Okay I have ordered a Mattress Topper. Was going to get one from Ikea, where I bought my Sultan Mattress, but I opted for Costco instead. I like the descriptions better. And doesn’t Ikea know that your online presence is critical? Information, people!

I even found a blog that has a review of it, it’s the Novaform Choices Topper. He likes it, I hope I will like it. I like this part of his review:

It converted my super hard mattress into a marshmallow.

That is what I’m hoping for, for my aching back and neck! Now I’m going to go sit on the couch with a heating pad and be a bum.

Well, not only does my neck hurt now.. and yeah, I’m still cracking it and it’s still hurting, and I forget to stop which, I’m sure, makes it worse.

But now my lower back hurts, too. Maybe my mattress is too firm. I recently bought a foam mattress and I bought a firm one, and now I’m thinking I really need to get a less firm one. I really don’t know. I guess I should go to a real mattress store and ask someone that knows something, instead of just reading on the internet. Or, I should read more, instead of just assuming and buying.

Anyway… is your mattress firm or soft?

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When Size 8 is too big, is a very good day! I went shopping yesterday… to one of my favorite stores, Kirkhams, thanks to my Husband and my Sister at Christmas. I bought new pants and a couple shirts, and even shoes for agility, and I even had some money left over on the gift cards! Thanks so much!

I like to shop in the spring and the fall. Not much the rest of the year… but I gotta get new spring clothes. And I got a new spring haircut, too. Hopefully I’ll get a pic of me up soon.

So I grab the size 12 pants… too big. Size 10… still too big. Size 8? Well, yup, they fit in the store. I love them.. take them home, wear them… and now today at work they are a bit loose! LOL I love loose clothes. Makes me feel skinny even though I have gained a couple of pounds back in the last couple of weeks.

Dreading the time change for Tuesday which is my first work day of the week… I went home last night, settled in, played with HDMI switches on my HDTV, and then went to bed. And this morning.. yup, I was miserable. It’s gonna take me 2 or so weeks to adjust. Ugh.

Okay I think I’m catching up on sleep now. Man… these big weekends really take a lot out of me. I was hoping to take the boys jogging today, take my lunch when I work from home and do so, but I was just too dead tired. But sitting around for the last couple of days, and sleeping good for the last couple of nights, has helped a lot.

Now I’m settling back into my routine, I need to clean my house this weekend and wash up the bathroom vanities. The Husband has been vacuuming and, fun of fun, picking up dog poop in the yard. He is such a good guy!

I really am not very motivated to work lately… I’d rather play. But that’s really nothing new. We are going to be upgrading our hardware at work and I’m testing out some scripts and making sure they run on the new box. So far, so good, and I’m learning a lot in the process.

Well I’ve not taken any Trazodone for.. what.. four days now? Five? Maybe three? LOL I’ll have to look at my blog to find out because I have a rotten memory.

And while I feel lighter and my temperature feels cooler, my head still hurts quite a bit and I’ve been grumpy as hell for the last couple of days. Am I going through withdrawals? Maybe I shouldn’t have stopped cold turkey. Maybe I should go do some research about it on the internet. Hrm.. Maybe I should have done this a few days ago.

I have a low level anger, but it’s nothing like before I was on the Sertraline (I’m still on that, btw). But at the same time I don’t really care much about things. I can stare out the window and watch the clouds, which I love to do, and have the day pass more slowly, which I also love. I try to grab every minute of every day as it comes, because time just goes by way too fast anymore.

So I do feel better. If only my head would stop feeling like it’s 3 times the size it’s supposed to be. And I’m still tired, though not as badly as I was before. It’s 4:33 pm.. too late in the afternoon to take a nap? Maybe not. Maybe I will take a nap. I took one yesterday, and I felt better. I just love naps.

EDIT: Well, from the web, some places say Trazodone is not addictive and so you can’t have withdrawals. But many people seem to have withdrawals anyway. So I’m going to say yup, I’m having withdrawals from Trazodone and call it good. And I only stopped on the 22nd of Feb, so that’s only three days ago. The days have been going by so nice and slowly, and I am very happy with that!

Hopefully by this next weekend I’ll feel better.

I went to bed last night and I’d forgotten to take my Trazodone to help me sleep. Well I was tired anyway so I decided I’d see if I could skip it. I think I have been taking them since before September to help me sleep, because the Sertraline was making it hard for me to sleep. And I am paranoid about getting enough sleep. It’s one of those fears that I have, that I won’t get enough sleep.

