The Fellowship of the Mood Ring

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If someone asked me when I was eight years old what I would bring if I were stranded on a desert island, my mood ring would have ranked right next to water and lip gloss. I blame Anna Chlumsky's character, Vada, in the movie My Girl. Vada wore this amazing mood ring in the film, and the color of the ring would change according to how she felt. When she was happy, for example, the ring would turn blue, and when she was sad, the ring would turn yellow. The mechanics of it blew my mind, and I simply had to have one.

I remember the first time I wore a mood ring to school in the third grade. All of the girls in my class were fascinated by it, and pretty soon they were wearing mood rings, too. Every other minute of the day, I would look at my ring to discover my mood. Then one dark and stormy day, someone told me that the color of a mood ring is determined by body temperature rather than emotion. I was floored, but it made sense. Nevertheless, I continued to wear my mood ring until about the fifth grade when I finally became bored by it and graduated to my mother's old spoon ring.

Until next time,
Mel