Trying to find a specific pair of shoes for my wife?

My wife was given a pair of sandals from a friend of her's who is from South Africa (I believe). Today, our dog chewed one of them up and my wife is really upset. These shes were bought in another country.



If anyone can help me locate where to purchase a pair of these online, it would be much appreciated.



It has a thick bottom that has vertical strips of wood wrapped around the side. The wood looks similar to bamboo toothpicks . The strap that goes over the top of the foot and between the toes is a group of 9 thin ropes (Blue, pink, Grrn, purple, and yellow color ropes). Where the the rope meets and goes between the toes (which is now only one rope surrounded by a plastic cushion as to not irritate) is a flower design mad from the same material and colors as the ropes.



On the sole of the shoe is written Teneré.



The top part of the sandal feels almost like a leather-like material, streteched.

Trying to find a specific pair of shoes for my wife?
well take her 2 "bakers" and let her choose a pair ..its shoe paradise!!8)
Reply:e bay?or amazon?
Reply:sorry, she needs to ask friend havent seen them hear, ariz.

acne medication

Can anyone name my fragrant plant?

I've recently found some new plants in our yard and I'd really like to identify them. They look a whole lot like Queen Anne's Lace or poison hemlock. I mean the leaves because they haven't flowered yet. They are in a flat sunny part of our yard. They weren't planted so I guess they're a weed or wildflower of some sort. We live in southern Indiana.

My main interest in them is the wonderful smell the leaves emit when bruised or crushed. Can't really describe it but it's better than many flowers I've smelled.

Anyway, hope I haven't been going about sniffing a handful of hemlock all day!

Can anyone name my fragrant plant?
Queen Anne's Lace is a member of the carrot family, and there are a number of herbs in that family as well, dill being one of the most prominent. I would be careful even just handling it until you find out for sure what it is. I wound up with a chemical burn from the herb Rue. Guess where it gets it's name?! I agree with the first poster - that's what your local extension agent is for.
Reply:I would definitely check with your local County Extension office to be sure it is not hemlock or any other poisonous thing. You may have to cut a piece of stem off and take it to them, but it's worth it if turns out to be an undesireable! Does it by chance smell like carrot?
Reply:it sounds like Feverfew or maybe Yarrow.



take a look at these:



http://botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/f/fe...



http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk...



BTW, here's a link to poison hemlock:



http://cal.vet.upenn.edu/poison/plants/p...

roller blades

What was your favorite part in Hamlet?

It's one of my favorite plays ever. I like the part where Ophelia goes insane and starts handing out flowers. I think about it a lot.

What was your favorite part in Hamlet?
"This above all: to thine own self be true". - (Act I, Scene III).
Reply:I too enjoy the scene in which Ophelia starts giving away flowers (especially because the flowers are all symbolic), but my favorite part is probably the very end, because the resolution is so dramatic, and because I love Horatio's "Goodnight, sweet prince" line and the idea of Fortinbras taking over, especially because of the parallels between Hamlet, Laertes and Fortinbras.
Reply:when the guy has sex with the skull

How Can I Learn To Reconnect With My Perceptions?

When I was a child I experienced a lot of horrible trauma. Part of the way that I coped and survived was by disconnecting myself from my body.



I learnt to take my mind and all that is my essence away. I'd drift far away so I wouldn't have to experience what was happening to me.



This is a part of childhood that my subconscious mind holds on to and projects into my present life. A defense reaction that once was my ally, now a nemesis of sorts. My interactions with people and my environment are susquently hindered as my default position always seems to be set on the urgent "Vacate You Body Now".



I feel like I'm stuck here and I'd like to grow past it. I no longer need this tool from my childhood but my brain is so paranoid that I'm still under threat it won't let me rest.

Any advice you could lend would be greatly appreciated. Be Nice :) I'm a magic flower trying to grow. Water me with goodness.

