Day 202
After roughly 100 nights of sleeping on my couch (with at least 2 pugs and sometimes 2 cats) … last night I slept in a BED. My own bed. My NEW bed.
The heavens opened up and the angels wept. It was glorious!
And not one back spasm to account for! I practically wept!
In any case, after 4 hours of sleep the other night, on the couch, with said animals, I got up at the ungodly hour (to me) of 6:30 as the delivery guys were to be at my door by 7am. Who delivers mattresses at that time of day? Apparently Sears! Well, they didn’t quite make it to my door until about 8:30 but they were in and out and up and down and gone in a matter of moments leaving me to put together the new bed. Which I did. While here I asked the delivery guys to please take the box spring upstairs for me (the one that was in the bedroom on the main floor). I’m glad I did as there was no way I could have wrestled that thing up the stairs by myself! I thought I was being “so smart” and using the box spring from my old set. I ordered a new black iron 4-poster bed for the main bedroom (the B&B is open guys … come on over!) and thought I’d use a platform under that mattress … so no need for an additional box spring lying around. Not good planning. I now have a poster bed, a mattress and definitely need a box spring as the mattress is too low on the bed to look like anything more than a really huge, fancy dog bed!
Oh well! I ordered a box spring this morning and some nice guy delivered it to me after hours tonight! Perfect!
In any case, after the delivery guys left I put the frame together and made up the bed. It is higher than I expected so the dogs cannot jump up on it! BONUS! If I so choose, I will have to lift them up. At that prospect, Gertie looked like she had lost her best friend! I might have to get her a step!
I made up the bed with new, soft, 300 count, deep eggplant, 100% cotton sheets. Again, angels were weeping. (I have gone with a higher thread count before but if I have a dog with toe nails on anything higher than 300 count, say good-bye to those sheets within a month!). Anyway, the bed … complete with a marshmallow soft white comforter, body pillow and 2 plump pillows and enough decorative pillows to make Martha Stewart weep was left, unattended, unrumpled, and untried out until 2:30 last night.
And when I crawled in (albeit exhausted) I initially thought that a full-sized mattress would not be big enough … but it felt like the bed was the size of an aircraft carrier. A very plushy, yummy-comfortable aircraft carrier!
And, after looking at those sad puggy eyeballs on Gertie – I pulled her up to snuggle with me.
And then I slept. And it was GLORIOUS.