I have been busy the last couple days!! I've gotten up at 5 am the last two mornings and worked straight until 2 or 3 pm each day, with barely a break of any kind. TOO BUSY at work. Thankfully, this kind of work craziness doesn't happen often.

So yesterday was the first day I was able to get into my new apartment! Rennie and I went over there yesterday evening on our way to Rennie's Canine Musical Freestyle class (a.k.a. "dancing" with your dog) and took some pictures and some measurements. I think I'm going to be happy there!

All the photos I took are up on my flickr stream, but I did include a few in the extended entry.

Meanwhile, I was tired of fretting about my not havng a bed, so I decided that today was the day I was going to Buy a Bed. I was finished with work around 2:30, so I looked up a variety of mattress stores and mapped out a little route for myself.

I started at BedMart. I walked into BedMart and there was pretty much NO ONE in there - a few customers here or there but, generally, I couldn't tell which people were the clerks and which were the customers because no one said anything to me. Seriously, I thought for a minute I was invisible. I layed down on several of the beds in my price range, but decided that - since I clearly didn't exist - I would go somewhere else and come back if I didn't find anything cheaper.

Next I tried to go to Sleep Country, but apparently I'd gotten the address wrong because I ended up on a dead-end dirt road. Errr, oops. It was ok, though, because I visited a different Sleep Country last week and didn't really find anything I was excited about.

So I went on down to Mattress World, where the clerks walked right up to me and said hello, asked how I was and how they could help. And it wasn't in a fakey, stupid sort of way. I've worked retail, I know when people aren't sincere. The guy was just very pleasant and asked me what I was looking for. When I told him, he promptly showed me three mattresses that were within my price range and explained the differences between them.

I am a sucker for good customer service and, since the sales dude was offering me my choice of the three beds at the price I was looking to spend ($100-200 off the tag price - BONUS!) and with free shipping I decided to plunk down my money right then. I ended up with a queen-size, pillow-top Englander mattress. It's comfy and hopefully it will last! I've been sleeping on basic, run-of-the-mill beds my whole life, so I hope this one will be great! Delivery is Sunday. WOO!

More importantly, I can cross "buy a bed" off my list of things to do before moving! I stopped by Target on my way home and picked up some cleaning and household supplies, in addition to a TV cart. Target has several desks I may want to use for my work set-up, so I'm glad I stopped by there. My plan is to head over to the apartment tomorrow after work and do some cleaning. I'm so excited!!