Three times IS a charm!

The third mattress just got delivered! It is clean and the couple of individual picks, I was able to smooth back into the fabric! I am so happy! It is the best bed yet, I think I will keep it and not tempt fate by rejecting it.

This is the only "happy" picture I have on my 'puter so far.

















I think I was 12 maybe? (Don't bother to click, it is really out of focus! Old Polaroid!)


Good Afternoon all!

Catching up on sleep news.

I had a bit of trouble getting through to the store today, so I will try again in the morning and then post this. Maybe with names and manufacturers. I don't really want to go that way, if I can get satisfaction any other way.

Red will be the edit colour for tomorrow if they balk. So, this is what the first mattress looked like.

This is the pin pulled from the side of the first mattress they gave me.

The first dirt noticed.














The first snag noticed.







The other side of the bed:









Both of these are at one handle.



































The other handle.










































These are from my camera phone and as you can see, I still need to practice with it. I also took good old fashioned film photos. The snags on the top are really hard to see, so I won't post those.

By the way if anyone is looking for new pillows, I have been doing some looking on the web and the Latex pillows can be found for much, much less than $500.00. I think Sears has them for under $100.00, big, huge difference. I haven't gone to look at them to see if the quality is the same, but even so, huge difference!


So, I called the store and once again my salesman is not working. The fellow I spoke to gave me the number for customer service as they will have to send someone out to look at it and will have to order another mattress, which will now take two weeks to get as they are out of them. So, I call customer service, they actually close for lunch break, so I am still waiting for a call back. I have decided to post this as is. I can change it later, or do a new post.


Good Morning


Update: Customer Service called back - no, they don't have to send someone out, he will have a mattress inspected and sent out on Monday.

Sheesh!

You can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd

The photo is of the Bison Herd at Elk Island National Park, located just East of Edmonton, AB. You can actually drive through the paddock and see them up close and personal, just don't get out of your vehicle. These are massive beasts and although they look slow and docile they aren't. Especially when they have their cute babies to protect.


For those that are not familiar with it, here is the RCMP crest, it features a Bison head in the centre and way back when they were the Northwest Mounted Police, they wore Buffalo coats in the winter.

The reason I mention this is because there is a real stuffed Bison head, mounted in a plaque hanging at the landing of the stairs in the RCMP S/Div HQ office building where I used to work. That was the first time I had ever seen one up close and they are massive! I think the stairs were the standard three foot width, therefore the landing would have been 6 feet wide. The plaque only had about one foot clearance on either side and it was positioned high enough on the wall that someone six feet could walk under the head without getting knocked out. I know this because I had to walk under it and this was back when I was still able to wear three or four inch heels and did - all the time. It probably stuck out from the wall a good 2.5 - 3 feet and was about four feet from chin to the top of the head. I am guessing at the measurements as I tended to avoid that stair whenever I could and I never actually measured it.


You are probably asking "Why is she going on about Bison today?" Well, we had roast Bison for supper Monday night. Bison is very lean meat, so lean it needs to be marinated before you cook it or you wind up with shoe leather. This was a first attempt on the part of my friends to cook Bison and other than being less well cooked than is our preference for roast meat it turned out rather well. They found the recipe on the web, just picked one at random that sounded good. Next time they try it though, I think they will opt to cook it a bit longer. There are a few Bison farms in AB and they picked up the roast at the local farmers market. It is rather more expensive than beef, so it will not be something we do often, but it made a nice change.

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In other news, I got my new mattress today, it is clean this time, but there are a few pulls in the fabric on the top of the mattress, so I have to phone again and see what they will do.

So, what adventures in food have you experienced?

I feel good...na na na na na na na

The bed arrived yesterday! The guys set it up and then, well, pulled a two inch pin out of the side of the mattress! Then I noticed that it was dirty, right where the handle is. Well, it was obvious that the dirt was not new, it just came out of the plastic! The delivery guys, while not immaculate didn't appear to have dirty hands. I signed off after he wrote down that there was dirt there and they left.

I let the cat out of the bathroom, he is very afraid of everything and his hiding place is under the bed. Then I went and laid on the bed, just to reassure myself that I was right in that it was comfortable. It is - sigh! I rolled onto my side to see the cat and noticed that there was something fuzzy on the side of the bed. I tugged but it was attached, the fabric on the side of the bed has been horribly snagged. So, I start examining, there are two or three spots where it is pulled, another nasty snag and both of the handles on the other side of the bed are filthy. This is not acceptable, so off the bed, into my office (ooh, that makes my apartment sounds so big - it isn't) and I phone the store. My salesman isn't there, he is by the way the area manager, but will be in on Saturday. I explain to the fellow on the phone what is wrong and that I want a new mattress delivered post-haste! He checked to see that they had one at the warehouse and they did, and they could deliver Sunday or next Wednesday. Well, I work Sunday and need the money, so I opted for Wednesday. I also told him I wanted it examined at the warehouse before delivery and it should be immaculate. For the amount of money I'm paying - damned right it should be!

