I featured something similar from Cole Haan a few weeks ago, but I thought I’d bring this lovely red cell phone wallet to your attention today — can you think of a single woman on your gift-giving list who wouldn’t benefit from something like this? If she’s working, it’s the perfect I’m-just-grabbing-lunch-quickly wallet (she can even keep her lunchspot “frequent eater” punchcards in there) — and if she’s a mom, student, or someone else normally burdened with a HUGE bag, who wouldn’t love just being able to grab your wallet and your phone and go? This one is $65 at Nordstrom — love that lipstick red. Brahmin Universal Phone Wallet
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meara
12/20/2012 at 2:56 pmWhiny complaint ahoy: I’m supposed to be flying home for Christmas today, but there’s a blizzard in Chicago, so I may not get home. I dont want to spend all my vacation days waiting in an airport, or flying cross country to spend all of one day with my family!!
PollyD
12/20/2012 at 4:03 pmVery legitimate complaint! I’m supposed to fly there tomorrow and am just keeping all my appendages crossed that I make it.
Good luck!
NOLA
12/20/2012 at 4:42 pmSitting in an airport sucks, no doubt. Last year I spent an entire day stuck in the Memphis airport waiting for my flight to DC. My flight was supposed to leave at 9:30 a.m. and it left at 3:30 pm. I missed an entire day with my family and arrived exhausted.
So sympathy, lots of sympathy.
meara
12/20/2012 at 5:48 pmWell, it got canceled while I headed to the airport…and the best they could rebook me on was leaving tomorrow night, spending the night in Houston, and getting home at 430pm Saturday. I told my mom she better be glad I didn’t just cancel!!
manomanon
12/20/2012 at 6:02 pmI feel you! I just had to give up a half day of work and my car to catch what will probably be the last boat until Christmas day… but at least I can get there early not late
Good luck!!!
b23
12/20/2012 at 3:09 pmIs there supposed to be a space between a single apostrophe and a quotation mark? Such as:
“And then b23 was like, I’m pretty sure all these people are doing it wrong.’ “
b23
12/20/2012 at 3:10 pmCorrection: “And then b23 was like, ‘I’m pretty sure all these people are doing it wrong.’ “
SunnyD
12/20/2012 at 3:11 pmNo space.
b23
12/20/2012 at 3:13 pmThat’s what I thought. And don’t you love it when you’re complaining about other people’s grammar and make a mistake yourself? Lovely.
SunnyD
12/20/2012 at 3:24 pmWe still think you’re really smart.
Alt
12/20/2012 at 3:43 pmPeople do it both ways. In my opinion (which is informed by various magazines and newspapers), there should be a space, but it can be thinner than a normal space; see grammar girl on this. And if you’re typing, it should be a nonbreaking space so that the quotation mark doesn’t end up on the next line.
Mini rant
12/20/2012 at 3:37 pmUgh. I hate being told that I can’t do work that is both interesting and substantive because I MIGHT need to sit around in the office so that I can do work that a paralegal should do (I’m a third year), especially when I haven’t been working on that particular matter. I cannot wait until I can stop working with these awful people.
PCV
12/20/2012 at 3:43 pmShopping help request:
A woman in the village where I teach has asked me to bring her back a warm skirt from America. She wants a dark color, longish, fairly fitted skirt in a thick winter material. She told me her waist measurement is 52 cm…I have no idea what size that means. She’s pretty round in the middle (apple-shaped, I think it’s called). She’s around 60 years old.
I’d really appreciate suggestions! I have no idea where to start.
PollyD
12/20/2012 at 4:06 pmWell, using a metric conversion website, 52cm comes out to 20.5 inches, which seems really small – is she a very tiny woman? Anyway, I’d make sure the 52cm is correct (and is the measurement for all-the-way-around-the-waist – circumference?), and then start looking at shops that might have the skirt in question (Nordstrom? Talbots? Ann Taylor? Patagonia?) and check the measurement charts.
LR
12/20/2012 at 4:15 pm52 cm is 20.5 in, so I’d think that her total waist circumference is probably more like 41 in.
I like this one. The size chart says she’d be an 18W but the reviews both say to size down so 16W might work.
http://www.landsend.com/pp/womens-plus-size-gored-washable-wool-skirt~242932_57.html
Bluejay
12/20/2012 at 4:32 pmI was going to suggest this very skirt!
zora
12/20/2012 at 4:14 pmHey Bay Area ‘R3tt3s,
Anyone going to be in town through the end of the month? I have no specific holiday plans, so I would love to plan some fun times. Any interest in a meetup to do something fun, that can be completely non-holiday related?
Or even in a 2 person meetup with me? I feel a baking spree coming on, but I can’t eat all the product myself, so I have some open positions. These positions have only one requirement: eating baked goods and chatting with me over tea/cocoa/hot toddies.
Anyway, respond on here. I’ll probably also send an email around in case anyone misses this post. Happy Eating Yummy Winter Goodies!
k-padi
12/20/2012 at 5:47 pmMe! Me! I’m leaving Saturday but coming back in time to work on the 26th. I broke my phone and lost your phone number though. :-(
SoCalAtty
12/20/2012 at 4:20 pmI love this, especially the red! I just need the new iPhone 5 to put in it! (My iPhone 4 is on its last legs I think)
Blonde Lawyer
12/20/2012 at 5:23 pmDude. It is the conspiracy. Did it stop working after the 5 came out? I refuse to give in, dropped calls and texts not sent/received be damned.
SoCalAtty
12/20/2012 at 7:03 pmI think it started when I dropped it in the toilet :) The problems started right after the 4S, actually, so I agree with your conspiracy theory!
If I drop another call my phone might go flying out the window. Can I just get a phone that, hey, works as a PHONE first and all the other stuff second? So frustrating.
emcsquared
12/20/2012 at 5:24 pmRandom thought – I am excited that tomorrow is the 21st and days will start to get longer soon. I’m tired of walking to and from work in the dark every day.
Also – does anyone know if there is a “happy light” that you can wear while you’re walking? I walk my dog in the deepest, darkest part of the early morning, and it would be a perfect 30 minutes to have a little sun lamp with me.
Anonymous
12/20/2012 at 6:09 pmHow about these? They’re kind of odd looking but I bet they’d work!
http://www.seqinetic.com/our-product/
k-padi
12/20/2012 at 6:35 pmHelp! My mentee bought me a Christmas gift! What should I get for her?
KC
12/21/2012 at 9:41 amAn advice book you’d recommend? Cute stationary, a business card holder, or fancy pen? Or, if she likes coffee, a Starbucks gift card?