I have a serious question for all the ladies out there:  How much makeup do you have with you at this very minute?

("We're ready to load your makeup bag into your purse, Jenny!")

This is obviously assuming you're not at home (because for me, "Buckets of it" would be the answer).  I'm talking about when you leave the house and head for work or school: How much makeup do you take for on-the-go use?

Here's why I ask: I was about five minutes into my Monday Morning Routine - surfin' the web, poking through the Inbox, and generally trying to perk up and get started - when my coworker came over to my desk in a panic.  Owning to a contact malfunction, she had rubbed and smudged off most of her mascara on one eye, and needed emergency reapplication.  Did I have any she could borrow?

"Sure," I said, and passed over my makeup bag.  When she came back ten minutes later, she reverently placed the bag on my desk with a flourish and said, "The contents of this bag have changed my entire opinion about you." 

"What?"

Giving the bag a little pat, "You," she said, "Are bordering on Diva with a capital D."

Turns out she thinks it's absurd/hilarious/handy/ridiculous that I carry more than just the average gloss and powder.  I have - and carry daily - an eyelash curler, mascara, eye cream, whatever shadow/lipstick/eyeliner colors I'm wearing that day (plus an emergency black liner just in case I get invited someplace fancy after work), along with an eyebrow gel, pressed powder, primer, foundation, and concealer.  I also have a full-sized tube of Neutrogena sunblock (hey, if it came in travel sized, I'd do that instead).  Oh, and a handful of cotton swabs, a brush, hair bands, plus my newly purchased Daisy Purse Spray.

My makeup bag is not only heavy, but dictates the size of purse I'm able to buy.

I'm having a moment of ok maybe she's right  as I type this, but in my defense, I'm a by train & by foot commuter.  Which means I've left the house looking fab plenty of times, only to get so rained on, wind-whipped, or sweaty by the time I get to work that I've got to spend ten minutes in the john re-doing all my hard work.  And, there's no zipping home and freshening up after work if I go out after hours.  So just like the Boy Scouts, I've learned to be prepared.

On the plus side, I could quite literally remove my entire face of makeup and redo all of it.  On the negative side...I'm probably headed for back pain.

Is this weird?