I get far too attached to things.

[derien]

I have a little change purse kinda thing, flat, with a zipper across the top, just big enough to fit my credit cards, ID, bills (if I fold them in quarters), which is dark green with a brown design - some sort of random repetitive thing on one side, but on the 'front' it has a horse's head and forelegs with some sort of stylized Greek-looking thing that might be wings. Unfortunately the little purse is so old, now, that it's more like a net with frays. I suspect I've had it for ten years, it wasn't new when I got it, and it's been in and out of my pocket forty thousand million times. I had attached the keychain which daegaer sent me (the one with the illuminated 'D' from the Book of Kells) to it, and with the loop of that I could add it to my carabiner with all my keys and hang it from my belt loop, making for a big jangly mess, but keeping everything right where I needed it.


However, it's time for me to let go and move along. I'm sad.


It's replacement was bought last night. It's not so much me, but it's cute, and a little more practical, perhaps, because it has a long string with which to hang it over my shoulder. This little purse is only about an inch taller, has little bells on it, and a sequined elephant outlined in glittery thread. Completely the opposite in terms of style - I've gone from understated to overstated. :) And I probably shouldn't tell you all about it because we also bought a mate to it which will soon be in a package on it's way to bravecows.


This new purse's only true drawback is that the keychain daegaer sent me won't attach to it as neatly as it did to the old one, because the hole in the zipper tab is too small, but I really shouldn't have to do that because, after all, I can hang this one across my shoulder, I don't need to hang it on my belt loop in order to not lose it. I think I'm just bothered by that because now the keychain, which I like to have with me, is at loose ends and needs to find another home. I'll just stick it on my 'biner for now, I guess - along with the car key, the three apartment keys, the five keys for the van (five - every damn thing on the van locks individually) and the hair elastic with a barrette attached, just in case I need to ever put my hair up.


The last thing taking up precious space on my 'biner are a set of tag cards: from Videoport (where I rarely go because we almost never get around to watching movies), Shaw's (which I don't frequent often because I used to work for Hannaford, who's their biggest competitor in this area), Harvard Book Store (the only purpose this card serves is as a memento of matushan because I rarely get down to Cambridge to use it), and The Whole Grocer (who get whatever trade I can take to them because they are a small, local business and just seem connected to the same Maine-granola scene I grew up in - which means I go there a couple of times a month to replenish our spices).


I have no idea why I just wrote all that.

edited to add: On top of writing the stupidest entry I've ever written, I then had to edit it three times in order to make it post. Stupid Semagic.

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[bravecows.livejournal.com]

And I probably shouldn't tell you all about it because we also bought a mate to it which will soon be in a package on it's way to bravecows.

eek! *heart*

I have no idea why I just wrote all that.

Aww, I like knowing these things. I don't really like carrying a lot of stuff around with me myself; I tend to forget things like mobile phones and wallets and, um, lip balm (*g*). The only thing I always take around with me is my keys, because I have a terror of getting locked out of my room.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Well, with this size purse you'd need another one if you even wanted to carry a mobile phone, it's that small. ;) But it's probably big enough for your keys and ID. I've experienced being locked out of a dorm room, and it sucks. I once lost my keys for quite a while (I almost think I actually got them replaced after a week) because I had put them in one of the pockets of my knapsack which I never opened. Too many pockets in the thing you carry around is not a good idea.

Somehow I feel like the things one chooses to carry around is like a little slice of personality. And now I'm flashing on when my Dad read The Hobbit to us when we were little, doing Gollum's voice: "What has it got in it's pocketses?" (That's something I quite often actually say to myself, because I'm always finding things I didn't realize I had.)

[mizzmarvel.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm the same way. Only I tend to not throw things away, ever.