THE Bag

There are many things that Ben is good at that I'm thankful for. I think the most important one is his ability to buy me awesome presents. I will admit there was one year where I got a dust cover for my monitor and a car adapter to plug in my laptop. Let's just say they were items I needed, but not what you expect from your husband.

This year he knows I've been wanting a new handbag. Since once being employed in a handbag buying office I've become very particular in what kind of bag I will carry. (Yes, I'm a bag snob). So he let me pick one out, not a surprise present, but an awesome one nonetheless.

My first "adult" bag, non- pvc, cost-more-than-my-very-first-paycheck, kind of bag was a butter yellow Cole Haan satchel. I carried that thing for two summers and started in on the third one before my boss told me it was time to move on. So I began searching for a new yellow bag.

I found one. Yellow, leather, Cole Haan and at a great price. I showed Ben, he loved it, I ordered it, and it came on Friday while he was in Denver. Of course I opened the box. My birthday is two weeks away, but a new bag should not spend anywhere near that amount of time in a lonely box.

I should've been tipped off that the bag might be a tad large when the UPS man needed his hand cart to deliver it. I could pack for a week to Europe in it!!

I took it home over the weekend to get everyone's thoughts on it. As you can see it's much larger than my old bag.

Last night at dinner, I told Ben I wanted to keep it. Big bags are in, and, even if I'm only toting around wallet and a pair of sunglasses, I'll look damn good. Now that I've already opened my present I asked Ben if he was going to get me a surprise present for my ACTUAL birthday.