I love it when a single word or phrase perfectly summarizes a situation – or better yet! – an entire person.

Boiling it down to its essence, so to speak.

One of Ever Patient Spouse’s friends once described me as “The kind of person who would own a tiny dog who wears clothes and a beret.”

Oui, oui! C’est moi!

Which is why I was absolutely thrilled to snap this paperweight up at the Kate Spade sale last week:

Yep. I think this captures my philosophy on life quite nicely, thank you very much.

P.S. Kate Spade, I forgive you for making your purses seem supportive of an African warlord. Major whoopsie.