watches and desexing

The funny thing about my blog title is that they are two different subjects, but desexing might as well apply to watches - and my rants about them.

Ever since my watch was stolen a few years ago while I was enjoying a bike ride, I have been timeless - but not in the good sense. I wore a livestrong bracelet for a long time to help me get over the, "HELP! MY WRIST IS NAKED!" feeling, (and because it's a good cause!) But for almost the last year, I couldn't help feeling like I was swimming through each day. So, I started looking at watches for a replacement.

I didn't know that watches for women weren't meant to tell TIME anymore, no no, they tell ANYTHING BUT TIME. I can have fake diamonds encrusting a band that makes it look like I'm covering my wrist in sparkling athletic bandage wraps, but forget telling time. With a watch face the size of my fist, there isn't a single spec of a number to be found. As for other styles - I can have every piece of dangling crap ever created hanging from my wrist, but forget having numbers on the square/weird watch face. Sometimes, on the "you might as well wear this for a belt-buckle-in-Texas" sized face watches, you can have one to four numbers on a round or square dial. Ok, having limited numbers on a round face isn't so bad... but on a rectangular, square or ODD shaped watch face... NUMBERS ARE IMPORTANT... for telling time... which probably isn't the purpose behind a seriously gaudy watch.

Unless I want to wear a smaller version of a man's watch. So, if I put on cbu's watch, I can actually have numbers. And hey, they made it two-toned, JUST FOR WOMEN!

What happened to having a nice little watch without diamonds encrusted onto every conceivable surface, with numbers on the face and a slim, feminine design? CBU's watch is perfect - for HIM. It LOOKS like a man's watch. I don't care HOW SMALL they try and scale it down, it's a man's watch, scaled down.

So. I was left with a small quandary. Do I buy a man's-wannabe-watch and get numbers? Do I buy a watch that covers my arm in the watch face so that I can have somewhere between one and four numbers? Or, do I give in and purchase a prettier watch without numbers?

So, several months ago, CBU had spotted a 'minimalist' watch he thought looked pretty. Being the watch snob I was, I disregarded it because the watch face was 'too big' and it didn't have any numbers on the face. So today, we're trying to see if we could find a watch for me, when I saw a watch that was pretty, but I was hesitant about... the watch face was kind of large and it didn't have any numbers on the face. I tried it on. Yes, the watch face is kind of large for my wrist, but it looked pretty. After seeing it on my wrist, I decided I liked it quite a bit.

And I'll be damned if it's not the EXACT watch CBU picked out first.

There aren't any links in the watch band, it's a solid stainless steel bracelet, and the watch face can't actually rotate around to the underside of my wrist because the bracelet doesn't bend. There is actually a dark mirror in the center, and the crystal covers the entire face.

so years after going watchless, I'm now right on time.

As for desexing - tomorrow Entropy will have her first visit to the vet to be spayed. That's right, tomorrow, our little rampaging-hormones-filled bunny will have all the things causing her to be seriously aggressive and 'bitchy' removed, leaving her the sweet little bunny we know and love.

Now if only I could do the same thing to some other people... ha!

Ok, time to get back to work... literally!