Who are those women that are making up for me?

raises hand

But I buy most of them for cheap from thrift stores or eBay. And then epoxy sparkly bats or skull cameos to them.

I hope it's not Lyme, msbelle. It doesn't sound like Lyme, frankly - usually you get a ring-rash around the bite, not swelling. And you usually have to have the tick in for a long time to get Lyme. Was the bite somewhere you wouldn't have noticed a tick for 12 hours?

I don't really own a purse. Still. At pushing 35. I do have a regular tote bag, now, but it's canvas and green and pink and purple polka dots.

I do look at purses occasionally, but nothing that's been fashionable in the last 3-4 years has been interesting to me. I want plain and structured and old-fashioned, not buckles and ruching and hobo bags. Now, if somebody gave me a crocodile Kelly bag, I wouldn't say no.

I just can't deal with changing bags, so I only carry the one on a regular basis. And the current one is from Target, and perfectly meets my needs, so I guess I'm driving a Kia or something.

One of my favorite purses is a novelty and was a gift. It's a pair of 501 Levis. All the pockets and belt loops are there and it is hella convenient.

My grandmother made me one of those out of my old jeans! When I was little. It was AWESOME. I still have the pillow I made out of the leg(s), but the purse is gone.

I let it take a 30 minute nap, and it started again; but it ran down its charge again within 10 minutes.

Alternator?

I do have a ring rash. the red area has gotten bigger, not really swollen. Where this is there is NO WAY a tick was there for 12 hours.

I bought red and green purses a few years ago and when I wasn't overwhelmed with life I would switch out purses and actually make use of ones that match, but now I mostly carry a black one with white edging.

Alternator?

Oh, I hadn't thought of that one. Alas! More things on a car I am not qualified to fix myself. But I can look all smartastic when I interrogate the actual mechanics in the morning.

Re purses: leather always matches, preferably black leather. At least, I think so. No one looking at me would consider me a reliable source of fashion advice.

Ick. I hope you're clean, msbelle. Was that what you were scaring Mac about?

I have a small black leather backpack that replaced a small black leather backpack. And the disproportionately expensive pewter satin Coach evening bag.

Allyson has a purse I want to steal. Contents she can keep. I want the outside prettiness.

Robin linked to a bag a ways back that I vaguely remember might have enough pockets to work better than my current bag. I hate fishing for stuff, even though my bag is small and the zipper runs around three of the four sides.

Jewelry that might as well be made for me. I love that aesthetic.

And this dress is made of win.

If this came in pink, I...nah, but almost!

Cool pants. No way I spend that much money on pants (uh, well, unless they're jeans), but they are cool.

This would need a hell of a lot of boning to not look like crap. Even mannequin looks slouchy and droopy.

Aw, man. I hope you don't have Lyme, but if you do, it responds quickly to treatment.

I don't carry a purse everyday. I have a satchel to carry all my crap in. It's larger than I really need for everyday, but it works for work. It needs some serious washing and leather spa-day, I think. When I don't want to lug that around (99% of the non-work time,) I have a sparse collection to chose from. There's the monster black rectangular one I use for flights-because I could fit a couple books, cd player, water bottle, wallet, etc. Except I think I can now use the smaller slingy black purse now that I have an ipod. That's the one I carry if I need more than a wallet. Just the wallet (and keys and sunglasses) I have a small boat shaped black bag. Target-faux-coach, I think. Sense a color theme?

When I lived abroad, I carried a 5x7ish embroidered pouch (color!) to fit my passport, visa and metropass holder, a skinny wallet and a vice. I later upgraded to a leather one about the same size (from the same place I got the satchel. Man, I doubt you could find that quality of goods now for what I paid back then-$150 total.)

And that's all I have. And I don't travel with more than one if I can avoid it.

Which is why I've needed to borrow one of Kat's cute bags when I visited last.

In non-fashion-related news of weirdness, I just learnt that Sean Paul has a song out in which he talks about two people I know. Family friend who died of brain cancer at about 18, and another family friend that died this past weekend. He knew the one, and knows the son of the other (this is the son that put out a record with Me'shell Ndegeocello and I'm thanked in the liner notes).