Does anyone here know anything about memory foam bed toppers? Specifically if perhaps heavier people should buy the thicker toppers? I am hoping to avoid buying a new mattress, because, man, does my back hurt when I wake up. It probably doesn't help that my bed is also used as my sofa, so it gets a lot of use, and I am pretty heavy.

Sophia, I bought a memory foam mattress topper for those same reasons, and I love it. My back doesn't hurt in the morning anymore. I am also heavy, and I recommend the thicker one.

ALLYSON!

No bodycount here yet.

I think I am going to bed at 9.

msbelle, if anyone deserves to go to bed at 9, it is you.

Thank you Zenkitty- I was thinking of getting the thicker one, but wanted some justification that it was worth the expense. My mattress is about 10 years old, but the one before that was my first big girl bed that I had for 26 years!

So the person who was supposed to come pick me up about 5:00 so that I could get back to the dealership before the loaner car person left at 5:45 seems to be MIA.

Guy: I do, I love food.

This reminds me of the scene in Julie & Julia when Julia is talking with her husband about what she likes to do, and she says with her typical brio, "Eat!! And I'm very good at it, too!"

I got part of my Christmas present from Mom in a box from Amazon, and decided to open some of them since they were wrapped in blue corduroy bags (very nice ones, too!) and I could figure out what they were. A 12" cast iron skillet is a bit hard to disguise when it's inside a cloth bag, and the lid goes with it. Boy, are they heavy when they're together!!

(I actually know what else was in the box since I mistakenly opened the shipping list that was in the envelope that said right on the cover "Do not open until after you open your presents!" But I didn't tell Mom and won't open them until Xmas Eve.)

I was just saying yesterday that people sometimes make fun of me for enjoying my food too much, but I say, if you can get actual enjoyment three times every day, why not??

Also, on the space tip, I brought warm water to choir practice in my JPL travel cup. Brilliant.

Woe are my abs! My entire torso is soreness. And wrestling all those groceries and the new shredder up a flight of stairs is bound to not help.

Man, I wish I'd earned this pain honestly.

I have a loaner car! I am home! I already got the FSA check I sent in the paperwork on last Tuesday, and they didn't make me fill out new paperwork. Consequently, I am less rage-filled than I was earlier! Which makes me glad I left a phone message with the dealership service manager before I finally left work at 6:00.

Speaking of food, I think Haagen-Daaz is trying to kill me. New flavor: Carmelized Pear with Toasted Pecans. Holy jesus good.