I have a new mattress. It's fantastic and phenomenal and cozy and wonderful and soft yet supportive, and a thousand other adjectives. I've hated the mattress that Jason and I shared since, oh, the day we started sharing it. I've bitched and moaned repeatedly, but since he loved it, it stayed. When we decided to divorce and split up our stuff, the mattress set was the first thing I mentioned because I didn't want to get stuck with it. Last week, I hijacked my plans with Donald to see a movie, and instead dragged him with me to help me pick out a mattress. Do you have any idea how hard it is to pick out a mattress? We went to four places. One was closed, one had no mattresses (but had them on their website. Um ok?) and one was seriously overpriced. We ended up at JC Penney during the last half hour of some great sale. After trying, literally, every mattress they offered, I settled on a Sealy something-or-other that had a pillow top and made me feel like I was melting into bed. They had a great financing deal, and I got an additional 10% off just because it was the last day. It worked out quite well!

They delivered and set it up for me Wednesday, and I was overjoyed at it's arrival! However, the sheets for the old crappy mattress don't fit the new super foobah mattress, so I had to shop. Again. And so I hijacked my movie plans with Donald. Again. (This time it was his idea, though, so I don't feel AS bad.) I found a comforter/bed skirt/pillow sham set at Mervyn's that I adore, as well as a matching decorative pillow. Donald picked out a couple coordinating pillows as well, but we couldn't find any sheet sets that matched and were also affordable. (Sidenote: Why are sheets so bloody expensive? They're just sheets! Even the 200 thread count stuff was expensive!) So my old sheets are currently stretched out like crazy over the new mattress. It's truly a temporary fix, and I'm hoping to find a solution this weekend.

The mattress, even with it's misfitted sheets, is glorious. I love it. I was 30 minutes late to work on Thursday, simply because I didn't want to get out of bed. I realize that's not a good thing, but it was only one day. And they never expect me to be on time anyhow. The only negative thing about the mattress is its height. It's perfectly fine for me, but poor little Mia can't get on to it. The old mattress was lower, and she still needed the aid of stairs to get on it. The new one is MUCH higher, and even with her stairs, she has a hard time doing it. It's possible, but more often than not, she falls off on her first attempt. I don't want her to get hurt, so I need to find an alternative solution. She jumps off with no problem, but I worry about the height she's jumping from. One wrong landing, and she could break her leg! The complicated part is that I have a Cal King sized bed in a very small apartment bedroom. There isn't a ton of room to put a ramp or more stairs in for her. So if anyone has any ideas, please let me know!