Solid advice on paying someone else for delivery. Moving furniture with another person is one of a few things that I find intensely frustrating. I preserve my relationships by always paying for movers.
That's super helpful - the reviews were making me anxious. Of course a bed that holds 300 pounds of humans every night (one of who is a thrasher) is going to wear out eventually!
We're supposed to be closing on a house in four weeks and so I'd thought we'd wait. But I love a sale and am insanely attached to getting a deal. Maybe we'll go July 4 weekend and see if they can hold it...
Nice! My husband has some insomnia issues and we're working on making everything about our bedroom more comfortable and relaxing. We'd thought about $1500 total for a new, cozier and comfier bed felt right and hearing about the $900 Serta has me mentally upping new sheet thread count already.
Pet shop with tanning salon! (Pet shop used to be a video rental place with tanning booths). The store also had the most impressive candy collection, other than the gas stations, in my tiny hometown. We would purchase fun dips and eat them while watching the turtles or guinea pigs. Those animals were probably all diabetics from the amount of sugar that dusted their cages.
I ordered Redwall from the Scholastic catalog in 2nd grade after lusting after the Redwall books in the Hearthsong (or other pricey dress up/ toy? point is my mom said no to paying their shipping price for a book) catalog. It was a very big deal when that big chapter book came in to the classroom and I read it and so many others to pieces. Pearls of Lutra is still one of my faves and Mariel is one of my top-pick theoretical girl-child names.
Book recs: Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield is a favorite recent re-read. Seconding (thirding? nth-ing?) Station Eleven and Where'd You Go, Bernadette. I read the Story of Edgar Sawtelle last month and LOVED it, but it's kind of heavy so maybe not for vacation?
I swear my dogs' paws smell exactly like corn chips and my husband and my mother think I'm making it up. WHY CAN THEY NOT COME BASK IN THE DELIGHT OF PUPPY PAW SMELL?
I'm an ENTJ very consistently (two "real" tests over 8 years with a sprinkling of the shorter, free versions in between), but am always close to the"line" on E/I and T/F. I also find it helpful in generally validating and staying aware of some of my self-identified work and interpersonal traits. I don't think it's the kind of thing anyone should be basing major decisions, for themselves or others, off of and really disliked the principle of taking it as part of a job.
Vacuum, in 4th grade at the county level.
The worst shame? Part of my brain still wants to spell it vacuam. WHY.
Yes! My partner is now used to me sleepwalking and talking and is mostly amused by it. When we first moved in together I really only scared him once (he woke up to me chattering away about some made-up scenario but I had crawled under the bed and the fact that my voice was coming from underneath was apparently disconcerting), and now he likes baiting me into saying all sorts of nonsense, especially since my most active sleep activity is about one REM cycle in when he tends to still be up. He got me to tell him a garbled sleep half-truth about where we were going for his birthday one year.
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