Comments on: Alianzas http://erikras.com/2007/09/24/alianzas/ Thoughts and photos from an American living in Spain. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: amy http://erikras.com/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1224 amy Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:45:16 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1224 very beautiful rings, but frankly, extended discussion regarding cutting anything attached to a human body is not my thing. very much looking forward to the wedding, and meeting our spanish counterparts. wanted to let you know that we are having some difficulty nailing the exact date we will be joining the festivities (it will be by friday for sure). so, don't worry about reservations prior to that for us, and if we plan to arrive wed or thurs, we will take care of our reservations. thanks....amy very beautiful rings, but frankly, extended discussion regarding cutting anything attached to a human body is not my thing. very much looking forward to the wedding, and meeting our spanish counterparts. wanted to let you know that we are having some difficulty nailing the exact date we will be joining the festivities (it will be by friday for sure). so, don’t worry about reservations prior to that for us, and if we plan to arrive wed or thurs, we will take care of our reservations. thanks….amy

]]> By: Heather http://erikras.com/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1223 Heather Tue, 25 Sep 2007 02:08:17 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1223 Cutting off the ring isn't for specific finger injury, anything life threatening your clothes AND jewelry get cut off, to access any area they need too.......... Erik have the jeweler do it when your mom comes for the wedding :) Cutting off the ring isn’t for specific finger injury, anything life threatening your clothes AND jewelry get cut off, to access any area they need too……….

Erik have the jeweler do it when your mom comes for the wedding :)

]]> By: Betsy http://erikras.com/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1222 Betsy Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:44:56 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1222 Nice image, Erik. When I had my cortisone injection into the finger next to the ring one to alleviate my trigger finger, the hand Doc mentioned that excess swelling might necessitate a midnight trip to the ER to have the ring cut off. Luckily this wasn't necessary. Still I think that I will ease on into a local jewelery store and ask about humane ring removal. The jeweler next door owes me some favors so I'll try him tomorrow. Nice image, Erik. When I had my cortisone injection into the finger next to the ring one to alleviate my trigger finger, the hand Doc mentioned that excess swelling might necessitate a midnight trip to the ER to have the ring cut off. Luckily this wasn’t necessary. Still I think that I will ease on into a local jewelery store and ask about humane ring removal. The jeweler next door owes me some favors so I’ll try him tomorrow.

]]> By: erik http://erikras.com/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1221 erik Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:19:14 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1221 <blockquote>My mom knows what stretch of road it was lost on. I’ve always wanted to rent a metal detector and go back to search for it.</blockquote>That sounds like a great activity to do on a Saturday afternoon with two young boys. Particularly if you sprinkled some quarters around in the search area first. Yours might not be old enough yet, though. All this ring cutting talk has got me a little concerned. Now I've got images of one of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolt_cutters" rel="nofollow">these</a> near my fingers. Yikes!

My mom knows what stretch of road it was lost on. I’ve always wanted to rent a metal detector and go back to search for it.

That sounds like a great activity to do on a Saturday afternoon with two young boys. Particularly if you sprinkled some quarters around in the search area first. Yours might not be old enough yet, though.

All this ring cutting talk has got me a little concerned. Now I’ve got images of one of these near my fingers. Yikes!

]]> By: alan http://erikras.com/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1220 alan Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:22:33 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1220 My father had to have his cut off. I can't remember exactly why he needed it off... chemo or something similar. He had not taken his off for something like 18 years. I guess they repaired the ring as he was able to wear it again. Sometime later he was driving a school bus of kids with his arm and hand hanging out the driver's window. Due to loss of weight from the chemo his ring slipped off his finger and out the window. They stopped the bus and he, my mom and 16 kids scoured the road. They were way out in the country so this wasn't a dangerous activity. The never found it. My mom knows what stretch of road it was lost on. I've always wanted to rent a metal detector and go back to search for it. My father had to have his cut off. I can’t remember exactly why he needed it off… chemo or something similar. He had not taken his off for something like 18 years. I guess they repaired the ring as he was able to wear it again.
Sometime later he was driving a school bus of kids with his arm and hand hanging out the driver’s window. Due to loss of weight from the chemo his ring slipped off his finger and out the window. They stopped the bus and he, my mom and 16 kids scoured the road. They were way out in the country so this wasn’t a dangerous activity. The never found it.

My mom knows what stretch of road it was lost on. I’ve always wanted to rent a metal detector and go back to search for it.

