the gift question

I spent way too much time on the computer today. I was looking at jewelry, everywhere. DH got me a 3-stone pave diamond necklace:



It is lovely but... now I'm thinking that everyone and her little sister has one, so I'm thinking of trading it in for this:



This design is fashioned from three Celtic knots that David Morgan, the designer, calls "Everlasting Love." I really like it, and it's not something that you're going to see on every other woman, either.

I don't know. The necklace DH picked out is so nice, and I do like it, it's just that's it white gold and I think that just does not look that great against my skin. All my other "real" jewelry is yellow gold.

I know DH doesn't care if I return it for something else, he said as much. But I always remember the Christmas that Big got me my gold watch which is so beautiful but completely impractical. I told him that I really should take it back and get something more practical for everyday, and he told me that it wasn't meant to be practical, it was meant to beautiful. He chose it for me because he thought I would like it -- he was right, it has a lovely mother-of-pearl face, and the style is clean and classic... he said, somewhat crushed at how clueless I was,You should have a watch like this.

So ever since that Christmas when I didn't understand the thought and care that went into the gift and inadvertently bruised the giver, I always hesitate over exchanging a gift for something else. On the subject of gift-giving, DH is most unlike Big, though! He told me even before I opened it that he likes the idea of this necklace very much (threes have many different levels of significance), but if there was something else I wanted that I should feel free to return this and get that something else instead. And he told me where the receipt is, too!

I am way over-thinking this. I wonder how long I have to return it? I need to check that receipt...