I'm with Cindy--registering is good, putting it with the invite is bad. If I want to give you a gift, I'll ask someone where you're registered.

Oddly, though, i know a lot of people who've made a website for their wedding or whatever, with info on hotels or directions or cute pictures or stories or whatever, and if the registry info is on there (DISCREETLY), I like that. But I think that's because I feel like the websites are both more informal, and more informative...

regisrys are useful, but I don't always gift from them. It depends on how well I know them and their circumstances. new young couple - I often get a bunch of practical stuff off the list. Small spaces or places, I tend towards tthe gift card - so they can get what they truely need in the size that will fit in their space. and in other cases I find unique things that fit people .

Jury's in. I liked Veronica Mars. I'm intrigued and MUST HAVE MORE NOW!

Ahem. I think I'll be visiting my Netflix Queue soon.

I think I'm going to the fabric store this afternoon. Does anyone know what I want to be for Halloween? I kind of like the idea of this or this. I almost always go with a friend and we sort of do tandem costumes. I wonder if there would be a way to do a scotch on the rocks.

Put me on the side of "Like registries as long as they're not used to beg for gifts." Having an Amazon wish list = cool. Linking to it in your tagline = tacky.

Registering for our wedding gifts was a more a way of asking people not to get us certain things than anything else -- we'd already been living together 5 years at that point, so there were a lot of "traditional" wedding gifts we'd already bought for ourselves (sheets, plates, food processor).

Put me on the side of "Like registries as long as they're not used to beg for gifts." Having an Amazon wish list = cool. Linking to it in your tagline = tacky.

Yep, this. Of course, just about everyone I know uses Amazon (and other store) wish lists as a way to keep track of things they're planning on buying eventually.

another piece of proff that cleaning is dangerous. I went to grab the scrubbing bubbles out of the bottom of the closet. I failed to notice that the duster handle was sticking out - until it was in my right eye. ( actually just under the brow.) Also - this is proff that DH never hears when something really goes wrong - because he didn't hear me yelling FUCK! at the top of my luns. But if I had dropped a bag of cotton balls...

any way - now I am pondering the impotant question cleaning = physical danger. Not cleaning= insanity. choices, choices

Jen K should go to Cha Ya. Vegan sushi is teh yum.

Thanks, Sparky! I took her there for lunch, as they have one in the Mission now.

Had much fun hanging with Jen yesterday. Got to meet Jen's friends, and another one of Emily's co-workers last night. All very cool and funny.

Speaking of registries, I pick up the car-seat and Baby Bjorn today. They're sitting around taking up space in JZ's boss' office. Thank you again!

Heh. JZ is watching Buffy S7. I haven't rewatched a lot of these episodes and - guess what - they still have a lot of funny lines.

Willow: "When I used magic the First Evil turned it back on me. It filled every fiber of my being. Pure, undiluted evil. I could taste it."
Kennedy: "How does evil taste?"
Willow: "Kind of chalky."

Anya had some funny lines bargaining with the demon to see the Botox eye thingie.

Anya: "You're turning down my offer of sexual bribery?! What am I? A leper?"
Demon: "Come back when you are a leper."

Heh. More fun from S7.

Andrew: "You won't let me come [on patrol] because you think I'm still evil."
Vi: "He doesn't exactly look evil."
Buffy: "He's not evil. It's just that when he gets too close to it he picks up its flavor. Like a mushroom."

I like gift registries and don't mind finding the information inside an invitation envelope. Registries are useful things. I just still hate the thought of people expecting gifts.

Upon further reflection, I realize that the reason I don't like registries is that the intent is just as much for the ease of the gift-giver as for the receiver. For this reason, I think that they should be fairly discreet and should contain gifts in a wide price range. However, for this same reason I have no problem giving off the registry if I know the couple well and/or have something else (often homemade) that I think they would really like.

I think it's getting to be time to rewatch some Buffy. The problem is that I lent out S5, and the folks I lent it to insist that I didn't, and I was unsure enough initially that I don't feel like pushing it, but now, of course, all I want to watch is S5.