May 17th, 2024

Well, it looks like the whole house is all ish-kabibble once again!  Geez!    Everywhere you look right now are nice neat stacks of clean sheets, pillows (so many pillows), mattresses, bed frames, box springs and toss pillows.  What a mess!

This is what happens when you finally break down and buy a new bed!  Woohoo!  So exciting!  It ought to be delivered some time today and we are so ready!  

Getting a new bed meant, for us means that the guest room bed is on it's way outoutout.  Our old bed, which isn't very old really, we bought it here in Florida afterall, will become the new guest  bed.  It's a good quality very comfortable mattress and will be a comfortable nights sleep for any guest you ends up snoozing on it. 

The fellows who are bringing our new bed will take the old guest room bed away, huzzah, and that will automatically make the chaos in the living room much better.  Mattresses and box springs leaning up against  random walls looks so very, ummm, I don't know,  dormitory between semesters or something.  

So the guest bedroom will now be sporting not only a nice, much newer, mattresses and box spring, but it also inherited the headboard and footboard that used to be in our room.  Love that!  I know that a head board (and/or foot board) is not strictly necessary, but I really like the way it looks.  It seems more finished I suppose.  Like when you are all dressed and then you put your shoes on.  Now you are finished dressing :)

HOWEVER, the guest room is NOT inheriting the old comforter.  That thing is thirty years old and has holes in it.  It's ready for the garbage.  On the other hand, the original guest room comforter is in Fabulous shape and will continue to do it's job very nicely. So for those of you keeping score, Guest room has new bed, new headboard/footboard but the same comforter.  

Our new bed, (Squee! So Excited!) is not only a King instead of the Queen sized bed we've always had, but it's an adjustable King.  Wow!  Both the head and the foot go up and down.  So Fancy!   It's supposed to be terrific for aiding sleep for people with seasonal allergies, sleep apnea, indigestion, and snoring problems!  And as a bonus, it's easier to watch TV or read in bed.  Awesome!

Because the bottom of it is one king sized bed and the top is two extra long twins, the sheets are sized specifically for that situation which means no more buying sets but only separates.  That'll work.  We did have to buy a new comforter though and that took stops at Multiple stores to find.  It was so much more of an ordeal than I anticipated.

First of all, our bedroom is an odd grey/green/sagey sort of colour. I don't dislike it but I probably wouldn't have picked it.  On the other hand, we didn't really have the time (Or desire) to repaint the bedroom before the new bed came so we had to find a comforter that would go with grey/green/sagey.  As it turns out, there aren't many colours that do.  Another issue was finding a comforter that wasn't too heavy or dense so that Tim wouldn't be too hot.  He's one of those people who is almost always too hot, so something lightweight.  You would think a lightweight comforter or coverlet would be easy to find in Florida, a hot place.  As it turns out, not as easy as you might think. 

Another issue was dealing with what was available in stores.  The short time frame meant trying to not have to buy on line when you are at their mercy of when things are delivered.  And worse, is it exactly what you thought it was from what was shown or written on line.    So I  think we went to 3 different stores, or maybe it was 4. Five?  However many it was, it seems that the stores hereabouts believe that everyone should have a comforter with scenes/pictures/patterns that typify Florida.  There were fish and palm trees and hibiscus and ocean waves galore.  Sometimes the colours were just oceany - blues and greens.  Other times colours one might consider as tropical - bright bright yellows, greens and oranges.  And there is absolutely nothing wrong with ANY of those options except, they aren't us.  I don't really want to sleep under the sea or in a Jimmy Buffet song.  Obviously we finally found something that would do.  That's what we settled on, something that would do.  Neither of us hated it.  AND it goes with the oddly coloured walls of the room. A very high standard indeed.

So right now, there is nothing to do but wait.  Tim emptied the rooms. I have done the laundry and cleaned the rooms (swept, vacuumed, dusted AND washed the floors).  The kitties have done everything they could possibly do to help (read that as be in the way) and therefore, I think we are ready.

And while I really hate the clutter and chaos of an ish-kabibbled state, I also know that it's short term and once the new bed is in place in our room and the old bed is in the guest room and the really old bed is gone, then I can put everything to rights and by tonight all will be well.  We will sleep the sleep a people on new sheets, under a new comforter, in a new bed.  Yay!  Can't wait!