Do you have a pen? Of course!

Someday soon, I may grace the blog with a post about my fledgling lilac bush, and other plants, most of which are probably on death's doorstep. (As my plants tend to be.) But first, inspired by Mausi, the purse meme. I wrote it a looong time ago (as evidenced by the fact that these photos were taken in my apartment, which I vacated in March). But my digital camera photo-downloader-cord-thingie got lost in the moving shuffle, only to be unearthed a few days ago. What's a (quasi-)blogger to do?

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I tend to change purses to match my mood/outfit/the weather. I have too many (but not enough) in many colors, shapes and sizes. But I've been stuck on this lovely purse since Christmas, when I received it as a gift from my future in-laws. (Can you tell red is my favorite color?) So deceptively simple and compact on the outside:

But on the inside -- It's like Mary Poppins' carpet bag in here!

• 2 packages of Kleenex (cold season)


• Antibacterial lotion


• Palm Pilot


• Cheap sunglasses in cheap vinyl case, because I constantly lose or break them


• Pill box, which only contains daily multivitamin and birth control pills, but otherwise with me, it's constantly "Did I take my pill and vitamin today?"


• 2 cell phones, which no one should be saddled with, but one's for work


• Lots of keys


• 2 lip balms, 3 lip glosses (so WHY do I never have it when I need it?)


• Ticket stub to Hugh Grant's latest film, which we saw last weekend (I give it 2.5 stars, because Hugh Grant is cute)


• 3 mint lifesavers


• 2 Peptol Bismol tablets


• Some sinus medicine that I rarely take


• A notebook (for play, not for work)


• 4 pens (again, that mysteriously disappear in my time of need)


• A big fat red wallet (fat with receipts, not cash)


• Business card case (it's Coach, also a gift from the future-in-laws -- Future mother-in-law has great taste!)


• Work ID


• Teeth cleaner thingie


• Eye drops, for when my contact lenses get dry


• Saline nasal gel, for when my nose gets dry


• Nivea Creme, for when my skin gets dry


• Face powder


• 2 hair bands, 2 hair barettes


• The cute earrings I got in Spain (that's where those went!)

...I guess I can't really say I'm low-maintenance, can I? Although I think the multiple purses already gave me away.