How bizarre....

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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A few months ago I got the cartilage at the top of my ear pierced with a little stud. The earrings came in pairs and I took the other half home still in its pink casing. It is a little silver stud with a colourless crystal. Seeing as they come in pairs, I had thought that the one in my ear was also a silver stud with a colourless crystal.

Tonight I realised that I could change the earring over. I pulled it, and looked it over.

It is also a little silver stud…but it has an emerald in it. I reach for its partner in its pink casing…silver stud, colourless stone. After a few double takes I cast my mind back to when I chose the earrings. I remember reaching for the colourless crystals but feeling bad because they’re April birthstones, and I’m a May baby, therefore I have an emerald birthstone. Now I’m thoroughly confused as to which I actually chose and why I have one of each!

[reaches for tinfoil hat]

Have you ever had a bizarre incident like this?

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I got mine pierced with a CBR, but replaced it with a stud a few months later (I was in a play, and had to be able to take it out for short periods of time. The stud really irritated the piercing, though). Anyway, they told me that the studs were sold in pairs, but that they didn’t have to be a matching pair. I could get 2 different ones. Perhaps that’s what you chose, and you’re not remembering?

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I know it’s not that because Studex earrings are sold in pairs at the store; they’re in little packets and are sterile etc. I’m so confused as to how it happened, but kinda of happy coz now I have a choice!

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:confused: :confused: :confused:

Uh, why would anyone feel obligated to always get jewelry in their birthstone color? That makes no sense to me.
And I’m a May baby too, and I hate hate hate hate hate emerald. Maybe that’s part of my confusion, but I still don’t see the obligation to only get birthstones.