nararabbit
Shiny_Rock
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- Jul 17, 2010
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I haven't been around in a while, just working a lot and my husband has been extremely sick (3 weeks in Cedars, he is home and okay now.) Life has been a bit of a rollercoaster and perhaps that is why I am feeling more emotional than is like me.
Essentially, the story is this... DH's aunt has no children, and inherited a STUNNING 4 carat diamond ring via her engagement many years ago. I don't even have a picture, but I've seen it on her hand at many occasions, including our wedding, engagement party (which she hosted). She has always told me that when she passes away, hopefully a LONG time away, she will leave it to me as I am the only other diamond lover in the family. Wow. She also is kind of eccentric and eschews sending her family birthday cards and doesn't return their phone calls, yet we email and phone each other weekly and she remembers ALL our occasions. I just adore her.
Anyway, I hadn't heard from her for a while, when she called me up out of the blue to tell me that since her husband passed away last year, she felt the need to make a fresh start. They had agreed to leave their house to his children, since she didn't need so much space, and she was renting a place of her own. She started to tear up, and told me she had sold the diamond for a down payment on a small home of her own.
Oh my gosh, that was not what I was expecting. I feel horrible. I am so, so happy that she's got a place of her own, I love her dearly and want her to be happy. But deep down, the childish part of me is really upset about the diamond. I know it's wrong! It's just a thing! But I've seen it so many times, she had me try it on and we talked about resetting it (as the prongs were getting all sh***y, and she wanted to reset it in a style we'd both like to save my having to redo it someday.)
In other words, it's not like I thought about it all day and night, because I knew it was a long ways off. But now that I know it's gone, I'm so disappointed and sad.
I know I'll get over it when I'm helping her decorate her new place. It really is the best thing. I just needed to vent and be sad in a place where others would understand - as there is no way my family would, and it would be extremely rude of me to mention it at all!
Essentially, the story is this... DH's aunt has no children, and inherited a STUNNING 4 carat diamond ring via her engagement many years ago. I don't even have a picture, but I've seen it on her hand at many occasions, including our wedding, engagement party (which she hosted). She has always told me that when she passes away, hopefully a LONG time away, she will leave it to me as I am the only other diamond lover in the family. Wow. She also is kind of eccentric and eschews sending her family birthday cards and doesn't return their phone calls, yet we email and phone each other weekly and she remembers ALL our occasions. I just adore her.
Anyway, I hadn't heard from her for a while, when she called me up out of the blue to tell me that since her husband passed away last year, she felt the need to make a fresh start. They had agreed to leave their house to his children, since she didn't need so much space, and she was renting a place of her own. She started to tear up, and told me she had sold the diamond for a down payment on a small home of her own.
Oh my gosh, that was not what I was expecting. I feel horrible. I am so, so happy that she's got a place of her own, I love her dearly and want her to be happy. But deep down, the childish part of me is really upset about the diamond. I know it's wrong! It's just a thing! But I've seen it so many times, she had me try it on and we talked about resetting it (as the prongs were getting all sh***y, and she wanted to reset it in a style we'd both like to save my having to redo it someday.)
In other words, it's not like I thought about it all day and night, because I knew it was a long ways off. But now that I know it's gone, I'm so disappointed and sad.
I know I'll get over it when I'm helping her decorate her new place. It really is the best thing. I just needed to vent and be sad in a place where others would understand - as there is no way my family would, and it would be extremely rude of me to mention it at all!
Now I am back to square one, saving for it, kinda wondering if it'll EVER happen. (Old car needed extensive, EXPENSIVE repairs.)
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