what i will wish i had done

On Saturday I was so progressively unhappy that Himself recommended (that's not quite the right word, but I'm thinking of something between suggesting and insisting) that he drop me at the Metro and I go down to the women's march after all. So he did and I did. He left me at the train around 11:15a and I got home sort of 4ish, I think, and in between I was able to meet up with a friend and randomly ran into another friend on the way to the meetup and tl;dr I am so glad I went. (And so is Himself. I thanked him for being firm about sending me down there, and he said it had obviously been what I needed, because otherwise I'd have been so sad for the rest of the day. He did not say "and I didn't want to be around you when you were in that mood," but I may have understood it. :-P)

in other news

Many years ago, before I even lived alone, I bought six place settings of "Nuit" at Crate & Barrel: dinner plates, salad plates, small bowls, and mugs. (I did not buy cups and saucers, low bowls, or serving pieces.) This is a pretty solid stoneware set in matte black on the outside and grey glaze on the inside. Several years later, when I was having more than five people over for a Passover seder, I bought six sets of something ceramic at Bed Bath & Beyond: dinner plates, salad plates, fairly large bowls, and mugs, three each of light blue and dark blue. There's nothing offensive about these, but the plates are much more fragile than the C&B ones and in the years we've been living together, Himself has managed to put chips in most of them. (I might well have chipped them myself by now, but it's simply true that I haven't and he has.) I never liked them as much as the "Nuit" ones anyway, so I don't really mind so much.

But a year or so ago, he accidentally dropped one of the small black and grey bowls and it shattered on the granite countertop, so (a) turns out they're not unbreakable after all :-D and (b) now we have six dinner plates, six salad plates, five small bowls, and six mugs. Those bowls are what I eat my cereal out of, so being one down impacts my week oddly. I thought Oh, no problem, I'll just replace it - and of course Crate & Barrel no longer carries that line. At some point in the past few weeks I decided Okay, you know what I'm going to do is, I'm going to get four to six more settings of something the same size and shape in a different color, and when I do, I'll get one extra small bowl, so we'll have the same number of each thing even if the sets are not 100% matchy. And I'll ditch the ceramic BBB stuff that's chipping all out of existence.

Except that they do have the same line at C&B! Sort of. They have dinnerware sets in the same models from the same manufacturer but in different colorways. And the small bowl they have now is actually the medium bowl in that line. The way I know this is the stuff I bought originally is available for various prices at replacements.com (it's a good thing I still don't care about the serving pieces, because it looks like they're well and truly discontinued; the sugar bowl is about $200) and also at another ordinary retail website.

So now I can and will replace the single broken bowl - and then I also get to decide if I'm going to buy some number of additional whole place settings, and if so in what color.