My mom has a wedding ring only, but it's not a band; it's got lots of littler diamonds surrounding a bigger center one.
Dad never had a wedding ring; still doesn't, but he wanted a star sapphire ring that Mom got for him a few years before he retired. He never wore it to work cause he was a telephone lineman and his hands were always trashed. He always has wanted an emerald, and a couple of years ago, Mom bought a loose stone and had it put in a pinkie ring. (She works PT at a jewelery store.) He wears it all the time.
When mom and dad die, I'm cool with my sister getting mom's wedding ring, regardless of its greater monetary value, cause I don't like diamonds, and I don't love the setting. But I get dad's pinkie ring.
Sis and I will have a slapdown on Mom's opals and I get the pearls or the little bitch DIES.
(And in case someone thinks I'm being mercenary, all the jewelry divvying is something of a running in-joke in my family. Daddy is pissed that law requires him to be buried in a casket or cremated; he's prefer the PlainS Indian corpse-in-a-tree method, and barring that, wanted to be sealed up in a cheap length of PVC pipe, to the dulcet strains of "Another One Bites the Dust." Seriously. I will play that song at his funeral. I don't care who is offended, cause Mom, S. and I won't be.)
My mother irritably tells us that one of us had better wise up and start liking gold, because that's what she's got to pass onto us.
It's "invisibling", Gus. Get it right.
Truly, we are all brothers and sisters in hidden gold.
I had heard a while back that the Ramseys themselves were completely cleared in the case. What a nightmare it must be for them, even with the arrest. I can't imagine.
I am sure that my parents were very well acquainted. They may have exchanged bling at one point. I am dead sure they were mutually fond.
See, you do not want to talk your parents after a Ramseys post. It is better to be quiet.
My mom took the bitch-fight out of our hands, so to speak.
I got my great-grandma's ring when I had Em.
J will get my grandmother's rings when she has her first baby.
N's wife will get my mom's London Blue Topaz earrings when she has their first baby.
The only thing my sister and I will fight over is some of the furniture and paintings.
My brother gets nothing as he makes more money than we do.
The vast majority of what my mother has, either my sister or I gave her.
Therefore, we can just split it along those lines.
I doubt either of my parents have anything their parents gave them. Anything material, anyway. I know my father used to have a bible of his mother's, but maybe he dumped it after I drew all over it in ballpoint pen.
I was young, rude, stupid, and loved to draw. Even Jesus.
