Wednesday, October 29, 2003

Once You’ve Tried the Good Stuff. . .   . . .it sure is hard to go back.  I’m not talking about wine, here, but I may as well be.  Recently, and for all the right reasons (my own wedding to throw, and throw properly, buying a house, trying to avoid the base commercial instincts that Manhattan so easily breeds, not to mention a friend’s upcoming wedding in Prague, where I’ve never been and would love to see, in addition to them being people whose wedding I wholeheartedly support) I’ve adopted a few “austerity measure” in my everyday life.  Not as far as food goes, since lord knows I can make shoe leather taste good with a little home-canned tomatoes and home-made chicken stock, so truffles be damned.  And not as far as wine goes, because I fully know that you get what you pay for and I’d rather be dry than drink bad commercial wine.   Here I am talking about stupid, girly things.  Pedicures, okay, I love a good one and a good one lasts longer than my home-made ones, but whatever, I’ll deal, it’s only my toes.  But I have to say, I miss the Kiehl’s moisturizer that makes my skin feel so soft and young.  I miss the expensive haircuts that still look good 3 months later (but can I really devote the cost of a case of  a decent case of wine to one?).    I guess I need to find the cosmetics equivalent of my stand-by Cahors and Cotes du Rhones and the odd, amazing Riesling (good, cheap wines).  Things don’t have to be expensive to be good, I know. (Chicken livers and young white turnips and sekel pears from a farm stand, not  to mention those wines, case in point).  I just have yet to find the equivalent in facial products. <sigh>      9:31:07 PM    comment []