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Sometimes things just disappear never to be found. Or they’re found eventually but not for a long time.
A story that passed down in my ex’s family was that the diamond fell out of his aunt’s engagement ring one day. She and her husband and kids searched the whole house over and over and over with a fine tooth comb. Eventually they gave up hope and decided it was gone.
She found it 8 years later when she noticed something glistening under the washing machine… the sunlight was hitting it at just the right angle. They had moved the washing machine (and dryer and basically every item they owned) looking for it 8 years earlier and missed it somehow, but there it was.
If they’d had more money they would’ve bought another diamond in the 8 years from when it was lost until it was found, but they were kind of struggling, so they hadn’t ever replaced it. They did eventually end up very comfortable, but not when they were young.
Anyway, I can totally understand wanting to replace a wedding ring. It’s a symbol to indicate that you’re married and even though the replacement might never be as special as the original, I can see still wanting to wear something.
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ummmm, but @NerdAlert sounded disappointed she found it. sounds like she liked the potential new one better.
She said she was glad to have it back. But the fact that it went missing in the first place caused her to find something she liked better that she wouldn’t have otherwise looked for.
I can understand that.
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Because I thought it might be permanently wedged in the furniture and I wasn’t about to hack up the couch to get my $500 band back. And I don’t want to give up on my wedding band until we get rid of the couch.
I’m very glad I found it, just would have been nice if I’d found it a day or two later, then I could have had both!
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My husband has now lost HIS wedding band. He’s lost about 40 pounds since we got married, and it’s been loose. What a week!
My son is worried we aren’t married now. Too cute.
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2 days in a row (Fri & Sat), FedEx said a package would be arriving by “end of day,” then at about 7pm revised to say “delivery pending” with no ETA.
Tracker showed the package started Fri morning 2 states over, about 4 hour drive away. Definitely doable that day, but I thought unlikely. Still, the tracker said “delivery by end of day.” By EOD, it had been checked in at the large city nearby (about 1hr).
Sat, similar story, all day showed “delivery by EOD” until 7pm, when it checked into the local FedEx distribution center in my small town, literally about 2 miles from my house.
Today (Sun) FedEx delivered a different package that the tracker had said would be arriving Mon (tomorrow).
We’ve had this happen a few times and it is annoying. Usually they end up delivering it the next day. One time it actually got delivered at like 1030pm.
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It was delivered today, about 2pm.
Got an update at 6am this morning that it was loaded on the truck for delivery, again literally 2 miles away. Those 8 hours it took to bring it 2 miles didn’t really annoy me, as I wasn’t going to do anything with it until after work anyway.
Rototillers
I used one of those, once. Once was enough.
IME, they’re either too small to do the job or too large to handle easily.
Lol. Rototillers. Always fun to watch.
Mine was both.
I stubbed my toe yesterday, hard. It separated the skin on the tip of my toe from…the skin underneath that, I guess, I don’t know the technical term for the top vs bottom layers of skin. Anyway, now I have a nice blood blister on the very tip of my toe, very uncomfortable with shoes on.
I’m being asked to run for municipal council, which seems nice. Except I don’t want to run, the situation is an absolute cesspool, finances are effed, the community is at war. Which is why they’re asking me to run. It’s weighing on my mind, annoying.
Wear something without toes until it heals. It heals enough to stop hurting, anyway. Even if the something looks stupid.