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Newly(re)weds
by Tricia

My ring finger has felt completely naked ever since the Iowa State Fair fiasco back in early August when I lost my wedding ring. I have a tendency to fiddle with my rings, so to be missing one drives me absolutely crazy every day. Yesterday, though, we went out and looked at rings to replace the original, which I assume is either in the belly of a pig or is still on the floor of a bathroom stall at the fairgrounds. Or perhaps has already been hocked by some WT jerk who found it and didn't turn it in to the lost & found (which I called repeatedly and I'm sure they got sick of me).

Anyway, we went to the typical places to ring-shop: Helzberg, Zales and Kay... mostly just because they were all within a block of each other at Zona Rosa, and I am all about making this process as painless as possible for Scott, seeing as how the whole thing is my fault to begin with. I found a ring I really liked right off at Helzberg, but wanted to make sure there wasn't something I liked more at the other stores.

We had decided that neither of us wanted to spend more than $300, which apparently is unheard of to these girls working the cases at jewelry stores. When I would say that I would get funny looks like "aw, your husband is a cheapy". At Kay, when I finally told the girl (after she was bringing me $1,100 rings to try on) that we wanted to cap it at $300, she LITERALLY turned around and yelled across the store to another employee "Do we have anything for under $300?" Wow, nice way of alienating a customer on a "budget". Sorry that I'm not your typical gold-digger wife who just wants fancy jewels. I have learned repeatedly the hard way that I just can't have nice things (or, as Scott and I now joke, we can't have things. Not even nice things. We just can't have things). I break them, stain them, shrink them, lose them, etc. Best to have something that gets the job done and that I like, but didn't pay too much for, because it's bound to get ruined somehow.

After looking at all three places, I returned to Helzberg to get the original ring that I liked. It's simple, but kind of different, a little less "wedding-y" and more fun than the old one, which was purchased sort of in a hurry and also with the mindset of not wanting something too expensive. Thank god for my forethought on that.

So anyway, here's the new ring... it's being sized right now, so I should be able to pick it up this coming weekend. Scott has threatened to staple it to my finger.

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