new shoes, and job hunting

[aslant]

new shoes i bought yesterday. so comfortable! they are the first pair of high heels i have been able to wear since the surgery last summer. the scar is not pretty to me -- the line is not tight and too blurred, and i am still kind of self-conscious about it. i've definitely caught some stares in public. the hardware is not painful, but i hate how it deforms the line of my already-lumpy, short ankles.


in other news, it turns out that a job i was going to apply for today is not on a portland campus, but rather in klamath falls, a six hour drive south of here. boo hiss.

Comments

[nevers.livejournal.com]

cute! i love them. have you treated the scars with vitamin e, silicone patches, or other stuff like that?

[aslant.livejournal.com]

thank you! (i am calling them my dancing shoes in hopes that kirk will take me out.)

i've treated them very periodically with lotion and scar treatment. i'm very bad at moisturizing anything that's not my face. i should do more. i just worry that it won't really change the part that really bothers me, which is the blurriness. it might reduce the redness a bit, though.

[nevers.livejournal.com]

what if you set a schedule to moisturize right before bed and right out of the shower every day? i apply so many goops to varying parts of my body twice a day that it's hard for me to imagine having trouble doing it :). i don't really know what aspects of the scar will change.

i think the silicone pads are meant to be worn for days at a time? so you wouldn't have to apply anything daily.

[aslant.livejournal.com]

i could link it to showering, i guess. do you recommend a particular scar gel/cream in particular? i've tried two; a derma-e gel that seemed light and useless, and an onion extract goop that was so gummy and sticky on my hands afterward that it didn't seem worth it! i do want to try the commercial patch thing that just stays on for a while.

[nevers.livejournal.com]

the onion extract sounds awful! i guess you could try applying it with a q-tip, if you still have it around. i don't have any specific recommendations, just for vitamin e in general.

[aslant.livejournal.com]

well, it was gross but my sister swears by it! haha. i didn't think of q-tips, good idea :)

also, every time i've gone to buy plain vitamin e gel there are so many stupid additives and other things mixed with it. i need to try a health food store and buy it just plain.

[mutable-earth.livejournal.com]

[ your shoes are so cute!

have you tried rosehip oil for the scarring? it really does help. i use trilogy's organic rosehip oil and it's really good.

and, yeah, a twelve hour daily commute is a wee bit too much ;) ]

xo.

[aslant.livejournal.com]

i haven't heard of rosehip oil for scars -- it sounds prettier than onion extract, that's for sure! i'll look into it.

i'm glad i checked ahead of time about the location. my brother attends this school (oregon institute of technology) at their local campus, so i had just assumed they had a larger presence here in town. sadly, no! and too bad, it was a cool job -- working with high school kids to get them enrolled in college classes early, which increases the rates of college completion, especially for underprivileged populations.

[baatastic.livejournal.com]

Your feet look adorable in those shoes. K-Falls isn't *that* bad, but I know you want to live in Portland. If you moved down there, you'd be near Rachie!

[aslant.livejournal.com]

klamath doesn't sound too bad - i could totally live in my dream farmhouse and have a huge garden, and rachel could advise me about the proper stoking of my wood stove :)

the slight lack of pdx jobs immediately available has definitely made me look at corvallis & eugene options. though i keep reminding myself that the whole point was to be near my family, and a two-hour drive is hard to justify as 'near.'

[baatastic.livejournal.com]

It's better than a loooong plane ride.

[triesticity.livejournal.com]

Cute shoes! What kind are they? I am definitely in the market for a pair of comfy heels.

[aslant.livejournal.com]

they are gnw shoes, a brand carried by fred meyer stores here, which is a kind of smaller version of a walmart. i'm not finding them online, anywhere, sadly. i am so in love with them! mid-height heel, kind of a kitten-curve, and the strap has an elastic end -- perfect for my lumpy feet :)