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Jewelry

A while back I wrote a post opening up about how I really wanted jewelry from Chan.  Shortly after I wrote it, we talked very seriously about making it happen.  We just needed to be able to find time where both of us could go, because he wanted it to be something I really wanted, rather than picking it out himself, and probably always wondering whether it was what I really wanted.  I completely understood that, and actually prefered it that way.  That way there were no questions, and there was no guessing on his part.

After our initial conversation, with both of us having every intention of getting it done, we just became more occupied with other things, and as of this very moment in time, it hasn't yet gotten done.  I'm not writing this because I blame him for it not getting done, or because I feel like he's been inadequate or neglectful in any way, but rather because something happened this past weekend that got me thinking about it again.  Hopefully by the time I'm done writing subsequent paragraphs, it will all make sense, and I will have given some of you a new perspective...

On the 14th of this month, I went to my sister's house for 10 days because we had a graduation to attend, and a week after that, she was planning on having a "beginning of summer" party, and I wanted to be there for that as well.  On Friday, the 15th, the three of us, my sister, her husband, and I all went to the graduation, and truly enjoyed ourselves!  The dawning of the 16th meant that the party was a week away, and in that week we just did a lot of hanging out and bonding both as sisters, and as the family unit.  It was a lot of fun, and those are the moments I wish we could have more of!

Finally the 23rd was here!  When I got up and got dressed that morning, I put on a brown tank top, a very cute brown and blue plaid shirt that my sister let me borrow, and brown pants.  My sister and I at her "beginning of summer" party.As my mom was dressing me, I made the comment to her that I wanted to wear the necklace, which I have bought several weeks earlier while I was there, but for some reason kept forgetting to bring it back to my apartment with me, that was hanging on the bedroom door of the spare bedroom, which is where I was staying.  Due to the fact that she didn't want to get tangled up when we transferred, she told me to remind her to put it on after she put me in my chair.  So I did.  As I sat on the deck reading my book, and waiting for guests to arrive, I reached up and started playing with the necklace.  It was a very absent gesture at that time, but the more and more I thought about it after the night was over, the more I realized that maybe it wasn't absent after all.  I again started thinking about how having something special from someone, regardless of whether you have a relationship label or not, can keep you connected to them even if you're miles apart!

As I said in my previous post about this, no one, not even my mom, has ever given me jewelry of any sort, let alone jewelry that I can wear all the time to keep her, or anyone else close to my heart when we're miles apart.  Maybe it's because everyone pictures me not being the type of woman who wants jewelry because they never see me wear it.  If that is the case, I'm going to set the record straight for the second time, and maybe this time, if my first post wasn't taken to heart by all who read it, this part of this one will be. 

  For all of you that I truly care about, here's a note:

I absolutely love jewelry, I always have, and I always will!  The main reason I don't wear it all the time is because I don't have a single piece that I like well enough, or that means enough to me not to want to take it off.  If I did, I can promise you I would be wearing it, because I would absolutely love to have something like that from any of you, and I would treasure it forever!

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