How hard can it be to find a nice jade ring?
So to celebrate my birthday, we went up to (chicago’s) chinatown to go shopping. In particular, we were looking for a jade ring – something to symbolize having finished the dossier and being “paper pregnant.” I’ve been sort of pretending nothing’s happening, and I need to stop it and get my head into the mode of thinking something is going to happen, even if it’s going to take a really long time. So, we found one jewelry store that had jade stuff, but the rings were all kind of boring and similar – oval jade cabochon on a thinnish ring with little diamond chips on either side. Nothing wrong with that, but I wanted something a little more stylish. It was only 9 degrees out, and windy, so we walked up and down Wentworth and stopped in a couple of tchotchke stores but mainly we were cold and kept saying “this will be fun when it’s warm!” So we didn’t try too hard to find another jewelry store. Oh well, guess this is a job for my friend the internet. Chinatown was cool, though. I’ve driven
