around but the front pleats have slits that slide up about 5 inches from my knee. Anyways, I'm toting my black business purse that hangs over my shoulders, plus my laptop bag. One block, two blocks, three...what was I thinking....the bags are already starting to feel heavy and my skirt keeps creeping up it's a tad too big, but really because the bags are shifting as I walk. This skirt is everywhere up and then around my legs, then creeping up my backside, the splits are reacting in not the best fashion. I'm walking shifting, adjusting and my feet are killing me. I'm always good in heals for long periods of time, but with all this gear it's too much, I start to actually get why the state working women wear tennis shoes-a fashion flub I normally despise. Anyways, what seems like 12 blocks later I arrive at my first destination happy to get a break and brief rest. After that I have to find a FEDEX Kinkos which is super close but I have no idea. As I'm walking I feel this amazing breeze- wow I needed that I'm hot and exhausted I'm walking over one of the sidewalk vents, well then there's another huge breeze and wooooaaaaa my skirt flys up and there I am all to see. Good news I'm matching underwear today but the bad news all of downtown saw my butt. I'm sooo embarrassed. I keep going and 2 calls to 411 later I find it but not before I walked 5 blocks extra for no reason. While in Kinko's this older african american woman who knows every customer and everyone knows her is passing out hugs and how have you been to them. I noticed her immediately because her hair looks like a big wool wig but I think she just blowed dried it and curled it with dry curlers. She was really nice she kept saying she knows me from somewhere, I get that a lot I tried to tell her I'm not from here but she went on. Anyways, I finally got done an hour later and man, I have to walk back. I guess it wasn't so bad, I needed to get to know my neighborhood a bit and the walk felt great! When I got back to my loft I immediately soaked my feet and washed them in foot scrub then I put shea butter lotion and covered them with some thick cotton socks. Boy, I need a pedicure.