The new bed is amaze-balls!

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I've been sleeping on my new bed for a week now, and it's been absolutely incredible! Having a decent mattress makes all the difference in the world. It is so nice to wake up and not be in pain. The mattress is a hybrid coil and memory foam one, and that foam makes all the difference in the world, I swear. I can't sleep on a hard mattress, nor can I sleep on something without any support, but this mattress is pretty much perfect.

I finally put the sheet set on last night after buying a new set last week. I'd been sleeping on top of my comforters with a fuzzy TARDIS blanket over me because it had been way too warm for anything else for several days last week, but last night my bedroom was actually cold enough that I needed to sleep under something warmer than the blanket. So, the sheets went on the bed. I even put the flat sheet on it, and I usually can't stand top sheets, but after doing hotel housekeeping I can fully appreciate why they're a good thing to have on a bed. And if I get too warm I can just toss off the comforter and blanket to sleep under the top sheet.

Normally I get black sheets, but my local Walmart was out of black. They had white, pink, and light blue. So, white it was. Besides, white is better when it's hot. And the grey sheet set I ordered finally arrived on Thursday too, but they weren't in my room last night when I made my bed. I may order a set of black sheets or wait until Walmart restocks their selection. We'll see just how much patience I have!

As I was waiting for sleep to take me last night I did some thinking, and I realized that in the past couple of months I've bought some big ticket items that I would not have normally been able to. Part of it is because I have not been spending money as quickly as I used to - not taking taxis too and from work every day, not buying dinner and snacks at work all the time, and not buying random nick-knacks without much thought really does make a huge difference in being able to save money. In the past two months I have replaced my old 3 year old laptop with a brand new gaming laptop, and replaced my entire bed. And I've got a set of really good headphones coming in sometime this week. These are all things I have been wanting to do for ages, but never had the funds for it. I think it has a lot to do with getting $2k a month to put towards simply living.

When I'm working my gross is over $2k, but after taxes I see about $1700 if I'm lucky, and good chunk of that was going towards bill payments, including an EasyFinancial loan that I took out so I could afford to get my dental plate. When work closed due to the pandemic I had applied for EI, largely because nobody knew what was going on with the CERB. or anything else for that matter. And just my luck that EI decided to reactivate my claim from last year when I left the call center. Which left me getting $293 a week. And because my claim was from the previous year, I wasn't bumped up at all to get a total of $2000 a month. But my EI claim ran out so I applied for the CERB, and that has made a huge difference. It says a lot that this is the first time in YEARS that my bills have been paid up to date and that I still have a bit of money left over. I know that when I go back to work that I won't be clearing $2k in what I take home so I won't be able to save as much, but such is life. I hope that I will be able to continue to stay on top of my bills now that I've completely caught up on them. When I got that first CERB payment I paid off those bills in full, bought groceries, and then socked away the rest.

Now it's just a matter of waiting until work can reopen enough to go back full-time. Thankfully, the CERB has been extended by two more payments, which leaves me with three more that I'm able to access when the time comes. Three more months of not having to stress over trying to figure out a way to live on just my kid's income is huge. My mental health has been all over the map since the world was forced to shut down, but not having that huge stressor hanging over my head makes a HUGE difference.

Speaking of health...my blood sugars have gone down significantly and I'm mostly within the limits that my doctor wants me to be in. And I've lost close to 30 pounds since the lockdown started - I haven't been under 230lbs in a great many years. In March I was tipping the scales at 260lbs, and now I'm sitting at 229.5lbs. My clothes even fit better than they used to! It's a good feeling, and I have decided that if I manage to hit my interm goal of 200lbs that I'm going to get my belly button pierced. Nobody is going to see it but me, and I'm fine with that :P

In the meantime, I need to go have a nice shower and then play some video games. Cheers!

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