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Black, Ring, Videos, and Thought Processes
Friday, February 1st, 2008 12:10 pm
Two people at work independant of each other have commented over the last month that I'm always wearing black. I was very suprised, because while I usually have a black article of clothing on - for instance that lacy overcoat thingy - I have quite a lot of colour in my wardrobe too. In fact it is not often that I wear complete black with no colour. I admit I have a lot of black in my selection, as black and red suit me. Nonetheless, I have been shopping for clothes lately, feeling that my wardrobe was in need of an update/expansion anyway, and aimed more at colour than black. I bought a glorious blue dress Wednesday that I love, I'm going to wear it to the pancake fest on Sunday.
In other news, I have a naked finger. Specifically the ring finger on my left hand. The emerald went from a slight rocking motion on a Saturday to a wiggle that Monday, so I decided to take it to be fixed last week. This week I went to collect it and discovered that the fixer person had done nothing to it and had charged me $20 for the privilege. I had explained to the desk person that it was my engagement ring and I needed it to last for quite while due to the length of my engagement, to which the desk person had written "Check structure is sound," my assumption then being that he had written what was neccessary since he is in the business and would use different language to someone else in the business as opposed to me as a customer. The fixer guy sent it back untouched, saying structure ok, advise against work. Fair enough, as the heat he would use could damage the stone and he figured the stone was held in enough. *Gah* though, because this ring has to last ages! Not good enough! The bit that especially ticks me off is that now I have to wait an extra two weeks with a naked finger, because I'm having it sent back to the setter to have the emerald secured, and will naturally be charged for that too. Why the heck did the desk person not put a better description since it was obviously not adequate enough, or the fixer could have at least called me and I would have authorised sending it off to the setter straight away, thus meaning less wait time for me. The desk people this time also refused to put anything on the form like "engagement ring," their arguement being that everyone thinks their ring is special (WTF?!) but after asking if they could at least put that it needed to last 4+ years, they conceded enough to put "Customer requires ring to be durable." So much rage, indignation, and ...well....I'm SAD that I don't have the symbol of my engagment in love from Zig on my finger. *cry*
On to happier things. I'm becoming more and more engrossed in YouTube. You may have noticed the YouTube posts I have made over the last two months. The interest started off slowly, but it has progressed so that I have subscribed (get notified of new videos from) to four users now and have even put a bunch of videos into my favourites recently. To check out some interesting videos, you can go to my account there (SimplySilverai) and view my favourites, possibly even progressing to who I have subscribed to from there.
Over the last....oooh five or so years, I have stopped thinking. Yup, no contemplation for me. I found it made me happier. In the years proceeding, I would debate things constantly with myself, argue theology, philosophy and spirituality with others, and generally second guess every thought I had about anything. I ended up being very confused, very unhappy, and very unsure of many things I had previously held as truths. I conciously chose to stop doing this. The last five years I've been a lot happier, gotten into a lot less meaningless arguements with people, and have generally found my life to be a lot easier. Just recently, I was reflecting (yes, one of the rare times in the last few years) that I've been a lot less creative than I used to be. Things like drawing, writing, painting - all that stuff. A switch flicked in my head and it occured to me that the part that thinks about things is also the part that my creativity stems from. So! I have taken a deep breath and started learning how to be creative again. I guess this mean introspection will occur a bunch again too - already my brain seems to be unable to shut up for the last week or two - but I will endeavour to keep it reasonable instead of taking over. I think YouTube may be partly responsible - there are so many creative people doing so many creative things on there that it is hard not to feel greatly inspired.
In other news, I have a naked finger. Specifically the ring finger on my left hand. The emerald went from a slight rocking motion on a Saturday to a wiggle that Monday, so I decided to take it to be fixed last week. This week I went to collect it and discovered that the fixer person had done nothing to it and had charged me $20 for the privilege. I had explained to the desk person that it was my engagement ring and I needed it to last for quite while due to the length of my engagement, to which the desk person had written "Check structure is sound," my assumption then being that he had written what was neccessary since he is in the business and would use different language to someone else in the business as opposed to me as a customer. The fixer guy sent it back untouched, saying structure ok, advise against work. Fair enough, as the heat he would use could damage the stone and he figured the stone was held in enough. *Gah* though, because this ring has to last ages! Not good enough! The bit that especially ticks me off is that now I have to wait an extra two weeks with a naked finger, because I'm having it sent back to the setter to have the emerald secured, and will naturally be charged for that too. Why the heck did the desk person not put a better description since it was obviously not adequate enough, or the fixer could have at least called me and I would have authorised sending it off to the setter straight away, thus meaning less wait time for me. The desk people this time also refused to put anything on the form like "engagement ring," their arguement being that everyone thinks their ring is special (WTF?!) but after asking if they could at least put that it needed to last 4+ years, they conceded enough to put "Customer requires ring to be durable." So much rage, indignation, and ...well....I'm SAD that I don't have the symbol of my engagment in love from Zig on my finger. *cry*
On to happier things. I'm becoming more and more engrossed in YouTube. You may have noticed the YouTube posts I have made over the last two months. The interest started off slowly, but it has progressed so that I have subscribed (get notified of new videos from) to four users now and have even put a bunch of videos into my favourites recently. To check out some interesting videos, you can go to my account there (SimplySilverai) and view my favourites, possibly even progressing to who I have subscribed to from there.
Over the last....oooh five or so years, I have stopped thinking. Yup, no contemplation for me. I found it made me happier. In the years proceeding, I would debate things constantly with myself, argue theology, philosophy and spirituality with others, and generally second guess every thought I had about anything. I ended up being very confused, very unhappy, and very unsure of many things I had previously held as truths. I conciously chose to stop doing this. The last five years I've been a lot happier, gotten into a lot less meaningless arguements with people, and have generally found my life to be a lot easier. Just recently, I was reflecting (yes, one of the rare times in the last few years) that I've been a lot less creative than I used to be. Things like drawing, writing, painting - all that stuff. A switch flicked in my head and it occured to me that the part that thinks about things is also the part that my creativity stems from. So! I have taken a deep breath and started learning how to be creative again. I guess this mean introspection will occur a bunch again too - already my brain seems to be unable to shut up for the last week or two - but I will endeavour to keep it reasonable instead of taking over. I think YouTube may be partly responsible - there are so many creative people doing so many creative things on there that it is hard not to feel greatly inspired.
