scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues
Ugh, you guys, my work schedule is SO WEIRD THIS WEEK. So weird.
But here is that bag meme everyone is doing, mostly because wheres_walnut has like, incepted me into doing it, I think. Possibly not even on purpose, it's hard to tell, she is a nefarious Nut.
Right, so, this is a BLURRY AS FUCK SORRY photo of my laptop bag/briefcase, and oh man, bag, when I bought you you were much less ugly. It has served me well, and I take it pretty much everywhere with me, but oh, oh, it needs to be retired/replaced SO HARD. It has seen better days and no mistake. Pretend it's this bag, as it may well be in a few days, depending on whether or not I can squash the impulse to buy that one.
And now, for the shit inside it!
1) Notebook of random scribblings/recipes/articles I yanked from magazines/fortunes from fortune cookies/usually at least one envelope I need to mail/shit my family says. It's a Moleskine, yeah, I know, I'm such a hipster, WHATEVER DON'T CARE LOVE IT MOVING ON.
2) iPhone case in lieu of actual iPhone, which is otherwise occupied with taking the photo
3) iPod that, seriously, I do not ever use because I just use my iPhone, I don't think it's even charged, WHY AM I CARRYING IT
4) Wallet. It's almost nice enough out to switch from Boring and Black Because It's Winter to OH MY GOD SO YELLOW SUMMERTIME HOORAY, but not quite.
5) Keys :D
6) Makeup! My brush bag isn't pictured because it's in my car right now and I couldn't be fucked to go get it, sorry guys.
7) Okay, Walnut, this is for you. The white pair of headphones is the main pair I'm using right now; the pink ones are backup pair number one, but the sound cuts in and out a little on the right earbud. The grey ones are backup two, and actualfax BROKEN--the left earbud produces no sound at all and the right one is hit or miss--but they are STILL BETTER THAN BEING TRAPPED IN A STARBUCKS FORCED TO LISTEN TO WHATEVER THEY'RE PLAYING INSTEAD OF MY OWN MUSIC. There's also a fourth pair in my car, which work perfectly but went through the washing machine by mistake one time, and are as such uncomfortable.
...what, you guys, I never said I wasn't neurotic, I never said that.
8) That's...a Ziploc baggie...full of Advil. Er. I almost didn't include this because it's so not classy, but basically I don't like throwing a whole bottle in there because I only buy it in the giant bottles at CostCo and it takes up too much space, but I also refuse to be without Advil in immediate reach ever. Thus: Ziploc baggie full of Advil.
9) My boss got me this on a vacation she went on a few months ago; it's a bookmark made out of wood, and it's really light, and that deer thing is carved out of the middle. I'm a tactile thinker, so I play with this sometimes when I'm trying to work through something--flip it and catch it, trace the inside, spin it on the rounded corners, etc etc. It's just the current incarnation of "oh, that's in my bag so I can fuck around with it for no reason at all." One time it was one of those rubber erasers, even though I can't draw. One time it was a rock. *shrug*
10) I THOUGHT I HAD MORE PENS IN MY BAG THAN THIS, WHERE HAVE ALL MY PENS GONE
11) My primo awesome brand-new super fab primary pair of sunglasses
12) My laptop. That sticker over the Apple icon is actually a reference to the Grateful Dead song "Scarlet Begonias"--the line is "the sky was yellow and the sun was blue"--and I picked it up at a show in Columbus this summer. AND YOU GUYS THOUGHT I WAS KIDDING ABOUT THE DEADHEAD THING.
13) My shitty backup sunglasses. I hate them, but they are better than no sunglasses. There may or may not be, um, three more pairs of sunglasses in my car just in case.
Not pictured:
-The mystery box of mysteries that really just contains tampons (in my car, can't be fucked)
-All of my chargers, because...you guys know what chargers look like...
-Burrito's extra pair of drumsticks, that I keep in my bag because I take him to drum lessons most weeks and he generally forgets them
-That bag of Triscuit crackers I always keep with me, because I was totally going to put them in the picture but then they were right there so I ate them
-All the crazy shit I keep in my car, which, actually, this meme makes me look saner than I am, because seriously my car is a pit of WHY WOULD YOU NEED TO HAVE THIS ON YOU. Backup shoes, okay, and food and water and blankets and I think there's a suitcase in there right now and and and (etc). But the thing is, that time this winter when I was stuck in that gridlock for five hours? I was really glad I was crazy. Even if I still didn't use the backup shoes.
-ALL OF THE TRASH.
