Shoes and Resolve

     I haven't yet decided what my New Year's resolutions will be, but the truth is, I make resolutions all the time.  It gives me fodder for guilt.  I'm really good at guilt--and really bad at keeping resolutions.
     Every December I resolve to only spend money on gifts for others--nothing for myself.  But then I'm out shopping all the time.  I see so many things!
     This year it was shoes.  I wasn't even in the shoe department!  But there they were in the front and middle of the store--practically blocking the front door!  I do have a slight weakness for cute shoes.  And these shoes were really, really cute (maybe the cutest shoes I have ever seen)!  Plus, they were 20% off!!!  In the ways I measure wrong, wronger, and wrongest, it would have been the wrongest possible choice to leave these shoes behind--much wronger than the wrong of breaking a resolution.  I think it was a bad resolution to begin with.  (I may have lost some bit of objectivity in the presence of such cute shoes)!
     Which reminds me: I always resolve to exercise more.  So, last month I bought a pair of walking shoes called "Shape-Ups."  They have been on my feet every morning for my daily walk (except for the days I miss, which, I guess discounts the daily part of that resolution).   Ron says he had such hope when I bought Shape-Ups, but my behavior hasn't improved at all and he's still waiting for me to shape up.
     I agree.  They aren't especially comfortable either, and the only advangtage I see in wearing them is that they make me about three inches taller.  Actually, this is  no advantage at all unless I happen to run into some very tall person that I want to hug.  So far, not an issue.  I walk so early I have never encountered anyone, tall or short, on my walks--maybe if I waited until dawn....
     Maybe for 2013 I'll resolve to buy more shoes--really cute, comfortable shoes.  I'm ready for some resolutions I can keep!