Last week

I went to blog last week, but silly blogger wouldn't let me log in. It does that alot. I'm thinking the 7pm time to blog is a bad one. Maybe everyone takes that 5 minutes they have after dinner before having to get the kids into the shower and bed to Blog.

When it wouldn't work I did my blog rounds. They are very slim rounds, but I happened upon Cowtown Staceys blog. I can feel in my heart what a wonderful person Stacey is, not that she knows me, nor I really know her. But I just know. Her blog that day was about all the abandoned blogs. Those that were given life but then just left hanging out there by themselves, forgotten and desserted. I wondered to myself if the actual Blogger site had something to do with that afterall I couldn't even post to my own blog.

Now today I found a post on SS by Cowtown Stacey about a topic to blog about. Its about the contents of your purse. And I found it interesting after reading a few posts that your handbag not only reveals alot about you, but is very personal.

One of the ladies at dancing yesterday turned up with a new handbag. It was very stylish and I really liked it tones and size and style. Its by Guess. $180AUD. Way way out of my price band. But just for a moment I tinkered with the idea of having something like it. Then I realised it totally wouldn't fit with the rest of my things - like the worn out jeans, mostly falling off because even my new ones don't fit, the mismatched style, I have things that I still wear that are 8-15 years old, very sad.

But then I thought about my current handbag. Its a back pack. Supposedly leather. It was very practicle because I could use 2 hands to push the pram when I got it. Its quite large inside and holds a heap of stuff, so when I ditched the nappy bag I could store a couple of emergency items (wipes/nappies/undies) in there just in case. Now things just get lost in the bottom of it, never to be found again. It has a compartment at the front which is magnetic - definately not good to put your eftpos or credit cards in there as it wipes the information, and it has side pockets which I store my phone in one of them. Only problem with that though is that you can't hear it when in a shopping centre, and even the vibrate is useless because the back pack is only touching your body by the straps, so you can't feel the vibrations. And I'm always worried that in a crowd it would be very easy for someone to open the zip on the bag and take my wallet, since its hanging behind me and I can't see it.

The thing though that makes me think its coming to the end of its lifespan, not that the straps are worn out, or the bag is wearing through, but the little leather tags on the zipper have broken off, so you have nothing to pull the zipper with. Surely thats a sign of plently of use, definate value for money, I think I paid about $20AUD for it. So do you think its time to be retired so I can get a nifty summer purse? I think so. Sure hope DH thinks so too. Maybe I can find one 'on sale' :D

I'll do the purse contents tomorrow. Gotta get the kidlets into bed now.

Later.