Holiday Gifts

The setting he found is BEAUTIFUL. Apparently he’d spent months looking for the right ring, found it, and the jeweler had to track it down from a tradeshow. It’s not a traditional pronged solitaire, its more modern looking and just COOL (have I ever said i like different?). Its a platinum band with 10 small diamonds inset (5 on both sides), then in the center it holds the main diamond flush with the band, but you can see the side profile completely, so from the side it looks like the diamond is just floating with no support from the sides. We’ve had a diamond for 4 years, even before our wedding, but haven’t been able to complete it. So Kynan’s been secretly working on it and I think that’s what makes the ring even more special…

Oh yes. And then there was the ring. *sigh* It’s really beautiful: 1/2 carat total weight, platinum, a simple channel-set row of princess-cut (square) diamonds. Looks about like this. No solitare, no foofy hand plumage, just classy, simple, and understated. And I can’t wait to wear it forever.

Years ago a friend of mine studied graphology and for a Christmas gift took a sample of my writing and prepared a thirty-some-odd page analysis based on that sample. Her results mirrored an assessment made on me using Myers-Briggs typology.

Orhan Pamuk is one of my favorite authors. I had never heard of Turkey’s most famous novelist until a few years ago, when I got My Name is Red as a surprise birthday gift.

LOL, yep. We went to a waterpark today for Matthew and my birthday. Yep. We’re one year older ^.^ It was really fun. We brought a couple of our other friends. The waterpark had a wave pool (though it kinda sucked) a lazy river that we floated down in tubes, and a waterslide where you went down on a tube. Matt and my other friend Jack were together on the slide, (you have to use double tubes) and they flipped over. Luckily neither of them was injured. Me and Matthew are getting laptops soon. Our parents ordered them for us a couple days ago. We’re each paying $300. Matt might also pay the first year of domain name (m-unit.org) for this site as a birthday gift. YAY!

And here’s another instance where I am friends with brides mom! I first met Michelle’s mom, Nancy Stevens, when I asked her to be the florist for my wedding. Nancy had work that was above and beyond all of the other florists’ work that I had seen. Nancy knows her flowers, knows weddings, and is the most amazing floral artist I have met. Let me tell you . . . the bouquet she made for me has been preserved and is HANGING in my home to this day! I couldn’t have asked for a better bouquet . . . but above all else, I made a great friend!

This is the first of 5 felted hats I need to make for Christmas gifts. I have a bunch of little girls who want hats. I have pink, blue, magenta, and two orange to make. I had borrowed Felted Knits to use one of the patterns, but tit didn't quite come out how I wanted to I started over with a pattern I made froma mish-mash of my felting hat experiences. I'm pretty pleased with it, but I am thinking I'll take all the left over yarn from all of these and make some felted flowers to tack on.

The rules of golf, with breathtaking photos. Sounds like a Christmas gift, if I ever heard of one.

The Babur missile is capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads and has a range of 500km (310 miles), a military spokesman said. Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said the launch was a birthday gift to President Pervez Musharraf.

I need some help. I don’t drink wine… never liked it much. It’s been a long time since I’ve even had any… but last time I had it, I didn’t like it. However, I seek your opinion. What’s good? Red, White, Sparkling? Help - please. I’m thinkin’ of gettin’ a bottle (w/ a personalized label) for Mr. PM for our upcoming anniversary. If I do, I don’t want it to taste crappy. Any recommendations? I have no clue, help a girl out.

My car coming was filled to the gills… again… What is it with leaving here and coming back with more stuff… I have to admit, it is fun.. New bathroom furniture… Wine for me, new printer….The girls got an early Birthday gift from Mom, she got them a DVD player for the car… it is pink.. Hey Girls Rule in this house.. So the return was very quiet. Mom basically slept almost the whole way there.. thanks mom for the very great company. ha ha ha and the girls watch a movie and I drove.