TOTALLY Spoilt
OK, a little back story here. When DH and I first married I was not that fond of diamonds, I preferred emeralds, sapphires etc. I am not sure whether it's because I grew up around the diamond mines of South Africa and diamonds seemed like a dime a dozen (or as they say in South Africa, a tickey(2 pennies) a time); but colored gemstones seemed more precious to me.
When we got married I picked out a really nice emerald wedding ring, and loved it. When we moved to San Antonio we got to the point where we really had no money and we had to pawn some things. At that point my ring was getting a little tight for me, and as loath as I was to do it, I sold it so we could pay bills. I had other rings; Terry has bought me a ring with the birth of each one of our children. We chose not to sell any of those as they had way too much sentimental value. I wore the sapphire ring Terry bought me for the birth of Hayley, our third child as my wedding ring.
Fast forward to now: we are doing much, much better, we have some money in savings, we have income coming in, and last June Terry said he wanted to buy me a new ring. He wanted me to get diamonds, and he wanted it big. "I want people to know we are married," he joked. We found a ring and have been saving. We had hoped to get it for Christmas but couldn't swing it. However he made some extra, extra money in January and went ahead and got the ring.
Here is my new rock!
Labels: diamond, emerald, husband, ring, sapphire, wedding
Terry's Idea of Heaven
I am not an artist - I make no claims to be one. I love art, I can appreciate paintings, photos and the like, but when it comes to how they are produced, you lose me. Terry on the other hand loves all things art - technical, creative etc. We'll be travelling down the freeway and he'll say something like, "Did you see that billboard we just passed?" Yeah, I saw it, I checked it for grammar and spelling as we went by. He however will say, "That font is the [insert font name here] and it was used by [insert name here] when he/she/they did the ad for [insert company here]"
He will show me photos that are reversed (I think that is the right term). I try to look interested, really I do, but unless the dog is on the ceiling, or the cars are driving upside down, I probably would never be the wiser. But I am glad there are the Terry's in the world - they make our world a happier, brighter and altogether prettier place!
Like any other professional field out there, you need to keep abreast of changes, trends and what the future holds. For artists like Terry 'the' conference to attend is
Photoshop World. Unfortunately finances have dictated that he has only attended one conference, and that was back in 2003.
Last night he was watching some online demonstrations and I overheard the announcement for Photoshop World 2008. It is to be held from April 1, 2008 and at Terry's
favourite vacation town. My ears perked up at that! About a month ago he had made mention that he really wants to attend one of their conventions again (and in all fairness I did fly to Michigan for a writer's conference. I was one of the speakers, but I still benefitted from listening to and talking to fellow writers.) I told him to start making plans to attend and to tack on a few days before or after the conference to see
Mickey at
Disney World. 
He's already making plans!
Labels: Disney, husband, Photoshop, Terry
Here is my new rock!
