July 15, 2008
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Wedding Ring Followup
I agree with lupa that if a man expects his wife to wear a ring, he needs to be willing to wear one himself.
Those who mentioned hazardous occupations (including the handling of raw meat), hit upon my main reason for not wearing jewelry. I got out of the habit of wearing earrings when Doug was a grabby little baby. Rings have always either gotten in the way of various work for me, or they have cut into my finger when it was swollen, or fallen off and gotten lost when I’d lose weight.
Quitchick asked, “about the women’s movement and men’s rings, interesting, but I still don’t understand how that worked. Did men WANT to start wearing them in an attempt to preserve tradition, or did advertisers just try to convince men to start wearing them so their bridal jewelry business didn’t go under?”
I think it was probably a bit of both, beginning with the reluctance of a few libertated women to wear that symbol of servitude and chattelhood. Anyone wishing to examine the history of the marital institution can find it here.
Doug and I have stopped off at the Willow Library on our way to pick up the computer in Wasilla. We were told that it was a virus that destroyed our OS and corrupted most of the data on our hard drive. It will be like a new computer, no convenient cookies, all my photos gone… *sigh* We have no idea what virus it was or how it got in, so of course there’s no confidence that it won’t happen again.
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So sorry about your computer…that stinks…viruses…grrrr!
About the wedding rings…Hubby and I are about to celebrate our 25th Wedding Anniversary in just a couple weeks. We’ve hit on an interesting idea to celebrate. We are traveling to Las vegas for a week and while we’re there, we’re going to go see the Hoover/Boulder dam. We’re going to take our original wedding bands, kiss goodbye the last 25 years, and throw the rings off the top of the dam. Then we’ll exchange new rings.
I wonder what that says about tradition? LOL
Oh, that sucks. Sorry you lost all your photos.
When my hd 86′d I would’ve lost everything, but I had just backed up 99% of my photos. (The 1% was still on my photocard) I had a feeling my hd was going bad, so went out and bought a portable drive right quick.
Viruses are evil and so are the knuckleheads that have nothing better to do with their time than to create the evil things to fuck with other’s lives. Jackasses.
Wow, lost all your fotos, that is sad. You take such wonderful pics. Everything is temporary, I guess. Maybe I’ll make a few backup CDs…glad to see your pixels back and writing again.
good to hear from you again! I hated to wear my ring just because it was uncomfortable at first. I never cared for jewelry. My DH wears his more than do mine. So the ball in chain, I am. LOL
I like that the representation of a ring which is a circle and is supposed to mean forever. O
Sadly nothing lasts forever.
Hmm… I didn’t comment on the previous blog-thing, so I’ll comment here. I don’t think I’d want to wear one. They’re too typical to me; I’d rather have (or do) something else of special, personal significance that symbolized my bond to the other person. And not necessarily something material, or of any permanence.
Anyone can get married and slap a ring on each others’ fingers. It’s the accepted/normal thing and comes with several advantages, so people do it for quite a few different reasons. But to go out of your way with something more personal/uncommon makes me more assured of the intent and meaning behind it.
Nothing at all would be fine too. It’s not too important and I’d rather not grow attached to material posessions by attributing sentimental value to them. Jewellery just isn’t my thing.
Overall I’m just not into the custom of marriage as a way to express commitment. What would change my mind? A pajama or pirate-themed wedding with a laid-back tone
Last time I lost my harddrive, I lost all my photos. I’m so sympathetic. Fortunately for me, my sister had many similar ones and sent me a cd with a lot of them on it.
I have put most of my fotos on a thumb drive. It takes 2, but at least all isn’t lost if I lose my harddrive….it happened before and that was not good.
Sorry to hear about the comp. That’s awful. I like other people’s suggestions of backing up any future photos to a flash drive or CD. (I need to follow that advice myself.)
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