How Can I Learn To Reconnect With My Perceptions?
Well, I think you may have to go through the "wall of fire". What I mean is, yes, I completely understand what you're saying. It's like having a suit of armor, that served you well when you were under attack, but...."uh, gee, this thing is getting a little heavy now....I can't seem to move the way I want to....." etc. You (your adult conscious mind) are going to have to "revisit" some of the painful areas, in order to unify yourself once again. You can talk to yourself, as the Adult, as in "You are safe now, and I will protect you. You will never have to go through THAT again."



I think of it like "defrosting". When someone has been in the snow for a long time, on the verge of dying, it is painful for them to get up and get the blood flowing. You're going to have to do something like that, to reconnect. It may hurt, but remind yourself how strong you really are. It will help if you make a commitment to yourself, that you deserve to live the rest of your life, being able to feel the full range of emotions that humans are capable of -- and the most powerful force, is Love. Take small steps at first. Get "reacquainted" with what you are actually feeling. It can take some time -- what at first seems like "anger" becomes instead "hurt", "disappointed", "frustrated" etc. Be patient with yourself, but also push yourself to do things that may seem very uncomfortable right now.



Be brave, and keep safe.



You WILL get through this. You are a kind and compassionate person; that will be your strength.
Reply:well, i think you really need to talk to someone about the things that happened to you, a counsler or therapist..if your already doing that, the second best thing i think is writing in a journal..but it seems like you really need someone to talk to and maybe even a medication until you can accept some of the things that happened to you.
Reply:No offense but 96% of the world population has the same problem. They got too much money and not enough love. They had no money and ate cereal twice a day. They were sexually abused by relatives or whoever. They were neglected and beat. The list goes on and on. When I talk about my childhood, I laugh although it was tough. My childhood was so tough that shrinks do not believe a person could go through so much, I survived and do not dwell on the past. My daily Bible readings have had such an impact that I see today. Look at the trees, birds, and everything around you. Every time you start feeling sad, let yourself do so for 15 min. then start looking at the beauty around you; you may wish to think of all of those who are going through touchier and realize how thankful you should be. A shrink may find a chemical imbalance. You may want to start with a shrink.
Reply:Yes, I have heard of this and experienced too this as a child. There is a medical term for it. As a child, I would tell my mother during very stressful times, "I feel like I am not really here." I can even remember my gums getting numb. Sounds weird, I know.

You need to see a neuro phsychologist for some answers. Best of luck you.
Reply:Try writting in blogs to get things off your mind or out in the open. See if that helps.
Reply:1) ask a male friend to steal the hunkiest guy in the gym that you find attractive's jock strap put it beside your bed for one pm

2) find the perfect food that makes you smile - that you can't live without, regardless of calories and have it served at 1pm on Sat

3) download a pic of the hottest guy that you can't live without and pin it above your bed at 1pm

4) get a good manicure booked for saturday at 1pm and have her include foot massage

5) did you have a favorite group, put it on at 1pm.

Broken Teeth

What to wear with a brown and turquise dress - Help!?

I am going to a wedding and have bought a lovely dress but have no idea what shoes, jewellery and jacket/cardigan to wear with it.... The dress is strapless, mid to dark brown with turquiose flowers round the embroidered round the lower part of the skirt and is mid calf length. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

What to wear with a brown and turquise dress - Help!?
Some pretty brown, high-heel sandals. A simple wrap in either color. And turquoise and/or gold jewelry. Don't worry about being too matchy-matchy; that's too 1980's. Pick classic accessories that will work with several outfits you already own.
Reply:u can follow simple rule of elegance - do not have on more than three colours at a time.

so this means that you can have shoes and a clutch in another colour and it will still work. I would say stay away from turquoise because it has so many shades it may be difficult to find right stuff. Go for a kitten heal shoes as they go very well with the mid-calf length and a small bag or a clutch which has long strap - so it is not in your hands the whole time. Colour - beige, cream and it would be nice if the clutch or small bag has some embroidery on it. if your skin-tone is pale than go for a brown pashmina and if you have a tan or darker skin than definitely go for cream or beige pashmina.

