I did a bit of shopping on Fifth Avenue yesterday - okay, a lot of shopping. I went to the Diamond District first and picked up the diamond stud earring to replace the one I dropped down the drain; I had dropped off one of the surviving ones the day before. Unfortunately it turns out that the replacement is about a point smaller than the original, which makes it a point smaller than all five of my other ones, so I am going to have to call the guy to ask about it - I didn’t pay $50 for a mismatched earring!

I spent even more than that, though, at American Girl Place. (What, you didn’t know I had an American Girl doll? I do!) They’ve been bringing back Felicity and even adding new items for her, so I got the Tea Lesson Gown for A. She got the complete Felicity set as a present years ago, but the Tea Lesson is new so I got it to make sure she still has the complete set. I also got the Butterfly Brocade Outfit (which we both wanted), and for my doll I got the new inflatable kayak (just the kayak and gear, not the outfit) and Kit’s Christmas Outfit which I’ve wanted for a while. And finally I got Coconut’s Rinkside Accessories. All told, this was about $125! Yikes.

I can finally tell the secret I’ve been holding on to for…oh, a couple of months now!

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Those are our “wedding” rings. We can’t get legally married, of course, and we’ve been practically married for a few years now, but this just symbolizes our commitment. I’m on cloud nine now that we finally have them. We ordered them a couple of weeks ago from DVB, a New York-based company that is the source for many other sellers. My wife (I’ll be calling her that more often now) felt strongly that she wanted a poesy ring, so we were looking at those pretty much exclusively. The ones we ended up getting are in Old French, and they say here is my heart, guard it well. You can see a close-up picture from the maker, but it doesn’t show that the word coeur is actually a drawn heart. It’s based on a ring that is currently in the British Museum, and it dates to about the 15th century. My ring is 14k white gold, and my wife’s ring is 18k yellow gold. For heterosexual couples, the man doesn’t usually have other jewelry to coordinate with and doesn’t care what color the rings are. But being two women, we each had different tastes! We’re not having a ceremony just yet, though…we will probably have some kind of party for our ten-year anniversary, but we don’t really feel the need for a ceremony right now.

As I mentioned, I am absolutely flying high with this. I love our rings, and I love my wife.