town & country

So yesterday morning I had a doctor's appointment and in the waiting was the January 2005 issue of Town & Country magazine. I looked at the cover, almost holding it like it was the window to the super-rich and uber-famous' taste in jewlery, wine, clothes, cars, and traveling spots. The doctor's office has some sort of rich sounding (Bose?) classical music playing, so I am almost transformed into some elegant place far away as I flip through the pages. The only articles I stopped to read, mind you, struck me as ironic for the magazine.

I, unfortunately, am not a subscriber... I subscribe to far too many magazines, most of which I'm letting expire just due to the fact that I never read them and they are such a waste. I'm finding it better to skip on down to Borders and read their magazines for free. And buy a book.
Back to the articles. One article talked about how there was a woman at a party who spoke of how if the hired help didn't come to do the laundry that she would just go buy new clothes, how she had 4 luxury cars, and on and on... The author was commenting on how she/he didn't really /know/ anything about the lady but what she HAD. It's so easy to get into that trap of wanting more and how when we buy something it is the best thing that we have bought for the immediate moment, but then all of a sudden there is something else we want. The author spoke of getting rid of two pasta makers that he/she never used (who buys those?) and other useless things in the kitchen and now knows what is in her kitchen and actually uses it. Simpler living. All of this and more in a magazine that seems to throw Chanel ads in your face. Kind of ironic, don't you think?

I think what I want is a deeper commitment with God, a deeper commitment with my boyfriend, to be totally debt-free, and to be content with who I am and what I do. I have the very last thing nailed. I love being a pharmacist. I love knowing that when I was out for a week there was a bit of mayhem because there's not a one of the pharmacists there who have the IV experience that, as one collegue said, "keeps you needed here.. no job insecurities for you!"

So anyway, we had ice and snow last night... going to get a shower and see about making it to work. I always scoff at those that don't at least attempt, but that was when I had a front wheel drive Mazda and not a rear wheel drive 350Z convertible.