The actual birthday started off ok but ended up overwhelmingly sucky. When they found out at work it was my birthday my boss went and bought a tray of cakes and biscuits. Yum! He scared the beejesus out of me by luring me into the tearoom by telling me he needed to talk about a patient complaint though! However later on I had a very sick patient that I was looking after and was basically told by the cardiologist that it was on my head to stay back and make sure she was seen by the surgeons. Took me 4 hours after my shift ended to make sure that happened. So I missed out on my own bithday dinner and trivia with my parents and brothers. Boohoo!
But yesterday I bought myself 2 birthday presents, so it's not all bad. A lightweight short-sleeved cardigan from Target (Target always comes through for me) and a pair of gladiator sandals from Aldo.
Please excuse the hair (haven't combed it for over 24 hours). There's also a few stains on that singlet top that thankfully didn't photograph well!
This summer I really wanted to get a pair of sandals-slash-booties. I found a few pairs that I liked online, but dithered around too much and there's none available in my size anywhere. Australian shoe stores have a few options, but none of them jumped out at me.
Yesterday I saw these babies at Aldo. They're really just gladiators, not booties, however the combination of different textures, braids and studs won me over. I'm in love.
For any North Americans reading this, I'm curious: did US stores stock these same shoes during your summer? Aldo stores are a rarity in Australia (only 14 in the entire country) and I wonder if we just get your leftover end of season merchandise? I totally love these, so I'm not complaining!!
4 comments:
Oh Tam, what a crappy night but I do love the sandals and loving the toe colour! Talk more soon and hopefully for a girly time away where you can just let it all hang out and celebrate just being you.
Not as good a pedi job as Kathy does in Newtown though :( Hope your week flies Mary - can't wait to catch up afterwards!
Goodness, not the kind of birthday anyone would want. Love the cardi and the sandals though, it's good you treated yourself.
PS: Aldo shoes in Australia?! Where, where, where???? Please do tell!
Here they are K:
http://www.aldoshoes.com/australia/controller.cfm?dynamicPage=storelocations&lang=eng
Seem to be very much a Westfield store huh?
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