Housewarming and Registering

As the date of closing on Casa ABBA creeps closer I've had a couple people ask if I'm going to have a house-warming (of course) and if a house-warming is something that you register for gifts for. My opinion, whether correct or not, is "heck yeah, I'm going to register for gifts!" There is no expectation in the near future for me to actually fall in love and get married and even less of a chance that I'm going to have kids, so this is probably the only chance that I'll have to do the whole registry thing.

Here's the rub...I've been living on my own for almost 20 years, so I'm pretty stocked with anything that I would NEED to register for. The Queen mentioned that I could register for towels and linens for the many bathrooms that I'll now have, but I'm planning on decorating those prior to having the house-warming.

So, I'm a little stuck as where I should register.... Do you think DSW has a registry?

2010 Book 3 - A Reliable Wife

I picked up this book the other day at Barnes & Noble because I had some time to kill before going to a quilt guild meeting. It was a fast read and got me through this day of staying indoors and trying to get through a touch of bronchitis.

A Reliable Wife by Robert Goolrick was a quick read, but not something that I would recommend to anybody. Here is the blurb from the back of the book:

He placed a notice in a Chicago paper, an advertisement for a "reliable wife". She responded, saying that she was "a simple, honest woman". She was, of course, anything but honest, and the only simple thing about her was her single-minded determination to marry this many and then kill him, slowly and carefully, leaving herself a wealthy widow. What Catherine Land did not realize was that the enigmatic and lonely Ralph Truitt had a plan of his own.

It sounds like it would be quite the page turner, and admittedly it was, but the characters are very one dimensional and the story line is a little stilted.

I'd rather talk about the guild meeting that I went to. The guild is one of the smaller ones in the area, but I met a very nice lady, Sarah, there who had just joined as well and had also just recently began quilting. The speaker was interesting, while I wasn't a big fan of her work and found some of her stuff to be downright hideous, it did make me want to get involved again in guild work and I'm looking forward, as always, to getting settled and get all my quilting stuff out of storage and get a real studio set up. Tomorrow I go house hunting again, and I'm keeping my fingers crossed that there will be something out there that fits my needs and just feels right. As the Queen told me last week while looking I'll either know that the house is the right one when I walk in or I'll decide on the one that best meets all my needs when I get tired of looking. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it will be the former.