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Amerisleep AS3 Reviews

  My Amerisleep AS3 Unboxing Video (Surprise, my voice is ridiculous!) If I can (just barely) do it, you can totally tackle a bed-in-a-box by yourself. Updated 10/15/22 Amerisleep's AS5 was recently featured as the 'Best Soft Mattress in a Box' by Good Housekeeping , with the panel of reviewers noting: Pressure relief for side sleepers Taller than other boxed mattresses Good customer service    Amerisleep Mattress Reviews  We've been happy Amerisleep customers since purchasing our first AS3 mattress more than 9 years ago. Now we also have an AS2 and an AS4 (the AS3 is still our favorite). Born with chronic insomnia  (even as a baby - my family insists I was a nightmare), the struggle to improve my sleep is my life. My husband, the overly-analytical mechanical engineer, was initially skeptical of a mail-order mattress, but he was quickly won over. 2012: Wine glass test, sans wine. I was fairly confident our brand-new mattress would pass with f
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The Premier Of The LambAround Comic Strip

I hope to have a new comic strip posted every Monday. Let me know what you think of it! P.S. This strip is based on an actual conversation with the girls at work. Scary, huh?           For the full comic strip, which wouldn't fit properly here, click here .
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10 Random Things, Just For The Heck Of It

1. Sexy Nerd and I went to see I love you, you're perfect, now change at Popejoy last weekend. Our review? It was good. 2. Sexy Nerd and I went to see Bravo Broadway! yesterday afternoon, which was presented by the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. Our Bravo Broadway! review? It was outstanding! (and, at $10 a seat, a heck of a deal) 3. Sexy Nerd is looking over my shoulder as I write this, which is quite distracting. I told him that the average NMSO musician makes $16,000 a year. He says "Damn. I should've kept playing my trombone". I never knew he used to play the trombone! 4. We had Papa Johns pizza for dinner last night. One large with all pepperoni and one large with half ham and half banana peppers. The store was much more clean than any Pizza Hut or Little Caesars I've ever been to. 5. Biscuit has become "too lovey", according to Sexy Nerd. 6. I have been going back and adding photos to old posts. For example: Seychelles 7. Pica was just
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Fighting With Sexy Nerd Cracks Me Up

Here is something I wrote waaay back before Sexy Nerd and I got married: Nerdy just told me that his mom asked why our house is decorated my way and not his. Well gee, I'd love to use his dining room table instead of mine but, guess what, he doesn't own one! I'd love to use his plates and glasses and bedding and towels, etc, etc, if he had some! He always complains that my couch is uncomfortable, but does he ever offer to buy a new one? Nope! And does he even own a bed? Nope! (Although I have been told that he has an air mattress stored away somewhere.)  Besides, he says he likes the way that I decorate. If you saw the way "his" office and "his" garage look, you would understand why he has little influence over the rest of the house. Lol, he's standing here reading this right now and he says that his office and garage match because the theme is "ugly" and he likes it. Crazy nerd! ;) For the record, I am not mad. I just think it's fun
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Zoo Zoo Review

Yesterday, Sexy Nerd and I went to see Imago Theatre's Zoo Zoo . It was advertised as being fun "for the whole family". What did we think of it? This is the only performance I have ever attended where no one in the theater gave a standing ovation. The 90 minute show really should have been condensed to half an hour. It would be easy - just cut out all the parts with absolutely nothing happening. Our favorite part of this show was the little kid sitting behind us who would periodically yell " DO SOMETHING! " My thoughts exactly, kid.
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Fairytale Brownies Coupon

For Valentine's Day, my boss gave each employee an assorted box of Fairytale Brownies. Isn't she awesome ? Fairytale Brownies Coupon 3/21/20: For a Fairytale Brownies coupon , you need to scroll to the bottom of their site and sign up for emails, which will result in a 10% discount being sent to you. I'm sorry to say that Fairytale Brownies is not currently providing any other promo codes. I've checked Honey, RetailMeNot, and just about everywhere else. Keeping in line with my typical, chocoholic nature, I decided to keep all of the ooey, gooey brownies to myself. Perhaps I could stash them somewhere, like underneath the driver's seat in my Alero. I certainly wasn't going to be sharing them with any Kitchen Pigs. Have you seen the "Lamb Cooks" section lately? If Kitchen Pig wants brownies, Kitchen Pig needs to make brownies! Sexy Nerd was never going to know about these brownies either. It wasn't a totally selfish
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The Reviews are Coming!

