Last night I got my fill of HGTV while Jer dozed off next to me. We had a long Monday and I just wanted to relax with him. While watching International House Hunters, I saw the most beautiful dining room table. I must have it. Maybe you can help.

The thing I loved about it is it's square shape. When you have a large family like ours you'd like to have room for everyone in a cozy, but comfy dinner setting. This table had room for eight; two on every side. It was dark colored with light colored chairs. I'm pretty sure we may want to do that in reverse... light table, dark chairs. We have kids ya know?

I looked around IKEA, but no such luck. Let me know if you find something!

[UPDATE] I found something like what I want, only I don't want to purchase one that is "counter height". Actually I think they are very beautiful, but I'm pretty sure they are troublesome when entertaining. (I envision my parents trying to hoist themselves up onto the high chairs and small children taking a nose-dive when they don't realize how high they are). 

It has come to my attention (painfully so) that you really need to do something about that handy "Mark all as read" button that you've put right on top of my Google Reader gadget that I've put on my iGoogle page.

You see, sometimes I mean to click "Google Reader (125)" so I can open my reader and enjoy these lovely reads. But sometimes I accidentally click "mark all as read". There is no dummy button that follows saying, "Hey... girlfriend... did you really mean to mark all 14,326 of these as read? No? Yeah, I didn't think so."

Last night I fell victim to this yet again and marked about 1500 entries as read when I clearly hadn't read any of them. Of course the upside to this is how few unread items I have now (118 as of this post).

So if the developer could get on that dummy button thing... this dummy would be so appreciative.

 Thanks.