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Jun. 22nd, 2005 10:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhienelleth*sigh*
I forgot my watch and my wedding ring at home this morning. I was trying to be nice and get dressed quietly, in the dark, so as not to wake up Mark. I hate not knowing the time instantly, any time I want, by glancing at my wrist. And not having my wedding ring on fills me with adrenaline induced fear every time I run my thumb over that finger in my usual unconscious check to make sure it's still there, and find it's not all over again. That's the one drawback of having a more expensive ring -- the "OMG I've lost it and we can't afford to replace it" button, followed up by "Duh, you haven't lost it, it's just at home. Thank God."
I can't help it if I'm a magpie drawn to sparkly things.
Somehow rambling on about this reminded me of the time when Mark was throwing cardboard into one of those big recycle dumpster things, and his ring was a little loose, and it went flying off into the dumpster with the cardboard. We'd only been married for three months, and his ring cost almost as much as mine, because it's platinum and has lots more metal. You better believe he crawled into the dumpster after that ring, and found it. But he said his heart just about stopped when it happened.
If we had it to do over again, I wonder if we would spend the same money on our rings. I'm allergic to gold (and indeed all metals except platinum and titanium), but Mark's ring could have been white gold. And I could have opted for sparkly cz's instead of diamonds.
*contemplates*
I forgot my watch and my wedding ring at home this morning. I was trying to be nice and get dressed quietly, in the dark, so as not to wake up Mark. I hate not knowing the time instantly, any time I want, by glancing at my wrist. And not having my wedding ring on fills me with adrenaline induced fear every time I run my thumb over that finger in my usual unconscious check to make sure it's still there, and find it's not all over again. That's the one drawback of having a more expensive ring -- the "OMG I've lost it and we can't afford to replace it" button, followed up by "Duh, you haven't lost it, it's just at home. Thank God."
I can't help it if I'm a magpie drawn to sparkly things.
Somehow rambling on about this reminded me of the time when Mark was throwing cardboard into one of those big recycle dumpster things, and his ring was a little loose, and it went flying off into the dumpster with the cardboard. We'd only been married for three months, and his ring cost almost as much as mine, because it's platinum and has lots more metal. You better believe he crawled into the dumpster after that ring, and found it. But he said his heart just about stopped when it happened.
If we had it to do over again, I wonder if we would spend the same money on our rings. I'm allergic to gold (and indeed all metals except platinum and titanium), but Mark's ring could have been white gold. And I could have opted for sparkly cz's instead of diamonds.
*contemplates*
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Rings and things
Date: 2005-06-22 08:18 pm (UTC)Allergies are a bitch, aren't they? It's rare to be allergic to pure metals as gold, which should have no nickel in it. Silver, however... So your new glasses must have been titanium as well then. Next time I'm going for titanium, I do get an itch from my glasses from time to time.