After two months of sleeping on an air mattress, we officially have a brand new real mattress!
I am so freakin’ excited to go to sleep tonight! (And yes, we still need real bedding and bigger pillows. I’m on it!)
Our mattress was delivered late this afternoon and while I was working in my home office, unbeknownst to me, Sadie decided to break it in.
What a total turd.
Luckily we purchased a mattress protector that I immediately put on top of Sadie’s fluff patches before putting our new sheets on the bed.
Sadie doesn’t normally dig, so I don’t know what her deal was with the mattress. I reminded her that she is not a hamster and does not need to make herself a little nest out of fluff.
Random hamster story: When I was a little girl in high school, I had a pet hamster named Harold. One time my friend Michaela and I went to give him a bath in the sink because we thought he needed a little freshening up.
The craziest squeak/grunt came out of that little guy! Apparently hamsters are not meant to be bathed. To this day, whenever I smell Suave strawberry shampoo, I think of Harold the grunting hamster.
Dinner
Dinner tonight was a team effort.
Ryan made us burgers on the grill while I roasted butternut squash.
We served our burgers on whole wheat English muffins because we didn’t want to buy a whole pack of hamburger buns for only two burgers. Frugality, my friends.
And now for something FUN!
Upcoming Giveaway Details
Earlier this week I was contacted by BRAVO TV about an absolutely amazing giveaway opportunity for you guys… a chance to win a KITCHENAID MIXER!
I’ll be sure to post more details tomorrow, but in order to have a chance at winning the mixer, you might want to tune into the season finale of Top Chef: Just Desserts this evening and jot down the answers to these trivia questions:
- What was a special moment in Johnny’s life that he still treasures till this day?
- Who from Sally’s life inspired her final dessert display?
- “The word of the day is_____,” according to Gail Simmons.
- The winner of the second season of Top Chef Just Desserts is ______?
Keep them a secret until tomorrow and I promise they’ll come in handy! 
Enjoy your night, friends! See ya in the morning after a hopefully great night’s sleep on our new mattress!
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Two months on an air mattress?? I bet you had the best sleep ever last night!
That bed looks massive!! I bet you had an awesome night’s sleep on it 🙂 I miss my own bed.. renting in London means you get whatever you are renting!
I don’t know how you survived on an air mattress for that long! I hate sleeping on one for even a night or a weekend. Hah! I bet you slept like a baby!
Isn’t that a terrible feeling to walk into your room and see that? My 1-year old beagle/lab mix just did something similar to our foam mattress pad. You can check out my post about it here:
http://www.karatenurse.com/2011/10/quiet-up-to-no-good.html
I was speechless!
oh noooo!
Hooray for a real mattress!! Once, we were staying with some family, and I slept on a brand new air mattress…..with a leak. Woke up in the middle of the night with the mattress half-empty, my butt on the floor, and, because it was almost empty, the rest of the mattress was around me like a burrito. Awesome.
OMG! I have to have the mixer. Ok, I already have one. But its not red. And the Top Chef finale is on the DVR so I might have to watch it without DH knowing so I can answer the questions.
LOVE Butternut squash. And the burgers look good. Sadie looks very sorry for what she did.
The Kidless Kronicles
congrats on the mattress! before my husband and i got married, he moved to our apartment for a job. we hadn’t bought a bed yet so he slept on an air mattress for about 6 wks…it about killed him. he hated it. way to go! 🙂
Lol! Oh no! 😛 At least the mattress was salvageable…Sadie looks so cute in that photo…ditto to the hamster!
We looked after the class hamster when I was younger during one school holiday….and our yorkshire terrier knowcked the cage over and killed it. Not good! 😛
I actually don’t remember if my Mum secretly replaced the hamster, or if we told the school, lol! Yep, Fifi (my then-woof) shamed herself too.
Those burgers and squash look delicious. So fresh and healthy! <3 xyx
Hi, i’m thinking about getting a new mattress, what type did you get?
Mmmm, dinner looks ace. Ya know, you still can’t get wholewheat English muffins in England. Odd right?
I had a hamster who could get itself out of its cage. He kind of ran wild around my house for months at a time. He also wasn’t very nice. When he died, I told my mom that I wasn’t very sad.
Using english muffins is SUCH a good idea!
Great mattress you have now! You’ll be sleeping like a baby!
Great mattress!Wish you sleep better and better.