Stinky Feet

I don't really sweat. I've seen basketball players with sweat POURING off their faces -- that has never, ever happened to me. I think there are several reasons for this, but the biggest reason is that move of my life I've had a pretty low level of exercise. I was a total lazybones in grade school, high school, college. Then I got a desk job, and I'm a little surprised I didn't gain more than 40 lbs. when I was pregnant with Parker. In fact, I was in WAAAAY better shape when I had Stewart than when I had Parker, and the recovery was a thousand times better (although part of that was due to a couple of complications with Parker). Since then, I've taken a boot camp class, and I guess I do glisten a little if I exercise, but it's nothing I need a towel for. But I digress. What I started out saying was that I don't really sweat... but I definitely have the stinky feet gene. I blame the Bairds -- we all have great circulation in our feet. And that has caused a few problems, like athlete's foot, but honestly, once I stopped wearing socks to bed at night I've been good. Except for odor. It's embarrasing, and I really hate it, because I have a way sensitive nose. A few years ago, I discovered shoe spray. It has revolutionized my existence! It's a little aerosol spray that kills all those yucky bacteria you can smell growing in your shoes, and makes it totally un-embarrasing to take off your shoes in public (and I'm totally including my immediate family in this -- it's that embarrasing to me!). Fast forward to our move... lost my foot spray. It hasn't been a huge deal, but I think I might have lost a few pairs of socks in the move, too, so since the weather's been nicer I've been wearing no-socks -- and that's the kicker when it comes to shoe odor. Well, the other day I found our foot spray, and thought I was good. Unfortunately, I wasn't good at all. My shoes were actually getting stinkier. So, so, so gross. I wasn't taking my shoes off for ANYTHING, and I know that made things worse. Things progressed to the point that it smelled like ... brace yourself... dog poop. I couldn't figure out what was happening, but then Friday morning I actually took the time to read the label on the "shoe spray":
Great for getting wrinkles out of your clothes. Bad for shoe spray.