I wish I had some frozen fruit
Doesn’t frozen fruit sound good? I really like frozen cherries and grapes. I’m thinking of trying frozen peaches too. I need to make a heavy-duty trip to the grocery store, and it’s going to be frozen fruit-o-rama.
Would it be weird to eat a shrimp sandwich? I kind of want a shrimp sandwich. I don’t mean a po’ boy or anything, more like just a handful of shrimp on a couple of pieces of whole wheat. That sounds pretty good. Can you tell I’m hungry? I’m going to have a granola bar in 7 minutes, because I like to have some carbs an hour before I go running, which I’m going to do after work at 5. Denny and my friend Alyssa are going to play basketball while I run in circles. It will be a delight for all concerned, I’m sure.
In wedding-related news: we went to the rental place last night and got some things settled. They’re getting a new kind of dance floor that will work on a grassy surface (good to know, now that we’re probably going to have tents on grass instead of the concrete patio), and they also will rent us platforms that we can stand on for the ceremony. They can be arranged so they’re at heights of 8″ or 16″. I vote for 8″ because I would get less hurt if I pass out and fall off during the ceremony.
Also: over lunch today we went into a jewelry store and looked at wedding bands. I’m trying to decide whether we should buy them locally or get them from a website. You know what a fan I am of using local businesses, but dang, the web has some cheap wedding bands. I think when you buy locally, you get a lifetime guarantee or something, but I don’t know if it’s really worth it.
Anyway, Denny was most interested in one a lot like this:
6 mm white gold domed comfort fit
they don’t have that one in 4 mm, which is the size I wanted. A competing website does, but the 4 mm actually costs more than the 6 mm one, above, which seems stupid considering it’s less gold.
Oooh! Nice wedding bands. So you decided not to brand him afterall?
Ooh, frozen grapes are such the best thing to eat. I can never remember to quit eating them and then I get a bellyache. I can also say good things for frozen blueberries, though we usually freeze the berries off our bushes, so I’m afraid I can’t vouch for storebought. I hope your grocery store trip was… FRUITful! Ahahahahaha.
I visited my grandparents in Maine when I was 10, and they made me a shrimp sandwich that was pretty much what you describe (there might have been lettuce involved). This was my first inkling that shrimp was available in a form factor other than fried.
I saw a segment on “60 Minutes” a couple of months ago, describing how some jewelers will sell you rings that they say are 14 karat, 24 karat, etc., but, in fact, are not. I don’t know if this would be more likely to happen over the internet. Just a thought.
I like the style of wedding band. IMO, it should be simple, and compliment the bride’s engagement ring. We opted for platinum, but white gold is a good choice as well.
If the ring is made in the U.S. and it has a trademark on it, then it is quite safe to assume that the the number of karats is correct.
Some foreign rings are 24k gold plated rings with a lesser karatage of gold underneath. 24k gold is only hard enough when they bend and form gold wire to give it a more solid structure, which is a bit more expensive to do and usually not done in third world countries (with a few exceptions), so what they do is put the softer, yellower gold around around a less pure gold, so that they can call it a gold ring, rather than a gold-plated ring, even though it’s really gold-plated gold.
If it’s white gold, it shouldn’t be above 18 karats because white gold by definition is between 4.8 and 17.8% nickel (plus some zinc and in the case of 14k white gold which only has 4.8% nickel, titanium). So if you see somebody trying to sell 24k white gold, that’s complete and utter crap. If it were 24k it would be “pure” gold (24 karat gold is actually 22 karats, but since it is as pure as it comes, they allow it to be called 24 karats), which is yellowish in colour.
Rings from Belgium, Italy, and a few well-known Hong Kong jewelers are definitely reliably karated (well, Italy doesn’t use karats, but the purity rating is accurate). I’d avoid rings of eastern European, central American, Mexican, Asian (with a few exceptions), and African (with a few exceptions) origin. Rings made in Japan, major jewelers in Ghana, and major jewelers in South Africa are generally safe, but I’m not going to specifically recommend getting one that was manufactured in any of those places because I’m not too familiar with them.
I know way too much about this.
However, you don’t have bad reactions to any specific metals do you? It would be a very bad thing to have a reaction to a wedding band. I don’t think that any white gold has any silver in it, which is one of the most common problem metals though. (my ex-gf’s daughter’s skin has a serious reaction to silver) 14k white gold is copper free generally. I’d have to look up the rest though. If you do have metal allergies, let me know and I’ll pull out my books.
This is the 2nd occasion I have come across your blog post in the last couple weeks. Seems like I ought to take note of it.