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lost things, found things, other things
Apr. 9th, 2008 01:28 pmYesterday I lost my wedding band. I was standing in the rain, holding the umbrella up over the trunk of the car so Todd's computer (fresh back from the repair shop, yay for being under warranty) wouldn't get damp on its way home. I closed the trunk and my ring just... slipped. It abandoned me, seeking Gollum. I don't know why it wanted to be lost for an age of the world, but it was pretty keen. Unfortunately, we parked right by a hole down into the sewers, and it was pouring down rain. Also unfortunately, the company I bought our rings from seven years ago has now gone out of business. It's not just a simple band, it's actually a little fancy.
I was distressed, but not shattered. It's a thing, and a thing I'm attached to, but there are many worse things that could have happened.
And then something good happened. One of the employees at the computer store actually found my ring on the sidewalk - where I swear we looked, but saw nothing but mud and grit and, um, sidewalk. We were aboslutely certain that it had gone gone gone forever. He found the ring, gave me a call, and brought it by my house last night. I was ecstatic. I think I'm going to bake him cookies. Is that weird? Yeah, probably weird, but totally heartfelt. I got more and more glum last night thinking about the fact that I had been wearing this singular piece of jewelry for more than seven years straight - no more than a couple of hours at a time ever go by without my ring - and now it was just... gone. Even if I could find another band just like it, it wouldn't be my ring. So! Yay for good people!
I suppose that one of the perils of losing weight is that one may also lose rings. I'm going to have to be more careful.
In other news, I love Scrivener with a big, embarrassing, bouncing kind of love. I've had a chance today to really sit down and use the program, and I'm never going back to Microsquish Word if I can help it. It makes toiling in the word mines actually a pleasant and productive experience, rather than making me want to grind small inoffensive things to dust beneath the stompy boots of my anger and frustration. All the small inoffensive things in the universe concur that this is a good thing, and so do I.
And that's all folks!
I was distressed, but not shattered. It's a thing, and a thing I'm attached to, but there are many worse things that could have happened.
And then something good happened. One of the employees at the computer store actually found my ring on the sidewalk - where I swear we looked, but saw nothing but mud and grit and, um, sidewalk. We were aboslutely certain that it had gone gone gone forever. He found the ring, gave me a call, and brought it by my house last night. I was ecstatic. I think I'm going to bake him cookies. Is that weird? Yeah, probably weird, but totally heartfelt. I got more and more glum last night thinking about the fact that I had been wearing this singular piece of jewelry for more than seven years straight - no more than a couple of hours at a time ever go by without my ring - and now it was just... gone. Even if I could find another band just like it, it wouldn't be my ring. So! Yay for good people!
I suppose that one of the perils of losing weight is that one may also lose rings. I'm going to have to be more careful.
In other news, I love Scrivener with a big, embarrassing, bouncing kind of love. I've had a chance today to really sit down and use the program, and I'm never going back to Microsquish Word if I can help it. It makes toiling in the word mines actually a pleasant and productive experience, rather than making me want to grind small inoffensive things to dust beneath the stompy boots of my anger and frustration. All the small inoffensive things in the universe concur that this is a good thing, and so do I.
- In the "cleaning out my bookmarks and sharing nifty and amusing stuff" department:
- LOLGRUES!
- Dangerously pretty leather journals
- Dis mah cat.
- Recently read:
- Prodigal Summer, Barbara Kingsolver. Good stuff! I've been on a Kingsolver kick this year, which isn't a bad thing.
- Lottery, Patricia Wood. Not my typical fare, but an enjoyable and very easy read. Left me smiling, which is always a nice thing.
- Oodles of magazines which were stacking up around the place - Weird Tales, Asimov's, Otaku USA, and more.
- Eric, Terry Pratchett. This reminded me just a teensy bit of Good Omens, in a good way. Funny stuff.
- And um, more books than I can remember right now too. What's up with this lack of memory?
And that's all folks!
