Holidays

Wooohoooo one more day of work and it's off to Kyenton.  Love our yearly holiday with swimming, walking, giant chess, and just good family fun. It's going to be real blast .

Bed buying in Australia or to pillow top or just sleep on the couch, that is the question?

After 15 years + on a queen size inner spring mattress on a slat base that was guaranteed for 5 years I was  really starting to struggle.

Tossing and turning all night and just about bouncing DH out of bed.

DH has his own issues and so was blaming his stiffness and aches on those and karate got the blame for my issues.
 I had some mornings where I woke up so stiff and sore that getting out of bed reduced me to tears.

Rolling over required me to bounce and inch, bounce and inch several times to go from flat on my back to on my side the way I like to sleep.  1/2 an hour later I would have rolled back onto my back and wake up to go through the whole process all over again.  

I started researching beds on the internet.  Talk about information overload.  There are so many different styles of mattress out there.  Innerspring, memory foam, air, water, futon.  Then separate linked spring (bonnel spring) or pocket spring.  Add to that to pillow top or not and you have way more questions than answers.

The more I researched the more I was being turned into a pretzel by my old bed.
I started making friends with my couch which at least it wasn't crippling me.  DH finally agreed to replacing the mattress wooohoooo

I visited a couple of bedding stores  asked for information and lay on a heap of different beds in my budget range.  I figured I had found a couple that might do the trick so the next step was to get DH to come and see what he thought.

I always try to buy Australian if I can and regal sleep solutions is an Australian company I took DH and  we spoke to the local sales guy.  What a peasant surprise, lots of answers, seemingly unlimited patience and we finally made a decision on a queen sized pocket spring latex pillow top mattress just on the budget line..  The only down size was waiting a week for delivery.

The mattress arrived and yes it's substantially higher than the old cement block we had been sleeping on.  That's ok I can certainly deal with that.  There is much less movement in this mattress so when I roll DH hardly feels it at all and I certainly don't feel him getting up in the morning.

I realise it's only been 2 weeks today but I am really happy with my new bed.

DH is still not quite sure about it but we can still change it over until we find one that's perfect for both of us.  I doubt it will go back as he seems to be getting used to the different feel.

Anyway happy bed shopping.

Wow looks like I left it for a year+ this time

I can't believe how slack I have been.
its February 2014 Ahhhhhhh.....
I guess I have been so busy living my life I haven't had time to write about it.
I have so many questions and so much to do it can be over the top some times.
I made it to 1st Dan.  My eldest son made it to Shodan Ho JR and my youngest son is now a 2nd Kyu.  I have a 2 new jobs and I love them.  working full time for Melro and also part time at the dojo.
so Awesome to be able to watch Rhys as he works through the leadership program.

I still have my horse Ned and our Staffy Rocky.
I am also selling Tupperware very part time but it helped get me through a bout of no job and its awesome stuff so that's pretty cool.

Well it's just a quick stop in tonight.  gotta hit the hay.. work in the morning.
woooohooo