Iconic hipstorer bag is merely a sequel to the baby-sling

Last week I worried everyone with talk of my running career being over because of leg and back pain, and although no one came over and massaged my aching body, someone did give me some excellent advice which actually seems to have remedied the problem.  This person was my mom and her advice was to buy new shoes.  Let this be a lesson to all of you Googlers out there who don’t know what you’re doing.  Sometimes you just have to ask your mom what you should do.  Unless your mom is a dumb-ass.

In other news, I made this amazing Coach fanny pack for my rugged male companion for his birthday:

It's a Coach Hipstorer. It doesn't need a caption.

After the making of this, I laid in bed thinking about fanny packs, which we will now refer to as hipstorers.  I thought to myself about different materials I could use to make more hipstorers for the betterment of the world.  The thing is, though that I don’t really want to be the one to make them.  I want other people to make them because I’m really less of a manufacturer and more of a thinker.

Remember the other day when I was thinking about this memory in my head of the last time I had an idea to make something useful to people?  Of course you don’t because it was going of inside of me, and you’re out there.  This other useful thing that I made was a babysling which is a bag for carrying your baby.  I wanted to make a line of slings that matched the mother’s style of dress and wasn’t baby-themed.  This was around the time that I was in the slave portion of my motherhood, which is very different from this period of motherhood where I just have this ten-year-old person that just kind of hangs out with me.  In the beginning, I had to carry her.  Something strange happens when you carry a person around for a couple of years.  Your arms become tired, and your brain becomes full of ideas for giving your tired arms a break.   I actually made a prototype of a sling that copied the design of the Dr. Sears babysling, but was a fashionable black with red paisley trim.  I’m so cutting edge.  My mom mostly made that bag because I was the thinker and she knew how to sew.

This lifetime of making two bags made me realise that maybe I’m just incredibly tired of carrying things.  Maybe my mom shouldn’t have made me carry groceries in from the driveway to the house.  Even though she solved my back problem with her shoe-buying advice, I think it’s only fair that I blame my mom for this fatigue I feel.  I mean, she sent me a text message this morning that said I needed to make pancakes for my daughter every morning and stop buying soy milk.  I know my daughter was speaking through her, and because of this I feel incredibly sandwiched by the surrounding generations.  They are squishing me with their pancake demands.  I now blame both of them.  The Coach Hipstorer is their fault.

My job of professionally carrying things is also to blame.  I basically wear a hipstorer to work everyday.  In the restaurant biz, we call it an apron, but it’s a hipstorer.  It’s a waste-fastening method of carrying all your crap around, so now what?  I get enough practice carrying things around at work.  Why do I have to carry them here in the outside world?  I don’t think it ever stops either.  Old people have to carry their walkers and iron lungs.  We have to carry our smart phones.

We have to carry our smart phones.

Yesterday I was sitting on a couch in the middle off the mall with my phone on my lap when I looked over at one of the guys who was about to fall asleep at the mall.  He had his phone on his lap.  I think I’m not so different from the people who fall asleep at the mall.  I’m addicted to my electronic device too.  I’ve had this idea to go through electronic device deprivation for a few days and then to write about it.  I’ve had this idea for two years but am so incapable of not being in contact with the rest of the world via my smart phone that I can’t even go  through with it.  What is that?