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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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Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Copycat Recipe

Since Sexy Nerd had to work yesterday, while I got to lounge around the house, I thought it would be nice if he came home to some tasty doughnuts. I found the recipe here . Oooh, ingredients!   The first step was to "scald" 1 cup of milk. I'm not sure that this actually made any difference whatsoever. Next, the butter. Yummy. Melt, darn you!   Once the milk was thoroughly scalded, (pfft!) it was time to cool it down. Thank goodness for YouTube when waiting for your originally cold milk to cool back down. Go Britney! Beat some eggs.  Sift some flour. Ooh, that falling flour is beautiful! It's a pity that the sifter is covered in water spots. Get everything mixed nicely.   The original Recipezaar recipe resulted in dough that was much too sticky to work with. Adding additional flour fixed the problem. But how was I going to get these doughnuts to look doughnuty? Sexy Nerd & I don't have any cookie cutters. Seriously! Clever? Oh yes!
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Come to the Albuquerque Zoo with me!

It's a bright, sunny day in Albuquerque. Did you remember to put on sunscreen? You grabbed your hat and water bottle? Great! We're off to the Albuquerque Zoo, which is waaay better (and less crowded) than the San Diego Zoo. Don't believe me? See for yourself: Once he had our attention, there was no stopping him from screaming HELLO! and swinging and doing flips along the top of his cage .. Mmmmm, furry bacon! This mountain lion has been pacing back and forth, scouring the crowd for weak children to pick from the pack, every time we've ever been to the zoo, except for this visit. Perhaps he finally caught one. He does look content. Sexy Nerd insists this bird was watching me. But is his eye missing? Someone's cute and knows it. Wow. A zebra. Yeah, he's pretty special. What do you do when you're a polar bear in the desert? You "chill" out! (I hear you laughing!) This
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What Killed Our Cherry Tree?

Sexy Nerd and I seem doomed to lose a tree in our backyard every summer. Here is our yard two summers ago: See that big, beautiful ash tree? The focal point of our yard? Don't get too attached to it. Here is our yard last summer: No ash tree. Just the neighbors ridiculously close house, perhaps placed at an angle so it could be as close as possible. Lush green (fake) lawn though! Once we'd realized the tree was infested with ash borers, it was too late. It was a sad loss, but we moved on, planting sticks in its place that will one day (Sexy Nerd insists) grow tall enough to block the neighbor's windows. This summer was going to be better! Just look at all the cherries we got from our 2 cherry trees: So much cherry goodness! My mom is going to be so mad when she sees I posted photos online with my house a mess! Do you know where I'm going with this? If you have a cherry tree, you may not want to finish reading this post. It gets pretty scary
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200 Follower Link Party!

Have you heard? LambAround has topped 200 followers! WOO HOO HOO! My little blog has come a long way since those days when I wasn't sure why to bother blogging at all. To celebrate, I'm having a party, blog style. You're invited! I won't try to sell you Tupperware or Longaberger Baskets or Mary Kay cosmetics (though, admittedly I may try to get $10 by signing you up for Groupon ). This is going to be much better than the last party I promised you, which I was totally robbed of! Put on your dorkiest hat. It's party time! And, FYI, that is a ginormous ball of deep-fried mozzarella on my plate. Come see my beautiful, mysterious flowers . (HA!) I'll regale you with my tales of jury duty and all the times Sexy Nerd has put his foot in his mouth . Eat some employer-donated cheesecake and deceptive salad off of my fancy schmancy Noritake Colorwave Floral Accent Plates . Everything will be delicious - as long as we don't put Sexy Nerd in charge of
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