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[66/366] Bed Day
Mar. 6th, 2020 11:02 pmThree months ago, I inherited a bed from someone who was moving back to Australia. When it got driven over to my house, I picked up the shameful excuse for a bed that had been in my spare room and it driven to the tip. I really had felt bad about inflicting that on people who came to stay here.
For the intervening three months, there has been no usable bed in the spare room (and the space where it should have gone inevitably filled up with stuff I wanted to donate, stuff that had no obvious home, and stuff that I was too lazy to put back where it belonged, which did not help me tackle the bed-building), and I've periodically thought "I really should do something about the beds..." But the problem was, I didn't just want to assemble this bed in the spare room: I wanted to move the one we had in our bedroom in there, and have the new bed for our everyday use. This was a much more complex project, and by definition had to start after whichever of Andrew or I got out of bed second (usually him) and be completed before either of us wanted to go to bed (usually me). Some days there aren't many hours between those two things! And of course the stakes are high: if it goes wrong at any point, I'm not sure where we'd sleep and that didn't seem fair to Andrew.
But early this week I realized a houseguest I thought was coming next wekeend was in fact coming this weekend, and I'd told her I'd have a bed for her to sleep in! So here is the moment of truth. I don't have class on Fridays, so it was determined to be Bed Day.
Thanks to heroic efforts of tidying by Andrew (the floor on his side of the bed isn't covered in comics and books to ankle depth! I feel I should take a photo of the carpet while I can see it!), his help holding bits of bed when I needed more than two hands, Em J's willingness to assemble an Ikea bed with minimal instructions, and lots of coffee, we got it all done! Even despite Day 2 of my miserable sinus headache.
I realized I both had skipped lunch and had no spoons for making diner, but luckily it's Currybeer today so I went out to be sociable, and ate so much delicious food (we went to the place that does pistachio lassi!).
Now I'm off to well-earned sleep in my new (to me) bed.
For the intervening three months, there has been no usable bed in the spare room (and the space where it should have gone inevitably filled up with stuff I wanted to donate, stuff that had no obvious home, and stuff that I was too lazy to put back where it belonged, which did not help me tackle the bed-building), and I've periodically thought "I really should do something about the beds..." But the problem was, I didn't just want to assemble this bed in the spare room: I wanted to move the one we had in our bedroom in there, and have the new bed for our everyday use. This was a much more complex project, and by definition had to start after whichever of Andrew or I got out of bed second (usually him) and be completed before either of us wanted to go to bed (usually me). Some days there aren't many hours between those two things! And of course the stakes are high: if it goes wrong at any point, I'm not sure where we'd sleep and that didn't seem fair to Andrew.
But early this week I realized a houseguest I thought was coming next wekeend was in fact coming this weekend, and I'd told her I'd have a bed for her to sleep in! So here is the moment of truth. I don't have class on Fridays, so it was determined to be Bed Day.
Thanks to heroic efforts of tidying by Andrew (the floor on his side of the bed isn't covered in comics and books to ankle depth! I feel I should take a photo of the carpet while I can see it!), his help holding bits of bed when I needed more than two hands, Em J's willingness to assemble an Ikea bed with minimal instructions, and lots of coffee, we got it all done! Even despite Day 2 of my miserable sinus headache.
I realized I both had skipped lunch and had no spoons for making diner, but luckily it's Currybeer today so I went out to be sociable, and ate so much delicious food (we went to the place that does pistachio lassi!).
Now I'm off to well-earned sleep in my new (to me) bed.