i love zappos!

now i know that i am late to this party, but i am going to say it anyways. see, i can't buy clothes, especially shoes, w/o trying them out first. so i was never thinking i would get on board with zappos. and i'm still not TOTALLY on board. but i'm modified on board.
i went to the NYC macy's, the largest department store in the world, this weekend to try on shoes. they have an entire separate area for comfortable shoes, which is about 10 times as large as most entire shoe departments and they have all sorts of brands, and every time i go in there (i have been trying to muster the energy to do this for like 4 months), i just get overwhelmed and leave. it's a shit-ton of shoes.

but i could not avoid it any longer. my sneakers are so worn out that they hurt my feet in about a hundred different ways even just based on my walk to and from the metro every day. and ditto with the same pair of flats that are the only really comfortable shoes under my desk at work, so i wind up just putting them on every day. i mean, these things are sad.

anyways, i circled the place like 4 times, taking pictures on my cell phone of contender shoes, and then narrowing it down to 7 pairs to try on.

well, of course they had all of like 2 of the ones i really wanted. but i managed to try on some styles and some brands and one pair in a brown even tho i never wear brown shoes. and i whittled it down to 3 winners (all comfy, one to walk to work, one pair of work flats, and one pair of work heels), jotted down all the info and ordered them from jared's apartment, so they were waiting for me when i got home today!
it might be a little sad how excited i was for all of them. i was running the last two blocks home to get to my new shoes! but they are everything i thought they would be! well, except the one pair might be a bit tight in the toes. and the fact that the pair i wore at work all day rubbed my pinkies the wrong way, so nothing feels good on my feet right now. but oh! i am so sure that they will be perfect!

anyways, i know that isn't really too much to the credit of zappos, but they are who made this joyful moment possible and i appreciate that!

(incidentally, i am totally on board with their "free shipping," despite the fact that each pair of shoes cost $3.95 more than it would have at the macy's.)

so hip hip hooray!