I live in a part of California that allows me to wear shorts almost year round. Seriously. Yes, it does freeze on occasion, but during the month of January, I was able to wear shorts to work at my daughter’s school on four separate days. Woot!
Of course that also means there’s no hiding my legs beneath heavy Winter clothes. I have to continue to be vigilant about shaving my legs. Darn.
Well, not exactly “darn,” because I’ve been using some of the new Venus Shavers, from Gillette, and they make it easy to have smooth, nick-free legs.

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I’m a barefoot girl, from way back. I’m barefoot indoors, always, and outside, I do my best to get away with flipflops all year. It doesn’t snow where I am from, but it does get frosty. If I’m wearing shoes, than chances are it’s my Asics running shoes.
All of these foot habits – barefootin’ it, constant flipflops, and running – they work together to give me some not so pretty feet. My toes, sure they look fine, I always have a fresh pedicure, but the calluses, well they are another story.
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