Diamonds....A Girls Best Friend

I love this ring! We sell it as an engagement ring but I told Josh I want it as a fashion ring for my right hand. lol. He thinks I'm nuts.

WHAT IS YOUR STYLE???
With all this work talk lately I've been thinking about one of my favorite topics.....engagement rings. That is one part of my job I love. I love helping people pick out the ring they love and will wear forever (or until they trade up, lol).

There are so many choices to go with; yellow gold, white gold, platinum. Then you have side stones or solitaire. The shape of the diamond; brilliant, princess, emerald, marquise, heart, pear, oval. And all the hundreds of designs.

Are you traditional or contemporary?

Would you like something out of the case or would you be the customer to have a custom made ring? Would you be satisfied with a 1ct. or smaller or would you need bigger?

How about colored diamonds? They have pink, red, blue, yellow, and a ton of other colors. And I'm sure we've all heard of the three stone ring, past present future. Well they used to be just for anniversary rings, but now they are very popular as engagement rings too. What do you think?

Me personally? I'm on my second ring. My first ring I still have, and always will, but I got it when I was 17. At the time I knew nothing about diamond quality and unfortunately had a salesperson that didn't inform me at all and was just out for a sale.

The ring was two trillion cut stones (triangle) with a baguette in between them to make it look like a big marquise. Then it had three baguettes and three small round stones on each side. It was yellow gold and the quality of the stones were not so good, nor was the cut. BIG difference from what I have now. lol.

On Valentines Day Josh surprised me by going to my store when I wasn't there and asking my friend what ring I wanted so I got my new ring. It is white gold this time, has a 1 1/4 ct. pear cut stone in the center and has pave set diamonds on the mounting itself. I love it. And it was such a surprise.

If you have a ring what does it look like? And lets have fun here, if you've got a ring what's your story? How did he propose?

And here are some pieces I love and am posting just cause I can. lol. Oh I'm not going to re post it but I love the three stone princess ring with side stones. But here they are, what do YOU think of MY taste?

And the watch I will be getting soon. LOVE it!
















~ Nicole

11 hours!

That is how long I worked today. Is that freaking crazy or what? I went in at 12pm and didn't get out till after 11pm. It is Sunday, there is no reason the mall should be open that late. And it wasn't even busy in the least bit.

Anyway...

Josh and I finished (mostly) our Christmas shopping this weekend. I just have to get Abby a pair of earrings, and boots, and Jordon a Jacket, pants and shirt. And Jordon might get one more toy. Oh and my BIL, but he's just getting a gift card. So how bout all of you? Finished up? Just starting?

I know this is short but hey it is 12:30 in the morning! Cut a girl some slack. I'll try and get some more up later. I have work stories, and you'll just all have to deal with it till after the holidays. Cause I'm sure to have more and more till Christmas.

~ Nicole

I've been tagged (again): My Favorite Christmas Songs...

My 5 favorite Christmas songs are:

1)Same Old Lang Syne
2)All I Want for Christmas is You
3)Santa Baby or maybe it's called Hey Santa. The one with the girl singing and asking Santa for all the presents, like a diamond bracelet and a car. lol.
4)Winter Wonderland
5)The one that says, I hear those sleigh bells ringin' and ting ting tinglin' too? Whatever song that is, I like it.

and if I could have six songs the last would be Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree.

The rules: List your 5 favorite Christmas songs. Then choose five people to tag and list their names. Don't forget to leave a comment that says you are tagged in their comments!

I tag: Charmed, Drake, Cece, and Season.

Below are the lyrics to my favorite song. I swear I wait every year for this song to come on the radio. It always makes me sad. But before you read them let me just say that in the past year and now I have never been able to figure out what the title of teh song was. Even when the DJ announced it I couldn't grasp what he was saying because of the last two words, Lang Syne? What the hell is that? Can anyone tell me what those words mean, and what they have to do with the song? But whatever, I love the song! So here it is...

Same Old Lang Syne
(Dan Fogelberg)

Met my old lover in the grocery store,
The snow was falling Christmas Eve.
I stole behind her in the frozen foods,
And I touched her on the sleeve.

She didn't recognize the face at first,
But then her eyes flew open wide.
She went to hug me and she spilled her purse,
And we laughed until we cried.

We took her groceries to the checkout stand,
The food was totalled up and bagged.
We stood there lost in our embarrassment,
As the conversation dragged.

