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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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Quick Trip to the %!#* Pharmacy

Tuesday: Swing by my local Smith's for my prescription and browse the discount Halloween candy. The candy they have bothered to price is still too expensive. After standing in the pharmacy line for a few minutes, I realize I left my HSA card at home. Wednesday: I still forget my HSA card, so decide not to go to Smith's today. See in the new ad that Campbell's Cream of Chicken soup is on sale for just $0.49/can. $0.49/can!!! The real stuff, not the store brand. It is never priced that low. I make an extra trip to Smith's, wanting to hit up the special on the first day before the soup sells out. Smith's has no Cream of Chicken soup. Thursday: After double checking that the pharmacy opens at 9 am, I run in before work. They have soup in stock! I buy 30 cans. (Yes, there was still soup left for the other customers.) It's 9am and the pharmacy is still all gated up. 9:05. Still closed. I don't want to be late to work but I don&
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It's a Girl! It's a Pit Bull Puppy!

After the sudden, unexpected loss of the best dog ever, Pica , I was lost. I'm pretty sure my boss was worried I was going to kill myself. You can't kill yourself over a dog though, right? Everyone knows dogs don't live forever. After several dark weeks, SN insisted we go look at puppies. Ridiculous! Still, they did look awfully cute online. We would only get one if it was from a shelter, so it would be like we were saving a dog's life...and isn't that what Pica would have wanted? Maybe we could even find another Jack Russell.  Funny enough, we always insisted when Pica was alive that we would never want another Jack Russell, which should really be called a Jerk Russell . She was a stubborn, jealous, destructive handful. There was no stopping her from barking. (At nothing!) She was such a greedy little piggy that we had to feed her with a jar inside her food dish, as it was the only way we could stop her from swallowing the entire bowlful in one gulp. And she s
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Best Halloween Costume Ever

Happy Halloween! I'm super boring this year, with no costume, no decorations, and (gasp!) no candy. Here's a throwback Halloween post from a few years ago. Until 6th grade, I was a cat every year. I finally switched things up when I saw a picnic table costume in an American Girl magazine. That's right. For Halloween, I went trick-or-treating as a picnic table, complete with paper plates and baggies of chips hot glued on. Wanting to outdo myself, the next year I was a mama cat trying to sell her babies. Sure, it sounds horrible now, but I remember it looking so cute in that 1997 American Girl magazine. I'm pleased to declare that 2012 was the year of my Best Costume Ever ! Unbeknownst to her ahead of time, I went as my Halloween-loving coworker, Marie, complete with blond wig and her stolen name tag. It must have been meant to be, because she came in wearing the exact same pair of Halloween socks, purely by coincidence! Now I just need to figure out a wa
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NM Fermentation Festival - Funny Name, Fun Time

Move over, Balloon Fiesta. Albuquerque has another up-and-coming event that you won't want to miss.  My husband and I were pleasantly surprised to discover that the New Mexico Fermentation Festival, in its 4th year and the first of its kind in the Southwest, is popular with locals and tourists alike. It's sponsored by  edible New Mexico  and is held at the Gutiérrez-Hubbell House, which is dense with cottonwood trees and is a lovely place to spend a Saturday with or without a festival. What the heck is a fermentation festival? You know we're big fans of New Mexico  wine festivals ,  beer festivals , and even  green chile cheeseburger  and  wagyu beef festivals . (Yay, NM!) We'd never been to a fermentation festival though and weren't sure what to expect. Although you might think a festival dedicated to fermented foods and drinks sounds a little odd (we did), so many irresistible treats fit within that category. In addition to kimchi and kombucha, the
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