Catalogue Entry deadline (and a small RL rant)

Today is the last day to submit your notecards for the Calla Catalogue. Please, please, please drop them in the red ball at the front door! We'll be removing the ball either tonight or first thing in the morning SLT (like 3am or so, or maybe midnight SLT if Hae is still up) and all entries after that point will not be accepted.

All the details are here in case you missed it.

Now on to my little personal rant. If you've ever tried to find a pair of boots in the middle of the summer, you know my pain. If not...then you're way cooler than I am, because I don't even own a pair of boots.

We've started our 4-year old taking horseback riding lessons. She loves it. We have to pry her away and she cries the whole way home. So, being the girly-girl that I am, and never having a horse (which I asked for every single birthday my whole life, btw) I'm going to be taking lessons, too!

However, this necessitates that I have a pair of boots suitable for horse riding, and traipsing through mud and...horsey poo and stuff. I spent hours today going store-to-store trying to find a pair of boots. Any boots. I was even so desperate that I'd settle for a pair of boy boots! I seriously spent about 2 hours in the quest for boots. Which you'd think, in BFE, North Carolina where horses are commonplace, that you'd be able to find boots any time of year. Not so, I say!

I did finally find a tiny little shoe repair shop that had some boots. They were nice boots, too! Hard toes, all leather, good heel, etc etc. And on sale (that's one good thing about shopping out of season, if you can find it, it's cheap!) for less than half price!

I'm cheap, there's no way I'd have ever paid as much for them as they were charging not on sale. A hundred bucks?! For boots to go get muddy and poopy? No way! The man who owns the place has horses (go figure) and he said they'd be good and sturdy. And he even sized my foot and did that "come here let me feel the shoe" thing and got me the right size.

But it never even occurred to me, until I started looking for boots, that I couldn't just go out and get whatever I wanted. In SL, I can get boots all day long, every day. I never for a moment thought "I'm going to have a hard time finding boots" until I started looking.

I don't know what that says about me, and probably don't want to know, but sometimes the virtual world is lots better than the real one!