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.

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

I'm not good with miles; but Topsail Island, NC, which is pretty far south in NC, is a 12- to 13-hour drive from Cincy. That's about all I can do in one day. But I know I could not do *multiple* 12-hour days in a row. Maybe 2 if need be.

t edit Okay, Google Maps tells me it's 700-ish miles one way.

Mom and I drove from Charleston, SC to St Albans Vt (approximately 2000 miles with the various wrong turns we took) over 2 days and it wiped us both out. All I wanted to do the next day was sleep and stay out of the car.

Best present we got was a polaroid of our groomsmen, naked.

Where'd you register for that, Lord & Taylor?