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The dishes are here! The dishes are here! LOL, I know it's ridiculous to be this happy about 7 white plates, but this means that we now have 12 of everything: Dinner plates, Luncheon plates, Dessert/Bread Plates, Soup plates, Salad bowls, Fruit bowls and small Ramekins. I found plates to match the white Sheffield we already had at Replacements.com. At first I thought I was only going to find 5 plates there, but those were the "perfect condition" plates. They had plenty of slightly imperfect plates for us to order the 7 we wanted, and the total bill with shipping was only $82. The slightly imperfect plates are actually in better condition than our existing plates. Including the teapot and the saki set, I've spent $224 for what feels like a brand new set of all white fine china. Pretty good, huh :) Any other china collected at this point will be funky/weird pieces (although I don't really see a need for egg cups) or colorful serving pieces.

I had to call a co-worker today and the first thing she said to me was "happy almost-welcome to the company" :) then she said, "I'm so glad we're getting another woman in our group." Since she's the Regional guy's right hand person, I'm taking this as a fairly strong indication that it's all over but the paperwork.

My feet are cold. I suppose it's because the building is cold, because the temp is dropping in preparation for the big storm they've been promising us. I dont' mind stormy weather on the weekend because it means I don't have to drag myself out of the house unless I really want to.

This weekend we'll be putting up the christmas decorations, indoors and out, weather permitting. I guess we'll be sorry we didn't do it last weekend if the weather gets bad, but we just weren't ready to switch from autumn to winter yet. Tomorrow will be the day the christmas china comes out of the cupboard. So we'll have had 2 meals on the complete white set before putting it aside for 31 days. That just means I have something to look forward to in Jan! (besides the new job responsibilities and lower insurance premiums)

And DH and I have plans to see a movie together sometime this weekend. The last one we went to alone was Serenity...

LJ's new policies on adult content and needing your age verified are kind of annoying. I'm not sure I'm annoyed enough to quit paying for an upgraded account though. I did enter my birth year as 1900 in protest. I'm old enough to see adult content, and I get to skew all kinds of statistical analyses. That's the best part.

Come on 5:00!!

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