Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Am I Crazy, Or What?

Perhaps too open-ended a question.

Anyway, I've been sleeping on the couch for the last few years, basically because I sleep better that way. But the couch is shot, and I've been considering what to do about it. I decided to get a recliner to sleep in.

There's a nice one at a good price at JC Penney which I will go and look at and sit on and such on Saturday. If it's good, I'll have it in a couple of weeks.

I have sat in recliners before, short-term, and may have taken a nap in my father's recliner once. (He didn't become a recliner-head until after we were married and out of the house. In fact, it's the first thing he put in my room after I'd left it.) Sleeping all night raises certain questions for me, especially about bedding. How does that work? I don't want to sleep right on the recliner fabric every night -- ew -- and I don't want to be fighting to keep my feet covered. How does this work, all you recliner sleepers out there?

I fell asleep last night pondering the problem, and woke up with this in my head: sleeping bag. So I went downstairs and checked out what we still have. I think we had six or seven at one point, not counting slumber party bags, which is interesting when you consider that even with the cats, there were never more than 6 of us. But R, who was big into hiking and camping at one point, probably had three, depending on the weather and such. I can't explain the others.

Anyway, I found a nice purple one -- bonus -- that was still in the plastic from the last time I had it cleaned. I took it out and it smells fine, not icky, and currently, it's airing out in the bedroom. (I wanted to check it today to see if it needed to be cleaned again.)

So, crazy. Yes, no? Better ideas are welcome. It's the only thing I could think of.

2 comments:

  1. I put a sheet (summer) or a fleece (winter) over the recliner. My recliner is actually a couch, two recliners with a pull-down table in the middle.

    I never insist on a large single cover. Usually happy with a small quilt, I put a granny blanket on my feet if they get cold.

    A recliner -- way easier on my back -- is something I learned about in chemo. (Nothing you ever learn is wasted.)

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  2. I love how you mentioned there were never more than six of you, including cats, because then I had this awesome visual of a cat-sized sleeping bag -- complete with cat inside. Haha. It sounds like a sleeping bag is the way to go, especially if you have more than one. You may want one when you're washing the other, and then maybe you could have different weights.

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