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Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

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  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Yep, I think I'll be looking after this one really carefully - I spent enough on it _pale_:rotfl:

    Taxi - I didn't know you could get mattresses with summer and winter sides either - they didn't say anything about that in the shop :rotfl:

    And Hypno is right, little things make all the difference - new (3 month old) bedding on the new mattress, 20 more pages scanned and thrown out, my Egyptology Association rejoined, some old, chipped pasta bowls thrown out and some new half price ones bought - creamy white, from Sainsbo, £10 reduced to £5. V nice.



    EDIT - mind you, I'm so tired I can hardly see the laptop screen .... night night.
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Kittikins
    Kittikins Posts: 5,335 Forumite
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    Sweet dreams, enjoy the new mattress, when I got mine a few years ago, I felt like the princess from the princess and the pea :)
  • Love the idea of a winter and summer side to the mattress. It makes such a difference to your sleep pattern if you are comfortable, nothing better than clean bedding (new is better) and a comfy mattress. Nothing worse if you spend half the night tossing and turning, and fighting to stop pillows and duvet disappearing off the edge of the bed.
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  • turfy6
    turfy6 Posts: 1,479 Forumite
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    Hope you had a lovely sleep on the new mattress nothing like a clean new bed. Have a good day.
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  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    You're right! I didn't sleep particularly well - stayed up too long again, bad me, but I'm still raring to go :) Going to be out of the house most of the day tho, as I'm visiting colleague back in the town I used to live in, so I'm trying to do as much else as I can - another cheapo lampshade from Wilko to match the ones I have, collecting the washbasin from the shop, buying a bulb for the kitchen that bust the other day, that sort of thing. And I'm running about in here trying to make the rooms I occupy nicer - I have a friend coming down on Saturday, need to get those rooms sorted :) And I'd better do a few surveys before they take me off the list :)
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • Sounds like it was a good day all round :) Hope today is good too!
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  • MrsMoo2U
    MrsMoo2U Posts: 4,005 Forumite
    Hey KC. just catching up. A word on the mattress, I paid over £1000 for my bed (I Know it is still the most expensive thing I ever bought after my car) and that was in 1993! I still have it, I hoover it, turn it, steam clean it once a year, and I still love it and get a good nights sleep. Whenever any friends stay, I give up my room and they always comment on how lovely the bed is. In my opinion it is money well spent. I know that they say you should change your mattress often but as long as I am comfortable I am not taking any chances :)

    Sounds like you are being very happy in all your nesting there. It is lovely to read your diary and feel the happy, cheeriness of everyday stuff coming across. Have a great day.
    Some days there aren't any trumpets, just lots of dragons. Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow -- Mary Anne Radmacher
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
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    Thank you both! Cherisong, what a lovely thing to say! I do feel so much happier here - looking out of the kitchen window, for instance (even tho I haven't cleaned it yet, lol).

    At the moment, I'm multitasking, but it doesn't feel bad - I was thinking about how to use the storage space I have, especially by Saturday when my friend gets here, and I realised - the wooden frame of the platform bed I had, I intend that to be the sides of a kitchen garden bed. But it was still taking up space sitting in the wardrobe, because it was a *bed*! So its gone to the kitchen, and later this afternoon, it'll go out to the shed. So now the wardrobe is streamlined. And there's a pantry-type affair thats very bitty, because I'm in and out of there all the time with the painting - no time to do it all, but I pulled everything off one shelf - I'll clean that (that hasn't been cleaned since I moved in either!) and then put things back in a more efficient way, that'll let me store more stuff in there but still be accessible. Of such things are leaps forward made ........
    2023: the year I get to buy a car
  • rtandon27
    rtandon27 Posts: 6,070 Forumite
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    Good Morning Karma:

    You do sound so much more at peace with life!

    If fact just catching up on your diary has produced a nice warm fuzzy feeling which is going to make this morning a whole lot easier!:D

    Have a loverly day & do post details of the new (enviro?) loo!

    xo
    RT
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  • taxi73
    taxi73 Posts: 20,815 Forumite
    rtandon27 wrote: »
    Good Morning Karma:

    You do sound so much more at peace with life!

    If fact just catching up on your diary has produced a nice warm fuzzy feeling which is going to make this morning a whole lot easier!:D

    Have a loverly day & do post details of the new (enviro?) loo!

    xo
    RT

    totally agree with the above..the change in you is amazing.

    have a great day
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