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.

I just had something seriously cool happen. A year or two ago, Mr. Jane's boss gave me a vintage sewing machine with a green cabinet that opens up to a cutting table and a bench with a drawer in the bottom. I had sewn the curtains for the bar for that New Year's party even though I was seriously ill and trying to get well and then get pretty for the party. So it was like a "Thank you, hope you'll do this again!" present.

I hadn't really opened it yet because I have a servicable Kenmore, and the cord on the Necchi was all rotted. Better to use the one that works than to bother replacing the power cord and motor belt.

Last night at dinner with my friend who was in from NY, she mentioned needing a machine, and I told her that when I got the Necchi working, she could have the Kenmore (they want to make curtains and stuff for their apartment).

So today we got the stuff to fix the machine and pulled out the bench and the drawer. In the drawer were all the fancy feet, instruction manual, needles, thread, old yarn, dozens of patters from the 50's, rotary cutter, hardware to make eyelets, metal zippers, and about 10 cards of vintage buttons.

I was greatful for the machine, but thrilled that it comes with prizes inside.

For my Sister's shower we mentioned the registry in the invite on the page with the driving directions. But we were super sweet about it, "Your presence is the only gift S&A could want but if you would like to get them something they are registered at.... " sort of thing. It was all family though, and a couple of friends. We weren't hauling in work people and the ones we invited would have preferred to have the information than to go and get it.

Of course, if I HADN'T told them where the registry was maybe the RSVPs would have come in faster...

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

You're welcome. Last time I was in the mission they hadn't finished the one on Valencia. I lurv Cha Ya, and I can even get my DH to go there on occassion (but afterwards he wants dinner since he claims he cannot get full on veggies and tofu).

I have been to yoga, and now I am at work. My good deed for the day, possibly the weekend/week/month, was to buy coffee beverages for all the student workers who are stuck here with me this afternoon.

Tonight, the DH and I are going to see Merchant of Venice -- rumor has it that Shylock is wonderful.

Any coffee-making-cat training tips?

My Cordelia-esque ex-girlfriend had her cats trained to fetch pens. I think the principle might be the same, but the whole "balance" part might get tricky...