testing the strength of my self control

“You have three pair of Star Wars shoes?  I thought you only had two.”

The above statement can be taken two different ways.  First, with the implication that my wife finds me way hotter now that she knows I have three pair of Star Wars shoes.  Or, more likely, she could think I’m way nerdier.

Regardless of how you interpret her statement, the fact that I only own three pair of Star Wars shoes deserves a lot of credit.  Considering the limited supply of the kicks combined with their very high phatness quotient*, it would be reasonable to have purchased every last one of the releases.  But I didn’t.  I limited myself, even though I might never have the opportunity to buy Star Wars kicks again.  Good job, me.

*If you are interested in acquiring the actual equation for the phatness quotient, you’ll have to contact my mother-in-law.  She is a nationally known math methods professor, and is very close to earning her Ph.D.  I don’t believe the phatness quotient is the actual subject of her dissertation, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it at least makes an appearance.

But hark! The foul temptress of indulgence is preparing to rear her head again.

*Gasp*

Word came down the line this month that Adidas is planning a whole new run of Star Wars product for the upcoming Fall/Winter season.  My initial reaction is that I don’t love the new line.  Some of it is really quite ugly.  But there are three products I am incredibly smitten with.

Problem: I already have too many shoes/clothes/jackets.

Problem: The two items I want the most are a bit too fashion forward for my wife to be seen with me in public wearing them.

I don’t know what the solutions are to those two problems.  But I do know that no one on the corner would have swagger like me if I was rolling around in a Chewbacca-themed jacked with matching boots this winter.

And that, my friends, is a little thing I like to call “hawtness personified”.

Renew and Restore

2 Comments to “testing the strength of my self control”

  1. I know you’re in KS, but reading the “Overheard in DC” this week, I wondered if you could be two places at once.

    “This would be awesome if Dad was reenacting the scene where C3-PO makes all the sound effects to the Ewoks

    A man is sitting at a bus stop on Connecticut Ave with his two children in a stroller:

    Man (in a storytelling voice): ‘And then Luke Skywalker, Han Solo, and Chewbacca all got in the Millennium Falcon … And then Darth Vader said, ‘I see the student has become the master!””

  2. let me just tell you how impressed all of the theology and ministry students were at the department picnic tonight. both of my kids joined me in wearing star wars shirts, and i was also flossing the tie fighter kicks. i got mad props. granted, the students could have just been sucking up for better grades while mocking me behind my back. that’s a possibility.

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