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!

I don't even remember what I got as wedding presents.

Plates, I have. I could use a new network router for the house.

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

Based on the last week, and how stupid and tired I am from being crammed into the backseat of a KIA with two large Labs, I'm gonna say 400 miles a day is the max at age 39. And i still need recovery time.

This may have something to do with sleeping on cots and floors and in motels for the last 6 days.

I have a really nice set of flat ware Mom got me from a grocery store promotion. And then when I was packing all my stuff that got left behind and another set of flatware I had got sent up here. It's so heavy I hate to ask anyone to mail it up here, but it had all the pieces and extra bits is prettier.

My dishes are a Pflatzgraff Yorketowne collection - a set Mom got at a garage sale. Originally she had a set as her every day dishes and then she lent them to one of her sisters, who promptly gave it away. This is the style I grew up with. And I still kinda like them but sometimes I wish I had some thing else.

I also have my grandmother's wedding china. I think she was saving it as a wedding present and finally just gave it to me. At the pace Will and I are moving she's not going to get to see me married.

Christopher and I will be married 18 years next summer. Best present we got was a polaroid of our groomsmen, naked.