This has to have come from the manufacturer this way, so I looked at their website and they go on about how quality is their first concern and all this shite. Um, hello? How then did this mattress make it out of your facility? I of course can't examine the box spring, for one thing, I have a sleigh bed, so most of the box is hidden. Secondly, the two guys that moved it had trouble lifting them into place, there is no way, that I will be able to lift the mattress on my own to examine the box. I could barely shift it to dress the bed!

My old bed was high, regular mattress set, but the frame made it quite high, this set makes it a lot higher - 30 inches from floor to top of mattress! Good thing I am tall! The other new thing in mattress these days - they have found a way to eliminate the hard edges so you can "utilize the whole mattress area" - yeah, I can see me falling off the bed, something I have only done once in my life.

The bed is fantastic though! It is infused with the scent of green tea to help you relax. So, far I don't seem to be allergic to it so that is good. I had the door closed while the bed was unmade in order to keep the cat off and every time I opened it, wow, it smelled so good! It is not overpowering either, just a gentle smell.

I had the best nights sleep last night - hence the James Brown title. I will admit that I was very tired though, so we will see how tonight goes. I didn't wake up with pins and needles in my hands and arms or across my back and my neck feels really good too. I will be so much happier when the clean mattress arrives though. And I am the kind of person that will make them exchange it until it meets my satisfaction, I don't care what their policy says - a dirty mattress is not acceptable.

So, how about the rest of you, do you make a noise until it meets your satisfaction?

Good Afternoon All.

Oh My....How Much?

Well, I guess I won't be getting a car anytime soon!

The other night, when I couldn't sleep, I thought to myself, gee I wonder if I need a new bed? The next night I pulled out the foam mattress that my sister slept on when she came down for my chemo treatments and.... had a really good sleep. For the first time in a long time.

Well, there goes buying a car! I knew mattress sets were expensive. I started looking around on the internet to get an idea of what price I would be looking at and some idea about the newer designs and so forth. Well, one of the latest is latex filling rather than memory foam. Oh, it sounds great, hypo allergenic, which for me is important, provides all sorts of support, it is cool, it has this and that and the next thing good about it. Wow, I wouldn't mind that, I wonder what the price is? Yikes! and a foundation to go with it? Oh well, maybe in my next life, so I continue to check out other mattresses.

Now it is time to go and actually try them out, my head is stuffed with useless information, but, only my body knows if it is a good mattress or not. I had decided to head for a specialty mattress store first as I figured they would have the largest selection. That they were having a sale was a bonus.

The salesman was the kind of quick witted smart-alec that I tend to be myself, so we got along quite well. He was knowledgeable and was by no means pushy. He started me on mid-price range sets, then went lower range and then he gave me a latex pillow! Wow, those are nice! Then he showed me the latex bed! I have to admit it was the most comfortable of all of the beds - for me. It was also the most expensive that he showed me. I had indicated early on in our conversation that I couldn't afford a whole lot, so there were beds we didn't even look at.

$2400.00 plus dollars regular price for this bed! Yes, you read that right. With sales tax on top! I think the last bed I bought cost about $600.00 - yeah, it was kinda cheap, but still!

Did I mention they had a sale on? The top end one was on sale for $1400.00, the next one down on sale for $1200.00, but there had been a delivery muck up somewhere, so there was a $200.00 rebate available for the top end set. Of the other six I tried, the two that were comfortable were 900 on sale from 1200 - that was the bottom end one and 1200 from 1600, but was the more comfortable of the two. I figured as I would have spent 1200.00 anyway, why not get top of the line? My Latex bed gets delivered tomorrow - Valentines Day! The best part? If I don't like it within 60 days, I can trade it for a different bed.

I would have taken a latex pillow as well, but I cannot justify spending $500.00 on one pillow even if the 2nd one is then 1/2 price - it is just too much money. If I find I need to replace the pillows I have, I can go back in a month or whenever and still get the same deal, just by mentioning the bed purchase and can get the same on sheet sets, buy one get one 1/2 off.

All-in-all, I think I made a better deal on the bed than I would have been able to make on a car, so I will just have to suck it up and continue riding the bus for awhile longer.


This link shows how latex mattress are made and the benefits, but of course is not the brand I got.

Good Afternoon All.