Afterwards, in the parking lot, she said "Yo" and I ran with "Turns out we had a secret weapon" through, "favorite fighting Frenchman!"

Yaaaaasssss.

My mother famously forgot my sister's birthday one year. This is all the more remarkable because she remembered my birthday and we are only one day apart.

My parents' retirement community (which has houses for active folks through nursing and dementia care as they need it) has a TV channel that posts birthdays, from which you can opt out if you don't want the whole place knowing.

So I just ordered new plates, which are the first ones I've every really bought myself! When I was in college or just out, my grandmother gave me a set, and then I got the ones I'm currently using from msbelle! (For free or cheap, I forget.) So somehow this feels momentous. And like the first step on my journey to a new mattress, the other "adult" thing I've never properly bought. I got my current mattress used (!!) 20+ years ago, so.

Oh, they are these: [link]

Very elegant, Jesse!

Nice! We registered for everyday dishes for the wedding, since we had been using a combo of his dishes + my dishes since I moved in. And they're fine...except the bowls don't nest well. If you stack more than 3 (we have 8), the stack falls over. So I'm thinking new bowls in the same color, but different brand, will be our 3-year anniversary gift, and Goodwill gets 8 ornery bowls.

I like those, Jesse. I've bought various inexpensive dishes over the years, but when it comes to the possibility of "good china" I want, Want, WANT ones just like the chipped, broken, incomplete set of porceline dishes I got at a garage sale for my first apartment in college. Only, you know, new and complete. Friends were known to ask to use our place for a romantic dinner because we had such elegant dishes (out of service for eight, there were still two perfect plates with no chips). But I have never seen any exactly like them since. For some reason similar but not quite the same seems worse than totally and completely different. Second choice is Blue Willow ware and/or Calamityware.

Yeah, I've been looking for years, and these seem to be the closest to what I want. I also have my grandmother's china, which I really like, but only use for good.

If you stack more than 3 (we have 8), the stack falls over.

Oh, that's annoying!

In other news about me, my mother brought down two stories from the Sunday paper for me to read, and I know people in both of them! Maybe I actually have a network here, finally.

Second choice is Blue Willow ware and/or Calamityware.

I love Calamityware!