Sad Socks

Today I made one of the more depressing purchases of my life and paid $30+ for socks. SOCKS people--one pair! Not even cute socks, mind you, ugly grandma socks. That's right, today I bought my very first pair of compression socks. Never mind all of the other wonderful things that come with pregnancy, my body has decided that I need a good case of varicose veins to boot. So in an attempt to help my poor, bulging, aching, black and blue legs, we took a trip to the medical supply store and found that there are all kinds of these horrible socks. They have athletic ones and thigh highs, work socks and (my personal favorite) hose that are made with a special pregnant belly section so they look like this:

So I decided, "Hey, If I'm getting grandma socks I might as well get the ones with the cool

 looking box." You know, those are the ones that have a title like, "supportive elegance" and "beautiful comfort" and have an attractive career woman on them. I went over to look at the prices and guess how much they were? $75-$100. Why, you may ask? Well, they do have the word elegance in them (also the salesperson said they are machine washable whereas the others were not). 

At this point I decided that I had to resign myself to plain old "grandma support" which resulted in my absolute favorite part--the choosing of the style and color. I somehow declined the full on maternity hose based on the fact that 1. hose are uncomfortable normally, and 2. it is 100 degrees outside, and also decided that thigh highs were a bit much (they showed a sexy looking woman in lingerie on the front of the box for that one, hah!). So I settled on a pair of knee high socks. It was of great concern to the salesperson that I have the color that I wanted. Now I ask you--at what point would it really matter what color I got these ugly socks in? I asked for hot pink but apparently they only come in  black, white, and nude. 

Well to make a short story long (which I now have done) I am wearing the ugly nude, knee high socks right now and you know what? I kind of like them. Turns out I accidentally bought a pair that was open toed so that I can wear my flip flops without everyone even noticing I have them on (feel the sarcasm). But really, I sort of feel like a pregnant dancer wearing very ugly leg warmers. 

The end.