A Farewell to My Purse

Is this weird? Maybe just the title? "Tours" of purses and bags are pretty common in the blogging world, I think, so I wanted to do one before I switched to my new purse.

The history of my purse:
I bought it...three years ago about this time! I think I had busted my previous purse, so I was contemplating getting a new one, but didn't actually do anything about it until my mom was saying how she would need a crossbody for my parent's trip to NYC. So I went on Vera Bradley's website and ordered myself this purse (Hipster in Versailles). It has served me well these last three years. It expands to hold a couple books, if need be, as well as all the other little things I keep on me. These days, my purse contains:
- receipts, which are organized into a little notecard organizer at the end of the day
- my wallet, which contains coins, cash, and any and all cards, including my business cards
- car key, which totally looks like Batman
- work keys/name badge/my box cutter, Hercules
- gum
- hand sanitizer
- house key
- book I'm currently reading

I'm a simple gal. I moved everything over to my new purse after I took these pictures, and will hopefully add a few more things tomorrow. Things have been switched around a little bit, so tomorrow is my last day of working at (my) Chick-fil-A for a while. I'm not going to lie, I am pretty sad. But more on that tomorrow...maybe.

- rl

OCD Tendencies + WIP Wednesday??

197/365

There is a slight possibility that I am slightly OCD. I will never say I'm totally OCD, because that's just not true, but I've got a certain way I like things done, like the following:
- receipts go into the cute folder thing I bought at Target a few months ago (shown above)
- certain things (iPhone, iPad, my really beat up work shoes, etc) have to go in the same place each night, because how else would I find these things in the morning?
- the format of the heading in my journal has to be consistent each day, obviously
- everything has to be in its right spot on the counters when I open at work each day

Are these OCD tendencies, or just common sense things? I'd like to believe the latter, but the way other people do things makes me believe they're the former.

Oh, and a little fun fact: this is my 250th blog post! Woohoo!

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Ok, so I hit publish on this post, then realized it's Wednesday? "Who cares, Rachel?" I DO. Wednesday is when I post my current work in progress!! It's midnight!! I can't take those pictures at this hour!! Welp. I'm not going to attempt them now, because this post is already done. So. What did I work on this week? If you take a peek at last week's post, just imagine that cross stitch with no progress, and the hat completed like this one, minus the tassels. I feel better now. Except for the fact that I posted the wrong thing on one of my most consistent blog features. *face palm*

- rl

(p.s. this is part of my 14 goals for 2014. You can view all my goals here.)