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velvetpage) wrote2005-01-23 05:01 pm
velvetpage) wrote2005-01-23 05:01 pm
Time for Jewelry
I am now the proud owner of a watch.
Not just any watch is this one, oh, no. It cost me $20.70 after a discount and sales tax, and it has one extremely important feature. There is no metal in any place that will touch my skin. The watch band - made of leather - runs right behind the watch face and snaps onto one's wrist, bangle-style.
It's quite a clunky watch, actually. The face is square, with a purple undertone to it, and the numbers and metal are silvertone. The band is navy blue. For now, it will do nicely, but by the summer I want another one. I'm thinking pink. At this price, there's no reason not to have a few different ones.
This is really nice. Since the day I realized that every metal I tried was giving me a rash, except of course for the ones I couldn't afford, I've never worn a watch. Or rather, never for more than a few hours, followed by days of scratching and applications of hydrocortisone cream. I don't wear hardly any jewelry, for that reason. Even the stuff that says "solid gold" on it usually gives me a reaction. So I wear clip-on earrings on special occasions, usually taking them off after two hours or so. The last time I wore pierced earrings was my wedding day. By dinnertime, my ears were itching and swelling, but I didn't take the earrings out because I knew the ears would bleed if I did.
The next trick will be training myself to wear a watch after years of training myself to look for clocks everywhere I went!
Not just any watch is this one, oh, no. It cost me $20.70 after a discount and sales tax, and it has one extremely important feature. There is no metal in any place that will touch my skin. The watch band - made of leather - runs right behind the watch face and snaps onto one's wrist, bangle-style.
It's quite a clunky watch, actually. The face is square, with a purple undertone to it, and the numbers and metal are silvertone. The band is navy blue. For now, it will do nicely, but by the summer I want another one. I'm thinking pink. At this price, there's no reason not to have a few different ones.
This is really nice. Since the day I realized that every metal I tried was giving me a rash, except of course for the ones I couldn't afford, I've never worn a watch. Or rather, never for more than a few hours, followed by days of scratching and applications of hydrocortisone cream. I don't wear hardly any jewelry, for that reason. Even the stuff that says "solid gold" on it usually gives me a reaction. So I wear clip-on earrings on special occasions, usually taking them off after two hours or so. The last time I wore pierced earrings was my wedding day. By dinnertime, my ears were itching and swelling, but I didn't take the earrings out because I knew the ears would bleed if I did.
The next trick will be training myself to wear a watch after years of training myself to look for clocks everywhere I went!