Countdown Post #1 - Swelling feet is NOT a myth!

Thanks to everyone who has sent me their photo-project suggestions - they've been great! Keep 'em coming!

Today's post is a series of photos based on the subject of IRONY. Quick disclaimer: To those of you (ladies) who would like to start a family in the future, maybe you should sit this one out...

Second disclaimer: Had I done this a month ago, I probably would be weeping right now, but as this is the OFFICIAL COUNTDOWN and it's ALMOST OVER, I've never laughed harder at myself than when I was setting the self-timer for the last shot...

To Begin,

THESE are the SHOES:

that I bought about a month and a half ago, at 3 a.m., online, because I had a coupon. You see, I have special-needs feet, and Naturalizer shoes seem to always help, and Naturalizer had sent me a birthday-month coupon for $15 off any purchase, and I couldn't sleep that night, so I went on the Naturalizer website and found these shoes that were already on sale, and with my birthday-month coupon I would get them even CHEAPER....

The next day it happened. My feet had been slightly swollen for a couple of weeks, enough that most shoes were fitting rather snuggly. But this was something else...this was simply not human... my feet and ankles were easily twice the size they had been and I could no longer wear ANY socks OR shoes comfortably. I have now been sockless for a month and a half, and have been wearing the same pair of boots EVERY DAY!! How ironic, when I have just bought a new pair of shoes...

I cringe as I anticipate you scrolling down...

THESE are the FEET:

that I now call my own. Granted, you've probably never noticed my feet before, therefore you may detect no change, but BELIEVE me, these are DOUBLE the size. Let me put things in perspective...

THESE are the feet IN the shoes:

And if that's not clear enough, let me demonstrate with another pair...

(WARNING: THE IMAGES BELOW ARE NOT FOR THE FAINTHEARTED!)

Have a great day :)