Death Of The Little Black Bag
So, walking into work this morning, I tripped on the sidewalk and fell on my hand and my knee and banged one of my ribs up with something that I was carrying. I turned and sat on the cement for a moment to catch my breath and looked around at all the things I was carrying. I had my breast pump, my laptop, my purse, the bag I carry my milk in, and then my bag of other stuff that I might or might not need at work (my organizer, snacks, a soda or two, a pack of pictures to show Virginia, a digital scrapbooking magazine, ribbon making supplies – Ribbon Making Supplies? What do I do at work all day – do I really think I might have time to make HAIRBOWS?) No wonder I fell – I was lugging enough supplies to keep a small army (okay, a small army of breastfeeding, scrapbooking, hairbow-making babies) happy for a week. Anyway, that is not the point. It may be A point – like at some point I need to evaluate why every day when I come to work, it looks like I’m evacuating for a hurricane, but it is notTHE point, the point of this blog entry. The point of this entry is that I realized when I looked around at all the various bags that fell when I fell, I saw nothing but a sea of black. Every single bag that I have is black – and not just the bags I brought with me, the bags at home are black, too. My camera bag, my video camera bag, my other laptop bag, my scrapbook totes – black, all black. This is a picture of part of my black bag collection:
I realized something, sitting there on that sidewalk amidst all of those black bags. I am like the Goth Queen of bags and I do not want to be the Goth Queen of bags – I am not a classic, black kind of person. I love color – I love pattern – I love texture. I do not buy plain black material – if you look at my material collection, it’s filled with bright, bold, whacky patterns and some soft pastels, and lots of toile. Not many solds and NO solid black. Same with my scrapbook paper. So, why so many black bags? Well, partly because you don’t have a lot of choice in what you buy, and partly, because, for some reason, I gravitate to black with my clothes and my bags. But, no more – from here on out, I’m going to go for the craziest, brightest bags that I can find. Like check out this totally cool Kiwi laptop bag from Around The Block Products Yep, I’m going to completely revamp my bag collection – no more black is my new mantra. I will only have colorful bags, even if I have to make them myself. At least then, I’ll have something cheery to look at when I fall down on my way to work.