New Bed and Vacuuming is Fun!

As you may or may not know, I've been sleeping in the front room on a twin bed for quite a while now, an experiment we tried to see if we both slept better away from each other's snoring and tossing and turning and such, and yes, we sleep MUCH better now. But, recently I had been waking up about 4 am with my arm totally numb and hurting. I researched causes and of course you always find the horrible diagnoses, your arm is getting ready to fall off or you have some weird disease, but the reason that made the most sense was that your circulation is getting cut off from having your arm under your body or in a weird position or whatever.

So, last week Keith suggested trading beds for the night to see if the narrow bed with the hard mattress was causing the arm numbness and pain, and yes, it was. He had the worst night's sleep ever trying to get comfortable in that little bed with the hard hard mattress, and I in the big bed did not wake up at 4 am with a numb painful arm.

He said forget the cost, we are getting a new bed with a better mattress. So, we did. We shopped around and found one that we liked with a free box spring, free delivery, and free removal of the old mattress. We had to move things around to make room for the bed in the front bedroom since instead of a narrow little twin we went with the full size mattress, what they used to call a double bed before the inventions of queen and king sized beds.

We put the workbench back in the big bedroom and put the computer on it, thereby getting rid of the crappy pressboard computer desk and the big desk chair. I had always wanted the computer in the same room where I worked so that everything is right there in the same place, easy to keep an eye on any computer happenings, hopefully a sale or two.

Long story short, I slept much much better the last two nights and no numb arms.

I've also vacuumed almost every day since we got the new vacuum and it is so much lighter and easier to use than the old one and it AMAZES me how much cat hair is in the rug every day that the old vacuum never seemed to pick up. It's almost fun now. Almost.

Monday Already?

Time flies when you're having fun, right?

Actually it was not really a fun weekend but very busy. Saturday it seemed like I spent half the day in the car running errands and fighting traffic and the 349,000 other people who live in this town also seemed to be running errands and fighting traffic. I always wonder where everyone is going or if they just drive around aimlessly all day because there is nothing else to do here.

Keith was supposed to be (finally after three weekends of working on it) finishing the bed. I told him to get an early start on it because rain was supposed to come in late Saturday afternoon. So, of course the bed was still sitting in the backyard when it started raining. But, it is done and in the bedroom and last night I tried it out. I slept sort of okay, the bed is a little harder and it was weird to be in a different room. Pepper started out the night by sleeping by my feet which didn't bother me, but about 4 am decided it was time for me to get up and kept tapping the side of my head with her paw and then when I rolled over to get away from her, started tapping the back of my head. Then decided to use the cat box and dug to China for what seemed like five minutes. Scratch scratch scratch scratch. Dig dig dig.

Keith said that he didn't really see that much difference in how he slept but he did enjoy having the whole bed to himself. Plus he can get up and turn on the light and get dressed instead of having to go out into the living room so he doesn't wake me up.

As soon as the bed was set up yesterday afternoon Pepper laid claim to it. This morning Harri and Mimi are all stretched out on it.

When I was looking for bedding I was somewhat stunned at how expensive sheets and all of that stuff costs. And how ugly most of it was. I found this spread and a set of lime green sheets at Walmart after going to just about every store that carries bedding. I wanted something colorful in there and it is indeed colorful. If I get tired of the flowers I can flip it over to a solid lime green.

I got my carpets vacuumed and steam cleaned yesterday. Since we didn't have to give all of our money to the government this year I replaced the steam cleaner that quit working a few months ago. The carpets look much fresher now. I put the cat beds up off the floor in the living room to do the cleaning and later I see Bear had found the one that was sitting kind of precariously on the shelf. She never sleeps in this bed when it's in its usual place.