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Update
Time for an update?
I feel like it is almost too overwelming to sit down and write here. Maybe it's the idea that the day to day hasn't changed much, and it feels like an "update" is just that the same things continue on. Still alive.
So there is that, I suppose. Still alive. So are we all. Managing reasonably well I think. Not without our bouts of depression and anxiety, but all things considered, we do seem to be moving.
If the rest of things haven't changed a lot, the physical world is changing.. if just for the seasons. We're in a cold snap these last days or so and got our first freeze of the season. At the least, that means the garden is changing, and the prep work to winter is underway.
We've been working on thoughts towards the coming holidays and how we plan to manage things. I don't know that a whole lot is changing, but it does mean some distant family won't be visiting the house. I think thoughts towards how we'll spend some of that time gives us motivation to disengage from the dumpster fire for a little bit and feel like we have some good things to look forward to.
I think since the last time I wrote, I had the pleasure of helping S get buried in the fun of fountain pens and ink. it's a fun obsession and she's really been having fun with it. I'm still plugging along with some handwritten journaling. I need to break out that pen-pal list I had and get some short notes out. Motivation! Energy! what are these things? :-)
My ongoing escape from the world continues to be Minecraft. We've developed a bit of a craze of rehabilitating villages. Not sure what it is about our seeds, but it is remarkable how horrible they are to villages in the game. From huge sinkholes to water traps and houses spread across chasms and great heights. It's ridiculous. So part of the fun has been doing protection duty to fortify the area and make it villager-friendly again. and along with that goes building out transportation systems between areas to make it easier for us to move materials or to even import and export villagers as needed. Been learning more about the nether in this regard whch has been fun. I think one of the next plans will be to start bulding out some monuments or some other large group project. We had a non-monster server that we did great things in, but I think we all enjoy the challenge of working with monsters, but we haven't moved over the crazy bulding yet. Soon, I think. :-)
Recently sprung for a Purple mattress. I had been saving up for a good long while, and decided that even though I wasn't going to go to a showroom to test it out, that I could depend on the guarantee if I decided I really didn't like it. So I pulled the trigger. So far, it's been really great and not just for me, but my partners as well. It really is a different experience, and my back hasn't yet fully adjusted, but it is getting slowly better. My old mattress was just really not doing it, and my back was getting worse and worse. So anything to improve it has been wonderful. I'd definitely recommend them if you aren't bound to a super hard mattress. The gel is really nice once you get used to it, and sleep has been better.
Work is work. And it seems worth leaving it at that.
Not a lot more to add right now, but I'm here. I'm reading and trying to comment occasionally. :-)
hope you all are staying safe and well.
I feel like it is almost too overwelming to sit down and write here. Maybe it's the idea that the day to day hasn't changed much, and it feels like an "update" is just that the same things continue on. Still alive.
So there is that, I suppose. Still alive. So are we all. Managing reasonably well I think. Not without our bouts of depression and anxiety, but all things considered, we do seem to be moving.
If the rest of things haven't changed a lot, the physical world is changing.. if just for the seasons. We're in a cold snap these last days or so and got our first freeze of the season. At the least, that means the garden is changing, and the prep work to winter is underway.
We've been working on thoughts towards the coming holidays and how we plan to manage things. I don't know that a whole lot is changing, but it does mean some distant family won't be visiting the house. I think thoughts towards how we'll spend some of that time gives us motivation to disengage from the dumpster fire for a little bit and feel like we have some good things to look forward to.
I think since the last time I wrote, I had the pleasure of helping S get buried in the fun of fountain pens and ink. it's a fun obsession and she's really been having fun with it. I'm still plugging along with some handwritten journaling. I need to break out that pen-pal list I had and get some short notes out. Motivation! Energy! what are these things? :-)
My ongoing escape from the world continues to be Minecraft. We've developed a bit of a craze of rehabilitating villages. Not sure what it is about our seeds, but it is remarkable how horrible they are to villages in the game. From huge sinkholes to water traps and houses spread across chasms and great heights. It's ridiculous. So part of the fun has been doing protection duty to fortify the area and make it villager-friendly again. and along with that goes building out transportation systems between areas to make it easier for us to move materials or to even import and export villagers as needed. Been learning more about the nether in this regard whch has been fun. I think one of the next plans will be to start bulding out some monuments or some other large group project. We had a non-monster server that we did great things in, but I think we all enjoy the challenge of working with monsters, but we haven't moved over the crazy bulding yet. Soon, I think. :-)
Recently sprung for a Purple mattress. I had been saving up for a good long while, and decided that even though I wasn't going to go to a showroom to test it out, that I could depend on the guarantee if I decided I really didn't like it. So I pulled the trigger. So far, it's been really great and not just for me, but my partners as well. It really is a different experience, and my back hasn't yet fully adjusted, but it is getting slowly better. My old mattress was just really not doing it, and my back was getting worse and worse. So anything to improve it has been wonderful. I'd definitely recommend them if you aren't bound to a super hard mattress. The gel is really nice once you get used to it, and sleep has been better.
Work is work. And it seems worth leaving it at that.
Not a lot more to add right now, but I'm here. I'm reading and trying to comment occasionally. :-)
hope you all are staying safe and well.
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I tried a Nectar mattress and Just. Got. Too. Hot. (I'm of an age where that is a problem. The ideal room temperature for me to sleep well is about 60F)
Is the Purple too hard, too soft? What do you find is so different?
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Purple is just different. It is a gel matrix. We joke that it 's like sleeping on jello. I got the hybrid 4, which means it has 4 inches of this gel matrix sitting on top of pocketed spring coils. It adjusts immediately to your form and your curves and leaves you feeling like you're floating. I took very specific note of my old mattress and the pressure points I felt where my hips and shoulders and such pressed against the mattress, and with Purple, you don't feel that at all. And unlike memory foam that takes a few seconds to adjust to your shape, the Purple just takes you. This is good if you tend to shift from side to side or back to side because you don't feel the bed take its time to adjust to your change. Purple just goes.
For me, I just like a mattress that helps keep me well aligned. My back and my neck and shoulders apprecate me much more when I get that. So for general mattresses, the thought has always been something in the middle range, or at least if firm, with a nice soft memory foam topper which is what I had before.
Purple also offers seat cushions and back rests and since they offered a deal for a set along with the mattress, I also picked those up. They have made my office chair much more comfortable for long sits.