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Putting the High in High Heels

 

Imagine that, successful women smoke weed............oh the horrors.........

xoxo

Shoelover

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Shoelover's new Favorite

Pimm's No.1 Cocktail

Over ice, pour:

• 1 part Pimm's No.1
• 2 to 3 parts Lemonade.
• Infuse with Mint and slices of lemon, orange and apple.

It's smashingly good on a Monday morning at 12 30, when you can't sleep and all you can think about is being elsewhere.

xoxo
Shoelover

Running the Shoe, I mean Show

As Labor Day is upon us and the there is only so much fretting one can do about the conundrum of white shoes after Labor Day, Shoelover has decided to philosophized about Shoelover's labors (over a vodka and orange juice at 10 am on a Saturday morning).  As anyone who has ever done it knows, running a business of your own is one of the dumbest things greatest challenges you can undertake in life, although probably easier than maintaining a healthy marriage and avoiding the intake of copious amounts of alcohol, Valium, chocolate while getting a business up and running.

So Shoelover would like to share some thoughts on what Shoelover has learned over the past year:

-Write a short business plan, then expect every thing in that business plan to go wrong, then rewrite the business plan, cutting out all of the fluff and focus on picking out the critical factors that could kill your business and come up with ways of dealing with these issues before they arise.  Trust Shoelover on this, even what you expect to be the most mundane and simple task can and will go wrong (see the IKEA catalog with the now famous IKEA dog for a prime example of this). Call this "school of thought" being pessimistically optimistic or optimistically pessimistic, let's go with pessimistically optimistic, it sounds better;

-In business, money will solve a lot, not all, but a lot of your problems.  Whoever said that money can't buy happiness didn't run a business;

-Listen to your customers (shield your eyes from the blinding flash of the obvious).  Your goal is to solve their problems.  Lots of management gurus spout this mantra like it is some sort of revelation from god (maybe it is for large companies, but it is obvious for small businesses);

-At the risk of sounding cliche (and opening Shoelover up to some sort of copyright lawsuit), JUST DO IT, don't spend all your time thinking about "DOING IT" as if you were a teenage boy (that may have gone over some of your heads - or may just not be funny).  Starting a business and being a responsible person may sometimes be mutually exclusive states.  Sometimes the only way to success is pushing boundaries of reason and sensibility;

-Whenever there is a problem, it is your fault.  No ifs, ands, ors about it,

-Invest in a lot of antiperspirant and/or deodorant.  You are going to do a lot of sweating;

-Exercise; and

-Avoid drinking too much milk, it will make you gassy

xoxo

Shoelover

Another Saturday Night

Mojito! - Seriously, what else do you do when it is 90 degrees out

2-3 oz White rum

Juice of 1 Lime(1 oz)

2 tsp Sugar

10-12 Mint leaves

Soda water

Lightly muddle the mint and sugar with a splash of soda water in a mixing glass until the sugar dissolve and you smell the mint. Squeeze the lime into the glass, add rum and shake with ice. Strain over cracked ice in a highball glass

xoxo

Shoelover

PS - Another saturday night and I ain't got nobody
       I've got some money 'cause I just got paid
       Now how I wish I had someone to talk to
       I'm in an awful way.

Cat Stevens - Another Saturday Night

Taylor Fladgate Vintage Port, 1963

It ain't cheap, but nothing good ever is (kinda like women)................

Ya, I know the bottle is a '77

How Now Brown Cow

Ack Photoshop! Ack Excel! Ack pricing products!  Not even a bottle of Kahlua made this weekend tolerable.  Here is a practical example of how to kill a bottle of Kahlua in 3 easy steps:

Brown Cow

1 oz Kahlua
2-4oz Milk or Cream

White Russian

1 1/2 oz Vodka
3/4 oz Kahlua
1oz Milk or Cream

Black Russian

1 1/2 oz Vodka
3/4 oz Kahlua

Shoeguy

A Drink for a Tuesday

....Absinthe.......with a chaser of Irish Cream

Shoeguy

P.S. Hey Shoelover, isn't about time you learned how to use photoshop......it could come in handy for some of your old photos, you know with that old nose and all......

A Reason for Drinking

Q: Shoeguy, why do you work for Shoelover?

A: It helps me rationalize my drinking habit.

Q: What are you drinking today?

A: Bailey's Irish Cream with milk on the rocks.

Q:  Sound's like a real man's drink?

A:  Wanna take this outside and find out who is the man?

Q: I am the one asking the questions here...............

A: Fine, meet me outside and I'll show you who's a man...........just don't scuff my shoes or I will kill you.............