Damn it... I forgot it AGAIN

"The wedding band is a sign of your love for one another. It has no beginning, and it has no end."
Well, if it was so damn important, then why doesn't it come with an alarm???!!!

Yesterday was the second day... in a row... that I left the house for work without my wedding band. I knew this was going to be an issue. Back when I first got engaged, I made the mistake of saying, out loud, that I wasn't going to wear my ring all the time. I can assure you that this isn't the thing you want to tell your future wife. For some reason women think its a travesty if you aren't wearing the thing 24/7, as if when you don't have it on that you somehow love them less. I personally don't love my now wife anyless when I take it off, its just that I am in more love with knowing that the crevice under wear the ring sits for the other 23 1/2 hours is clean.

However, to forget the thing in the bathroom on its little ring holder and walk out of the house isn't what the plan was. I have been married for 7 weeks to the most wonderful girl I know. So as much as I thought that it wasn't a big deal to wear or not wear it when I was engaged... to be married and not have it on is weird. It reminds me when I look down at it that no matter how bad the day is, I have someone I love that I will go home to that will make everything better. Now, if I could just look down at my finger more often, I'd know that I was walking around without it on.

How do guys make the transformation from non-jewlrey wearing manly man who likes to know that his WHOLE ring finger is clean to a ring wearing guy who doesn't care how dirty the bottom of his finger gets? I know there's a happy medium, but I can't seem to find it. Maybe I'll have to be married for 20,30...even 50 years before I get used to it. Maybe I'll never get used to it. I suppose that most guys are lying when they say they don't notice it and secretly hope their fingers don't fall off from not washing properly... hmmm.

Whatever the case is, its ironic that a ring that reminds me of how much I can love someone, can also be a pain in the ass sometimes, which also reminds me of that same someone!!! ;)