VFF's are my BFF's.

Vibram Five Fingers. I love them more than any other shoe. Ever.  Until recently, I had a pair of these bad boys:

Go ahead, soak it in.

How do I even begin to describe these shoes?  Bliss to the phalanges. Ingenious new generation of shoes. Like having pillows strapped to your feet. Heaven in the form of footwear.

Many people do not enjoy toe socks because the feeling of having something between their toes is simply uncomfortable.  I was one of those people.  And then I met my first pair of VFF's.  It started out as a casual relationship....just the occasional meanders to the store and ambling about at work.  It soon became much more.  We were together night and day.  We went everywhere together. My VFF's were indeed my BFF's.  

Then came a dark, and dreadful day and our frolicking was cut short.  After a year of trampling on my beloved shoes, a sole was broken, and it wasn't mine.  Our time together was coming apart at the seams quite literally and I had to take my VFF's off for the last time.  The final goodbye had come. 

I thought I could move on to bigger and brighter shoes.  Maybe if my feet filled other footwear the pain of losing my VFF's would subside and I would forget about them all together.  

But Reeboks were just rebounds, heels were hosers, and flip flops were flakes. I soon began to have withdrawals for my once loved chaussures.  

These withdrawals reached their culmination last night.  That's right.  I dreamed a dream.  A marvelous dream.  In this dream, I was in a submarine, doing who know's what, when I ran into a familiar face, someone I'm now related to through Amy.  Someone who, for privacy's sake, we shall refer to as....Flynn.  In my dream, Flynn was wearing a brand new pair of bright blue VFF's and she loved them! When things couldn't get any better, she pulled out a box and handed it to me.  Beside myself with anticipation, I ripped open the package to behold.........

VFF's: Bikila LS women's edition

                                                                                                              They were beautiful.  They were everything I ever dreamed of!
I tore them out of the box and slipped them on and the Hallelujah Chorus began to play triumphantly in the background. Suddenly I could run faster, jump higher.  Flynn and I laughed and ran in our matching shoes from heaven for hours. It was glorious.

And then it was over.  I was awake and it was just a dream.  My dream shoes were still out of my reach.  Are still out of my reach.  Sigh....if only someone would follow this link: http://www.vibramfivefingers.com/products/Five-Fingers-BikilaLS-Womens.htm 

and order a size 39 of the grey/green/black model for me.....  ;)

Wow, two posts about secret obsessions in one day. I'm on a roll.