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(Squeeeeeee and thanks to

kag523 for both FANTASTIC manips for my post. <3)

The Registry:
Dragon*Con provided a thousand moments of hilarity, but one of my favorites came out of a discussion of the fabled IKEA ship. What is that you ask? Well, as some shippers posited, the Ikea ship is a supply ship for all of those things that could not still exist after months on the run: endless booze, cigars, cigarettes, etc. (which were plentiful of course, even if food was gone). LOL!

So, let's assume that there is an IKEA ship in the fleet and Lee and Kara have gotten engaged. As with all good planners, Lee has signed them up for a wedding registry on the IKEA ship (which has any item you could desire). Kara has added her desired items to Lee's oh-so-practical ones.

What items are on their IKEA wedding registry?

Or maybe you don't give a flying frak about the registry and have better ideas about what these two need to have a happy life together - what are you gonna buy them?

ETA: Our 99 Bottles game is up to number 45 - please keep adding here. Don't forget to check out the wonderful answers and pics from yesterday's Values post. It's never too late to add your own!

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... In short, always remember that marriage's middle name is compromise. If you want to have a happy home, it is imperative that you make sure you & your spouse BOTH have a hand in decorating it. As I said above, if you and your spouse don't see eye to eye on everything, then you should each pick a room to design in your own style and then pick one where you both contribute. You can't go wrong with that approach. Mrs. Adama and I are proof that this method is guaranteed for success.

Letter from "Anonymous" in response to the article:

Success? Seriously? Have you SEEN our living room Lee? I swear to the gods if you stack the damn coasters and line them up perpendicular to the coffee table one more time, I'm going to scream. And what's with the reorganizing of all the books? I can't find anything any more. You've seriously taken the neatness thing to a whole new freakish level. The kitchen looks like it's been sterilized for frak's sake. Cottle could perform surgery in there. It's a KITCHEN Lee. Things spill in there. Get over it. Oh, and by the way, I'm not your mom Lee, so stop calling me Mrs. Adama.

Response to "Anonymous" from Leland J. Adama, author

Kara, if you're going to use specifics about our life, you're not "anonymous." What's wrong with the books? All I did was organize the books by genre and then alphabetized by author! It's way better than spending hours looking through shelf after shelf for a copy of "Five Easy Steps to Win at Triad." And you ARE Mrs. Adama, too late to take it back now.

Response to author from "Kara Thrace-Adama"

THAT's the book you were looking for and what started the whole organizing-the-bookshelves project last week? Gods Lee, I gave that one away to Hot Dog weeks ago. And, I don't want to take back being married to you, you big baby.

(K ... that's it. I'm out of anything else to say. It's been a LONG day). What an AWESOME & FUN post btw Heather!

OMG!! I have my hand clamped over my mouth because I'm about to laugh hysterically by myself and decided I should not. You are frakking funny with this!! LOVE!

You ROCK Naz! That is so frakking funny! (and yes you can have the icon too :>)

Frakkin' hysterical! Yay!

Boy, I get some work done and look what happens!

Fabuloso!

The coasters! Ahahahahahah!

I love it.

Awesome!! Heeheehee...the coasters and the first line of Lee's response were the best. I snorted with uncontrollable glee.

Wedding Bells

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