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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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Link Up! Blog Hop and Best in Show Award Nominees

Happy loooooong weekend, everyone! I had today off as well, so I expect to cram in maximum laziness before I return to work on Tuesday. If you're feelin' lazy like me (clearly, adding the 'g' at the end of the word is just too much effort) you'll appreciate how simple it is to link up (end of this post) and how easy peasy it is to vote for the winner of the Best in Show award (right sidebar). The fantabulous nominees are: Moore Minutes Pinch of This, That, & the Other Say It With Thread Fakin' It   MeiJo's JOY Lolly Jane Boutique La-Dee-Da Creations Pintucks and Ruffles The Princess and the Tot Cooking with K The $500 Wedding Readers, I sincerely hope I haven't crashed your computers from all the snazzy tabs you certainly just opened. And as for my impressive nominees, I hope you'll give yourself a pat on the back for your blogging awesomeness and take a button: Voting (right sidebar) will run through the end of the week. Now, fo
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3...Make That 4...No, 5! Tidbits

1. The Not "Baaad" Linky Party will be up and running tonight, along with the nominees for the latest Best in Show award! 2. Did you see my comment from the Albuquerque Library (!) on the latest Sexy Nerd Quote of the Day post? I hope I didn't freak them out too badly by saying that they're a bunch of scammers. And you can bet I loved their book recommendation! 3. My Mushroom Kit Giveaway ends Monday. Time is running out if you haven't entered yet. 4. Yesterday's silly post, Funny Father's Day Gift Wrap Tutorial , is featured below my BlogHer ads today. Woo hoo! 5. What are your long weekend plans? We're going to make cherry ice cream and drink soda (I almost never buy soda!) I'm hoping there will be plenty of walks with the doggies too (we almost never walk them! To be fair, Pica tries to bolt every time I walk her, which I'm told is a common trait of Jack Russells.) That's all I've come up with for this weekend, so I'm
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Funny Father's Day Gift Wrap Tutorial

If you've clicked onto this post in hope of elevating your already gorgeously wrapped packages to new, sparkly heights, I'd better warn you that this is an idea for people like me, with no gift wrapping skills whatsoever. The expensive paper, the darn tape that sticks where it doesn't belong. I just don't see the point! You can find an example of my mad anti-wrapping skills here: Thrifty Cloche Decorating . To my fellow anti-wrappers, I say that if you're going to embrace the anti-gift wrap lifestyle, you may as well go all out. My hatred of creating fancy packages has evolved over time into something downright fun. If you were Sexy Nerd, this is what you would wake to find on Christmas morning: Oooh! Fancy, right?  Ta da!  Why, yes, that is an old tag from an old gift dangling from that old ribbon. Whyever do you ask? And bubble wrap! Beautimous. I've made a joke out of my trouble wrapping gifts. In addition to all the scrappy-looking
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Anti-Emma? All I Needed Was a Jane Austen Education

I'm blogging over at Bl ogHer today, with a post featured in the BlogHer book club!  My review of A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz . And, yes, I'm aware that my reviewer photo is horrible and blurry. Methinks I'll need to correct that before my next review. If you've read A Jane Austen Education, I'd love to hear your opinion on it!
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