"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To speak of many things,
"Of ships and shoes and sealing wax
"And cabbages and kings..."

. . . . . . Lewis Carroll

So this post speaks of many things:

Pidge: Baby bird has lost the stripes down his head that designate him as a youngster. As with all young male budgies, he's merrily making love to anything that stands still in his cage: his mirror, his water dish, his millet clip. He leads a very full life. I bought a book on Friday called My Parakeet and Me in which the author says about seven times on one page alone that having one bird isn't healthy for the bird. Well, Mr. Pigwidgeon seems to like it.

New Storage: First thing James did this morning--with me handing him things--was to mount a new shelf in the downstairs bath. This room is pocket size--toilet, sink, and 7 inches of wall making up the back wall and then the shower under the angle of the stairs above. It has a sink with storage under it, but never quite enough. We use most of our paper towels either in that bath or upstairs 5 steps into the kitchen, but the storage for the towels was upstairs in the linen closet. We didn't mind the stair climb; it was the fact that sometimes a paper towel grab is an emergency and having to race upstairs is sometimes not quick enough. Plus the wasted space up to the ceiling annoyed me. So now there's a big wide shelf up there, big enough to hold an 8-pack of Brawny, a 12-pack of ScotTissue, plus some boxes of Kleenex and Swiffer dusters.

Eventually we need to paint in there. It is pink on the bottom and cream on the top with a border of lush pink roses on blue. I loathe pink and the pretty roses just don't match the vinyl floor, which is a country checkerboard pattern of stenciled tulips. So when window opening time comes, and Pidge is secure enough here to go upstairs for a couple of nights (I'll probably invest in the low odor paint), we can do a paint job. But the closet upstairs needs to get done first. We have a Closet Butler organizer that needs to go in our master bedroom.

A Good Night's Sleep: Unfortunately, James and I are no lightweights, so our thirteen-year-old mattress has had it kinda hard. Even a Sealy Posturepedic Firm would have trouble with our fat carcasses. Anyway, it's seemed in the last six months that it was getting more and more uncomfortable to sleep. So today we went up to The Mattress Firm and bought a new queen set. We tried out the Sealy Posturepedic Firm, and another Sealy Extra Firm, but for the same money as the latter, there was a Beautyrest Firm with the same, as James puts it, "upholstered board" feeling. Not only that, but the Beautyrest had motion buffers; when James or I lay down and the other one then got on the bed, you couldn't tell the other had gotten on. This is extremly good because James has a semi-occurring leg twitch and I'm a restless sleeper. This should help--except when I scream in the middle of the night, which happens about once a fortnight. But there's nothing the mattress can do about that.

It was about $100 more than I wanted to spend, but I also want a good night's sleep and I'm not getting it now. So we bought it. We had the opportunity to have it delivered on Monday, but since they are pushing end-of-fiscal year to this coming Tuesday this year, because of the new system going online at CDC's financial management office, I don't feel comfortable having to take time off Monday or Tuesday. So it's coming Wednesday instead.

:-) If I'd known we would actually be buying today, I wouldn't have changed the bed.

(Oh, we got a new mattress pad, coated and waterproofed on one side, terrycloth on the other, partially because if the mattress gets stained, it violates the 15-year warranty, and partially because our poor old mattress pad is about dead; it's frayed at two corners, but we didn't want to give it up because we could never find another one like it. It was felt-type fabric instead of being quilted like most mattress pads, fitted better, and didn't melt in the dryer if you forgot and put the temp on too high. It's lasted a good ten years. The new one is also hypoallergenic, which is good.)

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