Although I keep on having to remind myself I'm in a relationship--occasionally I slip back into thinking, "I'll never be in a relationship" before going, "WTF? Why am I still feeling that?" Just so used to that mode of thinking, I guess.

I anticipate that same sort of feeling if I am ever in a relationship.

We do still use our flatware. That's held up pretty well. The glasses we got are long since binned. The formal china comes out twice a year at most, and has to be stored.

Ten years in, we're at the point where we need to replace almost every household thing we got for our wedding. Most of the knives from the flatware set have been lost. All but one of the salad plates has been broken. I think we maybe have two glasses that match?

And the espresso machine was yardsaled 8 years ago, since we never had room for it.

He will! Honest! If I can do it, so can he!

Excellent point!

Maybe it's cause I'm a writer who routinely dresses like shit, or maybe it's hard for me to be *truly* atypical and deal with how the show presents Liz Lemon's Hollywood Ugly

Erika, that's one thing that rubs me about 30 Rock. If Tina Fey is ugly, I'm the Elephant Man.

We never got towels, but we did get a TV (THANKS, Buffistas!) and an espresso machine (thanks, Mom and Dad!). It's all good.

I made it to Detroit and back. I slept 12 hours last night in my own bed. Man, I still am tired and feel stupid mentally. I forgot how to type in 6 days, I swear.

Ten years in, we're at the point where we need to replace almost every household thing we got for our wedding.

We were really young, and already living together (thus, we had a toaster, and a TV, etc.), and registering apparently never occurred to anyone. But our friends were the same age and had no money, either, so we got some gift cards and an ice bucket, and one or two fancy dinner china-type things, most of which are gone now, and were never used anyway.

Although I keep on having to remind myself I'm in a relationship--occasionally I slip back into thinking, "I'll never be in a relationship" before going, "WTF? Why am I still feeling that?"

I kinda slipped in that feeling when I was first with Will. I think part of it was long distance. I didn't see him very often so occasionally I'd still think of myself as relationship-less.

I didn't know one in five Americans is dyslexic. Cool font designed to minimize dyslexic errors in reading.

Also, semi-random driving question: When I drove to Tuscaloosa (with a side-trip to Mobile), I drove about 1900 miles in five days, and was so wiped-out when I got back to Chicago I ended up taking an extra day off to recuperate. When I was younger, long drives didn't take so much out of me. Back in '03 I drove to SF and back--2000 miles over four days, each way. That driving hardly affected me negatively at all.

So I'm trying to figure out--it it because I'm older? More stressed in general? More traffic on I-65 than I-80?

So how much driving in a day/a few days can folks here handle?

I kinda slipped in that feeling when I was first with Will. I think part of it was long distance. I didn't see him very often so occasionally I'd still think of myself as relationship-less.

Yeah, that's definitely part of it for me.

I bought my own plates and bowls a few years ago, and picked out some flatware from my 15-year catalog at my company (next year is my 20th--wonder if there's anything good in that catalog?). I'm already missing three spoons; must have tossed them in the garbage without noticing. My glasses are all sufficient (I think I have five regular ones left and five wine glasses), and I've been accumulating pots and pans as I need them (still have the All-Clad skillet on my wish list at Amazon--hope one of my parents is paying attention this Xmas).

I replaced a bunch of towels last year, and have enough sheets. I wouldn't mind a new bedcover, though (I've had this one for about 15 years).

I don't know what I would register for!