Valentine's Day Scribblings

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Submitted by Lynn on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 3:17pm.

My Valentine's Day present to JJ was a bag full of goodies that cannot be discussed on a family forum. Eye-wink The girls got bouquets of flowers from their daddy. And I got three hours to myself at a writing workshop featuring Kim Stafford.

I haven't been to a writing workshop in 25 years. That last time, I embarrassed myself so thoroughly with my own pomposity that I couldn't face doing another one and have actively avoided the teacher (a fairly prominent regional novelist) assiduously ever since.

One of the prompts was to write a love poem about the most beloved inanimate object in our houses. Since I have fibromyalgia, that would be my Tempurpedic bed, which I worship. Here is the poem:

Oh, bed. Oh, my bed.
In winter, you are comically hard when I first slip into you
Needing my heat to soften you to the point where you don't feel like a frozen board
Like I'm lying on the tundra, the permafrost
But oh, my bed
When you warm under my body, you mold around me and hold me up
All flannel and warmth, reflected back, my own warmth captured and transmitted into softness
And next to me, under the down and chenille
My boy, drowsy and moaning in his sleep
His mouth so soft and childlike and the little gray patch in his beard
I turn over on my side, careful of the box in my chest that keeps my heart from stopping
And you hold me up another night and let me sleep
Oh, my bed.

Happy Valentine's Day, y'all.

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Well, you've sold me on the idea!

Submitted by silverbear on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 6:41pm.

I think my husband has fibromyalgia.** I think our next big purchase should be a better mattress. Ours is good, but it's about 7 years old now. I wonder where one could "test drive" a Tempurpedic?

** We deal with Army Doctors .. getting an actual, useful diagnosis is next to impossible.

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diagnosis

Submitted by Lynn on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 7:43pm.

It's not any easier outside the army, trust me.

Most of the fibro folk I know swear by either Tempurpedic or the Sleep Comfort air mattresses. You should try them both. They're both much more available than they used to be; regular furniture stores carry Tempurpedic now, and they didn't when we bought our mattress nearly 8 years ago.

Lynn Siprelle, Editor

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you could stay with us for a few days!

Submitted by Anhata on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 6:50pm.

We have a tempurpedic and love it. I don't toss and turn all night anymore. They're beyond comfort, they're sleeping on a soft spongy cloud.

Nice Ode to a Bed, Lynn.

The most beloved inanimate object in the house:

Me: the woodstove
DH: the big screen TV

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