This Is Me Maria

When we moved into the first home we bought, we went to the mattress store and bought a new bed. A very comfy king sized bed. Both kids slept in it with us when they were babies.

When we moved here we decided that since we have this big house, the kids should work on sleeping in their own rooms and their own beds.

Occasionally we used to all take a nap together or watch a movie on our big bed though. I actually bent Chris’s arm backwards in one of our many wrestling matches on the big bed.

In the some what recent past, Chris got rid of the big bed and got us new beds. Yes bed(s). Two twin sized Sleep Number beds that also do the whole sitting up and massage thing. The Sleep Number people told him that the beds would not come apart. They were right, the bolted frame does not come apart. Although they are on wheels so the bed moves around…

However in between our two mattresses is a giant canyon. No matter what, it is always there. The four of us can no longer just comfortably laze around together. I always end up in the giant canyon, which is even worse for my back than our old mattress.

Heck the two of us can’t even sleep right next to each other. My favorite place in the whole world used to be L of Chris’s arm. No more though because it is reminiscent of high school college trying squeeze onto his tiny bed.

If you have ever shopped for a Sleep Number bed, you know that we will have to keep these beds for the rest of our married lives. It is great the beds are so comfy, I never want to get out of my bed on the weekend and I don’t wake up in pain anymore. In some ways though these beds have ruined my life. I was deeply devastated when we first started sleeping in them because of the giant canyon between us. My bed is so comfortable though anymore I can just lay in it and sleep away my anguish forever.

I really just want to lay around with my family on our bed. Watch a movie or listen to the silly jokes my kids tell. Of course we can do this anywhere but it was our own little family thing to just laze around in bed. These beds were not made for families.

If you are thinking of getting a new bed, don’t do it! You never know what kind of disaster you could bring to your life by purchasing a new bed. Just keep your big old bed. Buy some new sheets for it.

My eye doctor lady told me that my retina was thinning several weeks ago. In just the past week or so though I’ve had difficulty reading normal size text. At work I use two large monitors and a very low resolution. I’ve finally given in on my tiny laptop at home and now everything on my tiny 13″ wide screen laptop is huge too.

Here is a screen shot of my view. I still refuse to get LASIK though, even if I am a candidate. I am chicken shit.

Notice how I only have room for one or two open windows in my start bar. It does that stupid pile thing with only a couple windows open.

Today (at work too) I had to stop using the tree style tabs because they are just too difficult to see where one tab stopped and the next started. It would be nice if I could adjust their height.

I am considering hooking my laptop up to my television so that I’ll have a bigger monitor until I am ready to get a bigger laptop (i.e. get me a big ole Macbook Pro because my husband’s giant Vista laptop is practically useless unless I disable anything that even resembles virus protection so the thing may as well be a huge wad of toilet paper). June 30th is sneaking up on me… /rant.

The only other people I know whose screen res is this low are people in their 50’s… this is so sad. LOL.

*I almost published this post as a page. Apparently I can’t read now either.