purely speculation

[bolton carley]

In one of my regular industry updates, I read that the top six magazine pubs consist of two travel mags, two wedding glossies, one weight loss monthly, and one fine publication about handguns. Something about that set me to giggling.

 

As a country, I assume we all want to sail away to tropical islands to escape our nine-to-five jobs that have become seven-to-ten jobs, but attain the trappings of marriage, as long it involves a gorgeous Vera Wang and party favors with our embossed initials.

 

Unfortunately, when we marry, we get fat and happy which certainly isn’t acceptable, hence the need to push ourselves to the perfectly cut, painstakingly lean body of a model living on yogurt and celery only to have an affair with someone commenting on our newly touted beauty or be so hungry-bitchy that we drive our poor spouses away. It is only then that the need for handguns should arise to shoot the adulterer, the imperfect self, the messenger, or the chicken that crossed the road in front of us on the 5th day of the celery diet.

 

Not that I’ve seen this happen, or anything…

[bolton carley]

lol, mike!  jimmy choos definitely fit with vera wang! :)  vera is a classic designer - love her because it's always very simple-looking, but elegant (which i can't really pass off) and never makes you look fat (woo-hoo!) - and people beg her to make them wedding dresses.  but way out of my league. :)

[Mike Handley]

I promise: I had no idea who or what Vera Wang is. This same thing happened to me about four years ago, when someone referenced Jimmy Choos. I should've guessed shoes. I know two brands: Reebok and Payless. I buy one pair a year, and I wear them until they die on my feet.

[bolton carley]

brittany - love anything scandalous! 

cath - fashionably late is always still welcome!:)

kathleen - thanks!

ed - thanks for handling that.  i assumed mike was being factious, but shouldn't have assumed.  however, i love that you're a closet women's clothes horse!

[Edward Dean]

@ Mike; Vera Wang is a high fashion women's clothing & shoe designer.

(Yea, I'm into women's clothing but Nanc won't let me go public:))

[Kathleen Gabriel]

This is such good schtuff! lol

[Cath Barton]

I'm late at the party and everyone's said it all - I love it!

 

[Brittany]

or to shoot the person that says she needs to get the stick out of her a** and just eat a cheeseburger.  they are here too…  with stories too scandalous for 6. 

you make me laugh :-)

[bolton carley]

mike - sign me up for the pizza!  but even i'm a sucker for a vera wang.  just too cheap to buy it :)

cita - i don't diet either.  hate it.  but nothing wrong with looking good!  but i understand a cowgirl going the jeans route, too.  happy broom jumpin'!

peter - love buffet!  and i don't think that's wrong.  i didn't start writing hard core until my husband came around and allowed me the time for it by making $. lol.

dart - thank you.  glad to meet you!

[Dart Humeston]

I love this! This is insightful, interesting and funny. And probably true! Great job!

[Peter McNiff]

Reads like a course in modern philosophy but I think I'll stick with the Buffet diet - the same since he was five years old; found a wife who could feed and dress him so that he could get on with the job of making billions; and when his first wife wanted to do her thing, she found him a wife who could...well, I'd be repeating myself.