The Pioneer Woman’s Boots Kept Me From Working

Ok, Ok. I have a con­fes­sion to make. I’ll admit it right here.

I read The Pio­neer Woman.  I live in a metro-city.  It’s a fan­tasy world for me on that blog.  A life that’s def­i­nitely not my own & that’s minus the rumors of big cash & nan­nies that cir­cu­late. And let’s be seri­ous, I’d totally have a nanny if were me (just so I could wash my hair dur­ing the day) so I’m not judg­ing (if there is a nanny).

It’s the fan­tasy though of what life on a ranch would be like that I’d like to par­tic­i­pate in. Where it’s fun and every­one looks gor­geous, not the icky stuff.  I have hours of my life watch­ing Dirty Jobs for that part. Thank you very much Hubby & children.

So, I’ll pass on the actual parts that are less pho­to­genic.  I just want the beau­ti­ful scenery, hang­ing out with my kids (who would make the cutest cow­boys & cow­girl EVER) and watch­ing my Hubby show off his man­li­ness at herd­ing some cat­tle. In all, I kinda blame my par­ents for caus­ing my ranch fan­tasy.  I mean they did talk an awful lot about Bonanza when I was grow­ing up.  But let’s face it I’m not going to be on a ranch with Hubby herd­ing cat­tle any­time in the future.

Still the real­ity it’s never going to hap­pen or that there are icky things that hap­pen on a ranch won’t stop me from my ranch world fantasy. 

Today I’m over at the site and notice she’s giv­ing away boots.  These aren’t any old boots, they are beau­ti­ful cow­girl boots. Boots I can­not afford, but I would totally wear every­where (I mean EVERYWHERE) if I were to win. And boots that I will fan­ta­size about wear­ing even though I’ll prob­a­bly not win.  Have you seen how many peo­ple enter those con­tests over at her site?  Duu­u­u­u­u­ude, that’s some major traf­fic & read­er­ship going on.

Seri­ously I’m in love and have been totally enticed by their beauty.  They are from Luc­ch­ese Boot Co. and I’ve spent most my morn­ing, instead of fin­ish­ing off my last few revi­sions, being mem­o­rized by their stun­ning details.  And I blame her totally for entic­ing my mind to become overly inter­ested in the beauty of the boots.  It really is Ree’s fault I didn’t do my morn­ing edit­ing. She had to know the power of the boots and yet she put them out there for unsus­pect­ing readers.

Just look at these two pairs:

These just scream: Please, let me work on your ranch?  I’ve got beau­ti­ful boots that are beg­ging to be bro­ken in. (Of course in my case, I’m not at all skilled in any pos­si­ble way to be a rancher. But are skills really that impor­tant?)

And these are say­ing: You can’t stop me from break­ing into dance moves ala Foot­loose style.   To all heck with your rules and danc­ing is the devil.  I’m going to bust a move in these bad boys.  (And can I let you all know I love the movie Foot­loose & yes that rebel­lious teen girl does have boots in that movie that I love too).

I know, some of you are shak­ing your head at me.  Go ahead shake away but I’m IN LOVE with these boots.   How can you mock me & my cow­girl boot love?

Another con­fes­sion.

I also watch Oprah. Some­times. And by some­times I mean reg­u­larly. By reg­u­larly I mean daily.  And I have stu­dents who were born after she went on the air & have never known a world with­out know­ing that Oprah’s On. 

There now you know the truth.  Hope you are all happy now. I’m now going off to fan­ta­size about wear­ing beau­ti­ful boots on the Oprah show.

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