Get me a box of kittens, stat!
Feb. 5th, 2007 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynThe Puppy Bowl was divine again this year. I totally lost my heart to the quakey little mini pinscher, and I adored the three Samoyeds (one was named Buffy!) who seemed to view all the other puppies as toys, especially that frisky little golden retriever. But Gypsy the bulldog stole my heart with her maniacal end-to-end runs, crashing into the glass, etc. She was a riot! What a little tank, and so much energy! Really, is there anything more wonderful than the bowl-cam? The kitty halftime show wasn't too bad, either. There was one kitten who just didn't seem to get along with anyone, but that little marmalade tabby and the little black one seemed to have enough energy and sweetness for all of them.
I went up to the store, since I realized I had no snacks for Bowl watching, and everyone was making a mad rush to get food for that other game thing. The checkers were all wearing Super Bowl shirts, and asking everyone if they were "watching the game." I said, yes, I'm watching the puppy bowl. And then everyone within earshot had to listen to me explain it to the checker, and it sounded like more people were planning to go home and watch that than the other game thing. Especially when I mentioned it had a kitten halftime show.
It was nice to rest up and watch that. Yesterday, someone from Freecycle came to pick up my old queen mattress and box spring, and metal bed frame. I put it up on the list, and the first person who contacted me mentioned she was having a hysterectomy in two weeks, and all she had was a mattress on the floor and had been worried about what she was going to do. It sounds like she's had a seriously hard-knock life lately, and I was more than happy it was going to someone worthy. I'd thought about waiting to put it up -- the bed isn't even slated to arrive until after this Friday sometime, and it could still be quite a few weeks. But I figured that since I had the new mattress, it would be easier to just live on the floor for a bit instead of worry about furniture overlap in case the bed comes early. In all this redcorating/furnishing I've been doing, the one big problem has almost always been what to do with the old stuff so it's not in the way of the new stuff.
This woman's parents came by to pick it up, and I realized that they wouldn't be capable of moving it all by themselves, so I had to do a lot more work than I'd expected. My house is so small that moving one thing means moving a lot of other furniture so that the stuff can get through the front door. After I'd cleaned up, I decided to unroll my new mattress on the floor from its tube. It's heavy to move, even in its box, and then you have to open this long box to get to the tube of bed.
Yes, you read that right. I ended up getting Design Within Reach's Sonno mattress. It's kind of like a Tempurpedic, but without a lot of the troubles that memory foam has (the heat swings, the cradling effect, the loss of support, etc.). It has a CoolMax liner and fabric cover, and air holes throughout to aid in ventilation, so the mattress doesn't absorb sweat and hold it. There's a different type of foam core for solidity. And it comes vacuum-packed into a tight roll. When you cut the plastic wrapping and start to unfurl it, it begins to unroll itself and expand, kind of like those snakey things you get in fireworks. It's sort of cool, only I had mine too close to the wall, so it started climbing the wall as if it had a life of its own. Anyway, I know it's not good for it to be on the floor where it can't air, but hopefully it won't be there long.
I didn't have too bad of a sleep, but it's going to take me a while to get used to my toes hanging over the edge. I'm just too tall for a full-sized mattress, and there's a rolled edge all the way around the mattress that's going to take me a long time to get used to. It is very solid and even though I overheat when I sleep, I didn't feel too bad this time. I got some bamboo sheets, which are drapey and silky like rayon (same principle as rayon: cellulose fibers made from wood), but they might be a bit too drapey and silky for someone as fidgety as me. Still, they're a green product, and that's what I'm trying to have more of around the house.
My shoulders didn't hurt too much this morning, so that was nice. And my hip hurt in an entirely different way, which I'll take as a good sign until I sleep on it more. It hurt more like "OMG, I have to crawl in and out of a bed on the floor all night long and I'm oooold" than "I hate coil mattresses like whoa." It was actually somehwat hard to make the bed on the floor, what with my creaky knees and bad hip, and then there was all the moving stuff earlier, so I'm going to hope that's what made me achiest. I want to for once have a mattress I don't hate, especially when I'm spending that kind of money.
Emma loves it, of course. As soon as it unfurled and started to rise from its squished state, she was on it, and she just thinks it's great to be on the bed when she doesn't have to crawl up its side like a mountaineer. Still can't get her to join me on it, though. She hates what a fidgety, floppy sleeper I am and won't have anything to do with me at night. The nice thing about this Sonno mattress, too, is how stable it is -- there's no movement on other parts of the mattress when you move, no noise, so maybe Em will move back in with me, if she gets used to it.