We went to have ourselves a drink or two,
But couldn't find an open bar.
We bought a six-pack at the liquor store,
And we drank it in her car.

We drank a toast to innocence,
We drank a toast to now.
And tried to reach beyond the emptiness,
But neither one knew how.

She said she'd married her an architect,
Who kept her warm and safe and dry,
She would have liked to say she loved the man,
But she didn't like to lie.

I said the years had been a friend to her,
And that her eyes were still as blue.
But in those eyes I wasn't sure if I saw,
Doubt or gratitude.

She said she saw me in the record stores,
And that I must be doing well.
I said the audience was heavenly,
But the traveling was hell.

We drank a toast to innocence,
We drank a toast to now.
And tried to reach beyond the emptiness,
But neither one knew how.
We drank a toast to innocence,
We drank a toast to time.
Reliving in our eloquence,
Another 'auld lang syne'......

The beer was empty and our tongues were tired,
And running out of things to say.
She gave a kiss to me as I got out,
And I watched her drive away.
Just for a moment I was back at school,
And felt that old familiar pain .........
And as I turned to make my way back home,
The snow turned into rain ..............


~ Nicole

I'm outing him...

I'm sure by now most everyone that comes to my blog has read my Crazy Dream post, if not click on it to see. Anyway, I've gotten a lot of responses for that blog. And one person posted the following, but left their name as Anon....

I think it means you should have sex with your husband as often and creatively as possible. Oh and as for the gay thing w/ the women at the end, maybe it means you want to have an experience with another woman. I'm sure your husband would enjoy being there as well...

Just a thought...
6:01 PM


Jazz said...
Anon,
My husband would say he'd love that but in reality? I don't think so. ha ha. And who are you? Why is is anon?

6:56 PM


Anonymous said...
You don't think so? Why? Is there a problem with him? LOL. I just think that with this type of dream, the meaning suggests that you should please your husband as much as possible.

I don't like to type my name b/c I've had some issues in the past w/ stalkers. I'll stay anon for now, no offense. :-)

Now first let me say my response to Anon was in regardless to having an experience with a woman. Anon obviously took it to be in response to having a lot of sex with my husband.

Okay now that we've got this all out of the way let me tell you another little story......

Yesterday my husband comes home from work and is up on the computer, I'm downstairs ironing my shirt for work. I hear him typing away and then he starts to laugh. I have no idea what made it click but right at that moment I knew.

I yell up at him "OMG it's you! Your Anonymous." Of course he's all "What? What are you talking about? I don't even read your blog" Needless to say after about 5 min of pretending he didn't know what I was talking about he admitted it was him. lol. He's such a dork. A cutie dork though. Gotta love him.

So there it is I'm outing my Husband. He's the one that's been posting on my blog as anonymous.


~ Nicole

Dear Holiday Shoppers,

This is a jewelery store, we sell high end merchandise (for the most part). Do not come in and ask if we sell baby phat earrings, or name plates, or engagement rings with your names on the OUTSIDE of the ring, or spinning rings. If that is what you are looking for go to the corner of any major city and ask the guy standing on the corner wearing the trench coat, he'll be able to help you I'm sure.

Do not come into the store on the weekend we are having a three day sale that features a 1 cttw ring for $199 and wonder why there are inclusions in the diamonds. IT IS A HUNDRED AND NINTY NINE DOLLARS FOR ONE CARAT OF DIAMONDS, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT?????

Do not come in to the store and huff and puff for 20 min while nobody is available to help you cause we're all with other customers and then when someone is available to you ask us to clean your jewelry. It is Christmas time. CLEAN YOUR OWN DAMN JEWELERY!

Do not ask when I am ringing up your $1,000 sale or more if we have a box and if you can have one. Do you really think I am going to ring you up then just drop your purchase in your hands with no box??? Are you really that dumb????

DO NOT come into the store spend an hour of my time looking at merchandise, get my card with all the information on it for the piece you want, then come back when I am not there and not show my card and there for screw me out of a sale. Have some freaking common sense! I work off commission, how rude is that!


Please please do not ask every time I take a piece of jewelry out if the "white" stones are diamonds! YES YES they are! We do not sell fake diamonds, any "white" stones are going to be diamonds.