Fortunately I feel asleep just fine and slept most of the night. I did wake up about 3am but I felt pretty good so just laid there and after a while I fell back asleep again snuggled with all the dogs on the bed (three now, including Muffit).

When I woke up I felt refreshed and good. And it made me think. Are all my problems being caused by the Trazodone? I feel so much better today… I haven’t felt this light and airy in months now. My neck is still kinked, but my nose feels more clear and my throat less scratchy.

So I’m going to stay off the Trazodone for a few days and see how it works. I’m afraid of not being able to sleep, but heck it’s the weekend so it won’t be a big deal if I’m tired. I hate being tired during the day. In fact, I’m quite nervous about it. I hate feeling bad. Hate it hate it! But then I’ve felt bad for some months now so maybe, just maybe, this will perk me up. It’s something I should have thought of months ago.. but my sleep is so important I don’t want to mess it up!

Is it Friday yet? No? Oh man… it really should be. This week has been a holiday week and so I’m all messed up. Though yesterday, Wednesday, I was lucky enough to take the boys jogging, take a bath, then take a nap (it’s strange using the word ‘take’ for all those activities). And get a couple hours of work in. I wasn’t feeling well yesterday, I think because I was still tired from the agility trial, and then I went jogging. And on Tuesday I lifted weights during my work exercise time. I haven’t done that in a while and my chest muscles are very sore today. I will do my other set tomorrow.

I want to get back into better shape… for agility, flyball, and the cruise. And the boys really need to do more jogging and exercising. Even Chase is out of shape. So, even if I just don’t feel like it I have to go jogging anyway!

I am just so tired today I could curl up and take a long, deep nap. Maybe because of a big lunch. But I still don’t feel all too well. My neck still has so much pressure and cracks. My throat is scratchy, my nose is almost stuffy.. it’s enough to annoy me, not enough for me to really do something about it. But I’m getting closer to doing something about it.

Maybe I need a plasma lift to carry me around work so I don’t have to walk.. then I could take a snooze on it too.

Almost time to go home for the day, yay!

Wow, so it’s 2008. 2007 sure went by fast. I went to bed at 11pm last night. Should have gone sooner but was working on the VPS. Woke up around 7:30. The dogs don’t like to sleep later than that, and I really am not able to sleep past about that anymore. Though I think after I retire my schedule will go later, I’ll start staying up later again and getting up later. I do love my 9 hours of sleep a night.

Anyway, it’s 9.5 degrees outside. Going to meet a friend from flyball at the dog park at 10am. Will be fun. I love Tanner park. Then gonna work on the VPS more while the dogs sleep from being warn out at the park.

So…

Happy New Year!

Well, sitting here at the laptop with the TV on, figuring out my new VPS server, and it’s 7:41 pm. It really, really feels like it should be about noon.

Granted I took a two hour nap today. I love naps. Might have only been an hour and a half but still, a nap is a nap. Today is a down day for me. I love down days! I bathed all six dogs.. that was a project. We think we might still have some kind of bug because I have been bitten again. Ugh. I hate bites.

Time goes by so fast… that, more than anything, bothers me. Things that make the time go by faster are naps (lol), and being on the computer. Which I have been most of the day.

Things that make time go slow… one of them is camping. I love camping. Can’t go now, too cold with a foot of snow outside, too. But still. We like our trailer, it is a step up from our canvas tent. The trailer has a heater.

Okay back to VPS setup…

And here it is! My new mattress and bed frame! Oh.. I do so love Ikea. They have such nice furniture and it can be so inexpensive. Of course you can spend as much as you want. Which is, in my case, not very much at all.

This is a foam mattress and it was the cheapest queen size foam mattress at $250.00. The frame was also the cheapest frame I could find, at $99. Then it needs a slatted support underneath, for $50, which still wasn’t too bad. The sheets here $9 per sheet.

And look how nice it is. Already my neck is feeling better, and I’m not getting bitten. And we have a mattress cover on order, by mail, that should be here by next Tuesday. Water proof so if the dogs pee, on purpose or on accident, it won’t get into the mattress.

I put the thing together on Wednesday afternoon. The maids didn’t end up coming, they were too busy and had car trouble. That’s okay, though. My husband said I should just use the darn bed, since I bought it. And I really am loving it. And I’m liking being off the ground. The mattress used to just be on the ground and that bugged me. Literally! LOL. This one is fairly short, which I like best, and Angle can still get on with no problems.

I want to go back to bed!