You decide to have a photo shoot with a co-worker's diamond ring, wear it on your engagement finger, send the photos to your friends and family saying that you had a shotgun wedding, and deliciously wait for the responses to come rolling in.

.... oh don't act like you have never done something like this before.

I must say as a drag queen I am used to the gaudy. trashy, and inexpensive jewelry of Claire's and Icing - the stores for pre-teen girls and drag queens. I am use to the jewelry that will invariably turn my fingers green and break after one show. When I wore this diamond ring the world had transformed itself. The colors were brighter, the sounds sharper, and no task was boring or mundane as long as I had the ring on. It become a competition for me to cleverly showcase the ring to my co-workers thus prompting them to ask me if I was engaged or married. Before this experience, I was always baffled by peoples' obsession with what their engagement ring looks like, how many carrots it is, if you used a birthstone or not, if you have note engraved into the band etc. Now, I understand, and immediately began planning my engagement/wedding rings. So between the photoshoot, giving my mother a heart attack with my wedding, and researching different ring styles and options 4 hours had gone by, bringing me ever closer to the end of the day and a 3-day weekend.