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I have to be at work very early in the morning. Thus, I wake up at an ungodly hour every morning, long before Mr. Lemonade or our furbaby, Vida, even consider opening their eyes.
Yesterday morning started off like any other. I woke up about 15 minutes before the alarm went off, headed downstairs to start my pot o’ addiction and trotted back upstairs to continue on with my typical morning rituals.
After applying my face and picking out a suit for the day I rummaged through my jewelry drawer to find my pearls, watch and engagement ring. Pearls, check! Watch, check! Ring… um, not so much. The ring wasn’t in the drawer. So, I checked my second jewelry drawer, one that I use for costume jewelry. No dice. At this point I was starting to feel a bit concerned. I dashed back to my closet and checked the pockets of everything I wore the day before. No ring. Emptied the contents of my briefcase and purse. Again, no ring.
So, there we were at 5:45 in the morning and I was tearing through the house emptying drawers, tossing pillows and cushions, searching every crevice, nook, and cranny I could find to no avail. I must have uttered every four letter word in the English language and turned on half the lights in the house, yet the damn ring was nowhere to be found. As much as it pained me to do so, I had to leave for work so off I went with my left hand ring finger totally exposed and naked.
Once I arrived at the office I couldn’t put the situation out of my mind. I have a history of permanently misplacing things (read: losing them) and all the signs were pointing in this direction. Add to this the fact that my ring was custom made with a center stone that Mr. Lemonade had handpicked after many many many months of searching for the perfect one, making it kinda irreplaceable. The pit was growing by the minute.
Needless to say I got nothing done at work all day and rushed home as soon as my schedule would allow. I went into tornado mode once again digging and searching and freaking the hell out. No ring.
Mr. Lemonade suggested we order some food and chill out for the evening, reasoning that it would show up when I least expected it. I couldn’t believe he was so Zen about the whole matter. While he noshed on some super yummy Jason’s Deli, I let my soup go cold. I just couldn’t eat with this situation hanging over me. Did the dog eat the ring? Did it fall in the toilet? The trash? Where the hell was it?!
I ran upstairs once more to ransack my room one last time. As I passed my dresser I noticed there was a sweater air-drying on a towel on the top. A quick shake and guess what comes flying out at me? You got it, my beloved ring.
I usually hate it when he’s right. Last night I thanked my lucky stars (and vowed to buy a few ring holders on the way home from work).
reunited and it feels so good…
Have ever misplaced your ring or, heaven forbid, lost it?
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I haven’t exactly lost or misplaced it… but I did drop it down the garbage disposal once… that was terrifying!
i have the same problem with losing things! I decided that when at home, there is only one place that it can go that isn’t on my finger. Its a little bowl my fiance got me on a trip to puerto vallarta. i have stayed true to this and haven’t had a close call–yet. 
There’s one perfect fit
And, sugar, this one is it… (sorry i really like to sing)
lucky you girlie! i freak out all the time thinking i lost it coz i’m so absent-minded… this is one reason why i leave the e-ring home now that i have the band, though i’d be devestated if i lost my band too…
WOW your ring is awesome, is it an emerald cut?
Will you add a wedding band? it’s beautiful - great job Mr Lemonade!~
Oh god, I think I would throw up from nerves. Whenever I take mine off I either put them in a dish specially reserved for them or in my mouth (!).
Yes I did. I work at a dental office, and I took it off to put lotion on. The counter I set it on has a cut out on top to put garbage in. I left it there and my boss thought it was someone else’s, tho I was there all day. So he took it home in his pocket to bring it back in the morning. By the time I realized it later that afternoon, I was panicking. I ended up going through the medical waste 4x. I called him even, but he was out. I was so exhausted the next day when he asked anyone if they lost a ring. He said he wasn’t used to me being engaged, but I was a mess that night!!!
I am ***SO*** scared that this will happen to me too! I am always losing one pearl earring, or the bracelet I got for our first Valentine’s day, or WHATEVER. It makes me want to not wear things for the FEAR - that and buy cheap, fake things that look like real so I don’t cry when they disappear.
I misplaced my ring one morning in the car. I took it off to put on some lotion and completely forgot to put it back on. Needless to say, I spent about one hour crying my eyes out while I drove BACK to my son’s school, BACK to my house about 1/2 away from work and then back to work when I found the ring in the car. It was honestly the scariest moment of my life. I used to take it off at night, now I don’t ever take it off…(:
SO happy it turned up I would have been the same ball of nerves.
