Doug comes home tomorrow :-)
++ When you eat tater tots every night for 5 days you get REALLY sick of them AND you get alot of heart burn. I bought a bag and had to eat them ALL before he came home so he wouldn't know I was eating something so UNHEALTHY. ++ No matter how much you talk to them the dogs don't ever talk back to you. ++ Men really do ask to talk to "the dog" on the phone. ++ A double bed that is really too small for two six foot people gets REALLY BIG when you are alone. ++ Having all that free time to so what ever you want isn't really so much fun when you are alone.  He's going to be home tomorrow  |
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Tasker's Mom wrote: ++ A double bed that is really too small for two six foot people gets REALLY BIG when you are alone.
I have a king size mattress that's only 4 years old that MUST be out of my house before Aug 19. Want to drive to Chicago??? |
| I'm so excited for you! I love how distance CAN make the heart grow fonder - but being together keeps it that way!!!! |
What do you mean dogs can't talk back?  Call me and I'll put you on the phone with London - she talks back constantly! If you talk to the boys they will probably beg you to take her away. |
Tasker's Mom wrote: ++ A double bed that is really too small for two six foot people gets REALLY BIG when you are alone.
a sad lesson i learned after my breakup.... but yeah. It's nice when someone comes home....my parents went on vacation recently, when they got back i was elated. hope you have some fun with him! |
Poor Ed, your special someone is out the SOMEWHERE  |
Tasker's Mom wrote: Poor Ed, your special someone is out the SOMEWHERE
might have picked her up on radar, i'll let you know saturday  |
I always miss Jason when he's gone too. Glad Doug is coming back home tommorrow.  |
How in the heck-- well I guess the better question would be is why would you want to sleep in a double bed? Step it up woman! once you go big, you'll never go back.  |
ButtersStotch wrote: How in the heck-- well I guess the better question would be is why would you want to sleep in a double bed? Step it up woman! once you go big, you'll never go back.
My thoughts exactly. And I'm not even 6 ft. I can relate because my Hubby is out of town too. Is that the real reason you had a bad week? Him being gone that is. Not the double bed.
My sheepies have no trouble communicating especially when they want a cookie or to go outside for the 500th time. |
ButtersStotch wrote: How in the heck-- well I guess the better question would be is why would you want to sleep in a double bed? Step it up woman! once you go big, you'll never go back.
I know I know we need a bigger bed. There are two problems with that. Our bedroom is VERY small, a bigger bed would fit but there wouldn't be much room for anything else. The second problem is bigger, so to speak, my bed is an antique four poster that belonged to my great grandmother. It has a massive headboard and large posts, I love it. If we got a bigger bed I'd have to get rid of it
Doug'll be home tonight |
Tasker's Mom wrote: ButtersStotch wrote: How in the heck-- well I guess the better question would be is why would you want to sleep in a double bed? Step it up woman! once you go big, you'll never go back. I know I know we need a bigger bed. There are two problems with that. Our bedroom is VERY small, a bigger bed would fit but there wouldn't be much room for anything else. The second problem is bigger, so to speak, my bed is an antique four poster that belonged to my great grandmother. It has a massive headboard and large posts, I love it. If we got a bigger bed I'd have to get rid of it Doug'll be home tonight That's about our situation too. We have a double bed too, and nearly always 4 people and Joy in it, lol The kiddos end up coming into our room in the middle of the night, and it's just easier to let them sleep with us than to have them cry for about a hour because we take them back to their rooms. |
| Gail, HOW WELL I REMEMBER THOSE Days!!!!! |
| Ginny, you, the cardiac nurse, ate Tater Tots 5 times????? I'm jealous. Did you put melted Cheeze Whiz on them?
My ex-husband traveled a lot, usually for at least a week at a time. The house always felt empty without him. If the dogs won't talk back, get a stuffed animal (or 2 or 3) and talk to them. Mine always talk (usually in my voice though). |
It's 8:46 a.m. EDT, Ginny. How many more hours??  |
| 9 hours and 15 minutes as long as none of the flights get delayed!!
When he called last night I told him I'd make him a nice dinner tonight, he said that was good as long as it wasn't steak!!!!!!!!!! Apparently he's been wined and dined all week and sick of steak. IMAGINE!!!! I'll fix him, I'll make tuna noodle caserole!!!!!!! |
| Awww...missing your man!
Ginny, can you have the four poster bed altered? Like extended or something? I've seen similar things done before, like adding some 2x4s... |
barney1 wrote: Awww...missing your man!
Ginny, can you have the four poster bed altered? Like extended or something? I've seen similar things done before, like adding some 2x4s... I actually was wondering the same thing, I stood there looking at it the other night wondering. The problem is that there is a foot board and headbord that are pretty massive and it would take someone really talented to do it. I actually already had it altered. The original bed had 10 foot posts and I was never able to use it. The bed was in storage for over 30 years. When I got divorced years ago I thought to heck with it, and had the posts cut down. My Mother was appalled becasue of course it destroyed the value of the bed but I thought "what's the point of having something you can't use"! |
| I wonder if you could even just have the platform on the bottom extended a bit to fit a queen size bed, cause that would still be much better than a double! Like almost just last a piece of plywood on the bottom to fit a queen mattress. That way the bed will be bigger, but not so much bigger than the posts to make it look weird...maybe... |
So absence really DOES make the heart grow fonder, huh?? 
