Mwaahahaha! My giant monster bed conquers all!

[merimask]

OMG I have a GIGANTIC BED NOW and it is incredible.

It's HUGE...I think that mattress is about 18 inches thick, double-sided, rated to last for twenty years, and made of cloudstuff.  When they assembled the whole thing last night it was a little shocking because it was at least a foot higher than the old bed.  At first I kind of felt "perched" up there and the ceiling seemed too close, but I tell you it was SO much fun to get out of bed this morning because I just swung my feet over the edge and POP I was standing just like that with almost no effort.  I stood there stunned for a bit by how wonderfully easy it all was...one second I'm asleep and the next I'm on my feet and wide awake.  Amazing!

And I sprawled last night!  And it was fine!  And this morning nothing hurts!  Usually I ache when I get up, at least until the coffee kicks in.  But not today...today I feel great!  I only had 4 hours of sleep, too (was up late again...heh...Okami) but I feel like I had a full night's rest.

BTW I know where old shoes go to die now.  They were all underneath my old bed.  It was hilarious because when we pulled off the old mattress and box to clean up before the movers came, there was a perfect bed-shaped rectangle of debris beneath consisting of old shoes and various...things.  Ghosts of kitties past.   A couple of hairballs that were Claudia-colored.  Poor old kitty.  I miss her but I really don't miss the hairballs.  Long-haired cats are messy messy critters.

Haha!  Blackmail Halloween photos!

Char is the cutest pirate ever!  Isn't this adorable??  I got the skirt, headscarf, and shirt as separate pieces from Party City and the rest is stuff we had laying about.   Those are my sexy 200.00 boots from the 80's when I used to KICK ASS.  So glad I held on to those.  :-)  You can sort of see...she's wearing a parrot earring I got for her in Costa Rica.  One parrot earring!!  Her idea.  Isn't that just so CUTE?


Of course we had to have Kiba in a picture too.  And of course he got all wound up and howled 'cause he loves the attention.

"Awwwoooo!" sez the dog. 

And just to be fair, here's a birthday picture of me.  With the cake.  As promised.

The humiliation is now complete.  :-)

Also...who was it on my F-list who said that I was going to Loooove the high speed cable...but if I ever lost it for some reason it would really SUCK?  Because haha!  You're right!  Screw you, Time Warner...screw you and your craptacular cable modem that is blinking and winking and not working.  Arggggh!  Dial up again...nooooo!   I have lost my coping skills and I'm just sitting here fidgeting and frothing while I wait for photobucket to load three lousy pictures and it took almost TEN MINUTES and I'll never get those minutes back...*sob*

Anyway, it's a good thing we kept the option to retain the dial-up link or we'd be SOL until some time next week, when Time Warner gets around to giving us a new craptastic modem.  *sigh*  Greg's looking into buying our own, today.  Deliver us from evil cable conglomerates and their crappy hardware, Best Buy!  *praying*

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Isn't it wonderful to sprawl? We got the low profile box-springs so that we're a little further away from the ceiling. Our friends thanked us for that when we moved them. Since it sounds like you got the same mattress that we did, I offer a mental image for your amusement:

Here we are in the front hallway of the new house, with the Gigantic King Sized Pillow Top Mattress of Doom. The plans for this house assume that normal people will make the room off the dining room with the attached bathroom and walk-in closet the master bedroom. I, of course, have made it into a library with a corner for my drawing board. So here we are by the stair case with the GKSPTMOD. The stair goes up to the right four steps, turns 90 degrees to the left, goes up to the landing, 90 degrees to the left, and then straight to the bedroom. It becomes apparent quickly that the GKSPTMOD is not sufficiently flexible to turn those corners. At least not with me, my husband, and two of my girlfriends handling it. No other Y chromosomes present. So we're looking at the stair, and the landing railing, and trying to figure this out. At this point my friend Isabeau, the Amazing Valkyrie Woman and I come to the same conclusion: she goes up and braces off of the railing on the upstairs landing, I go halfway up the stairs, and we tell Bob and Camma to "pass it up." The whole thing goes straight up and over the second floor railing. Boom. Down the hall, on the boxspring, ready to go.

I wish I had video of it.

Happy belated birthday. Belated congratulations on the house. Char is adorable. I see Pat's boomarangs on the wall!

Eloise

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Low profile box springs...that's a good idea. That must have been what they used in the showroom because I do NOT recall having to climb up onto the bed. *shrug* It's kinda fun, though. And it IS a lot easier to get out of bed when all you have to do is sorta jump down. :-)

Re: your "moving" experience...Oh man, rofl! That's too much. Y'know, they apparently hinge king mattresses for just that reason, but try bending one! It's like trying to fold a pizza box in half. Plus, I imagine it's not good for the foam & stuff to get stretched and folded like that. What you did is probably better (and certainly smarter!). You're just lucky your stairs were configured in such a way that you could cheat like that. Clever clever!

Ooo! Speaking of stuff on the walls, I have a request. Go back to my last entry...you'll see a link to a poem a friend wrote for me (she's SO talented). Could you calligraph it for me? I SO want to hang it in my study. Let me know what you think. :-)