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Contest

I’ve had pretty good luck with contests over the last several years. I won a contest, well technically I don’t suppose I won, but nevertheless I did get a pair of Nike shoes for Michelle. I have not been able to say anything about it, because I wanted it to be a surprise, but at the end of the movie Coraline it says “For Those in the Know: Jerkwad”. None of us knew what it meant, so I went home and did some google searching and found out that it was the word you needed to enter a contest on the official website.

The short story is that we won. I gave the pair of shoes to Michelle today and got a few pictures.

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The Circle of Shoes Continues

Lets see. I got two pairs of shoes, one never fit right, so I went to return them, but Hibbett’s Sports wouldn’t do anything for me, because I was outside the 30 days and I didn’t have a reciept, so I contacted Nike, sent the shoes to Oregon, Nike sent me back a credit for a purchase on their website, bought shoes at Nike.com and then had to return them to the Nike Store in Aurora, because they didn’t fit and i didn’t want to bother spending more money and time sending them back and waiting on shoes again, got my money back from the Nike store, because the Nike.com receipt doesn’t show that it was a gift card, it just showed my credit card information, because I had to pay for part of the shipping, I went back to Hibbett’s Sports, bought two more pairs of shoes, and again the shoes didn’t fit.

That enormous run on sentence brings us to today.

I drove way out to Massillon, which to be completely honest I don’t think I’ve ever been there before. I can’t remember a single time I went out there for anything.

The map I got from Google was absolutely horrible. I could have taken 77 South the whole way, instead it had me going down a 35 mph road, with construction. Either way is pretty direct, so I don’t think there is a lot of excuses for it.

I went all the way out there so I could return a pair of shoes, because I didn’t want to see the guys at the Hibbett’s Sports next to where I live. I wanted to believe that another Hibbett’s Sports might have a pair of shoes that would work. It turns out that none of the stores have any shoes, so I got a gift card instead.

The next chapter in this adventure will be the purchase of yet another pair of shoes in a few weeks when the sales people assured me they would be getting another shipment in.

Delivery

I got the blender back today. They actually sent me the whole thing, so I have a new glass container and a new blade. Pretty cool how that worked out. I went ahead and tested it out on a blackberry smoothie and it performed like a champ. Let’s hope this one lasts longer than the previous one.

I also got my shoes, but they didn’t fit. Nike seems to make two kinds of running shoe and the one pinches my foot in the middle. I got directions to the Nike Outlet Store in Aurora and I went there after class. It was some drive. They didn’t have any shoes that I liked, which still seems a bit odd to me, but they let me return the shoes so I got my money back and headed over to Hibbett’s Sports off of Arlington.

When I got there I tried on another pair of shoes that looked perfect, but had the same fit as the ones I returned, so I had to try on some other shoes. I settled on two pair. A pair of Nike shoes that are basically white, but with blue and black accents. I like them. The other pair is a trail rated pair of shoes from New Balance. They are darker and should be shoes I can wear when the weather sucks or I want to go for a bike ride or something. I needed at least one pair of shoes that isn’t white.

I must have drove almost 30 miles today.

I Ordered Shoes

I finally decided that I couldn’t wait any longer on ordering shoes, and after sitting around checking the size status for Air Turbulence and some other pair of shoes I just decided on these and I think they look about what I wanted in a shoe. Light, black, and some cushion.