the holding of breath is allowed
in the meantime, the second year of the miller/pace domestic partnership alliance came to a close on monday.
my greatest triumph! my greatest failure! actually, i think my greatest triumph was jumping 17′ 2″ in the long jump in 8th grade. yeah… definitely the long jump. god that felt good.
i’m sure a lot of you remember this picture. when i proposed to danielle back in this epic post and, as you all know, the ring didn’t fit, rather than wear it on her pinky where it looked pretty odd, she took to wearing it on a chain around her neck for 4 months. i actually liked seeing the diamond around her neck. it was in a nice place to catch the light and of course, it drew my eyes to her chest.
eventually of course, on the third try, i made a ring that actually fit. however, that left us with two gemless rings with some sentimental value. every once in a while over the last two years, i would suggest that we could get a new stone for one of them so she could wear it around her neck again, but of course, we never got around to looking for one. then last friday, we got dressed up to go out to a birthday party in pioneer square and d was without an good necklace to go with the outfit. the two favorites of hers, an amber necklace and a lapis necklace that we picked up in morocco, are long since broken; the beads sitting, some still on the thread, waiting to be restrung and worn again. it briefly reminded me that i had an anniversery coming up and hadn’t gotten her anything yet…
soooo, at the last possible minute, on sunday on the way to work, i remembered, “hey! i should stop by robin’s jewelers and see if they carry any loose stones!” long story short. i managed to find a parking spot before the seahawks game, then managed to find my way back down there 5 minutes after the game ended to sneakily buy a new sapphire for the original ring. the next day, i had to go to everett in the morning for work, so on the way back to boeing field, i swung by the chemistry dept machine shop UW, set the stone, and then went back to the jeweler to buy a chain.
and this is the result
yeah, technically, it’s not new. and i really hate this box, incidentally. black, with white satin would have made it look much nicer. but it came out pretty well, none-the-less. at least d likes it. she said i’m setting a high bar, if i keep giving her stuff like this on our anniversaries, but i’m pretty sure next year will be flowers.
the only thing that kinda bugs me about it is that it’ll never sparkle like the diamond did, so it won’t catch your eye. but to be fair, if i had shown up with another diamond for that thing, d would have probably been pretty angry about me spending that kinda money. awed, appreciative, but angry just the same. besides. it would have taken away from the one on her finger.
