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devilgrrlHere's another week-end mostly down the tubes. I can't believe we're almost halfway through February. This year is barreling on.
I cleaned up the house a little yesterday, watched Across the Universe, which was great, and then when Steven got in, we headed to IKEA since we were bored and IKEA is cheap entertainment. Also because we were almost out of napkins and I really love the IKEA ones. We also bought a cheap pillow and a spare blanket for when we have guests because we had to throw out our old blankets. I also wanted to look at area rugs and lighting because there is nothing I love more than Swedish furniture.
What we ended up doing was looking at mattresses.
We're sleeping on a waterbed right now that I bought almost 10 years ago. We like the waterbed, but a few months or so ago, I noticed that sometimes the sheets would seem damp. I accused Steven of being sweaty and gross, which he denied, and life went on. Then, it started happening with more regularity. We ended up stripping the bed all the way down and found that our mattress cover was actually damp and full of disgusting mould. The bladder itself was fine.
Because my bed is such an old model, you can't actually remove the pillowtop cover, something they fixed. We can't wash it, so I've been spraying it down with bleach solution occasionally and letting it air dry, which fixes the problem for a couple weeks. In the meantime, we're putting towels on top of the pillowtop and a mattress pad on top of that. It's still really gross and we're probably either getting the plague from the mould or cancer from the bleach fumes.
We looked into replacing the mattress surround, which would run us between $300 and $400, not including the cost of renting a pump and the (free) aggravation of draining, breaking down, and resetting up the bed. I'm not sure it's worth it.
When we priced out a mattress there, for about the same amount, we could get a new mattress, a frame, and the slats. I'm sort of leaning towards just replacing the whole thing because, really, our bed is almost a decade old. It's probably time.
So, flist, does anyone have an IKEA mattress? Are they any good or will our backs both implode if we do this?
Today looks like another blah day. The weather is having a case of MPD. We managed to get rain, snow, and sun in the span of about 20 minutes and it's starting to get dark outside again. We had snow last night which was fairly heavy in spurts and the lying weathermen are predicting we're going to get thundersnow this afternoon. I love me some New England weather. Isn't it spring yet?
I finally used some of my Snowcake stash today and I think I finally found the one soap from Lush that doesn't make my skin want to whimper liked a kicked puppy. It doesn't give me that sticky, tight feeling that most soap does. I wish the smell would linger a little longer and be a bit stronger, but them's the breaks. Up close, I can smell it faintly off my skin, but it smells more just non-descript clean than like marzipan as it does in the shower.
Only one more week till vacation and a week of feverishly doing artwork for my portfolio that I should have done, oh, three or four months ago.
I cleaned up the house a little yesterday, watched Across the Universe, which was great, and then when Steven got in, we headed to IKEA since we were bored and IKEA is cheap entertainment. Also because we were almost out of napkins and I really love the IKEA ones. We also bought a cheap pillow and a spare blanket for when we have guests because we had to throw out our old blankets. I also wanted to look at area rugs and lighting because there is nothing I love more than Swedish furniture.
What we ended up doing was looking at mattresses.
We're sleeping on a waterbed right now that I bought almost 10 years ago. We like the waterbed, but a few months or so ago, I noticed that sometimes the sheets would seem damp. I accused Steven of being sweaty and gross, which he denied, and life went on. Then, it started happening with more regularity. We ended up stripping the bed all the way down and found that our mattress cover was actually damp and full of disgusting mould. The bladder itself was fine.
Because my bed is such an old model, you can't actually remove the pillowtop cover, something they fixed. We can't wash it, so I've been spraying it down with bleach solution occasionally and letting it air dry, which fixes the problem for a couple weeks. In the meantime, we're putting towels on top of the pillowtop and a mattress pad on top of that. It's still really gross and we're probably either getting the plague from the mould or cancer from the bleach fumes.
We looked into replacing the mattress surround, which would run us between $300 and $400, not including the cost of renting a pump and the (free) aggravation of draining, breaking down, and resetting up the bed. I'm not sure it's worth it.
When we priced out a mattress there, for about the same amount, we could get a new mattress, a frame, and the slats. I'm sort of leaning towards just replacing the whole thing because, really, our bed is almost a decade old. It's probably time.
So, flist, does anyone have an IKEA mattress? Are they any good or will our backs both implode if we do this?
Today looks like another blah day. The weather is having a case of MPD. We managed to get rain, snow, and sun in the span of about 20 minutes and it's starting to get dark outside again. We had snow last night which was fairly heavy in spurts and the lying weathermen are predicting we're going to get thundersnow this afternoon. I love me some New England weather. Isn't it spring yet?
I finally used some of my Snowcake stash today and I think I finally found the one soap from Lush that doesn't make my skin want to whimper liked a kicked puppy. It doesn't give me that sticky, tight feeling that most soap does. I wish the smell would linger a little longer and be a bit stronger, but them's the breaks. Up close, I can smell it faintly off my skin, but it smells more just non-descript clean than like marzipan as it does in the shower.
Only one more week till vacation and a week of feverishly doing artwork for my portfolio that I should have done, oh, three or four months ago.
