Warning: Fuchsia Shoes May Bestow Super Powers

I turned 41 on Saturday.  No big deal really.  Poseidon took me out for a great dinner, then to one of our fave little bars for a beer.  Cool gifts.  I have managed to deal with the aging process gracefully and I'm still sometimes carded at over-21 places, so I think I'm holding up well.  No complaints.

I took myself shopping on Saturday, my birthday treat to myself (oh, and I also bought myself a sewing machine...I'll explain that one later) and I made some great purchases, but my favorite purchase...a pair of fuchsia suede heels.  Gorgeous!  I had actually seen the shoes 2 evenings before and I knew I would make them mine.  I did.  I don't know if these shoes grant the wearer magical powers, but I felt amazing.  I felt sexier than I have in a while, and I felt full of grace (maybe grace-lite...I am still clumsy and 2 1/2 inch heels makes that obvious) and confidence.  I took a look in my two closets full of shoes, and I realized in horror that I, until now, did not own one pair of shoes with color.  None.  All black, brown, grey, tan, and one silver strappy pair.  My new fuchsia shoes were like adding a rainbow to my otherwise cloudy closet.

I wore the shoes with a little black dress for dinner and I felt hot (not temperature-wise), cool, fun, quirky, all at the same time!  That hasn't happened in a while, so I can declare with some certainty that my fuchsia suede heels do endow the wearer with special, enchanted, marvelous magical powers.  At the end of our night, Poseidon got the car, but I flew home using my newly attained Fuchsia Girl super powers.  I carefully put my fuchsia shoes on the shelf in the closet, and closed the door, and the evening, on a high note.  When the city needs me again, I'll take them out, put them on, and I'll be ready.

--Fortuitous "Super Fuchsia Girl" Observer