@Mrs. Sea Breeze: LOL I put mine in my mouth for safe keeping all the time and ppl laugh at me - glad to know I’m not alone
Ah! It is the most nerve-wracking thing EVER!
In the last months I have:
Taken my ring off to use power tools and put it in my jeans pocket…or so I thought. Then when I went back to look for it it was GONE…after a mini-heat attack, I found it in my coat pocket. :/
Taken my ring off to wash my hands, again thinking I put it in my jeans pocket…
Mini-heart attack later I found it in the butt pocket of my jeans…I never put anything there.
I feel like this is storytime:
One time I left my house to go see my fiance for the day…got 10 miles down the road to see my finger bare! He lived an hour away and we were going to a family Christmas party…I had to drive back and get it or people would talk 
I feel so naked without it though :(.
I have a bad habit of leaving things around my apartment, so I usually take off my ring and put it right back in the box it came in because I have not gotten around to getting ring holders. That way I’m not likely to leave it on the sink or any number of odd places.
Glad your ring turned up!
Sometimes I freak out about losing my rings even when they are on my fingers! I don’t wear them to the gym and sometimes when we are at the gym I start to worry that we didn’t close the door to the apartment tightly and someone is in the apartment stealing my ring (I never worry about any other thing we own in the apartment - car keys, tv, computer, etc.).
I totally freak out randomly too!! I would hate to lose it for sentimental value, but thank goodness for insurance - it helps a little.
And can I say the obvious - Holy Crap that is one hell of a diamond!!!
I am a chronic loser too! haha, that sounds funny… meaning I lose things REALLY easily. So far, so good… *knock on wood*
And your ring… STUNNING!! i want another closeup where we can see the stone!! is it emerald cut?
OMG. So glad it resurfaced! I’m usually pretty good about taking off my jewelry and putting it in a bowl on my dresser when I get home, and when I got my e-ring, I got a bigger bowl, and also a second little bowl that I put on the counter by the kitchen sink so I can take it off when doing dishes or cooking and not misplace it. Those are the only two places it ever goes, period. I haven’t lost any of my less expensive pieces of jewelry so knock on wood I should be able to keep track of this one (it has FI’s grandma’s diamond so I’d better not lose it, high sentimental value!).
Good luck!!
I’m so glad that you found it!!! I would go crazy looking too!
i totally know the feeling of misplacing something and then realizing it’s right there. glad you found your pretty ring
I am pretty good about keeping up with things, but the future hubby is not. We are doing the long distance thing, and he had to take the ring with him to get it re-sized and an appraisal done for the insurance. It freaked me out so much that he would lose it traveling so I sewed the ring to the inside of his pants pocket so even if he did forget where it was I could tell him when he got home. Yeah….i am paranoid.
I constantly misplace things, so this would totally happen to me. The first thing I did was to insure my ring, because I was certain that I was going to lose it!
First off, I’m so glad that your ring turned up! That would have been horrible! I haven’t lost my E-ring or wedding band (yet- TG!) but I have lost two other things that were expensive and meaningful from the Mr. Both were necklaces– one a journey diamond necklace and the other an Elsa Peretti Tiffany necklace. He doesn’t know I lost the journey necklace (i think it happened on the move), but he gave me the Tiffany necklace for Christmas two years ago. Two weeks later, GONE! I was wearing it one minute, then I came home and went to take it off and it wasn’t there. We went back to every place we had been, called places, searched my workplace and it was nowhere to be found. I was so devastated that I cried for a week (or every time I thought about it). I can’t imagine what I’d do if I lost the diamond- EEK!
I can totally relate! It was a little too big and I meant to get it resized but I thought it was not too big to still wear in the meantime. One day, after doing some housework around apartment, I looked down at my hand and it was gone.
I tried to retrace my steps, but it was hard since I had been cleaning up and putting things away. I had been everywhere in the apartment. After four hours of tearing up the apartment that I had just been organizing, I concluded that it had fallen off when I had thrown some garbage down the chute which leads to the building garbage compactor. It was absolutely the worst feeling. My dear and every understanding FI offered to go down and sift through garbage before they turned the compactor on in the morning. Fortunately, I then found in the closet among some clothes — it must have come off while I was putting clothes away.
