Seduced by Teh Pretty
Once a month, about halfway through my Irritating Moon-Correlated Monthly Cycle of Ladyparts, I usually have this one day where I just feel like bursting into tears constantly, and for no particular reason, and then I wander around in a cloud of free-floating nonspecific anxiety. It's...disconcerting. It was yesterday.
Today I feel great! Back to my usual chipper self. Plus I look cute today. I'm wearing all black including my knee-high black go-go boots and dramatic-tree jewelry from Winterfair. My hair is now long enough that it's doing -- well, it's kind of doing a Farrah thing with the way I blow-dry it. I might experiment with alternative ways to style it.
Tonight I have a birthday celebration gathering for my friend Jessimi. That'll be fun. Beforehand I plan to do Coffee Shop Writing.
So...I gotta show you guys something. Lori did a bad, bad thing. Or rather, Lori looked at a bad, bad thing.
I've been toying with the idea of taking a small part of my bonus this year (95% of which is going to Responsible Being-An-Adult Things) and buying myself a real piece of jewelry for Christmas. A ring, probably. Not an OMG SRS BZNS RING but not costume. Like in the couple-hundred-bucks range. Something I could still wear every day but that wouldn't turn my fingers green, yanno? So I'm in Powell the other day at the bead store. Next door is a brand-new fine jewelry store run by a jewelry designer. It's all his own stuff inside. So I go in and look. Beautiful things. The guy couldn't have been nicer. He had lots of lovely rings in the price range I was considering.
And then...oh, and then. He showed me this ring. THIS RING OMG. I saw it and it was like choirs of angels descended to shine their heavenly light upon it. Then I saw the price tag and the angels did that vinyl-record-needle-scratch.
I should not have tried it on after I saw the price tag. But I did.
Okay. That's 14K white gold with 0.25 carats of diamonds. But that hardly matters. LOOK AT IT.
*facepalm*
This ring is waaaay out of my price range. Like, almost by an order of magnitude.
But drooling is free, right?
I shouldn't spend anything on jewelry anyway. If I want to take a little of my bonus and buy myself something, it ought to be a new camera. Or a Wii, so I can play Guitar Hero watch Netflix streaming on my TV.
Today I feel great! Back to my usual chipper self. Plus I look cute today. I'm wearing all black including my knee-high black go-go boots and dramatic-tree jewelry from Winterfair. My hair is now long enough that it's doing -- well, it's kind of doing a Farrah thing with the way I blow-dry it. I might experiment with alternative ways to style it.
Tonight I have a birthday celebration gathering for my friend Jessimi. That'll be fun. Beforehand I plan to do Coffee Shop Writing.
So...I gotta show you guys something. Lori did a bad, bad thing. Or rather, Lori looked at a bad, bad thing.
I've been toying with the idea of taking a small part of my bonus this year (95% of which is going to Responsible Being-An-Adult Things) and buying myself a real piece of jewelry for Christmas. A ring, probably. Not an OMG SRS BZNS RING but not costume. Like in the couple-hundred-bucks range. Something I could still wear every day but that wouldn't turn my fingers green, yanno? So I'm in Powell the other day at the bead store. Next door is a brand-new fine jewelry store run by a jewelry designer. It's all his own stuff inside. So I go in and look. Beautiful things. The guy couldn't have been nicer. He had lots of lovely rings in the price range I was considering.
And then...oh, and then. He showed me this ring. THIS RING OMG. I saw it and it was like choirs of angels descended to shine their heavenly light upon it. Then I saw the price tag and the angels did that vinyl-record-needle-scratch.
I should not have tried it on after I saw the price tag. But I did.
Okay. That's 14K white gold with 0.25 carats of diamonds. But that hardly matters. LOOK AT IT.
*facepalm*
This ring is waaaay out of my price range. Like, almost by an order of magnitude.
But drooling is free, right?
I shouldn't spend anything on jewelry anyway. If I want to take a little of my bonus and buy myself something, it ought to be a new camera. Or a Wii, so I can play Guitar Hero watch Netflix streaming on my TV.