Mattress move

On Friday, Jonathan helped me set up a new experiment.  He moved the top mattress out of my bedroom and set it on the living room floor next to our uncomfortable couch.

(Oh, time to explain.  We have two couches.  One, the beige couch, came with the apartment and, for about a month, was our only couch.  But we found it rather uncomfortable.  It only has two cushions and they each start high on the ends but get more depressed into the hide-a-bed underneath as they run toward the middle of the couch in kind of an open-edged funnel.  The whole couch is quite uncomfortable to sit on.  So Bryn and I went to the Samaritan Center in October and sat on all the couches there before deciding on a pink, floral-patterned one.  After getting it home, we sprayed the cushions with Febreze to get rid of any strange smells that might be lingering in the material and positioned it in a prominent place, along the main wall of our living room.  The couch was much more comfy than our beige one and it immediately became the primarily-used couch in our house.)

Anyway, back to my experiment.  On Friday afternoon I was completely fed-up with the lack of a window in our bedroom and also the unrelenting boiling-ness.  So I thought that sleeping out in the living room, beside our only window to the outside, might heal my aggravation.  The air vent nearby, blowing cool air across the room, was an added perk.  So that night I tried out my new sleeping arrangement and loved it.  The cool air drifted over my mattress as I slept, and, in the morning, the light edged around the closed window blinds and nudged my eyes open a few minutes before my alarm went off.  It was heavenly.

I slept out there last night, too, and that sleep was just as enjoyable.  So, the experiment is over.  My mind is made up.  I'm going to leave my mattress out here in the living room for the rest of the school year (unless, of course, we have friends over for a Sabbath meal or a game night.  Then I'll move it back into the bedroom so people can walk around freely).  Other than those instances, though, my mattress is staying out here.  I kind of wished I'd thought of it months ago.