I immediately went and got it resized and now it’s always on my finger or in the ring holder.
Oh I’m so glad you found it! While we were engaged I (briefly) lost my ring. I woke up one morning and knew something was amiss, glanced at my ring finger and gasped so loud I woke up my FH! After tearing apart the couch and retracing the previous night’s steps and coming up with nothing, I went and shook out our duvet cover and then pillowcases and finally it appeared out of a pillowcase! The scary thing was that I had taken it off in my sleep!!!!!
I haven’t lost my ring, but one day I was at work and realized something seemed “off” with my ring. Then it hit me - one of the stones flanking the center diamond was (gasp) missing! Luckily, my FI knows me well enough to get the protection plan so it was replaced free of charge. I subsequently had a dream that ALL of the stones fell out and I couldn’t find them, so the next day I went to the jeweler and made them check the settings of all the stones to make sure none were loose. And yes, I took a lot of flack over that one.
It kinda surprises me I’ve never misplaced my ring since I’m constantly washing my hands - I work for Bath & Body Works, and we’re constantly putting lotion on people so they can try it out, and after a while, you just have so many smells that you gotta wash it all off. I’m always very conscious of where I put my ring though - thank god for those aprons we wear …. the pocket is the perfect place to tuck my ring when it’s not on my finger.
I took my ring off to put lotion on in the bathroom at school and walked out with the ring still sitting on the paper towel dispenser. I made it about ten steps before I walked back in and grabbed it. Fortunately there was no one else in the bathroom and the ring was still there. Now the ring does NOT come off for ANYTHING when I am not at home.
I left mine in the pocket of a costume that was being taken to the laundry! Many frantic cell phone calls later and an evening apart from my ring, and it was returned. So scarifying!!
Also, this Texan aches for the Jason’s Deli salad bar!! No Jason’s in Chicago!! (Or Sonic-sigh)
Ummm have we never seen your ring before? It’s amazing. Can’t wait to see it in person!
I left mine in my jeans pocket one time. For whatever reason, I took my jeans off and was washing a stain off my jeans over the bathroom sink - when I realized my ring was gone! I thought it fell down the drain and I got so scared it was lost forever. Luckily it was just stuck in the pocket. Whew!
Ha, I forgot my ring at home yesterday for the first time in over a year, and Mr. Peep flipped!! He called me on the bus asking me if I was missing something. I had no idea.
Glad you found yours!!
My FMIL gave me a very pretty ring holder immediately after my fiance proposed. That’s where my ring goes when it’s off my finger at home. However, I have a very bad habit of playing with my ring at work when I’m thinking about something. A few times I’ve been working on a design problem and looked down to see my ring sitting on my desk beside my laptop…I took it off w/o realizing it!
OMG I got chills reading your story. It’s such a horrilbe feeling to misplace your ring! I am glad you found it. I used to take my ring off at night and set it on the night stand until one night while on vacation. While we were at the beach I took off my ring to go to sleep, my FH grabbed it and went out to his car to listen to some music (so he wouldn’t wake up the other 15 people in the house). He likes just looking at my ring, he is very proud of himself for picking out the perfect ring (so am I!). Well when I awoke I realized my ring was missing and went to search for it. I found my FH in the car, he told me he had the ring but when he reached in his pocket he couldn’t find it. I was heart broken and crying. After a while of looking for it in the front of the beach house I decided to head back inside, sure enough I just happened to look down and there is my ring sitting in a pile of sand…
I also put mine in my mouth when lotioning, etc. and while playing sports it lives in my wristlet in my gym bag, otherwise I wear it in the shower, to bed, all the time.
I almost never take my rings off- I sleep, shower, do dishes etc with mine on. I don’t even want to think about possibly losing them. I do take them off when I clean the house (most of the time) and try to put them in the wood ring box a friend gave me so I know where they are.
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Mrs. Lemonade, Austin/San Antonio
Age and Occupation: 28, Bureaucrat
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 28, Music Management
Engagement Date: December 21, 2007
Wedding Date: April, 2009
Blogging Since: August 22, 2008
Venue: Country Club ceremony, ballroom reception
About Me: I’m a total wonkette who is lucky enough to be surrounded by her favorite things on a daily basis – awesome music, the great State of Texas and of course, Mr. Lemonade! I find any excuse I can to craft something and am completely infatuated with the 1950’s, all things Kennedy, and my furbaby Vida.
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