02 12 00

bedding

I didn't do anything today. I rolled out of bed around 12:30pm (missing all my 'toons in the process) and just lazed around.

No, no... I take that back. I did a little grocery shopping, and bought sheets for the airbed.

Have I mentioned the airbed? I don't think so.

Whenever Dave comes down to visit, sleeping arrangements are always a problem. I have a twin bed. No matter how we twist ourselves, there's no way we're going to be comfortable in that bed.

But no fear! I have a sleeper sofa.

Erm...

It was all right the first time Dave came down. The mattress had never been used, and the springs were still springy. But by his second visit, sag had started to occur. We'd end up in a big moat in the middle of the bed, and we were both in Major Pain in the morning from that bar.

You know that bar. The bar the sofa designers stuck in there to appease their sadistic tendencies.

So we got the brilliant idea to pull the mattress off the sofa and put it on the floor. This would have been an ideal arrangement if it had been a real mattress, and not the half-inch thick foam pad sofa designers call a "mattress." We might as well have been sleeping on concrete.

Plus, I have a huge picture window in my living room. Instead of a regular curtain, I have two shower curtains up.

Don't look at me like that! They aren't the plastic ones; they're the cloth ones. They're quite pretty actually.

The shower curtains are strung up on a tension bar. It stays up most of the time, but Jaws gets a little rambunctious sometimes and pulls the curtain down. Every time Dave and I were getting ready for bed, I had visions of Jaws pulling the curtain down to reveal several hundred people standing outside and staring at our naked bodies.

I just couldn't relax, you know?

So last weekend I was browsing through one of those really evil stores. I went in to get socks and cat food... And walked out with body spray, a Pez dispenser, and an air mattress.

It's queen size (the bed, not the Pez dispenser) and comes with an electric air pump. I've tested it and it works pretty well. Unfortunately, the mattress is split into two separate air chambers, and if I laid in the middle the bed sort of folded up around me. If I rolled to the edge, the edge collapses and I end up on the floor. I'll try stuffing my bed spread into the crack between the chambers so there will be some support.

Anyway, it needed sheets, and I got a $35 gift card to Kohl's for Christmas. They were having a sale on bedding (!) and I got a really nice queen size fitted sheet/flat sheet set for $2. grin Can't beat that.

Blew up the bed, put the sheet on, and it fits great. Now all I need is company.

Five days and counting.

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