I got up before Chris this morning and when he showed no obvious signs of getting up, I decided to sneak out to the store and pick up a few things. First stop was the needlework shop, as you can see from the pic I went a little nuts but I thought the sample package of Lakeside Linens fabric was an awesome deal. Plus I got Whale House - the 1st design from Summer Snapperland.

Then I decided to make my way to Office Depot and see if I could pick up another binder to add to the school supply stash. As I was making my way to the car, of course thats when it started to pour. It was really windy too and I got soaked. :( Then I'm in Office Depot, dripping along and I noticed my wedding ring was missing.

EEK!

I checked my purse, thinking it might have fallen off when I was routing around for my wallet. But no luck. I retraced my steps to the needlework store but no luck. That put a damper on the shopping trip so I went back home and I guess Chris must have noticed the lack of smile despite the bag in my hand so I told him the ring was missing.

And he freaked out. Sheesh, you'd think I lost it on purpose or something. He was continually asking how I could possibly lose a wedding ring and I was on the verge of telling him I'd decided I just didn't like it to give him a reason to complain when....

Yeah, I found it. Turns out I didn't put it back on after my shower this morning. It was on the dresser.

I asked Chris later tonight why he was so freaked out by the possibility of me losing my ring. I tried telling him its only a ring, and as precious as it is, it is replaceable. He, however, didn't see it quite that way. He's all convinced that losing that particular ring would be not only bad luck, but a bad omen. Okay, I know the man has always been rather superstitious but he really was upset that I was being so nonchalant about it. He muttered something about being worried that if I could walk away from the ring so easily, I'd probably find it easy to walk away from the marriage as well. I so wanted to smack him for that comment but I tried very hard to see things from his perspective....

I have a feeling this is one topic we're going to have to agree to disagree on. He has to realize that I'm not about to walk away from this marriage...and I need to take better care of my wedding ring.