Tag: bed

Wednesday – August 26

meisajDaily Life

Our bed is too small.

We have a queen sized bed we bought several years ago. It is still pretty comfy, but we bought it when our household consisted of two cats and us.

Surely this can fit 2 adults, 1 kid, and 4 cats…. right?

Our household now consists of 4 cats, us, and Marceline. That’s three more occupants than when we bought our bed. And even though we now have two more cat beds, two additional large cat trees, one more full size bed, and a crib that didn’t exist when we bought our bed, everyone seems to want to join us now.

Last night Marceline went to bed at a normal time, and didn’t even fight as much to fall asleep, but come 11pm she decided she didn’t want to sleep in her crib anymore. She would fall asleep on me in the rocking chair (Ikea chair), but when I tried to put her down in the crib she would wake up and start crying.

After 30 tired minutes of that, I just brought her to bed with us. Where she tossed and turned and spun 360’s and kicked all night long while happily asleep.

Combine that with Sam and a one point three cats in bed with us, and our bed is too damn small.

We actually acknowledged this issue months ago, about the same time we realized our refrigerator was going to need replacing. We decided the fridge was the priority – the freezer section wasn’t keeping ice cream hard, it was like soft serve.

And I shouldn’t say was in the past tense, because like the adults we are, we haven’t bought a new fridge yet either.

I accomplished most things on my list yesterday. Didn’t buy cat litter nor vacuum in the basement. They go on today’s list. I did start a new book – Find Me.

It is the first fiction book I’ve read in a while. I forget how much faster they are to read than non-fiction books. It is good so far, although I’m only a few chapters in (Chapter 5 I think?). It is a suspense book – the lead character’s father was a serial killer who used the lead character to lure his victims when she was a child. Years later and the serial killer dad says he will only lead police to his victim’s bodies if his daughter goes with them. Kept me reading so far.

Today’s list:

  • Keep living room and kitchen clean.
  • Bathroom Laundry (towels, washcloths, mats)
  • Vacuum Basement
  • Buy cat litter and change litter boxes
  • Clip Marceline’s nails
  • Clean Marceline’s room?
  • Run

Sheets

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I have a few things that I’m slightly persnickety about. One of them is the sheets on my bed that I sleep with have to have the top up at the top. That slightly thicker edging has to be up by my head.

What’s difficult is that we have some bed sheets that don’t have a top. All the edges are exactly the same. So that it doesn’t make a difference. But a majority of our sheets have a top.

For the last 2 weeks Sam is made the bed. Even though we’ve lost our sheets we’ve kept the same sheets, just wash them and then put them back on the bed. It’s flannel sheets because it’s winter.

I couldn’t remember if these sheets had a top or not. But Sam knows I’m very particular about having sheets top up. So I figured these must be the sheets that have the same edging all the way around. But every night I would search for the top edge when I got in bed.

Yesterday I was making the bed in the morning and discovered that Sam made the bed for two weeks in a row with the topside on her side of the bed. she doesn’t even sleep with the sheet she sleeps on top of it.

I can’t believe my own spouse was keeping the top edge of the sheet from me!!! It’s fixed now, despite Sam’s trying to sabotage my sleep.