Enjoy your reunion! |
barney1 wrote: I wonder if you could even just have the platform on the bottom extended a bit to fit a queen size bed, cause that would still be much better than a double! Like almost just last a piece of plywood on the bottom to fit a queen mattress. That way the bed will be bigger, but not so much bigger than the posts to make it look weird...maybe...
Hmmmm, that might be possible. The biggest problem with that is that the bed also has pretty wide side rails so the platform would have to go ON TOP of the side rails making my already VERY HIGH be even higher. But I'll take a look tonight and see if it might work. Even a Queen size bed would be a great improvement. Maybe I'll take some pics to post for suggestions!!! And YES, absence really does make the heart grow fonder |
Nifty idea about the plywood to extend the bed! Modern bedframes often have enough play to go from double to queen when attaching to a headboard, but with the antique/bedrail, there won't be the play  Hope the plywood idea works out, then you'll need a step stool to get into bed, but getting out will be a breeze
As for dogs not talking back, I'm sending Jack. He has a comment for most anything. I just wish his "talking" didn't end up with barking. The misc sheepdog grumbles and mouthy whortles are fun, the barking is painful. |
| Actually, I already have a stool next to the bed it's so high (mostly the dog uses it). I'll need a set of the old Library steps if it gets much higher, or maybe a ladder!!!!!!!!!!! But I think we are both past the age of falling out of bed!!! |
| Ed Wrote:
Quote: but yeah. It's nice when someone comes home....my parents went on vacation recently, when they got back i was elated.
You just missed Mom cooking and cleaning for you!!! LOL. (Kidding) |
| Im going to be the odd man out here....but when Brian works (which is every 3rd day, for 24 hrs) I get to have the whole king bed to myself and I love it...all 4 pillows, comforter wrapped around me...and sleep diagonal!!! |
| Hi,
Remember my story about purchasing the Queen's bed from the Four Seasons Hotel that turned out to be a King Size Bed? LOLOLOL!!! Yup,only Queen Elizabeth slept in the bed, then the hotel placed it in storage for a few years.(Protocol requires she sleep in a bed no one else has slept in before, so the hotel purchased this bed for her) My in law asked if I wanted to buy it...it gets delivered and GASP it's King Size! Now why the heck did I just assume the Queen's bed would be Queen sized? The thing is hard as a rock and mightly uncomfortable so I've only slept in it a handfull of times..so seems appropriate the only one that enjoys it is Merlin..must be due to his "English" background or something. That or the fact he thinks he's royalty. 
Oops hijacking the post ...apologies Ginny. Back to your story..awww I found it very sweet that you missed your Doug! Did your enjoy his homecoming...candles, wine? Marianne and the boys |
Darcy wrote: Im going to be the odd man out here....but when Brian works (which is every 3rd day, for 24 hrs) I get to have the whole king bed to myself and I love it...all 4 pillows, comforter wrapped around me...and sleep diagonal!!!
King beds ROCK! I'm not even 5 foot 4 inches! |
| Back in the day, before the "Coming of the King" I frequently had this little narrow sliver of bed, with Joan up against me, and an "ocean of mattress"... on the other side of Joan. If I wanted to turn over, I had to somehow elevate myself, steady myself and "flip like a pancake." This got tiresome after a few years.
Then the "Coming of the King." We were in a six room apartment (the second floor of a two-family home). The bedroom was very small, about 10 by 10 -if that- and it had two doors on two adjoining walls, and windows on a third so there was no choice in the orientation of the bed. Of course both of these doors opened into the room as well. With our furniture in place there was just enough room to enter the room and then shuffle sideways along the foot of the bed to get to the windows, and that whole side of the bed. That was now Joan's side. I had to enter the room and turn sideways so that I could shuffle by the other dresser on my side. Eventually this dresser was moved up near the head of the bed, blocking the other door. I didn't have room for a nightstand anymore, but no more shuffling for me. We literally could stand at the threshold and with a good jump land on the bed. Turning the mattress was an event. But the problem with my limited mattress was solved. The King has a very slight hump in the middle where the two box springs meet, so it helped to keep a certain someone on her own side of the bed. As that particular bed aged, the hump became much more prominent and now meeting in the middle was like doing crunches or some other tortuous exercise. Now looking over towards Joan we had an ocean of bed between us, and I felt a little lonely at times. Never a happy medium with Joan! |
| Ron, that's why I always vowed NOT to have a KING. I remember "back in the day" my ex and I had a King. In that paticular relationship I wouldn't have minded if the atlantic ocean was between us.
But now, I don't want to have to wake up and night and go on a search and rescue mission looking for my honey But I gotta admit, a double doesn't leave much room for breathing. A Queen might be the perfect fit.
BUT Marianne, I'll pass on the QUEENS BED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Imagine, having your "own bed" at every hotel you frequent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| I guess its because both brian and I are not cuddlers...15 min before we go to sleep, then move over to your side...I cant stand being ''trapped'' and not able to turn over... |
| Me too, your side, my side. No touching, especially feet!!! |
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