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June 2002
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When you're unemployed and also a massive consumer, as I am, you start coveting all this stuff that you never even knew you needed. I was in Linens N Things over the weekend and found about 264 things that I really really need, like a $20 beach towel that's big enough for two. And, if you're like me, to satiate your material desires, you'll start making a mental list. Adding new things to it everytime you watch t.v., flip through a magazine or have the audacity to venture into the mall. (You don't know why you go there, because god knows you certainly can't buy anything.) Now, this isn't a list of everything I plan to buy once I'm gainfully employed. Just stuff I want, and a few, very few, things I need. s A coffee maker s So much music: the new Patty Griffin, Willie Nelson's Duets, the new Wilco, the latest Indigo Girls. (Thank goodness for friends with good musical taste and CD burners.) s Reef flip flops s Guitar lessons s Make-up. I would do anything to spend the day at the Bobbie Brown counter in Neiman's. Not to mention my regular stuff that's nearing the end of its existence and needs replacing, like my MAC studio fix and Stila blush. s A massage s Gym membership, plus private pilates sessions at the studio down the street. s Cookbooks s Cooking classes s Pillows s 400 thread count Wamsutta sheets s Subscriptions to InStyle and Shape s Sex & The City Season 3 on DVD s Buffy Season 2 on DVD s Someone to fix, or explain to me how to fix my DVD player (Only sound. No picture. Everything plugged in. Why?) I realize now, as I sit here and read over this list of stupid stuff, that this may make me appear rather greedy and materialistic. And while I can be both of those things at times, I don't think that's who I am all the time. But I still really want some new shoes.
The notify mourns my unemployment. The forum is brand new, baby.
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