The worst thing about having to move, besides leaving a familiar house, job, and good friends, is that you usually can?t plan when it?s going to happen. Suddenly you find all your stuff in boxes, and WHAM, you?re in a new city before you can even blink or change the mailing address on your credit cards.
If Mr. Feather were a prescription drug (OK, just go with me on this one), one of the side effects listed on the bottle would definitely be ?sudden movement?across the country.? And that?s how we found ourselves knee-deep in boxes, without a couch, and making multiple IKEA runs a month this past December.
Once January rolled around, most of our stuff had been put away, we?d bought and assembled a new couch, and we had stopped obsessively visiting IKEA like it was our second home. I began to drop a few not-so-subtle hints that now might finally be a good time to propose. Mr. Feather usually replied that I needed to buy boots first.
I thought these were not the kind of boots he was referring to, but Mr. Feather later said these would?ve worked ?just fine.? // Image via AliExpress
Asking a woman to shop for shoes" Super easy. I hopped on Zappos and ordered a cute yet practical pair of snow boots by Canadian company Kamik.

OK, they?re maybe more on the practical side than the cute side. // Image via Amazon
Cue Boot Fiasco 2016. Not only did I forget to get rush shipping so they would arrive in time for the weekend, but I also ordered the wrong size. Reason #5,483 why I ...