Catalog Living could be my new best friend...good call, bon.

Do you not eat salad, or do you not use utensils for salad?

Mostly column A, but I also wouldn't use different utensils if I did. Why would I want a small fork, or a different fork from dinner (salad for me is the corn on the cob with the meal, which gets its own utensils for a specific reason)? But cake does need a different fork from dinner, clearly.

I have really specific cutlery needs. My mother imprinted her choices on me early, so every set I've bought since then is trying to match most importantly the fork and soup spoon shape of our main two everyday sets.

Yes, when I go home I do stare fondly at them still--my mother has the same dishes and forks for 45 years, but me, I'm on at least my third set of everything. My sister and I have divvied up Mummy's dishes, but I don't know who has dibs on the everyday silverware. I should ask...

Bon--we need to SuperWire soon. My sister is now further ahead in Supernatural than you are (midway through S4, at the end of her second week of indulgence), and she's still mad at me for not being able to take part in Wire chat.

-t--I have two butter warmers that I used a lot more before the microwave, but even now, they're still a more reliably tidy way to heat just the right amount of milk or milk substitute.

My living room is deeply deeply messy, laundry needs to be done, but all I can countenance doing is stuffing a bit of food into my gullet and going back to bed. This week's headaches did not let up. It's a different sort of feeling knowing I absolutely cannot get pain meds early, and the amount of pain meds I get is not related to how much pain I'm in--even though the ER was tiresome and random, there was at least the chance someone would treat my headache until it was gone, as opposed to giving me the exact same dosage no matter how little or much pain I'm in.

My mother imprinted her choices on me early, so every set I've bought since then is trying to match most importantly the fork and soup spoon shape of our main two everyday sets.

I'm still using the flatware I think my grandmother gave me when I graduated from college or something, not because I love it, but because I can't find The Exact Thing I Want. Why are all the spoons so flat??

Also, a proper butter warmer (i.e., the one my parents have) should look like this: [link]

I tried to get myself a butter warmer the last time you mentioned yours, ita, but the thing I found is a quart which is still a useful size but not quite as useful. I think my toy-looking pots are functionally pretty similar to the butter warmer, one of them even has a pouring spout.

I'm sorry the home treatment has drawbacks. Is there any hope of adjusting what your regular dosage is in view of getting you through to the next scheduled treatment? Wouldn't help today, obviously.

So that's what that is for! (We had a red enamel one. Never knew its purpose, except it often ended up in my play kitchen because it was kid-sized.)

ita, right. Let's do it soon.

I am on the computer: i.e., not packing.

Jesse's proper butter warmer would look very nice on my stove. IJS.

My spoons are both circular in cross section and reasonably deep - the teaspoons hold a teaspoon measure, and likewise the tablespoons, which is handy. The whole set is on the modern side, though, which not everyone likes. Dansk Rondure [link]

My flatware is a set that I got from Macy's when I got my first apartment, because it was really cheap and looked more grown-up than the plastic-handled kind I had in college. It's fairly boring looking, but it's held up pretty well, and I don't actually dislike it, so I've kept it. As soon as I got a real job, though, I replaced my cheap dishes with Fiestaware.

Jesse's proper butter warmer would look very nice on my stove. IJS.

That one sold [link] but it was only $10 with shipping, and I bet there are others around.