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the end of the watch saga
If you don’t work with me, you probably aren’t current on the watch saga. To summarize, I took my watch off to make meatballs, and when I picked it up the next morning it was totally dead. Figuring that coincidentally it just needed a battery, I took it to work and was told that it would cost $10 to have a new battery put it, but it wouldn’t be water resistant any more. OR I could pay $20 plus the cost of the battery, be without my watch for 3 weeks and have a water resistant watch. I need the water resistant feature because I keep my watch on all the time and I’m always putting my hands in water. It seemed stupid to spend about half the cost of a new watch for a battery. The woman telling me this assumed I would just have her put the battery in and didn’t get why having a non-water resistant watch was a waste of $10.

OK – fast forward to today. I went to Macy’s and looked at watches and bought an Anne Klein watch, water resistant, that is a silvery bracelet rather than the big black timex ironman deal. For that I forked over about what I’d spent on the ironman version. Oh, and it has a cool, slightly funky font for the numerals. All it lacks is the night light feature. I’ll trust that if I really need to know what time it is in the middle of the night I’ll be able to make out what the alarm clock says.

Update: Go here to see my new watch (and the new sweater and the newest quilt!