Woo Hooooo!!!

I've been trying to behave the last couple days to really put a dent in my BHP (big huge paper) that's due on Monday (5 pages down, 10 to go...). I have a post saved that I've been trying to find time to finish and publish, but that will have to wait another day or so.

So why the excitement? It certainly isn't over the paper I'm currently slaving over. Well not currently as in this moment, since I'm obviously typing this instead of the BHP, but I am in the school library taking a break from said BHP. The "woo hoo" is because something that almost never happens to me has, in fact, happened. I won!! I actually won something! I contributed to MckMama's Not Me! Monday post this week, and was amazingly rewarded with the adorable (adorable!!) little purse in this post. I also won a $100 gift certificate from PURSEnally Yours to choose a purse of my own design.

And let me tell you, if there's anyone that could use a purse, it's me. I have a hard enough time keeping track of myself and the munchkin, let alone all our other stuff (my school bags, his diaper bag, my gym bag, etc). With all I have to carry around, I end up juggling all the important stuff (license, check card, library card, school ID, cash, and so on) between bags and inevitably end up forgetting something somewhere. Like today for instance, when I ran back out to the car after class to grab my wallet so I could get some breakfast/lunch (brunch? on a Thursday??) before starting on my BHP. Wallet? It was in the car. Check card? Nowhere to be found. Cash? In my backpack...except I used my laptop bag today for school. Grrrrrr.

So a purse is just what I need to keep all the stuff in one place. So why haven't I just broken down and bought a purse you ask? Well the short answer is I hate (loathe!) spending money on myself. Can't do it! Don't really like it when other people do it either. So I'm purse-less.

Now the tough part. I've been looking at the PURSEnally Yours website trying to decide (another thing I'm not the greatest at--decisions) what to get. Should I get a nice big messenger bag? Or a big Olivia purse? Or go with a cute small Olivia purse, then get a make-up bag and wallet to match? Or not match...the next part is figuring out what fabric to choose.

So many choices, so little time to procrastinate.

So if I have any readers out there (Hellooo? Anyone?) feel free to leave your input. What have you found works best for you? Big bag to just throw everything in? Or smaller bag so it doesn't get as cluttered, with a wallet or what-not to move from bag to bag? I'm not the most organized person to begin with, so keep that in mind. 

Or should I just hire a personal assistant to keep track of and carry all my stuff around for me? Ha! Maybe I could train a monkey to do that. Now that would be fun :)