Dept. of The Weekend

[kaffy_r]

This Saturday Was A Good Day

Saturdays aren't always good days, but this one was a good one.

I am an habitual procrastinator. One of the things I've been putting off for altogether too long is the care of my wedding ring. I haven't worn the ring since (thinks) somewhere around late 2009 or early 2010. That's when I had to have it cut off my finger,

Comments

[flowsoffire]

Very symbolic indeed! Glad your day was a good one :)

[kaffy_r]

Thanks; I ended the day really rather happy.

[gerisullivan]

Love, love, love your commitment to these sorts of traditions as well as the fact that the expense was so much less than expected.

[kaffy_r]

Thanks - tradition is incredibly important to me, although I have realized that I must always differentiate between wanting to maintain traditions and ... uhm ... hoarding. Heh.

[eaweek]

That all sounds so wonderful! My mother has a couple of pieces that belonged to Dad's mother: a huge-ass amethyst surrounded by diamonds that my sister is going to get (and which was almost thrown out by accident when Mom moved out of the old house); my grandmother's engagement diamond, which Mom had re-set with a garnet (her own birthstone), which I am going to get. I never knew my grandmother very well, but I am told on a reliably regular basis that I'm So Much Like Her, which I'm taking as a compliment, because she was apparently a very smart woman.

She also left a ring directly to me--it's another amethyst, rectangular, and rather cloudy, so I haven't done anything with it. The band it's on is very thin and fragile and would need to be replaced. I was going to have something done with it for my 50th birthday, but couldn't afford it. I really should have it looked at by a decent jeweler and see what could be done with it, because it's been sitting in a bag in my closet for about two decades now.

[kaffy_r]

a huge-ass amethyst

Aww, amethyst is one of my favorite semi-precious stones, because I grew up in Nova Scotia, and there used to be so much amethyst along the shores of the Bay of Fundy that you could pick it up on a casual stroll. We literally had a doorstop of amethyst. I loved it, but I don't know where it went and of course it's much harder to find the stone by just walking along the shores these days (probably because people kept picking it up to make doorstops. Ahem.) I also love it because it's purple, which is one of my favorite colors.

And who decides what's precious and what's semi-precious? I like amethyst a heck of a lot more than, say, diamonds.

[eaweek]

I love anything purple, too. Amethysts are so nice. The heart-shaped stone is really huge and flashy. The diamond is smaller, but possibly is worth more. I have no idea what to do with the rectangular stone my grandmother left me. I should at least consult a jeweler and see if the cloudiness in the stone could be cleared up.

[kaffy_r]

Oh, the diamond is undoubtedly worth more money. If the rectangular amethyst is cloudy, I don't think there's anything that can be done about it; it sounds as if the cloudiness is inside the stone.