A couple of weeks ago I weighed in at 146 pounds. I was 195 or so at my heaviest, which I thik was about a year into working at Sara Lee. (Some of that I blame on my discovery of their powdered hot cappuccino. A lot changed once I saw the nutritionals...)
I feel better, I look better. It hasn't happened through anything dramatic. I smallerfied portion sizes to eat until I wasn't hungry, instead of eating until full. I cut down on soda and started drinking more water. I ate less dessert and became more mindful of comfort food. Basic good lifestyle stuff.
And then yesterday I mowed the lawn. Jareth followed me around with his toy mower, which he still insists is the vacuum. If I'd thought about it, I'd have had Amy get a picture of it. It would have been a cute picture.
Actually, we did a decent amount of yard work, but it was mowing the lawn that was nearly so horrible.
I put the lawnmower back in the garage, did some other tidying up, and noticed that my wedding band was gone. It was one of those heart-stopping moments.
We have matching wedding bands, just different sizes. There's a huge amount of meaning for us to them being a matched set. Even if I had the ring replaced, they wouldn't be matching ever again. That magic would be broken forever.
Amy and I walked through the whole yard. I raked the whole back yard, hoping to turn it up. I had done the back last, so that seemed a good place to start. Eventually it got dark and I found myself crawling through the yard, flashlight in one hand and raking the grass with the fingers on the other hand.
I eventually found it settled into the grass, and it went back on that finger with an urgency Gollum would have related to.
Posted by fictionman at April 27, 2006 07:47 AM | TrackBack (0)I'm really glad you found your wedding ring. Wedding rings are really special. Your dad lost
his original in Lake Marie, IL while water skiing. Obviously, he never found it and it had to be replaced with something similar. On our 25th anniversary, I had a couple of ruby chips put in and now it has new meaning.
That probably would have made my heart stop too. When my ex-husband was in the military, he lost a lot of weight too, so his ring was loose. He kept yard wrapped and sealed with glue around the underside of it, and it seemed to work well with keeping it on.
Posted by: Crys at May 25, 2006 06:38 AM