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I''m still at home, for right now at least. I have another appointment with my surgeon on Thursday, and I''ll see what he says then.

I''m sure that I''ve seen a J stone but just didn''t realize it. I haven''t done very much in-depth shopping in stores, and I don''t ask people on the street the specs of their diamonds.
 
I have seen an I and a J diamond in person. I picked them out of the display case pronto by just browsing the rings. I apparently have a good eye for color because the sales rep was impressed that I could do it so easily. But my mom really couldn''t tell until I pointed it out and she had to struggle. I think its all about personal preference and your color sensitivity. Sadly my boy will be spending a tad more for a higher color one day. Poor lil fella
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Well it is color preference but it is also cut. The Is and Js you saw may not have been ideal cuts and would have shown a LOT more color than ideal cut Is and Js.
 
Well Blenhiem, I hope you''re all better and in class again soon. Has your boy been extra good to you while you''re out?

Haha about the last comment. Why *not* ask a perfect stranger about their diamond specifics? I don''t know anything about this stuff, and I doubt most people do. I just want something pretty. Because when it comes down to it, people will be saying, "ooh" and all that, rather than, "hey, what color is that diamond? How deep is it?"
 
Oh, Indecisive, I meant the clarity thing called I1; I don''t like deep rivets in a stone. Color I is great. I''m really not all that receptive to slight differences in color.
 
I realize cut has a lot to do with it as well, but these stones were mostly H&As. Its just the perfectionist in me I guess, I dunno how else to explain it.
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Oh I understand fisher! I was responding to what ilovesparkles posted. Not all Is are the same depending on how strict the grading was and the cut of the diamond. I agree about I1s... I just couldn't do it. Stick to SI1s and maybe SI2s and make sure they are eye clean! Those Whiteflash ideal cut rounds are to die for!

"I realize cut has a lot to do with it as well, but these stones were mostly H&As. Its just the perfectionist in me I guess, I dunno how else to explain it."

H&A doesn't mean they are ideal cuts... just that they have H&A symmetry. It could very well be color sensitivity though.
 
Date: 5/2/2006 8:17:47 PM
Author: indecisive
Oh I understand fisher! I was responding to what ilovesparkles posted. Not all Is are the same depending on how strict the grading was and the cut of the diamond. I agree about I1s... I just couldn''t do it. Stick to SI1s and maybe SI2s and make sure they are eye clean! Those Whiteflash ideal cut rounds are to die for!

''I realize cut has a lot to do with it as well, but these stones were mostly H&As. Its just the perfectionist in me I guess, I dunno how else to explain it.''

H&A doesn''t mean they are ideal cuts... just that they have H&A symmetry. It could very well be color sensitivity though.
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Uhoh, I thought H&A was an Ideal cut diamond? NOw I am in trouble, thought I was all smart and such
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And like ACA H&A was even better. How can you get an H&A diamond that isn''t ideal? I better go back to some basic reading.......
 
Virginia,

Now, I did also say that a good friend of mine has a stone with a deep black dot in it, down inside, and she loves that part of it, and feels that''s part of what makes it *real.* I''m so crazy in love, I''m pretty sure that any ring will make me giddy as all get out! Heck, I bet I could go out back right now, and find one. Save the boy a lot of work.
 
"Uhoh, I thought H&A was an Ideal cut diamond? NOw I am in trouble, thought I was all smart and such And like ACA H&A was even better. How can you get an H&A diamond that isn't ideal? I better go back to some basic reading....... "

People around here wouldn't spend all this time analyzing angles if it was as easy as H&A = perfect ideal diamond. That would be too easy
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BTW - ACA is just a branded ideal cut H&A
 
Hm. I don''t know anything about the angles and whatnot, but isn''t it just a matter of looking at the cert, seeing that it says cut: ideal. ? I thought so, anyway. Oops.
 
GIA does not issue an "ideal" grade, but does give excellent, very good.

AGS gives an "ideal" grade.

EGL does, too, but who cares?

Even then, not all AGS ideals or GIA excellents are equally created.

Has Paul promised to stay out of this thread?
 
He says he won''t be anywhere that''s supposed to be *girls only.*

Oh, I don''t know much about what grades are given by what initials. Sorry. :)
 
It''s my Paul''s birthday. Yay! I need to *so* go to bed.... puttering around online til all hours, like I''m in college again... Geesh!

Night, everyone!
 
Oooh, tell him the girls wish him a happy birthday!
 
I''ll do that!
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Virginia,

I had hoped you weren''t upset. I know if someone said something about my ring, it might would hurt my feelings a tad. I tend to be a bit *emotional.* Anyway, at this point, I''d be happy with *anything.* I mean it. I was hoping for a 1/2 carat, now I''m more like, whatever you can afford, please let us be engaged. I''m ready to marry my boy!
 
