A ring I'd given up on slid past my knuckle this morning

2026-10-10 00:27

small-town pharmacy run, nothing dramatic: picked up my refill, gossiped with the tech about the ice storm, came home and made eggs. I was digging in the catch-all drawer for a battery and there was the ring I had snipped off at the jeweler's back in 2008.

I'd kept it because I'm sentimental and also because I paid for that snip, ha.

I slid it on just to see, fully expecting it to stop at the first knuckle. It went on. Not loose, not tight. Just on. I stood there with egg on the spatula and got misty. Seventeen years of avoiding mirrors and photos, and now a little circle of gold says I'm not the same size I was.

Insurance still makes me call every January and my copay is silly, but today the refill and the ring both landed. Anyone else have an object from before that suddenly fit again?

2026-10-17 00:12

Oh, I love this. That catch-all drawer is basically a time capsule with batteries and guilt. I had a similar thing with an old watch—band was on the last hole for years, then one morning I could buckle it two holes in.

I don't weigh much; I just keep a little spiral in the kitchen drawer and jot down stuff like that, plus how my jeans fit after errands. Did you keep the ring as a necklace, or is it back in the drawer for good? Also, our pharmacy tech has started calling me by my first name, which feels like a small-town milestone.

Ice storm knocked our sign crooked, and nobody's fixed it yet. Anyway, congrats—that's a good egg-and-battery kind of day.

2026-10-17 10:24

Small-town errand days are underrated, and that drawer moment gave me a lump in my throat on your behalf. I keep a similar “snipped” ring from 2007 as a non-scale marker.

One thing I have learned: my hands fluctuate more than my waist does—sodium, weather, and how much water I drank all show up at my knuckles. So I stopped judging by any single morning and log a weekly average instead.

It keeps me calm and makes wins like yours easier to trust. Are you going to wear it now, or leave it in the drawer as a little time capsule? Either way, congratulations.

2026-10-18 07:53

aw, the drawer ring is a weirdly good benchmark. i’ve got a 2011 ring that used to leave a red line after long raids; tried it during a late-night queue and it spun.

my less glamorous metric: controller no longer rests on my gut when i slouch, lol. did the jeweler snip it into a pendant, or is the cut end still sharp enough to snag on everything?

2026-10-19 20:51

That’s such a good feeling. I use an old ring as a low-tech trend check: same time of morning, before breakfast, after a normal night’s sleep.

Mine can swing almost half a size with cold weather, salty food, or hydration, so one easy slide isn’t really a trend. Have you noticed it looser several mornings in a row, or was today maybe a cold-morning one-off?