I'm Still Here

There's this lady named Laura who lives in Eastern USA, has 4 kids and bakes for a living. She's hilarious and every time I read her posts I want to be just like her. Except for the 4 kids, lack of money, broken car, sore neck and husband who's away half the time. You should check her out. Her blog is http://mylifeisapieceofcake.blogspot.ca/  and she's very funny... also an excellent photographer.

My life has been in flux. I have been learning the symptoms of menopause. Muscle pain, hot flashes, confusion, mood swings, extreme fatigue, night sweats, insomnia, gastrointestinal issues, memory loss... and that's on top of bleeding (WTF? I haven't had to deal with that for months) and cramping. The muscle pain has been very weird. I kept wondering what I'd done to cause it, (I've done very little lately...)  assuming it was the mattress... 25 years old and sagging where we laid, and it definitely got worse a month ago when I put the better of our two mattresses on our guest bed for our nephew and his wife's visit...  So I'm sure it was partially due to the mattress, but I think too that menopause played a part.

 FINALLY we got our new mattress set. It was to be delivered on March 15th, so April 5th ain't so bad. *I shake my fist at you The Bay*..

The box spring is in two pieces... that's very ingenious... and much easier to get up the stairs. The mattress has no handles, which is probably for the best as I curse the handles anyhow.. they always rip. But how are you supposed to manage the thing? It's huge and it sways and it's heavy. We just moved all the wall art, knick-knacks and tippy furniture between the front door and our bedroom and things went so smoothly we barely argued!

I had a great sleep last night. Not the actual sleeping so much, but the muscle part. No back ache when I woke up this morning, for the first time in a year (psychosomatic... I think so!). I wonder though why my arms still fell asleep. I really felt that they should sink into the pillow top and not have their circulation cut off by my body, but they did. And we're now so high up that I can't see my alarm clock, and I can see everything outside, and I'm about 6 inches closer to the beam on our ceiling that gives me nightmares every time I wake up and see it looming above me. And the moon shone in my eyes and kept waking me... I think I'll sleep well tonight because I'm exhausted from last night, and I was outside so much today I got my first face sunburn, plus I was active and now I'm really tired from that.

This was us yesterday. I started off the day by washing and line drying the bed skirt, sheets, mattress protector, and duvet cover, and machine drying the duvet and feather pillows (don't EVER spend your money on dry cleaning duvets or feather pillows... ask me how it's done!!). Then we drove an hour and a half to Trail to pick up our mattress set, drove home, carried it up the stairs and put everything back to rights. I wanted to post this pic on Facebook yesterday but was appalled at how big my gut is and how you can barely see Norm beside me. But today I figure, meh. It's funny. This is me. Tired. Fat. Loving my new mattress set. Hating my menopause. The saga continues...