consider a hat. strapless dress means a lovely neckless and nothing else as far as jewelry goes. If you can find one with pieces of turqoise stone than you have a real winner otherwise go for 'real' piece that you have not plasticky etc as it will draw attention so it is better to have a real thing even if it is a simple chain.

hope this helps
Reply:turquise accessories and brown shoes and shawl
Reply:I would try to bring out the turquiose, maybe a shawl, a great bangle bracelet ... I like an open neck with a strapless, so I'd avoid a necklace. for shoes, you can either do brown or turquoise, but I'd go with brown sandals and let your few accessories (shawl, bangle, the embroidery) really pop.
Reply:any to match
Reply:Do you need a jacket or a cardigan with the dress? Why not a small bolero with long sleeves if necessary.....turquoise sandals, turquoise beaded bag and a light gold necklace with tiny turquoise crystals, Have fun....I love dressing up for weddings!!!!
Reply:Silver shoes and jewels.
Reply:Accessorise in turquoise, that includes shoes, bag and jewelry. Wear fairly high, strappy sandals-they will accentuate the shape of you legs and make you calfs look slimmer. Wear a turquoise bolero so that it is not too close to the detail on the dress. Try keep the jewelry simple and make sure the colour of your bag matches the colour of your shoes well. Enjoy the wedding!
Reply:Brown or silver strap sandals and minimal turquoise jewelry
Reply:I would go with silver accessories. Perhaps a chunky multi strand toursade necklace and bracelet with drop earrings. Just my opinion without seeing the complete outfit.
Reply:Brown shoes,brown jacket(elegant),turquoise jewelry.That's really simple.
Reply:Having done a fashion design course at college, I would normally never consider mixing brown and turquoise on an item in any respect; Brown %26amp; Turquoise do not normally go together... However, In the brown region, you want to be aiming for colors in the green or red spectrum and for turquoise, complementing colors are Yellow, pale green, and darker blues.



As for accessories, I cannot really advise you, since I was purely designing clothes, not matchouts to go with them!
Reply:Wear a fitted jacket in turquiose and strappy high heel sandals (velvet look would be good) in brown/beige. You can get great chunky jewellery in turquoise. But it depends on the pattern of the flowers. If the flowers are large print go for the chunky variety, a abstract shape would be good or a disc circle with side stones around the neckline. If the flowerprint is smaller go for a more subtle turquiose peice either costume or really with small turquoise stones such as marquiseque or aqua crystals.(QVC do some good stuff) A central stone peice is essential with stapless dresses or your neck will look stumpy. Good luck and happy shopping.
Reply:Well for starters on the shoes how about this one

http://www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/16853103/c/...

or

http://www.zappos.com/n/p/dp/16835740/c/...



then I would find a simple white shawl or thin sweater to wear over the top if too cool out.

Maybe a nice gold necklace and anklet.
Reply:I would go for turquise shoes and cardi.
Reply:wear brown hig heals, and a brown jacket maybe? and turquoise jewlery
Reply:I would try brown shoes, probably strappy. (since the dress is srapless, show off most of your foot. No closed toe shoes.) You might luck up and find some with one turquoise strap. (I have a pair like that.) Wear a simple turquoise necklace, bracelet and earrings, maybe a small tear drop pair.. (Don't over do it with the jewlery!!!!!) A nice brown wrap or shrug (short jacket) would go nice. No full jacket though. And wear your hair up, show your shoulders when you take your wrap off.



Have a nice time!!
Reply:Black heels and brushed or antiqued gold earrings and necklace that are simple and tasteful, or a necklace that has a smoky topaz or turquoise cluster hanging from a circlet. Stick to gold because it's more dressy. If you can't find a turquoise crocheted sweater or wrap to match the flowers on your dress, wear that or stick to black.
Reply:Jean jacket...brown shoes....no black purse or shoes...i don't know about jewelry. Something simple %26amp; gold. Like a gold necklace. Nothing cheesy. The dress sounds pretty enough to draw attention to it...so don't overdo the jewelry.
Reply:shoes i would try to match w/ the brown of the dress-probably open toe-jewelry i would go w/ turqouise-keep the jewelry simple-b/c the dress sounds beautiful and you dont want to take away from that-maybe wear your hair up if you can-have fun
Reply:I think gold high heeled shoes, a gold clutch bag and maybe a thin gold belt too!



