Friday 13th April (Day 43)
There are 2
things worth spending good money on in life.
Can you guess what they are?
Shoes and
beds. Why? Because if you are not in one of them you are
in the other. You spend 1/3 of your life
in bed (well in my case probably about 1/8 at the moment) and when you are not
sleeping you are awake and probably wearing shoes. They are the 2 unsung heroes of modern day
life and they are worth investing in.
The reason
why I am saying this is because my new mattress arrived today, only 4 weeks
late! I ordered a new mattress pretty
much after the first night I attempted to sleep in this house. The mattress left by the previous tenant was
just horrific.
It has
clearly been handed down through generations of tenants each leaving there own
mark on it. When it came to deciding
which side of it I was going to sleep on I had to pick the less of the 2 evils.
One side had clearly been slept on by a
girl during her menopause, the other side looked like it had been slept on by
someone with bladder control problems.
Either way I was in for a rough night’s sleep.
It wasn’t a
decent mattress to begin with anyway. It
is basically just a big piece of foam about the width of my fist. Every time I want to turn over I feel my hip
press into the slats of the bed.
After 4 weeks
I just feel like I have been in a car crash.
To be honest I don’t even try and sleep at night now because it is just
a chore. I just make do with the odd nap
here and there. But anyway hopefully
that will all change now with my new mattress!
The first
thing I noticed whilst unpacking it was the smell. It has that lovely fresh out of the Chinese factory
that is clearly breaking all environmental laws smell. I never knew you could make a mattress out of
nail polish remover and cat piss.
Another
complaint is that the mattress looks ridiculous on my bed. The other anorexic mattress looked relatively
normal on the little bed I have in my room but this mattress looks huge
compared to the bed.
It isn’t half
bad though lying on it. As I was lying
down on the new mattress I could already feel my back start to mend
itself. It might look a bit stupid and smell
like my old chemistry teacher but it is exactly what I needed.
And on a note
about work, since my attempt at work on Wednesday I have phoned up ill again
Thursday and Friday. I think it is just
best to write this week off, sleep well over the weekend and start again fresh
next week!
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| The old, about as fun to sleep on as a sack of potatoes |
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| I dread to think... |
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| The new, looks a bit alien on my little bed |
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