Catch up time

  We''re in kind of a "holding pattern" these days. Anne finished her radiation and hasn't had anything going on regarding her cancer for a couple of weeks now. She does visit the physical therapist twice a week for her back pan and it's been helping a lot.   Last Saturday we took Justus, Heather and the boys to Red Robin for lunch. We'd had a late breakfast, so she and I ate light. Anne had a chicken salad and I ordered the French onion soup with a side salad.   Then we took them to see the movie Yogi Bear. It was just as funny as I remember the cartoons; perhaps more so. The combination of live acting with modern computer generated graphics really brought Yogi and Boo-boo to life. The boys laughed throughout the movie and had a great time.

  Monday, while Anne napped, I snuck out and ran across town to a store where I'd ordered Anne's big Christmas present. After closing the deal on that I arranged for them to deliver it (since it won't fit in my car) and then scooted back home.

  Tuesday I set up Netflix on the Wii (only 7.99/mo) and watched a couple of videos. If you're interested in folk lore I can recommend Jim Henson's The Storyteller. It's a series of tales from various countries, as you can imagine, but not the same ones that everybody has heard. Also, the only "muppet" I've seen is the storyteller's dog; the rest is live acting.

  Yesterday Anne woke up with some bad pain in her lower back. (something that I can identify with!) We talked about how old our mattress is and how neither it nor the previous one had made it past their warranty periods. In fact, we've been through three of them since moving into our home 16 years ago! And these were top of the line mattresses...

  So, the decision was made to replace it. Checking with Consumer Reports we found that the best mattresses were Tempur-pedic (%60 buy again), but they were very expensive. More acceptable prices were for Original Mattress Factory (%52), Denver Mattress (%43), and Serta (%31).

  Next we looked up the highest rated stores: The Original Mattress Factory and Sleep Train were both Eastern enterprises, but Mattress Discounters had a local store fairly close to us. Looking up their web site we found that they carried the Serta and Tempur-pedic lines.

  So, we jumped in our cars and went to see them. Arriving at the store, we looked at the Serta and then went straight to the Tempur-pedic displays. Chad, our salesman, was very helpful and encouraged us to try any and all of their beds, mentioning how he couldn't believe that some people will buy one without even laying on it first. This is where you're going to spend 1/3 of your life!

  Well, after discussing the differences in construction with him between the various brands (did you know that the Sleep Number units have a %50 failure rate?) we narrowed it down to the Tempur-pedic. Although these units are the most expensive beds made, they also have a 20 year warranty! That speaks well of the quality and explains why customers are most likely to re-purchase them.

  We take delivery this afternoon. I'll send a full "review" after we actually spend a few nights sleeping on it. By the way, Chad says that when most of his customers buy a second one it's for the guest bed, instead of for themselves and putting their old set in the guest room like other mattresses!

  Bless you and yours with the spirit of love and sharing,

Don and Anne

 

 

PS

What if Jesus was born in today's tech world?

 

 

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Love is the music of life;
Compassion is its melody.
  - Don Peer ( o)==#

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