Time for a bed makeover...
My quest for the perfect sleep has been a long, painful one. In college, our dorms provided these awful twin sized mattresses that were not only uncomfortable, you had no idea who slept on it before you did and what happened on that mattress. Also, due to my extreme intolerance for the cold, I had an extremely thick, queen-sized pink comforter to keep me warm. It was a sickly pink, with little bears on it and WARM printed hundreds of times across the entirety of the comforter. Those bears didn't lie, that comforter was very warm. During the rest of the seasons, I would sleep with my sleeping bag as a comforter. Besides being cheap, the other main reason I never got a regular comforter was because I had to change a dorm every school year, and I really didn't need anymore bedding stuff to weigh me down [esp with the giant pink blanket]. When I went to grad school, I spent a year on a 20 year-old, twin sized rag-coffin thing they called a mattress, which was provided for by the apartment. Again, me being a poor student and knowing I'd have to MOVE again within a year meant no comfy bed situation for me.
Finally, I graduated, got a job, and moved to somewhere more permanent. I moved into a clean, spacious apartment with fantastic amenities, and was prepared to buy the perfect bed. Alas, as a noob to a highly bureaucratic world of the government, little did I know how long it would take me before my first paycheck. [I didn't even get my job offer letter until I started work for like a month] For a whole month I slept on the carpeted floor on a thin sheet, my sleeping bag as my comforter. Again. I could have gotten an air mattress, but I downright refused by principle. I would not settle for an air mattress. If I was going to sleep on something, it was going to be either the best bed ever, or the floor.
Finally, after a month of excruciatingly correct but stiff sleep postures, I secured a bed [Tom provided much loving labor in hauling the metal framed, queen sized beauty to my apartment XD] Sick of my sleeping bag but unable to find a pretty bedset I really liked, I settled on an on sale set from bed bath and beyond. A few months later I bought the most amazing memory foam mattress topper ever known to man kinda. for less than $150.
There are very few experiences that can bring about the overwhelming happiness that flowed through me. Finally, my bed was complete.
Except.
The bed set. The more I looked at it, the less I liked it. The color was an odd olive and gold. While it made my room seem light, airy, and spring-ish all year long, it just wasn't me. I had envisioned a dark red or maroon, even ultra-violet bed set, something with flowers. I poured through Macy catalogues, Bed bath and beyond. Everything. Yet somehow my perfect bedset eluded me. So I dealt with it. The closest thing I ever got to one I kind of liked was one at Bed Bath and Beyond, but I thought it was still a little too airy and light for me. I held out, waiting and searching.
Last week, I found out that they were discontinuing the bedset I kind of liked, and I panicked. If this one sold out, I would be stuck with my green one forever!! I checked the BBB site frantically, and to my dismay, all the queen-sized bed sets were sold out. That afternoon I raced to the BBB at the nearest mall. No queen sized left. In fact, there were only 2 twins and 1 king left. I gritted my teeth and was about to buy the king sized one, knowing that I would buy king sized pillows to clog my bed if I had to, when the sales associate told me they could try to order a queen sized one for me and have it delivered to my apartment. But it's all sold out online, I moaned. The associate winked and told me to follow her. We went through the store to the side where the wedding registries were. She sat down infront of a computer and searched up my now beloved bed set, and lo and behold. There were queen-sized available, but hiding in different stores. A few clicks and confirmation of my shipping address, and I was having my beautiful bedset shipped to me in 2 weeks or less. I wanted to hug the lady.
Today, it arrived:
I would totally be switching my whole bed immediately, but I'm going clubbing tonight and I don't know if I'll have the energy to wash my hair, and I'm not about to get my new bed set icky before I get a chance to fully enjoy it. I'll update this post once I get my set on my bed.
Finally, I graduated, got a job, and moved to somewhere more permanent. I moved into a clean, spacious apartment with fantastic amenities, and was prepared to buy the perfect bed. Alas, as a noob to a highly bureaucratic world of the government, little did I know how long it would take me before my first paycheck. [I didn't even get my job offer letter until I started work for like a month] For a whole month I slept on the carpeted floor on a thin sheet, my sleeping bag as my comforter. Again. I could have gotten an air mattress, but I downright refused by principle. I would not settle for an air mattress. If I was going to sleep on something, it was going to be either the best bed ever, or the floor.
Finally, after a month of excruciatingly correct but stiff sleep postures, I secured a bed [Tom provided much loving labor in hauling the metal framed, queen sized beauty to my apartment XD] Sick of my sleeping bag but unable to find a pretty bedset I really liked, I settled on an on sale set from bed bath and beyond. A few months later I bought the most amazing memory foam mattress topper ever known to man kinda. for less than $150.
There are very few experiences that can bring about the overwhelming happiness that flowed through me. Finally, my bed was complete.
Except.
The bed set. The more I looked at it, the less I liked it. The color was an odd olive and gold. While it made my room seem light, airy, and spring-ish all year long, it just wasn't me. I had envisioned a dark red or maroon, even ultra-violet bed set, something with flowers. I poured through Macy catalogues, Bed bath and beyond. Everything. Yet somehow my perfect bedset eluded me. So I dealt with it. The closest thing I ever got to one I kind of liked was one at Bed Bath and Beyond, but I thought it was still a little too airy and light for me. I held out, waiting and searching.
Last week, I found out that they were discontinuing the bedset I kind of liked, and I panicked. If this one sold out, I would be stuck with my green one forever!! I checked the BBB site frantically, and to my dismay, all the queen-sized bed sets were sold out. That afternoon I raced to the BBB at the nearest mall. No queen sized left. In fact, there were only 2 twins and 1 king left. I gritted my teeth and was about to buy the king sized one, knowing that I would buy king sized pillows to clog my bed if I had to, when the sales associate told me they could try to order a queen sized one for me and have it delivered to my apartment. But it's all sold out online, I moaned. The associate winked and told me to follow her. We went through the store to the side where the wedding registries were. She sat down infront of a computer and searched up my now beloved bed set, and lo and behold. There were queen-sized available, but hiding in different stores. A few clicks and confirmation of my shipping address, and I was having my beautiful bedset shipped to me in 2 weeks or less. I wanted to hug the lady.
Today, it arrived:
I would totally be switching my whole bed immediately, but I'm going clubbing tonight and I don't know if I'll have the energy to wash my hair, and I'm not about to get my new bed set icky before I get a chance to fully enjoy it. I'll update this post once I get my set on my bed.
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