]]> By: erik http://erikras.com/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1219 erik Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:33:31 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1219 How odd. I've never considered how important this wedding ring hand position is to people. While we're on the subject... I casually mentioned to the jeweler that sold us the rings that my mother had said that, due to joint swelling or something, she was no longer able to remove her wedding ring. The jeweler said this was very serious and that my mother should come into the shop as soon as possible and have it cut off. I explained that it was a little inconvenient for my mother to come to the shop in Colindres, but that I'd tell her. The jeweler explained something about how it's important to have a jeweler cut off "stuck" rings so that you don't end up having it cut off at the hospital (should you have a finger emergency, I presume). Apparently the jewelers have special tools for ring cutting that hospital staff to do not. It seemed a little alarmist to me, but I've already shown how ignorant I am of finger bling. No, Alan, that wasn't the exact shop. The shop where you rescued me was about six shops after this one. It was similar, of course. My future father-in-law and I were standing out on the curb watching traffic go through a horribly designed round-a-bout, both convinced that, if we stood there for at least ten minutes, we'd witness an accident. None occurred. Round-a-bouts have some sort of magical property that makes them safer than they should logically be. How odd. I’ve never considered how important this wedding ring hand position is to people.

While we’re on the subject… I casually mentioned to the jeweler that sold us the rings that my mother had said that, due to joint swelling or something, she was no longer able to remove her wedding ring. The jeweler said this was very serious and that my mother should come into the shop as soon as possible and have it cut off. I explained that it was a little inconvenient for my mother to come to the shop in Colindres, but that I’d tell her. The jeweler explained something about how it’s important to have a jeweler cut off “stuck” rings so that you don’t end up having it cut off at the hospital (should you have a finger emergency, I presume). Apparently the jewelers have special tools for ring cutting that hospital staff to do not. It seemed a little alarmist to me, but I’ve already shown how ignorant I am of finger bling.

No, Alan, that wasn’t the exact shop. The shop where you rescued me was about six shops after this one. It was similar, of course. My future father-in-law and I were standing out on the curb watching traffic go through a horribly designed round-a-bout, both convinced that, if we stood there for at least ten minutes, we’d witness an accident. None occurred. Round-a-bouts have some sort of magical property that makes them safer than they should logically be.

]]> By: alan http://erikras.com/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1218 alan Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:00:04 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1218 I was wondering about the hand as well when I saw the first pictures. My first thought was, "Is he left handed?" Thinking that maybe it was like a watch where it is worn on the opposite hand. Then I saw Marga's ring on the right hand as well and figured the odds of you both being left handed was crazy enough to not be the case. I've never taken my ring off. It's going to be weird to take off for a cleaning in the future... maybe they can clean it while it's on my hand. :) Is that the shoe store you were glad to be out of when I called on Saturday? ...kinda cool to see a spot that is being described to you. I was wondering about the hand as well when I saw the first pictures. My first thought was, “Is he left handed?” Thinking that maybe it was like a watch where it is worn on the opposite hand. Then I saw Marga’s ring on the right hand as well and figured the odds of you both being left handed was crazy enough to not be the case.

I’ve never taken my ring off. It’s going to be weird to take off for a cleaning in the future… maybe they can clean it while it’s on my hand. :)

Is that the shoe store you were glad to be out of when I called on Saturday? …kinda cool to see a spot that is being described to you.

]]> By: Heather http://erikras.com/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1217 Heather Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:46:45 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1217 It took awhile to adjust checking the right hand for a ring when you were checking a guy out lol, but you know what we learned, they don't all wear rings, which sucked, so you never really knew if you were flirting with a married man or not which was like uh YIKES........ It took awhile to adjust checking the right hand for a ring when you were checking a guy out lol, but you know what we learned, they don’t all wear rings, which sucked, so you never really knew if you were flirting with a married man or not which was like uh YIKES……..

]]> By: sarita http://erikras.com/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1216 sarita Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:45:51 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1216 Beautiful rings! Yes, the which hand to wear it on is quite the dilemma, I think I may switch mine to the left when I'm in the US just to avoid questions! LOL P.S. Glad you enjoyed the Tom Petty post. :) Beautiful rings! Yes, the which hand to wear it on is quite the dilemma, I think I may switch mine to the left when I’m in the US just to avoid questions! LOL

P.S. Glad you enjoyed the Tom Petty post. :)

]]> By: erik http://erikras.com/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1215 erik Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:33:16 +0000 http://www.erik-rasmussen.com/blog/2007/09/24/alianzas/#comment-1215 Thanks, Simon. I'm always looking for new ways to annoy people. Thanks, Simon. I’m always looking for new ways to annoy people.

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