Look ma, I have windows!
This above is my make-shift bedroom setup, I'm sitting on the bed writing this, sipping out of a coconut right now. I never thought I would be caught dead with this sort of IKEA over-the-bed hospital table, but I broke down and bought it last weekend, and it has been oh so useful when I want to just lie in bed like a zombie and watch Netflix in bed after a long-long-long day of work.
The biggest project for my new apartment I need to tackle is definitely the bed.
I find it very hard to get a good night's sleep on a regular spring mattress when my joints are unhappy, because the springs push back on the joints and create painful and/or uncomfortable pressure points and I end up tossing and turning all night trying to get comfortable.
I've been thinking I want to get a memory foam bed, but am a little concerned about the price and a few bad rep. But mostly about the price. (I've had a couple of good night's experience sleeping on a Tempur-pedic before, it felt really comfortable on my joints)
After long hours in front of computer, (most of them spent at the "Mattress Underground") I am thinking perhaps I should go with a regular (somewhat inexpensive) mattress and a quality (=expensive) memory foam topper, but am still trying to decide exactly what I should get; I've been trying to decide for so many months now!
There's no way I can afford Tempur-pedic unless I do some kind of payment plan (Sleepy's will apparently do one for a year interest-free), but I can't be sure if that mattress will last me long enough for it to be worth it. I might go for a less expensive knock-offs, but the judge is still out on that.
The quest for a good night's sleep feels a lot like the quest for a healthy lifestyle or eating healthy food: Everyone secretly knows or wishes they can do better but we're all so confounded by the whole jacked-up system, we don't really know what to do, and we end up paying dearly for it later.
