January 10, 2008

• Disappearing Rings?

  Pennsylvania, January 2nd, 2008: Today’s our long awaited Broadway day in the city! We’re leaving in just a few minutes once I finished 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-law’s 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 parent’s 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 Dicken’s 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?

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