When I ask if you need any help don't say "No" and the second I turn around say "Oh but I do have a question...." Let me explain something, if you have a question that essentially means you do in fact need my help.

I've worked in Jewelry for 4 years now. Please don't come in and try to act like you know exactly what you are talking about meanwhile mispronounce every damn word out of your mouth.

When I say the price is 1999 why would you assume that I am saying $19.99???? You are looking at DIAMONDS!!!! Do you really think that is what I am saying? Lets try again....$1,999.00. Good job.

Don't come in on Christmas Eve two hours before we close look around for a half hour then say you are just looking! Do you know what day it is????

Sincerely,
Your sales person

~ Nicole

Just a small little post...

I wish I was her! I just got home from work about a half hour ago....I'm about to go to bed, it is 12:12am. I have to be at work at 6:15am.....that means I get to wake up by 5:15am. What is that? A total of 5 hours of sleep? Should this be allowed??? HELP! All I have to say is someone better come into the store at 7am and drop a couple grand to make it all worth my while. Send me all your good thoughts tomorrow. Cause when I get done work at 1pm I get to go shopping with my 5 year old for a birthday gift for a party he has to go to (one one sat. one on sun.) and then I have to take him to the party 3-5 come home get ready for a Christmas party that starts at 8pm, come home God knows when and do it all over again on Sunday.

~ Nicole

The weirdest dream ever.....

I had a crazy dream last night. I actually wasn't going to tell anyone about it but then I figure what the hell why not? Right? So here it is and don't think I'm a kook cause I can't control what I dream.
I only remember some of it, not really what anyone was saying but more or less what was happening.
I was at a college dorm and in a room with three guys, one I know just from saying hi to at the mall (I think he's gay), another is a guy I know very well that I know is gay, and the other was a guy that the guy I know knows and is gay. I know confusing right? Well it ended up being this big orgy, the guy I knew though never came near me (thank God that would have been way to weird), but the other guys did. And it was weird cause they were all gay and they didn't want to be with me cause I was a girl but they said they were just going to not think about it. I have no clue as to why I would want to be with a gay guy. But anyway sometime during/after this I walked down the hall and went into this other room that my sister was in and she was making this big picture collage and we just chatted like we were both having this grand old time. She had no idea about what had happened with the guys and then I left and when I went back into the room where the guys were they had all gone to the bathroom to shower and there was a naked girl in the bed that I had never seen before. She looked at me and smiled and said to make sure I called her and winked then gave me her number and I woke up.
So any insite here? What the hell is all that? And the weird thing is that even though I know I had sex in the dream, it wasn't like a sex dream there were no details. Just the fact that I saw naked people and I know what happened but I don't remember dreaming about any feelings associated with it.
I don't know. What do you all think? My first dream with any gay people in it. lol.
Oh and after I told Josh about it, he was like "What??? It ended right when there was another girl in bed wanting you??? I am so picking up where you left off in my dreams tonight." LMAO! Men, he cracks me up sometimes.

~ Nicole

What have I done? What have I done?

Found this on Izzy's blog and decided to steal it.....If you want to do it too just copy and past the list and highlinght the things you've done.






