constance | The things I carry

Hey, let's never go a month without speaking again, okay? With that in mind, the facts that I love you and want to see your smiling face more often, I mean, let us proceed to an actual entry. It's content-light, but if you love looking at other people's things as much as I do, it should at least be a little interesting.

First, the bag itself:

I love it a lot, except for the lack of a top close and the rounded bottom, the combination of which means that when you're driving inattentively (as I do), the contents of your purse go spilling into the footwell of your passenger seat on average of like twice a week. Still like it, though.

And here are the current contents. My purse is not always this tidy -- usually I'm approaching some sort of critical mass in receipts and lists -- but you didn't really want to see a bunch of wadded up paper, did you? I didn't think so.

My wallet. When I'm carrying a smaller bag, I carry a smaller wallet (embarrassingly, I have like six of them in various sizes so that I can switch out), but for a bag this big, I get to carry EVERYTHING, just in case I am struck by the urge to get a haircut or donate blood while out. Hey, it happens.

Glasses case. Contains both a spare pair of regular glasses, and a pair of prescription sunglasses. You can never be too careful; just ask coco_palmolive, who once had to spend half a weekend trip sitting at Lenscrafters when I left my regular glasses sitting on the seat of my car at the Atlanta airport.

Gum and breath strips. I don't know who I'm expecting to kiss, but by God, I'll have fresh breath when I do it.

Food journal. Today's take so far: turkey sandwich (3 pts), chips (4 pts), vegetable soup (2 pts), and 64 ounces of water (0 points, and not drunk all at once -- I was mowing the grass this morning). So far, 9 pts consumed. And, as it happens, 9 pts earned while mowing the lawn. I am good for an extravagant dinner, which I am totally planning on having. Shut up it is a holiday.

Notebook. In case I ever need to write something down.

Super-teeny mp3 player, because my iPod mostly stays at work. This one holds 2 GB and plays video, so it comes with me.

Cell phone. Obviously.

Keys. Some are mine, some aren't.

Thumb drive. Current contents: The entire oeuvre of Rancid, a Big Bang story soundtrack that I liked the concept of but haven't gotten around to listening to yet, and the Big Bang story that the soundtrack goes to.

Weight Watchers stuff: a points/activity counter, my monthly pass card, and my weekly progress card. I lose them if they don't stay together.

Makeup kit: contains a Tide pen, a powder compact, an eyeshadow, a mascara, and about forty lip glosses in slight variations on the same color (that color being the natural color of my lips).

One pen. One pencil.

Hairbrush. I don't need it so much since my last haircut, because for some reason my hair actually stays tidy with this cut (no, I will never understand the physics of hair). I carry it anyway, though, because I know those circumstances could change at any minute.

You should share yours too.

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The stuff in your bag is so pretty (shiny, pink, or shiny and pink!). I really like that notebook.

It is all very matchy, isn't it? I bought it all at different times without regard to what else I was carrying, believe it or not. Which goes to show, I guess, how unbelieveably consistent my tastes are.

I like that notebook too! So much that I bought a couple of them when I found them. So now when I run out of paper in one, I can just keep going.

I think I have those same forty lip glosses.

And everything is so bright and cheerful! Lovely colors!

I do like me some bright colors! At least I do when it comes to accessories. Not so much with the lip gloss, though.

You have SUCH cool stuff.

Hahahaha, it's not especially cool, or anything, but I think it's very pretty and strokable, which makes me happy.

That makeup bag is the prettiest thing I ever did see. Can I ask where you might have acquired it? (and that sounds really weird, rereading that sentence. Sorry for being weird, er? *grin*)

You may ask! I might have gotten it at Big Lots, actually. It was a three-piece set, this bag plus two larger travel bags in the same sturdy red satiny fabric for something like seven or eight dollars.

I am a fan of Big Lots, but the thing is that you kind of have to look for stuff, luck into it.

Also: not weird at all!

Yay for pink! I think almost all my purse accessories are now pink. Except for the ziplock bag that I have stooped to using as a makeup case from all the flying I was doing earlier. Now that seeing Leit does not involve airports, I should probably get something prettier again.

Pretty accessories are one of my favorite tiny little pleasures in life. I totally think you should go for a lovely pink case for your makeup. Everything is more beautiful and exciting when you put it in a pretty case, you know; I think it's a law of physics.

Many years ago I realized that if I carry nice things in my handbag, people need not realize what squalor lurks in the rest of my existence. I can put on a nice face to the public, at least.

This came to me very clearly in one of the moments frozen in amber. I was in college, at a sweet, old-fashioned drug store near campus, pondering a new comb to carry in my purse. For an extra dollar, I could buy the elegent French one in tortoise instead of the gaudy neon Goody one in bendy plastic. Perhaps these were my two roads diverging in a yellow wood, and I, I took the French one.

I'm so behind on posts I want to make, but maybe I'll do a purse shoot. It would be a good spur to cleaning out all those receipts of which you speak.

Oooh, I totally agree with you on the nice-things front. I live on a budget (I originally wrote badger there, which has a nice ring to it), so I can't usually afford the best-of-everything, but when the difference is only a few dollars between the pretty and the merely serviceable, I'll spring for the extra dollars every time.

It's especially nice when it's pretty and cheap, though!

And you should do a purse shoot! I love having permission to look in other people's stuff!

I always feel so inadequate whenever I see these pictures. Yours especially, because you have such exquisite taste and everything looks so sparkly and un-grungy. (I did feel slightly better, though, when I read that you'd excised the plethora of receipts.)

Wallets for all sizes of purses? This makes me want to hug your head. (And speaking of purses, the pictured one is adorable.)

Aww, you always have lovely stuff too! But if it makes you feel any more better even, I also had to brush out the lavender-scented bath salts from inside of my bag. They leaked all over the place when I put them in there (they were a souvenir from a friend who went on vacation about three months ago), and until this weekend I never cleaned them out, just got lavender-scented salt under my fingernails every time I scrabbled around in the bottom for a pen or a quarter.

Sheesh, even your messes are delicate, feminine, and lavender-scented. You Flower of Southern Womanhood!

Oh, fiddle-dee-dee, Rhett! :D

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