OKAY NOW YOU GUYS DO IT :D
But here is that bag meme everyone is doing, mostly because wheres_walnut has like, incepted me into doing it, I think. Possibly not even on purpose, it's hard to tell, she is a nefarious Nut.
Right, so, this is a BLURRY AS FUCK SORRY photo of my laptop bag/briefcase, and oh man, bag, when I bought you you were much less ugly. It has served me well, and I take it pretty much everywhere with me, but oh, oh, it needs to be retired/replaced SO HARD. It has seen better days and no mistake. Pretend it's this bag, as it may well be in a few days, depending on whether or not I can squash the impulse to buy that one.
And now, for the shit inside it!
1) Notebook of random scribblings/recipes/articles I yanked from magazines/fortunes from fortune cookies/usually at least one envelope I need to mail/shit my family says. It's a Moleskine, yeah, I know, I'm such a hipster, WHATEVER DON'T CARE LOVE IT MOVING ON.
2) iPhone case in lieu of actual iPhone, which is otherwise occupied with taking the photo
3) iPod that, seriously, I do not ever use because I just use my iPhone, I don't think it's even charged, WHY AM I CARRYING IT
4) Wallet. It's almost nice enough out to switch from Boring and Black Because It's Winter to OH MY GOD SO YELLOW SUMMERTIME HOORAY, but not quite.
5) Keys :D
6) Makeup! My brush bag isn't pictured because it's in my car right now and I couldn't be fucked to go get it, sorry guys.
7) Okay, Walnut, this is for you. The white pair of headphones is the main pair I'm using right now; the pink ones are backup pair number one, but the sound cuts in and out a little on the right earbud. The grey ones are backup two, and actualfax BROKEN--the left earbud produces no sound at all and the right one is hit or miss--but they are STILL BETTER THAN BEING TRAPPED IN A STARBUCKS FORCED TO LISTEN TO WHATEVER THEY'RE PLAYING INSTEAD OF MY OWN MUSIC. There's also a fourth pair in my car, which work perfectly but went through the washing machine by mistake one time, and are as such uncomfortable.
...what, you guys, I never said I wasn't neurotic, I never said that.
8) That's...a Ziploc baggie...full of Advil. Er. I almost didn't include this because it's so not classy, but basically I don't like throwing a whole bottle in there because I only buy it in the giant bottles at CostCo and it takes up too much space, but I also refuse to be without Advil in immediate reach ever. Thus: Ziploc baggie full of Advil.
9) My boss got me this on a vacation she went on a few months ago; it's a bookmark made out of wood, and it's really light, and that deer thing is carved out of the middle. I'm a tactile thinker, so I play with this sometimes when I'm trying to work through something--flip it and catch it, trace the inside, spin it on the rounded corners, etc etc. It's just the current incarnation of "oh, that's in my bag so I can fuck around with it for no reason at all." One time it was one of those rubber erasers, even though I can't draw. One time it was a rock. *shrug*
10) I THOUGHT I HAD MORE PENS IN MY BAG THAN THIS, WHERE HAVE ALL MY PENS GONE
11) My primo awesome brand-new super fab primary pair of sunglasses
12) My laptop. That sticker over the Apple icon is actually a reference to the Grateful Dead song "Scarlet Begonias"--the line is "the sky was yellow and the sun was blue"--and I picked it up at a show in Columbus this summer. AND YOU GUYS THOUGHT I WAS KIDDING ABOUT THE DEADHEAD THING.
13) My shitty backup sunglasses. I hate them, but they are better than no sunglasses. There may or may not be, um, three more pairs of sunglasses in my car just in case.
Not pictured:
-The mystery box of mysteries that really just contains tampons (in my car, can't be fucked)
-All of my chargers, because...you guys know what chargers look like...
-Burrito's extra pair of drumsticks, that I keep in my bag because I take him to drum lessons most weeks and he generally forgets them
-That bag of Triscuit crackers I always keep with me, because I was totally going to put them in the picture but then they were right there so I ate them
-All the crazy shit I keep in my car, which, actually, this meme makes me look saner than I am, because seriously my car is a pit of WHY WOULD YOU NEED TO HAVE THIS ON YOU. Backup shoes, okay, and food and water and blankets and I think there's a suitcase in there right now and and and (etc). But the thing is, that time this winter when I was stuck in that gridlock for five hours? I was really glad I was crazy. Even if I still didn't use the backup shoes.
-ALL OF THE TRASH.
OKAY NOW YOU GUYS DO IT :D