::alio!::

I miss my ring

I took my ring in yesterday to be appraised for insurance and then replated. I figure She (the lady who had my ring before me) probably put off getting it replated and then it was too late. When I got it, it needed to be done, and then the acidity of my skin really melted the last of it away - so my ring was getting nice and yellow . . . but I don't get it back for TEN DAYS.

Now I'm wearing my Hungarian wedding ring that I've had (and worn) for years, but it's not quite the same.

Also, the water in my toilet is green. Yesterday, my landlady woke me up at 730 to get me to put a tab in the toilet to dye the water yellow so they could trace the path of the sewers (I don't have a street right now - it's a gravelly pit full of mud). Why they wanted to dye toilet water YELLOW I have no idea.

At first, the water was almost a dark orange, like someone had held it in all night and had a serious kidney problem.

Then it cooled to a neon yellow, slightly brighter than that time I discovered that overdosing on vitamin B turned your pee neon.

I took the dye out because I was concerned it would permanently stain the porcelain. Twenty-four hours later, the water is still tinted, though it's more of a refreshing minty yellow green now.

I'd say more but I'm a little down right now. Part of it, I'm sure, is pre-menstrual, and part of it has to do with the weather - bloody rain . . . a huge part has to do with the stress of finding a place to live in St. John's, another part is because Andy's gone - AGAIN - to Barrie, a town I HATE - and another has to do with the grandmother problem, which is rapidly coming to a head. Luckily my family is standing behind us on this one, so however it turns out, I'll still have a family at the end of it . . .

Posted by Ally at May 22, 2008 09:37 PM