Shiny New

Okay, so my dear husband has made up for his mother's day blunder when he actually bought me a Wii for my very first mother's day. What better way that to say "Thank you for bearing my child in your body for nine months, spending the last year up to your armpits, quite literally, in crap and puke, washing my stinking dirty underwear, cleaning my cat's litter box, cooking me good meals, and walking my dog" than to give your wife just one more thing to try and cram into her day, and something by the way that you REALLY REALLY want for yourself. Is it coincident to this grotesque gift that my husband has historically bought every video game system on the market within two weeks of release (if not pre-ordered them)? I think not. Anyway, he has redeemed himself. This week for our ninth anniversary he took me out to our favorite restaurant, Jack's Grill, we had an very nice bottle of wine and he gave me a beautiful ring that I had tried on at a jewelery shop on our last vacation in Thailand. I am not usually a jewelery person but this is a really unique ring and it was really nice that he noticed that I liked it in the store, then snuck off and bought it while he had our friends distract me, and then kept it for 6 months to surprise me for our anniversary. That was really nice. And I like the ring. It is a little bit big and catches on things so I am not used to that but it is cool. Will add a picture of it later.

By the way, completely unrelated, I must say, I do like to order from Land's End, but dammit why do all the shopping websites have to be US based and why do you have to pay to return things, shipping returns should be included when you pay shipping.

And it is really damn hot here and I really should go water my plants outside before they die of heat stroke.