So apparently the fact that Michelle Obama doesn’t carry a handbag but the Queen of England does is enough for a news item. Aaaaaaargh! Hate!

But I guess as a blog of small details, rather than the nightly television news, it’s okay for us to talk about such small trivial nothing things, and I can ask you: can you deal without a bag? I’m known to tuck lipgloss and my cellphone into my bra at parties, but I like to know that there is hand cream and my wallet close at hand. I suppose if I was the president’s wife or someone walking the red carpet, I might have an assistant to carry my bag, but I just can’t imagine that I’d want to give up my autonomy like that. I mean, right now this is the contents of my handbag – which, admittedly is a large satchel from Webstock:

• My digital camera
• My glasses case
• Sunglasses
• Wallet
• Power bill
• Sticking plasters/moo cards
• Coconut & vanilla hand cream
• keys
• NW (but only just for the plane ride, I swear!)
• Empty lexapro box
• Eclipse peppermints
• Berry delight lip smoothie from Global Soap
• Sunscreen that I just got free today with M2Woman
• The eyeliner I bought at our Mary Kay party and just got from Amy
• Lancome Juicy Tube in Fraise
• An “all natural” Chapstick
• A USB key
• A really ugly gold necklace that I was going to wear to the Steam Punk party but didn’t
• Lexapro and zopiclone
• Olive lip balm
• Work business cards
• Napolean eye shadow in iridescent green
• A secret present for someone awesome I need to mail to them.

Still to go in my bag before I go on holiday tommorow: my new pencil case full of makeup and also my ipod with huge big earmuff-sized headphones. Okay, so I have a bit too much going on, but that’s normal, right? What’s in your bag RIGHT NOW?

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