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04:21:2002 Entry: "DREAM"

DREAM

Stan and I were at Meininger's in Denver looking at art supplies, but it turned into sort of a jewelry shop. There was a table full of men's silver rings with semiprecious gemstones, many of which were a sort of garnet color, but only semi-clear, mostly mottled with other reddish tones. I asked a saleswoman what that gemstone was, and she said some word that I didn't recognize. I said. "Oh." And then she said something like, "it's a plastic vermiculite," or somesuch. There were also large uncut chips of it lying around on the table. I felt them; they didn't feel plastic, they felt like real stone, or at least glass or some kind of natural resin. Then I saw a ring that was very large, like the size of a small woman's foot. It was in the shape of a cicada or a beetle, with garnet eyes and moonstone/opalescent wings. I also saw another similar one, perhaps iolite eyes and abalone shell wings. I tried to get over to the side of the table where it was, but there was a large crowd of people near it looking at some sort of mummy exhibit and I had a hard time getting around them. I started saying things like "I have no interest in the mummy exhibit, I just want to get over by the table to look at the rings" so that they wouldn't think I was trying to cut in line or anything. When I finally got over by the ring, I picked it up to look at it, but it turned into sort of a tacky metal pencil holder.

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This is getting very strange, scary, spooky, frightning... I mean your dreams. I had a discussion with Anne this morning about how tasteless and silly I think it looks when guys wear lots of rings, except from their weddingring - and oh, of course it's ok if the ring is in the lip too ;o) Anyway, isn't it spooky and exciting?

Posted by Nicolas @ 02/24/2002 03:37 PM CST

You do realize I have certain psychic abilities, or that I pick up on certain things on a subconscious level. I'm not trying to brag...it's just fact.

Stan usually wears a ring on each ring finger, but that's all (he doesn't have a wedding ring...his wife's a deadbeat). Sometimes he'll wear one on his pinky instead of the ring finger, just because his fingers are getting thicker with age and sometimes they no longer fit. Then I'll tease him about being like Joe Pesci from the early 90s SNL skit with the pinky rings. Myself, I wear a ring on each finger (including thumbs) except I usually don't wear pinky rings because my pinkies are too small to find any to fit. I like rings.

Posted by Ann @ 02/24/2002 04:00 PM CST