I Am Not Your Lucky Buddha

Why is it that people believe it is an acceptable practice to rub the round bellies of pregnant women? In my irritation towards the strangers who accost and rub me, I googled "don't touch my pregnant belly". Some great stuff came up. This is my favorite:
http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/pdx/185648810.html
But I did not find a polite Miss Manners way of saying, "Keep your hands off me, or you are liable to loose them". I am not really that far along (20 weeks) and not really that big, either; I've got months of this left in store. And I'm feeling much too full of ire to submit to the pawing of strangers. Friends only, please. Have any of you had this problem? How did you solve it?

Do you have...

... a good recipe for oatmeal cookies with raisins? Preferably a smaller batch, suitable for 2.5 people to eat? The only recipe I has has the following note scribbled on it: "Makes a HUGE batch-- halving doesn't seem to work".

If you can answer "yes" to this question, would you mine either emailing me the recipe, or posing it in my comments?

And one more fun thing to try:

HowManyOfMe.com

There is 1 person with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

COACH CRISIS

So this morning on my way to work, an entire 20 oz bottle of Propel (the girly, low-calorie Gatorade-like drink) emptied itself into the bottom of my big, slouchy, pale LEATHER Coach bag. I didn't notice until I'd been at work for about an hour; at which point, I gasped in horror, grabbed the bag, flipped it upside-down to empty it of the offending (and now empty) bottle--along with the various other purse paraphernalia, then spent the next 20 minutes frantically trying to pat all the wetness out of the leather and lining using my jacket (remember: I'm at work, and do not have the luxury of towels or rags--poor jacket). I now have a large, sodden mass of discolored leather and soggy silky lining.

Any tips on how to save my poor bag? Now that it's dried there is a line on the leather demarcating where the bag was soaked through, vs. where it remained dry. Does anyone know how to remove the line? Is there a way to clean the leather?

HELP!