Little Self Help and Motivation

Check out my crazy self on a college evening. Snug deep in my sofa of study. Surrounded by my posse. Yep, there's my laptop, my binders, my study guides and outlines, backpack, pens and pencils. The whole lot of them showed up to cheer me on! How very thoughtful...

My roommate walked in and looked at me. Not for too long though, this isn't out of the ordinary. Just means exam time is rolling around. A sly glance to my feet however and I felt the need to explain,
"I needed some motivation," I said. "These are my ass kicking boots."
(Pardon my language, it's just a direct quote after all.)

Pink is the color of determination.

Motivation, indeed. They sort of began as a joke, a little quip between myself and Ms Edenland after reading this post. I felt I needed some Angry Cowgirl boots. We all need a pair and figuratively we all have that pair we slip into when times need to get tough. And the Tough need an excuse to be, well, tough.

I've got my boots now though, a thoughtful gift from my Mom, who kept throwing by tentative glances and asking if I liked them. Pink, being a third-party suggestion, happened to be both a nod to the irony of my lacking feminism and my steps toward breast cancer awareness support. They maybe cute, but they'll stomp all over you. And that's how I rock them, because they're powerful.

Which is fun because Life has been good to me in the past few months. Apart from a few major catastrophies everyone in my immediate circle is doing great. In fact, minus a two-story fall off a building and a full hip replacement, we're peachy keen!
Lacking the appropriate weather or reasons to wear them hasn't stopped me. I just decided to introduce them to my life in baby steps. Even homework requires a bit of buckle-down to business. You know, just little requests: Hey there, boots. It's finals week. I need your help; Can you do that? Oh great. That'd be great.

Because we all know that soon enough I'm going to have to go Full Metal Jacket on their backsides with a 0600 wake up call and barking drills before we assemble to march. But we'll get them there, one step at a time. Their time will come and for now, I don't want to startle them off.