And the woman who took the mattress wrote me last night (usually you never hear from the freecyclers again) thanking me for it, and talking about what great shape it was in, etc. She said I was a "gift from God." Her parents had mentioned that she'd moved back home in crisis, and while I am no gift from God, I was at least happy to be able to mitigate some of the awfulness she's going through. I know how much of a difference it made to have a really high bed when I had surgery, so I'm glad that the bed saga has a chapter about making it easier for someone else.
I went up to the store, since I realized I had no snacks for Bowl watching, and everyone was making a mad rush to get food for that other game thing. The checkers were all wearing Super Bowl shirts, and asking everyone if they were "watching the game." I said, yes, I'm watching the puppy bowl. And then everyone within earshot had to listen to me explain it to the checker, and it sounded like more people were planning to go home and watch that than the other game thing. Especially when I mentioned it had a kitten halftime show.
It was nice to rest up and watch that. Yesterday, someone from Freecycle came to pick up my old queen mattress and box spring, and metal bed frame. I put it up on the list, and the first person who contacted me mentioned she was having a hysterectomy in two weeks, and all she had was a mattress on the floor and had been worried about what she was going to do. It sounds like she's had a seriously hard-knock life lately, and I was more than happy it was going to someone worthy. I'd thought about waiting to put it up -- the bed isn't even slated to arrive until after this Friday sometime, and it could still be quite a few weeks. But I figured that since I had the new mattress, it would be easier to just live on the floor for a bit instead of worry about furniture overlap in case the bed comes early. In all this redcorating/furnishing I've been doing, the one big problem has almost always been what to do with the old stuff so it's not in the way of the new stuff.
This woman's parents came by to pick it up, and I realized that they wouldn't be capable of moving it all by themselves, so I had to do a lot more work than I'd expected. My house is so small that moving one thing means moving a lot of other furniture so that the stuff can get through the front door. After I'd cleaned up, I decided to unroll my new mattress on the floor from its tube. It's heavy to move, even in its box, and then you have to open this long box to get to the tube of bed.
Yes, you read that right. I ended up getting Design Within Reach's Sonno mattress. It's kind of like a Tempurpedic, but without a lot of the troubles that memory foam has (the heat swings, the cradling effect, the loss of support, etc.). It has a CoolMax liner and fabric cover, and air holes throughout to aid in ventilation, so the mattress doesn't absorb sweat and hold it. There's a different type of foam core for solidity. And it comes vacuum-packed into a tight roll. When you cut the plastic wrapping and start to unfurl it, it begins to unroll itself and expand, kind of like those snakey things you get in fireworks. It's sort of cool, only I had mine too close to the wall, so it started climbing the wall as if it had a life of its own. Anyway, I know it's not good for it to be on the floor where it can't air, but hopefully it won't be there long.
I didn't have too bad of a sleep, but it's going to take me a while to get used to my toes hanging over the edge. I'm just too tall for a full-sized mattress, and there's a rolled edge all the way around the mattress that's going to take me a long time to get used to. It is very solid and even though I overheat when I sleep, I didn't feel too bad this time. I got some bamboo sheets, which are drapey and silky like rayon (same principle as rayon: cellulose fibers made from wood), but they might be a bit too drapey and silky for someone as fidgety as me. Still, they're a green product, and that's what I'm trying to have more of around the house.
My shoulders didn't hurt too much this morning, so that was nice. And my hip hurt in an entirely different way, which I'll take as a good sign until I sleep on it more. It hurt more like "OMG, I have to crawl in and out of a bed on the floor all night long and I'm oooold" than "I hate coil mattresses like whoa." It was actually somehwat hard to make the bed on the floor, what with my creaky knees and bad hip, and then there was all the moving stuff earlier, so I'm going to hope that's what made me achiest. I want to for once have a mattress I don't hate, especially when I'm spending that kind of money.
Emma loves it, of course. As soon as it unfurled and started to rise from its squished state, she was on it, and she just thinks it's great to be on the bed when she doesn't have to crawl up its side like a mountaineer. Still can't get her to join me on it, though. She hates what a fidgety, floppy sleeper I am and won't have anything to do with me at night. The nice thing about this Sonno mattress, too, is how stable it is -- there's no movement on other parts of the mattress when you move, no noise, so maybe Em will move back in with me, if she gets used to it.
And the woman who took the mattress wrote me last night (usually you never hear from the freecyclers again) thanking me for it, and talking about what great shape it was in, etc. She said I was a "gift from God." Her parents had mentioned that she'd moved back home in crisis, and while I am no gift from God, I was at least happy to be able to mitigate some of the awfulness she's going through. I know how much of a difference it made to have a really high bed when I had surgery, so I'm glad that the bed saga has a chapter about making it easier for someone else.
