for the past couple of years (well, since we bought a house and have been working our arsses off and claiming more on our paycheck stubs), we usually get a nice little chunk back during tax time.
typically, it is all used for bill paying purposes. :: catch us up on medical bills. :: pay off some student loans (well, just mine since the hubs had a full ride for basketball) :: do some sort of medical/vet treatment for our dogs (i.e.: this is usually when our high maintenance Eve has an "addison's crisis" or tears her ACL or some other stunt), etc.
you get the point.
it's money that comes into our bank account . . .
. . . and we immediately say goodbye to.
*Insert enthused, smiling, energetic person saying something like this, "hellllloooooo money!"
*Insert whispering, bummed out, frown faced person forcing themselves to say, "goodbye money"
nah, it's all good. it seems to always come at the right time and has always been a great relief. and for that, we are
extremely grateful.
anywho, the point of the story is this: this year, besides paying for Eve's ACL surgery (yes, that happened approximately one month ago), we had actually kept up on all of our bills and were
not behind!
*insert top of the lungs: WAHOO!!!!
so what did we do?
well, like any other american couple, it burned a hole in our pocket and we:
spent it!!!
oh yes we did.
BUT: before you go getting all judgmental on me now, it went to a good cause.
:: drum roll please . . . . .
a new BED!!!
for more reasons than one, we contemplated, wrote down positive and negatives, weighed out the fact that our current bed was over 12 years old, practically flattened to the ground, we were having back problems, neither of us sleeping well, couldn't take a nap during the day if you paid us, irritated with each other all of the time, and quite simply couldn't ever say to anyone: "we love our bed, let's go to sleep!"
*ya know those people, right? the ones who can look you straight in the eye on a business trip (or wherever) and say, "I can't wait to get home to my own bed, and crawl into it and sleep" and they mean it? and you think to yourself, man they must have one of those pillow-top, custom made, plush and comfy, MTV crib worthy beds. and then you get a teeny weeny bit jealous?
yeah, we weren't those people saying that we loved our bed, we were the people envying the people saying they loved their MTV crib worthy bed.
well, now we are (those people loving our bed)!
and being envied. *insert wink*
we LOVE our bed.
so much so, that I thought I would share with you what life at the P's has been like this past weekend, in between work shifts and trying to accomplish a couple things around the house.
we had the bed delivered Friday, and ever since, have basically lived in it.
Yes, I am serious.
told you so.
*and for the record, no that is not the place we bought it, or what we paid for it...i just couldn't find the exact one and cost of ours.
let's just say it was:
worth every single penny.
so back to my weekend at hand (besides working friday and saturday). we basically woke up, made ourselves some coffee/chai, retrieved our laptops/ipads/misc. devices from the living room, brushed our teeth, and snuggled right back into where we had slept the last 8 hours.
for real.
it was: Bliss.
BLISS I TELL YA!!!
we want to live here, eat here, sleep here, research here, _____insert what married couples do here, grow old together here, you name it. It's all gonna be done here.
in this amazing, and blessed, and uber awesome, grown up and kid friendly, dog loved, cat approved, squishy bed of ours.
we are over the moon.
and so
so
soooooo
grateful.
we are two very lucky little people.
it's the little stuff people. Or what we call, the king size stuff people!
and here are some fun bed pictures to prove it:
now please excuse me while i crawl back under the blankets and sleep until i have to wake up for work. i just can't help myself.
i love our new bed!!!
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