these are my new poppy-orange birks, though for mine the brand print at the side is black. i still love my cream ones, and what alot of new fancy ones they are coming up with to entice us poor unassuming birk-addicts. there's the pretty pearlised white ones, all the metallics, so many new colours! mingyao and i indulged today in my all time favourite black brandied cherry haagen-daaz ice cream so soft the cream, so sophisticated the cherry chunks. we ate while it rained outside and we walked through town with browsing, ice cream, lunch, getting from point a to b to c, all excuses actually just to be able to be with each other, the most delicious flavour of all.

i wish i could eradicate all the pains. you hurt i hurt.