The dress sounds gorgeous!
Reply:Brown shoes and wrap, turquoise jewelry.
Reply:I would say.. brown or tan shoes, turquiose cardigan or wrap, and silver jewlery
Reply:off set the dress with the colors in it everything from make up to earrings etc.
Reply:Wear silver strappy sandals, silver jewellery and a turquoise pasmina.
Reply:less is more sounds as if the dress already has its own attractions so go strappy with some open toe heel and try cat eye or or earth jewerly or you can really play it up sliver and turquiose or leather .
Reply:What id do is wear a turquoise shrug, turquoise shoes and turquoise clutch bag - and then very minimalistic silver jewelry

Spring Bulbs Question?

After our spring bulbs bloom I understand that you shouldn't cut the stems off. You can cut the dead flower bloom part off. But it is still taking in energy for next season. With that being said, when is it a safe time to take your bulbs out (tulips, daffodills, %26amp; bluebells) to see if they have separated to give you more flowers for next year?



This is not something that you're supposed to do every year as I understand it. There is a misnomer that you can just leave your bulbs in the ground and they'll do just fine, however if you do dig them up after it's safe (late summer?) then you can double the amount of bulbs to plant for the fall.



Can anyone add anything to that? And when can you dig up the bulbs (time of year) to see if they've given you baby bulbs/multiplied?

Spring Bulbs Question?
Really, the only reason we dig up bulbs is to divide the clump, down here in the South. (Zone 8b) Special protection, such as digging and bringing the fleshy storage structure into a warmer area for storage through the winter months is required in colder climates. This is done before the first frost, after the foliage has completely died back and yellowed.

Dig the bulbs using a digging tool of your choice, and that is comfortable with your style. I use the garden flat faced digging fork, that will get under the bulbs and lift them out of the ground without bruising them. Be careful to allow a little space between where the foliage is and the bulb so that you will not accidentally split the bulbs with the tool.



I guess the key is that you want the bulb to take in all the sunshine it can, which is done through the leaves, during the growing season. That's what makes the bulb bigger, or in the case of most, helps it to propagate "babies". Don't dig 'em till the leaves are brown and withered up.
Reply:What are spring bulbs?
Reply:anytime after they are done flowering!

origins

Would life be easy if you were incredibly smart?

I read part of this book called "flowers for algernon". it's really sad. it's about a man named charlie who is mentally challenged. after an operation, he turns into a super genius until he finds out he will die because of the operation. would life be easy if you were really smart? it seems like charlie only had problems when he was smart.

Would life be easy if you were incredibly smart?
life would all be made for you, after all everyone can do anything any one else can
Reply:The BA makes no sense and it is an assertion with no effort to answer the Q asked. The Q-Asker has a responsibility to pick BA %26amp; in this case having neglected that responsibility, the BA picked by voters was a very poor one. Report Abuse
Reply:Ignorance is bliss............at least the saying goes. If you're not smart enough to know that you are unhappy or that the world or people around you are. Then I would have to say yes that you would be happier dumb, but since you have to ask yourself would you rather be dumb and happy or smart and not unhappy but aware of your problems. I choose the latter.
Reply:Intelligence is like a kind of perception. You can perceive and understand things before others can at times.



So imagine if you could see what was happening a thousand miles away. Would your life necessarily be easy? Though you might see many beautiful things you never could before, you would also be able to see many ugly ones you never could either.



To make matters worse, the more you see that others cannot, the less people you have who can understand and sympathize you - to reach a pinnacle is to truly be alone.



So is life easy if you are smart? In some ways it becomes easier, and in some ways it becomes harder. It's a trade.



You'll note, however, that even Charlie wanted to remain intelligent and remain alive. Many dumb people wish to be smart, but few smart people wish to be dumb. If it is a trade, it would seem that most find it to be a profitable one, overall.
Reply:How did you know whether Charlie did not just choose to see only the problems when he became smart? Some were not problems. Some were avenues for growth - opportunities.



