work bag for the work horse

for someone who spends so much money and time gawking at handbags, you would THINK i carry a rockin' HOT one to work...but alas, i don't. i carry a very modest, broken in black lesportsac nylon bag. i know...whut?! not only is it nylon and bleh looking, it's also ripping at the seams. shame on me, i KNOW! and i call myself bagnatic.....poser!

but you see, i can look rather homeless when i go to work; t-shirt, baggy jeans, flip flops during the summer if i can get away with it. my chanels and bottega would never do and honestly, i would have happily toted this broken in bag for another few hundred years to honor my homeless look, IF the ripped seam didn't cause my cell phone to fall out! for a few days, my phone was zappy and i was so MAD! ahhh! that's when the thought of replacing my pathetic lesportsac took root.

so flash forward a few months later and a few days of NO INTERNET and i was ripe, RIPE i tell yah to do some shopping damage since i was so bored out of my mind. so a harmless stroll through the mall led me to nordstrom which lead me to the handbag section and what do i see? the marc by marc jacobs dr. q hillier hobo in black!

PERFECT!

it is made of nice black pebbled leather which makes it durable and luscious (oh how i love leather bags!). the black color makes it less scratch prone and is big enough to house all my neccessities. the short handle and a detachable leather strap also allows me to tote it four different ways which i liked. not to mention it looks pretty cute and will be the perfect bag for me as i go straight to happy hour after a hard day's work.

messenger style with the bag towards my rump.

to the side using the long strap.

right up against my armpit when i carry it with the short handle.

and lastly on the crook of my arm (no modeling pic for that one). methinks it's the perfect purse to use when i carry it to work. i was about to go nutty and pick a colorful one, but i reminded myself that this is suppose to be a basic black bag for work so i reined my drag queen proclivities back in and settled for the black one. i just hope marc fits in my desk drawer when i get there. regardless, i am happy with my replacement. the nylon one will be kept around for hiking purposes. woot!

i'm blaming it on the internet

i was without internet for a few days and needless to say, being the mouse potato that i am in my daily life, it was cruel and unusual punishment indeed. ugh. talk about silent screams in my head!

boredom usually breathes trouble for me so i visited the mall instead which lead me to nordstrom which lead me to marc by marc jacobs which would have totally been averted if my DARN INTERNET CONNECTION HAD WORKED! and yes, it's ANOTHER bag!

watching a watch

the last time i wore a watch was about 10 years ago. it was a cool fossils watch with a red face and you press a side button for the time to light up. if i dig around my bedroom, i might be able to find it, but i'm not going to so please use your awesome imagination instead. i thought i was so cool wearing that. so spy worthy.

then i got a cell phone and wrist watches became the thing of the past. it just didn't make sense to double time things. why strap on another accessory, pay double for another thang, when the cell phone just does it all....just does it all.

that is until about 2 years ago when i saw chanel's j12 white ceramic watch and fell head over heels in love with it. that was probably THE ONLY time that i ever thought i NEEDED a watch...that i couldn't live without one. my s.a. even brought it out for me to "try" it on, see how it fits, you know, have some fun. yeah right...she was banking on the fact that i was a weak chanel mofo.

anyways, i tried it on and indeed it is LOVELY, but the sometimes rational voice inside my head told me loudly, "YOU DON'T WEAR WATCHES! PUT IT DOWN! ARE YA NUTS?!" so i did and walked away, wimpering a little of course cuz it's just sooooooo pretty! of course, that doesn't mean i don't look at it fondly or stare like a pervert when i see one.

anyways, here's the chanel j12 with diamond markers....on another lucky chick's wrist.

and here is another version encrusted with diamonds. chanel loves to bring in different variations for this classic. this one i had to put on my sunnies when i saw it. dayaaaam my friends, dayam!

if i must say so myself, if i was to ever pick up a watch, the white ceramic chanel j12 will be the one. it just pops off your wrist. so dang hot!

blessing of the char nar

the whole family really loves charlie. he is like the doo doo baby that we've never had. his grandparents love him (you should see the thick slab of boiled chicken breast that they make JUST FOR HIM every sunday when we go for a visit), i love him, my fiance loves him, and my sis REALLY loves him. so it's not a suprise that charlie doo doo gets dragged along to things like the "blessing of the animals" at olvera street this past saturday with his mommy and his auntie in tow. here is the story of charlie and his blessing:

first off, charlie saw and sniffed a lot of different animal butts. he really had a ball there:

cow butts.

big bunny butts.

butts that go neeeeyyyyy and doo doo monstrous green things.

and butts that won't ever win a race, but a children's story book says they do. don't believe it peoples.

while waiting in the EXTREMELY long line to get him blessed, i saw a pack of beagles. i got so excited cuz charlie is a single dog and rarely do we meet a pack of them so i walked him over so he could meet his own...but he ran away like a little baby. he apparently prefers chihuahuas and yorkies...what a racist!

when we finally got to the front of the line where all the blessing took place, the priest took a huge brush (reminds me of the kind you use to clean your toilets....SERIOUSLY), dipped it in this huge tupperware bin, and DOUSED, and i mean DOUSED us with water. he could have probably turned on a hose and we would have been just as wet. we all walked away feeling a bit dazed...wow, just wow. i didn't expect that.

we walked around a bit more before i got my churro fix and saw a lot of other animals that were dressed for this special occasion. i really liked this cage set up which i first thought were stuffed hamsters but if you look up, there's two yellow birds! how cute!

we also saw a punk rock doggy. she looked like she shops at hot topic. cute x 2!

we finally made it out of olvera street and its tight quarters but once in a while, we would have to pick charlie up in fear that he was going to get trampled or that he would eat a loose churro or something. that little dog has awful stomach problems :(

here's his auntie holding him. i told you he gets mucho love! what a spoiled, smelly little dog my little lovely charlie brown :)

it was a good day.