The bed that wouldnt be!

I broke down and bought a bed. And that is after I broke down and had a crying fit in the middle of the night because I couldnt sleep and so desperately wanted to! The Japanese used to torture people with sleep depravation. I sort of know what that feels like!

We hit about 7 furniture stores yesterday afternoon. This kind of venture would have taken a full day in Toronto with the distances but Turnovo being the size of my palm, well, maybe the size of Oxford, was fairly easily to get around in.

I bought a one and a half bed (the half is for Oscar fo course) and I was given a headboard, baseboard, 2 side pieces and a matress/boxspring combo bor 242 Leva. It took me an hour and 15 minutes to assemble the pieces using a piece of wood as a hammer and a butter knife as a screwdriver, only to see the mattress was 3 cms bigger than the frame.

I called Peter, my boss and told him the problem, and within 25 minutes had a new headboard and basebord delivered by a co-worker. He had a screw-driver fortunately and he undid and redid the frame, and I had a good nights sleep FINALLY! I say "I" and not "we" because Oscar-man seems to be able to sleep no matter what. In fact, all those sleepless nights were spent listening to him snore. SHOW OFF!

So today, I feel somewhat alive and am lesson planning. My new co-worker arrived. He is nervous about teaching but I am OK thanks to the CELTA course. I am planning my first class to the minute but I dont think this will be the case for too long. We are after all teaching from a text book, but I have a few tricks up my sleeve which will make it more interesting for the students.

Off to lunch! My co-worker Petya (I like her a lot and it looks like I am shooting her wedding next month) in celebrating a birthday today so I am buying her lunch. I am also grooming her dog this weekend. She saw Oscar yesterday and was impressed by his haircut, and thrilled that I had clippers and knew how to do it. Maybe a side business?? LOL