We are all in a field of flowers and weeds. Some thinks it's all flowers. Some thinks it's all weeds. Derived realities.



Smartness is relative. You are not really smart if you don't know how to be smart.



You don't really lose when you die. You don't really win when you live.
Reply:Simple anwer to your question.



No.
Reply:Everything that was easy came with luck.
Reply:it can be easier in certain ways, but from what i remember about the book he had problems as he was losing his "gift". It has been a lojng time though.
Reply:All I can say is that it gets lonelier the smarter you are. And there are many reasons why this is so. In this sense alone being incredibly smart makes life hard, not easy.



But that said, I prefer smarts over being retarded any day. Retarded people suffer too and they can have it worse than the smart people who have the abilities and the option to do better.





see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flowers_for...



addendum: I sincerely hope this Q doesn't turn into a pity party for the super-intelligent.



Just for contrast, imagine the answers you'd get if you had asked the Q: Would life be easy if you were incredibly retarded?"
Reply:I doubt it..... some of the savants, for example, those super-high-IQ folks, probably spend their lives second guessing everyone and everything. I'd rather think that at least some of the world's greatest decisions were made by honest , sincere common sense folks whose "agenda" was simply the common good and nothing else, even if they didn't all have straight As, PhD.s, etc.
Reply:There are some schools of thought that believe humans define their existance by their hardships. We look to find conflict and strife in every situation. Is life easier or harder with or without money? Is life easier or harder with or without a companion?



I think the answer is it'd be different. You'd find problems with different things. But I cannot believe it'd be any easier or harder.
Reply:I don't think it would be any easier.

No one person has all the answers to life.

If you did, don't you think it would be boring and you'd miss a sense of adventure in learning how to be smart?
Reply:when you are smart you want to know everything about everything around you... and everybody expects beyond excellent work from you compared to "dumber" people. no one expects a dumb person to do a 20 page report on stuff like evolution and so on...

"the smarter you get the more complicated the world is"

im not sure where i heard it.
Reply:That was the whole idea of the story. If you are smart you are aware of everything around you, and you can compare one type of lifestyle with another and feel shortchanged.



I highly recommend Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet, The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon. Each of these books deals with Autism, a crippling brain syndrome. Born on a Blue Day is Daniel Tammet's autobiography. He was an autistic savant, but he came out of it. His book describes the world as he saw it before and how he sees it now. The Speed of Dark was a fantastic book which follows the story of a high-functioning Autistic man from his normal life to life after being "cured" of his Autism. The Curious Incident... is about a young man who has Asperger's Syndrome/high functioning Autism who finds a neighbor's dog murdered.



If you are interested, you can watch Mercury Rising with Bruce Willis and Rain Man with Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. Mercury Rising involves a young boy with autism and Rain Man is based on the true story of the experiences of an autistic man and his brother.
Reply:not really!

unfortunately sometimes ignorance is a bliss!!!!
Reply:EASY BECAUSE YOU COULD DEDUCE WAYS TO BECOME INCREDIBLY RICH BUT ALSO BOOOORRRRRRING.
Reply:The smarter you get, the harder it is to find meaningful discussions.
Reply:Actually, I think it is much harder, because the more a person learns, the more they realize how screwed up things are, and how good they could be. I often tell my friends that I would much rather be ignorant ("ignorance is bliss") becuase then I wouldn't know how many times mankind has been deprived chances for the scales of inequality to be balanced, only to have those chances squashed by governments, religions, prejudices, greed, corporate monopolies, etc. I think intelligence can be a burden, and the only people for whom it makes life easier are those who have no morals, and use it to commit sophisticated crimes. If you are really smart, and have good morals, life can be very "challenging" to say the least.
Reply:I think you figured it out yourself. Ignorance is bliss.
Reply:Life's not easier for smart people...they just have a different set of problems to deal with than less smart people have.

"He who increases knowledge increases sorrow"...(from somewhere in the book of Ecclesiastes)