Spending Time?? Nope...

Where have I been!? Spending our tax refund, naturally! On Friday I went to the dentist, and while my face was STILL numb, I went to pick up my wedding ring. The guy didn't understand what I was saying, but I managed to get my slurs out. (Me: "Hi...muh nuhme is Dawnelllll. Eye'm heere to peeck up my rig.") I put it on, and holy moley, it looks HUGE! Before my "big" diamond looked pitiful in my setting, but now? WOW! Maybe it's because there's like 6 prongs on this new crown, and my diamond is just kind of floating there, but whoa! I love to just look at it sparkle! (Just ignore my owies...I have this weird habit of picking at my fingers and making them icky!)
We paid off our furniture purchase from last year (before the interest was tacked onto the total.) And we feel happy, and content....for now!

And I just thought (while I was downloading pictures) I'd show you what my loving husband got me for Valentine's Day. I got him "smutty" things, and he got me a WillowTree statue of a couple in a loving embrace! (He also got me chocolates and a book, but you know...)

Oh, and on a super happy note, while Steve and I were running around yesterday (like the crazy people we are) we met up with some good friends! I asked the husband (he was without his wife) where she was, and he told me that she was in the car. I started making a crack about her being lazy, then he told me that she'd just had twins. WHOA!! I didn't even know she was pregnant!! She's someone that I'm not EVER upset to hear good things about. She struggled for 5 years before finally having her first daughter, and has had to go on major fertility drugs to get her son and now her baby girls. I ran out to their van to chat with her, and she was just beaming. She said that her trick THIS time was a new medicine that they use for breast cancer patients. She told me that after ONE month on this drug she got pregnant with her twins. I'm thinking about talking to my doctor!! ;) Seeing someone who's struggled with infertility, the way she has, overcome....I can't even tell you the happiness I feel for her! (I feel that there's gotta be hope out there for me too!)

I'm Naked

I was talking with Steve on Sunday, and showed him my wedding ring. All week, when I looked at my hand I noticed that my center diamond...the BIG one....was bent. I wasn't sure if it was just me, or what, so I asked Steve to take a look at it. He was furious! He told me that if I'd had questions about my ring I should have IMMEDIATELY taken it in. (We have a warranty on both of our rings, that covers most of the damage that happens to them...) I promised him that after my dentist appointment on Monday I'd take it in.

I got to the mall before most stores were even open. So I sat and waited for the gates to rise. (I waited in the children's play area, and my mouth was still numb. The little girls playing there kept staring at me while I tried, in my own way, to smile back.)

Anyway, they finally opened and I went in to show them my ring. The lady took one look at the diamond and said, "It's a good thing you brought this in now, if you had kept wearing it, the diamond might have fallen out." I asked her what could be done, and she told me that since my crown is gold (came with the ring...) and it was bent, that the only thing was to replace the crown with a stronger, longer-lasting metal. I sighed.

A few years ago, we took my ring in to get the prongs re-tipped. They looked at the big diamond, and said, "Re-tipping will do you no good...you should just buy a platinum crown." At THAT time the price was pretty good, but we didn't have the money for it. So we put it off. Now all of our procrastination was coming back! It was now necessary to replace the crown, or risk losing the diamond.

I asked her what I needed to do, and how long it would take, and she told me that they'd have to order the crown, and it would take a few weeks. I guess it's a good thing we just did our taxes, because part of them are going to have to go to getting my ring back from the jewelers! So, until right after Valentines' Day, my finger is naked. It feels SO weird. I've worn my ring, day and night, for SEVEN, going on EIGHT years!! It's weird to go in to take a shower, pull off my watch and glasses, then go for a non-existent ring!

I was hoping to wear Steve's old band until then, but we've misplaced it! I've been wracking my brain for the last several days, but I have no idea where I've put it! Oh, well. Life goes on!