So, I was really excited today because I weighed at work *one of those sliding scales, the most accurate, they say* and I''ve lost like 9 pounds in the past couple of weeks. I was pretty giddy over it, too. Anyway, the best part is when I was talking to my sweetie just a minute ago and I told him about it, he said, "Wow, honey. You doing that for your wedding dress?" We''ve been trying to inspire and help one another be accountable to working out and eating right, and I just thought it was cute the first thing that came to his mind when I said that was our wedding day. Ideally, I''d like to lose 15 pounds before our wedding, but if I don''t, it''ll still be the best day ever! Aww... my boy''s thinking about us getting married. Like on the regular! Whoo hoo...
 
My calmness factor lasted just over a week. Today was a rough day for me, and I don''t even really *get* why, either. Work went fine, I slept well, tomorrow is pay day, I will see him tomorrow, all should be well. Now I''m sad. Why? I don''t know. I don''t even know that sad is the right word. I''m just grry, I guess. It''s frustrating because I''m not trying to be, it just set in. Not like I''m some super bratty person today, I''m just kinda mellow, not real bubbly or anything. What causes this? Yesterday I was fine. For over a week, I''ve been fine, happy, just eager and excited for what''s to come. I''m still both of those things, just not as much just this second.

I hope all of you have had a day full of more happy emotion.
 
Hi Fisher!!!

I think that''s pretty normal...

I also just had a very..."blah"...day. I guess I have a cold, I feel sad and frustrated and I just don''t know when this waiting will end...and some days I just feel like I want to ask him what if *anything* he''s doing about it!...but I have to control myself....that''s why I come here to vent
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just not a good day I guess....I will dedicate myself to cleaning my house tonight (I finally feel ok for the task!)...

I won''t see my BF until Saturday
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I guess that''s part of the reason I''m frustrated...

M~
 
Aww, I''m sorry your day''s been less than fantastic, too. I got so disappointed in myself this morning when I realized I was getting *antsy* again. Thought I''d gotten past that point. Haha. I go one week and think I''m *fixed.*

Maybe part of it is because we did have to miss a weekend, and I miss him more. I don''t know. I just hate it because I know he hears it in my voice, and he gets frustrated when I''m like this. I don''t do it intentionally. It just happens. I can''t "snap out of it," it just has to go its course. I don''t doubt it, I''m just tired of feeling like I''m waiting for our life to start. Not that life''s not going on now. I know it is, and I do enjoy where we are in our relationship. Argh. I''m just grumpy, I guess.

Good luck on having a better tomorrow, Mandarine.
 
hehehe...sounds like you wrote it well enough to fit how we both feel!....

I feel the same way...I mean, yes...my life keeps going...but when *it* does happen there is a whole new life that will start. I need to move, get a new job, leave my friends, sell my house, plan a wedding....it''s a lot!!!...and sometimes I feel I''m just waiting for that. It''s hard. I think it is harder for me than it is for him...for him nothing really changes....just the fact that we will be together
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....but he won''t have to change anything else in his life....so why is he the one doing all the planning? it just doesn''t seem fair
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I swear I feel like calling him and screming!!! but I know I can''t do that...I have to *trust* whatever happens is for the best and it will come at the *right* time. Some days is just harder than other to convince myself of that though!!

Well, aren''t we big help for lifting each other up? sorry..
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M~
 
Hee hee. Let''s not worry about the lifting one another up part, and just vent for this second! I *totally* hear what you''re saying. I will be the one looking for another job, moving, uprooting everything, and I can''t wait, but at the same time, I want that process--and I think it will be more of a process than he seems to think once we''re engaged, a job offer will be *automatic.* While I did get a few interviews and offers back in the fall, who''s to say that will happen again? He has sort of helped me feel better by telling me that once we''re engaged, if the process takes too long, I can move and he''ll "take care of me" while I look for a job. It''s cute and reassuring, but I''m also the type of girl who likes to feel a bit more independent than that.

And now my phone is showing that I have no signal. I hate that. I''m tempted to get in the car and drive around a bit and see if it comes back. I tried the turning it off and on thing. Didn''t work.
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I''m sort of addicted to my cell phone.
 
Oh God...I can''t live without my cell phone!!!!!!
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I wish we could smack some sense into those two!!!. At least you know your guy had been doing reserach....I mean...he did join PS!!...I don''t know that my BF has seriously looked *at all*. We have this 2006 timeframe and I freak out that he might wait until Dec 31st to do it!....