Here are mine:
01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said “I love you” and meant it
09. Hugged a tree
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise
14. Seen the Northern Lights
15. Gone to a huge sports game
16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa
17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables
18. Touched an iceberg
19. Slept under the stars
20. Changed a baby’s diaper
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
22. Watched a meteor shower
23. Gotten drunk on champagne
24. Given more than you can afford to charity
25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
27. Had a food fight
28. Bet on a winning horse
29. Asked out a stranger
30. Had a snowball fight
31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
32. Held a lamb
33. Seen a total eclipse
34. Ridden a roller coaster
35. Hit a home run
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
37. Adopted an accent for an entire day
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment
39. Had two hard drives for your computer
40. Visited all 50 states
41. Taken care of someone who was drunk
42. Had amazing friends
43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country
44. Watched wild whales
45. Stolen a sign
46. Backpacked in Europe
47. Taken a road-trip
48. Gone rock climbing
49. Midnight walk on the beach
50. Gone sky diving
51. Visited Ireland
52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love
53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
54. Visited Japan
55. Milked a cow
56. Alphabetized your CDs
57. Pretended to be a superhero
58. Sung karaoke
59. Lounged around in bed all day
60. Played touch football
61. Gone scuba diving
62. Kissed in the rain
63. Played in the mud
64. Played in the rain
65. Gone to a drive-in theater
66. Visited the Great Wall of China
67. Started a business
68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
69. Toured ancient sites
70. Taken a martial arts class
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
72. Gotten married
73. Been in a movie
74. Crashed a party
75. Gotten divorced
76. Gone without food for 5 days
77. Made cookies from scratch
78. Won first prize in a costume contest
79. Ridden a gondola in Venice
80. Gotten a tattoo
81. Rafted the Snake River
82. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
83. Got flowers for no reason
84. Performed on stage
85. Been to Las Vegas
86. Recorded music
87. Eaten shark
88. Kissed on the first date
89. Gone to Thailand
90. Bought a house
91. Been in a combat zone
92. Buried one/both of your parents
93. Been on a cruise ship
94. Spoken more than one language fluently
95. Performed in Rocky Horror
96. Raised children
97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
103. Had plastic surgery
104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
105. Wrote articles for a large publication
106. Lost over 100 pounds
107. Held someone while they were having a flashback
108. Piloted an airplane
109. Touched a stingray
110. Broken someone’s heart
111. Helped an animal give birth
112. Won money on a T.V. game show
113. Broken a bone
114. Gone on an African photo safari
115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears
116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
118. Ridden a horse
119. Had major surgery
120. Had a snake as a pet
121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
122. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
124. Visited all 7 continents
125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
126. Eaten kangaroo meat
127. Eaten sushi
128. Had your picture in the newspaper
129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
130. Gone back to school
131. Parasailed
132. Touched a cockroach
133. Eaten fried green tomatoes
134. Read The Iliad - and the Odyssey
135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read
136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
137. Skipped all your school reunions
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
139. Been elected to public office
140. Written your own computer language
141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
143. Built your own PC from parts
144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
145. Had a booth at a street fair
146. Dyed your hair
147. Been a DJ
148. Shaved your head
149. Caused a car accident
150. Saved someone’s life

79 out of 150 not to shabby huh?


~ Nicole

Stealing from Zeek

OMG Ross has me rolling I love him so much. So to keep my blog from sitting without a post I'm also going to post a vidio of Ross. This is him visiting a bunch of firefighters. Gotta love him! lol...

I'm Sorry

I haven't been posting anything new cause I'm in a funk. Not a funk like I can't think of anything to post, cause you know my mind is always coming up with retarded things to blog about lol. But a funk as in I'm tired of my blog. The way it looks, so I've been trying to find a new template but everyone I find doesn't work for one reason or another. Uggg! So aggravating. But my girl Mailyn is trying to get the one I really like to work, so keep your fingers crossed with me.
Besides that I have been feeling kinda crappy the last few days. My throat is all kinds of soar but I'm not really coughing, my nose is running but no matter how much I blow it it never seems to be clear and my head is so congested that I can barley walk straight. *sigh* It never ends does it.

Christmas Shopping and all that Fun

A good thing....I have quite a bit of my Christmas shopping done. I won't go as far as to say most of it, but a good amount. I've got Jordon and Abby about 3 or 4 things so far, two Pollyanna's are done, two are almost done, my mom is 3/4 of the way done, my one sister is half done.
Oh wait that isn't interesting, let me tell you a few things I've bought.
My mom I got a bracelet, now I've never been a big fan of 'mother' jewelry, but that's what I got her...a mom bracelet. The reason being is cause I got to design it all by myself, from that party I had. It has sterling silver balls on it and in between each ball I have all her children and grand children's birthstones (in swarovski crystals) and then I put two charms on it (one on each end) both hearts one says mom one says grandmom. Isn't that cute! I love it and I know she will too.


Ummm lets see...I got Sarah (my sister) a purse from NY&C and I'm going to buy her the matching wrist let. And I got her daughter Jazmine the cutest jacket to match one I got Abby, among other things. That's the jacket on the side, isn't it sooo cute! But besides that none of the other things are interesting gifts, mostly games and DVD's and Toys. Fun fun huh?






Oh and here is one of the purses I want from my favorite store NY&C! Isn't it sooo cute! I can't decide if I want it in this cream color or in this baby pink color they also have. Hmmmm. Josh if you stumble across this post I want that purse and it is on sale! 1/2 off can't beat it! lol.




~ Nicole