PeSuit and Tie

another week of coffee dates, shopping, and enjoying the seaside, local cats, and countryside drives. the amount of secondhand smoke in the cafés gives me the same rush as if i'm still smoking cigarettes.  we took mom on a date to zadar , for some shopping and sightseeing. it was a fun day, a full itinerary - shopping at one mall, coffee break, a walk down the riviera, chestnuts as a snack, another mall, then kfc takeout (per dad's request).  our mom also wanted to treat us with a shopping haul for our birthday, and i wanted to stop at the store  borovo  - a croatian shoe store. they have startas  sneakers, think something between keds and sambas. borovo carries other beautiful shoes (flats, boots, etc), but i had my eye on some startas shoes. when i was in middle school, my mom bought me a pair with a marine pattern (blue and white stripes). i wasn't sure if i wanted a crazy pattern this time, but sib encouraged me to choose a more subtle shoe to style with mor...