Mrs. Lemon, Los Angeles/Monterey
Age and Occupation in 06: 26, Graduate Student (Public Policy)
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 29, Environmental Consultant
Engagement Date: April 7, 2006
Wedding Date: July 7, 2007
Venue: Rosary Chapel & Monterey Marriott, Monterey, CA
About Me: My FI and I met online, but we like to tell people that we met at a "cookie shop" which is the technical location of our first encounter. He proposed exactly 1 year, 1 month and 6 days after our first date (it's the only part of his proposal speech that I remember), and we're planning long-distance from Los Angeles for a July wedding in my hometown of Monterey, CA. I have a passion for all things "cool, cute and quirky" and I enjoy video games, reading blogs (WeddingBee, trashy celeb, consumer & political) and crafting in my spare time, if I have any!
Disappearing Rings?
January 10th, 2008 @ 6:41 pm by Mrs. Lemon
Pennsylvania, January 2nd, 2008: Today’s our long awaited Broadway day in the city! We’re leaving in just a few minutes once I finish putting on my layers and grab my…. rings… “Hey honey, have you seen my engagement ring?” ….
It’s the 10th vacation day at my in-laws’ home and I’ve gone into a panic. It set in that morning as I realized my engagement ring, which had been sitting on top of my wedding band (which was still there) on the nightstand, was long gone. I scoured every inch of the hardwood floors, emptied the bed of sheets, moved furniture and raked my brain trying to think of where it could have gone.
Seriously… I took both rings off together. One was still there. And we have to leave by 10am and Mr. Lemon is starting to get really upset with my absent-mindedness. “Where on Earth did you disappear to you silly silly ring?!?!”
After an hour of searching, panicking and preparing for the day, Mr. Lemon indulges his parents in my debacle. Within five minutes, MIL Lemon rings out with, “Got it!” We all rush to the 2nd floor landing and realize that she was walking out of the master bedroom. Why would my ring be in there?
Wait a minute! Mr. Lemon let his parents’ puppies in to wake me up this morning… nuh-uh!
Meet Jacob Marley:
Don’t let that adorably long face fool you. This puppy (aka Jacob Marley) lived up to his ghostly name and decided that he wanted to abandon his Dickens’ upbringing and jump over to Tolkien by stealing MY PRECIOUS engagement ring. Luckily he hadn’t yet injested it, but instead simple stowed it away in the liner of his crate. We assume he grabbed it off the nightstand while he played on the bed with me that morning… and in a brief 30-second period my ring was suddenly his newest toy.
While we can laugh about it now, I certainly lost a few hairs that morning due to stress. Please someone tell me I’m not the only person whose ring has been pet-napped?
12 Responses to “Disappearing Rings?”
Well he certainly has good taste, doesn’t he!
MY CAT will take my ring off the night stand and start RUNNING with it ! I think he KNOWS it’s the only thing I will get out of bed for, and once I’m up he gets food, he’s done it several times !
Mine wasn’t pet-napped…it was Boss-napped. I set in on the counter at work about a month after we were married because I was scrubbing out our x-ray processor. I rang to answer the phone and got caught up in the rest of my day. Went to grab my ring…GONE! Called Dr (boss) at home, he was at a movie, but I didn’t think he had it, he would have said something. I dug through 3 bags of medical garbage, and go home sobbing. At 12:30am, my boss called to say he put it in his pocket so it wouldn’t get lost, and I would worry, and forgot to tell me!!
One of my cats is a total klepto and loves to steal things and hide them in one of her many “secret” spots. One day she managed to bat my ring off of the counter while I was washing my face and stow it under a dresser before I noticed it was gone. It only took 20 panicked minutes to find it, but I swear I will never let that happen again! I sympathize, Mrs. Lemon!
Hehe, that’s why I never take mine off. I did try to give it to one of my cats to play and realize right away that it’s too attractive of a toy for her 
This happend to me as well. My little pekingeese swiped it right off a table. I found him under the bed chewing it an hour later. I practically died from the panic!
This hasn’t happened yet but only because I put it in its box on my nightstand. My cats love to play with anything shiney and have stolen my jewlry many times. In fact one of them regularly tries to take my knecklace off me while I am lying in bed!. He has also been known to actually steal my earings right out of my ears at night!
The box is always necessary!
I didn’t loose my ring but I realized that one of my diamond earrings from my FH was missing one day. I cried for about three days until my FH called to tell me that our naughty little Cocker Spaniel jumped onto the couch and spit something into his lap. Any guesses on what that was?
my stepmom just lost hers and she is convinced the dog ate it… she can’t check the doodoo because its so cold its frozen… ewwww time for a new ring!!!!!
A friend of my mom’s lost her ring in much the same fashion–one of her two bassett hounds, Thelma and Louise–actually did ingest it. She and her husband spent a weekend following the girls around and they found the ring and after sanitizing, it was fine. How aptly named are those dogs?
My FH and I have ferrets… they’re attracted to SHINY things… so my ring, as well as any sparkly earrings I wear, are susceptible to nibbles when we’re playing… thankfully they haven’t stolen any of them yet, but I also never take my ring off…
I work at an animal emergency hospital and think the funniest ring story is this woman comes in and swears she think her dog ate her ring. Husband thinks this is all a ploy and she just lost it.
Well a little later an xray shows the HUGE diamond in the dogs diagestive track- she was dead on! So she had to go through this huge dobermans poop for 3 days looking for her ring…but she got it 
