My daily use stuff is Crate and Barrel--the Aspen dinnerware [link]

I'm not opposed to color, but I'd rather use table linens and napkins to provide it. My glassware is also clear.

I've got a ton of printed mugs that take up two shelves in a cabinet. My favorite is my Wonder Woman mug that my sister gave me.

Tea: The closest thing I have to white dishes is the china we registered for when we got married. The reason we ended up with that one was because I loved the accent plate so much.

That is the same pattern we registered for too. I think I've got 8 or 9 place settings out of the 12 I wanted. I may finish everything off some day, but who knows?

You could put a silver lei on the elephant and really punch it up.

You are evil and awesome in equal amounts. I cannot stop laughing at this.

I would totally be trying to print my own. I have trays and trays of lead type, if he needs some.

Hmmm, I know there's a university in the south that has a huge collection of vintage lead type. I wonder if they'd take some of it off your hands.

Our everyday stuff is a hodgepodge picked up from here and there. Including a few plates decorated with big yellow and brown roosters, which I bought for a dollar at a rummage sale in 1987. Or was it 50 cents?

a few plates decorated with big yellow and brown roosters

These sound awesome. Seriously.

...sometimes I worry I might be a secret hipster.

I inherited my grandmother's white china with silver rims, and DH happened to have the same china. But the everyday china is a mishmash of his old white plates and my old black ones, and some blue ones. And we have All The Coffeecups, though I have culled the non-meaningful ones. Meaningful for the value of geek (RTFM mug), caffiene-begging (local coffeeshop, thick white diner mug with Wake The Fuck Up), owl mugs, and my dad gave me a mug for every degree with the college logo, and my name, degree and year etched into the sides.

Tep, you know that you must get a sapphire and silver mani-pedi now? And I am delighted the dress fits! igigi makes lovely clothes -- isn't it comfortable AND gorgeous? I can't wait to see you!

Speaking of weddings, I've been wedded 3 years today. WHAAA?! DH took most of the day off, woke me with tulips and coffee. GOOD MAN!

Not gonna ask how you know this.

It's a bitch to sweep up, though.

So, question for y'all. The other day I went out to my car to find that the door handle was sticking up. It's a 16 year old plastic car with a plastic door handle which no longer goes back down on its own. I'm so used to it that I automatically flick it down as part of the process of opening it. But Daniel often needs to be reminded otherwise when he is getting into the driver's seat, the door won't close properly. (He doesn't drive my car very often, but it has happened.) In this instance, when I got into the car the glove box was open. I don't keep much in there - and the current insurance card is present. I did not find the vehicle registration, but I don't specifically remember putting it into the car's glove box after getting the renewal tabs last winter. I know I carried it around in my purse for a while waiting for weather to be nice enough to apply the tabs. I may simply have tossed the registration onto the passenger's seat to be dealt with later, then tossed it into the back seat in a fit of clearing out the seat for an actual passenger. But I have not found it.

A. How freaked out should I be?

And 2. How much fuss and bother is it to get a replacement vehicle registration thingy?

I've been wedded 3 years today.

THREE years?!? Holy cow! Congratulations! Would you like the traditional three-year anniversary gift of a blue elephant statue?

Tep, you know that you must get a sapphire and silver mani-pedi now?

I was actually thinking dark red for my toes, because I'm going to make a dark red rose bouquet. And probably no manicure, because I destroy them. I will, however, remember to file my nails. Probably.

And I am delighted the dress fits! igigi makes lovely clothes -- isn't it comfortable AND gorgeous? I can't wait to see you!

I so SO love it. And damn, it's comfortable.

Windsparrow,

as someone who had to get a replacement reg, it really isn't a problem. I had to show up at the DMV and pay a fee. I think I had to show my driver's license and maybe an old reg. Maybe $15?

Vehicle registration is important. You can get a ticket for not having one. You may be able to get a replacement online, but it shouldn't be too much of a hassle to go to the DMV. Check out the website and see what they require you to bring down to obtain a duplicate registration.