During the holidays, I had fun writing a gift guide using only products I own and enjoy in real life. This gave me the idea to make unsponsored reviews a regular occurrence on my blog, starting immediately (which, if you look at my last review, apparently means 3 months later.) Yes, there are reviews on sites like Amazon, but I'm always skeptical that those are real, or worry that they're actually one big joke and I'm just not getting it. Some past kinda-sorta reviews: Calphalon Contemporary Pans (The Teflon folks weren't happy and let me know it.)(Come to think of it, writing that will certainly attract their attention again, and they aren't going to like it this time either!) Easy Feet - As Seen on TV (This post offended a reader who said they couldn't bend to wash their feet, so I felt like a jerk.)(My Easy Feet review follow up is that it quickly morphed into a slimy, bacteria-infested health hazard, complete with black fuzzies, so...) I'm ho
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Sexy Nerd Made Cookies!

Here they are in the cookie dough stage: Oh wait, that is a photo of them fully baked. Hmmmm. *Yes, it is fun harassing Sexy Nerd! Besides, considering that he made about 2 dozen of these and right now, less than 24 hours later, they are ALL GONE, I'm sure he knows I'm just teasing him. The recipe may or may not be coming soon. I asked how he made them and he said "I dunno". So I asked if he used a recipe or just made something up. "I dunno," he said again. YOU DAMN WELL KNOW WHETHER OR NOT YOU USED A RECIPE, YOU CRAZY ASS NERD! Whoops! Must be the sugar talking. o-:)
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Simrin Place Setting Placemats: DIY?

I stumbled upon these cute placemats from burkedecor.com and am optimistic that I can make something similar using bamboo placemats and rubber stamps. We'll see.
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It would be great if Conan moved to Cartoon Network

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Fancy Schmancy Dining Room With A Wall Mural

Over the past few weeks, Sexy Nerd has made some major updates to our dining room. He repainted the chairs, refinished the table, switched out the light fixture, and, of course, put up the gigantic tulip wallpaper mural that has been sitting in the closet since March (finally!) There is still a lot to do (like recovering the chairs, adding 2 more chairs, and building a window seat,)(oh, and replacing that ugly white tile around the fireplace!) but we think the changes look pretty good so far. Somehow, that green dolly always finds its way back into our dining room!
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Road Trips Are More Fun With Puppy Dogs

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Cupcake Decorating Ideas

Sweet cuppin' cakes! Sexy Nerd and I spent our New Year's Eve decorating cupcakes. Cupcake Decorating Ideas We're quite the party animals. (Just in case you don't know us at all, this is a joke.) Apparently, these 4 looked so goofy that Blogger felt it necessary to rotate my photo. The one on the lower left is a Pica dog. Though, I'm sure that's clear without any clarification! Cupcake decorating is a messy job, but someone's got to do it! Ta da - the top 12, which include a mug of beer, Santa, and flames. Sneaking a cupcake when no one's looking. The perfect crime?
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Our Cruise On The Holland America Veendam

I can't believe our cruise ended in October and I still haven't finished posting all of the photos! I haven't even posted all of our stops. Rather than take even more time sorting through everything, here are the photos from the rest of our trip. It's quite possible that additional captions, sorting, and daily breakdowns are coming one day in the future (hey, anything's possible!) No other vacation beats cruising! There's a funny story about this watch and this dinner invitation (you know, in the way that irritating, horrible events where everything went wrong are funny when you look back at them), but it will have to wait for another time. Alright. I suppose that now is as good a time as any to explain the watch/dinner invitation connection. I had read online about a special dinner featured on some Holland America cruises called the "Chef's Special". It involved all of the waitstaff serving dinner while SINGING & DANCING. Ridiculous? Abso
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