I don''t want to go to him and mess up if he does have something...but at the same time I feel like asking if he has donde anything at all????. I know he won''t tell me. He wants everything to be a surprise so he''ll just be like "you''re funny"...change the topic...and then if I bring it up, he''ll say something like "I told you everything will be ok...you don''t have to worry about it"....and if I push it he''ll say "I told you that in 2006!"...and then he''ll get annoyed...

So I won''t get anywhere with questioning!!!!...I wish I was closer to his friends (they don''t live here) so I could get some reassuring words or something!...

At this point I just want to know that at least he''s doing something...anything.

Grrrr
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Good luck with the cell!
 
https://www.pricescope.com/forum/proposal-ideas/not-a-proposal-but-a-very-special-evening-t44713.html

tell me this guy is not sweet!....but how dissapointed would you be?? (how mad would you be?...hehehe)

hmmmm...us girls can really just mess up one beautiful and thoughtful evening by having wrong expectations!
 
Yay! My cell started working again and all I had to do was move three feet. Too funny. Sometimes it will sort of *lock* and say it has no signal, even when it does. Odd.

I read that thread, Mandarine. I''d be like, "what in the world is this boy doing?" I mean, I adore my boy, but he''s nothing like that, and if he suddenly whipped out some super suave, sophisticated thing like that, I''d be baffled. But, if I were that type of girl and he was that type of guy, and he did ALL that and didn''t propose, I would be heartbroken. (And a little ticked.)

And while I do feel so happy and blessed that he is taking an active role in things, and that he so openly talks about things *he told me yesterday that his parents were wishing him a wonderful year, and he said he knew his 29th year would be great because he''d get to marry his girl during that time,* and gets all cute and stuff, but then, it sort of builds me up. You know? Don''t get me wrong, I''d not trade the sweetness of him for anything, but I feel like in the past three months, I''ve been lifted up in expectation, then slammed back down with reality. Tons of times. Honestly, I have sort of zoned into this idea that he''ll ask toward the end of the month, on my "half birthday." He''s not said he will, and he wouldn''t say if he was or wasn''t, anyway. I hate that I''ve sort of let myself think that, only because it will be another let down if it doesn''t happen. And then, to add fuel to the fire, he told me last night about a diamond he thinks he''s settled on. Does that mean he''s bought it? No. I still see it listed as available. *I really need to commit to NOT looking on that site anymore!* I don''t think he understands what comments like that do. They make me dream, get giddy, expect things.

Just like your guy, when I get to asking questions about when, and is he *doing* anything or what, I''ll hear, "Just relax. I''m on it." Aye. I''ve heard "I''m on it" so much!

Still, for the most part, I have calmed down a good deal, and I''m hoping this is just a passing moment of the grumps.
 
hehehe you are funny

I guess not being part of the process has a good side then!...I guess ignorance is bliss...but, the grass is always greener on the other side!
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I think your BF will come through for you before you know it....so I can''t wait to finally get to see you two posting together!!!!
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Now as for mine....who knows!

I''ve calmed down now....cleaning helps
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(puts my mind on the dust, not the ring! hehehehe)

Glad your cell worked!
 
It''s funny you say I am not involved in the process, Mandarine. He says I''m far too involved in it. He''s not said that in the past little bit though, because I have been less questioning. For the most part.

Cleaning. I need to do some of that. I *thought* being here instead of there over the weekend would have given me lots of time to clean my house. Not so much. Puppy had other ideas. That and I didn''t try too hard myself. I''m glad cleaning helps for you. It''s good to have a method to let out the nerves/agitation. Me? I call my best friend. Or my mom. Then I talk about everything I can think about, and usually my mind gets off what I''m grumpy about. Then I love on my doggie. Then I yell at my cat to stop clawing at things.
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Seriously, if I doubted it was coming, I would be some super bratty, irritable, impossible person. I know he has his stuff down, and I know he''s going to do the best he can, and I know it''s a big deal to him. That makes it easier. Most of the time, again.

My best friend is constantly telling me that I need to just be happy for what I have and await what''s to come with a "thankful spirit." I''m nothing if not thankful for him, but that makes me want what''s to come even more! She gets frustrated with my venting on her. I suspect she''s *very* thankful I''m venting elsewhere now.
 
No...I meant I am not part of the process....but you are (some what!)
so me not being part of the process means I don't stress to whether he bought a certain stone or not.....but then I have no idea if he's even searching!. You on the other side, know he's searching...but don't know if he's buying so you think about that...hehehe...so in our own each way we drive ourselves crazy with anxiety!

hehehe
 
OH! That was a brain fart moment for me. Hey, it happens more than I care to admit.
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