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Happily, a wonderful weekend was had! :D
Feb. 15th, 2005 06:26 amWhile my boyfriend lost points for not getting around to writing a valentine's card for me (he likes to write his own message), he got all kinds of points for getting me a really big boquet. Half a dozen roses & half a dozen stargazer lilies (that smell heavenly) & some other flowers. He did promise to have the thoughts/prose he said he had in his head down on a card by Thursday evening and that he would bring it with him when he leaves work on Friday and drives over to visit me this weekend. I got him a REALLY mushy card for valentine's day. :) I also got him a picture frame (simple metal frame, rectangular except the top is shaped like a semicircle and has two interlocked hearts centered in the middle). He was appreciative, but not really excited about it. Then I told him to take it all the way out of the box and unwrap it. He evidently didn't immediately assume that I had put a picture of us in it. Silly boy. Of course I did! Then he was really excited about it! He took it to work with him, to place by his computer monitor.
We also went to look at engagement rings again this weekend. We'd looked previously, but at his insistence he didn't want me looking at prices. He just wanted to get an idea of my tastes. And that's all fine and good but one really has to be realistic. So I told me I'd like to go looking at rings again, this time with reality in mind. We found a really nice one at Fred Meyer Jewelers. That would be this ring here. I hate how the picture doesn't really give you a good view from either the top or the side, and instead gives a kind of bad combination view. What I really like about this one is that it's not too modern, but has a good dose of traditionality in it. You can't see it in this picture, but it's open underneath the diamonds, and you can see though the two on the sides. The side underneath the center diamond has a really tiny little diamond set into the metal. It's really pretty. But best of all is that because of the way the diamonds are set into it nothing sticks up really high. The side diamonds are a couple of millimeters above the level of the band, and the center one is a couple of millimeters above the side diamonds. I like it. I told my boyfriend so. Several times. :) Luckily, he likes it too. The fact that the stones are so low set & so close to the band makes him feel very comfortable (reduces the chances that I might catch it on something and break/lose a stone or something). And at the price they're charging, it means I won't feel guilty for him purchasing something that I know he can't afford.
I didn't sleep really well. I woke up shortly after 3 o'clock, then 4, 4:30, and then finally when my alarm went off at 5:15. I have to get up early all this week, so I have enough time to do all of my lightbox here at home before I go to work. I start my new job today! Today is orientation, plus I get keys (I'm not sure to what yet, though), and my hand scanned into the computer/security system. I still don't know if I have to go through the metal detector & send my stuff through the x-ray machine every day. I really hope not. It'd be all kinds of annoying.
We also went to look at engagement rings again this weekend. We'd looked previously, but at his insistence he didn't want me looking at prices. He just wanted to get an idea of my tastes. And that's all fine and good but one really has to be realistic. So I told me I'd like to go looking at rings again, this time with reality in mind. We found a really nice one at Fred Meyer Jewelers. That would be this ring here. I hate how the picture doesn't really give you a good view from either the top or the side, and instead gives a kind of bad combination view. What I really like about this one is that it's not too modern, but has a good dose of traditionality in it. You can't see it in this picture, but it's open underneath the diamonds, and you can see though the two on the sides. The side underneath the center diamond has a really tiny little diamond set into the metal. It's really pretty. But best of all is that because of the way the diamonds are set into it nothing sticks up really high. The side diamonds are a couple of millimeters above the level of the band, and the center one is a couple of millimeters above the side diamonds. I like it. I told my boyfriend so. Several times. :) Luckily, he likes it too. The fact that the stones are so low set & so close to the band makes him feel very comfortable (reduces the chances that I might catch it on something and break/lose a stone or something). And at the price they're charging, it means I won't feel guilty for him purchasing something that I know he can't afford.
I didn't sleep really well. I woke up shortly after 3 o'clock, then 4, 4:30, and then finally when my alarm went off at 5:15. I have to get up early all this week, so I have enough time to do all of my lightbox here at home before I go to work. I start my new job today! Today is orientation, plus I get keys (I'm not sure to what yet, though), and my hand scanned into the computer/security system. I still don't know if I have to go through the metal detector & send my stuff through the x-ray machine every day. I really hope not. It'd be all kinds of annoying.
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