Lucky me that I live in St. Louis these next four days!! I love my city and I am proud that it will be the center of Baseball Universe while the events surrounding the All-Star game are taking place here.

That said, I am not driving ANYWHERE in the vicinity of the city during this time. I am driving to work, to home, to church, and to my parents' house in Florissant, and THAT'S IT. This place is going to be utter madness while baseball enthusiasts from all over descend on my city... as well as the President of the United States, to throw out the first pitch. I don't know what they're going to do to the highways while he's cruising around town. All I'm sayin' is they can have it. I had planned a happy hour in the Central West End with geotrekker on Monday night, but I switched it to Wednesday night when the madness will be over. I'm just not chancing it. I am staying in my little apartment on my little couch and am going to let the madness ensue outside.

But I hope everyone that actually braves going to the Home Run Derby and the All-Star Game has a fantastic and memorable time! You are braver souls than I.

My work is serving as a classroom for the time being for some Egyptian students enrolled at the same community college I got my travel education from. They are learning Sabre and so the trainers are having them sit with agents to watch them work in Sabre for a little while. I got to have one sit with me today. I forgot his name, something like Hayem. He was nice and we spent most of the time (since it was slow) talking about Egypt and what it's like there. He is from Mansura, just northeast of Cairo, but works in a hotel in Sharm el Sheikh, on the very tip of the Sinai Peninsula. He says Sharm el Sheikh is just gorgeous and very rich and glitzy. His favorite city is Alexandria, on the coast of the Mediterranean. I asked him what the weather is like there, and he says it is better than here in St. Louis, because we have humidity and they don't. He is not a fan of the humidity, but freaked out the first time he saw snow. Hehe. He says all the uninhabited parts of Egypt are just sand. I stared at the map and thought it's quite mind-boggling to think of all that sand. Anyways he says I have to visit Egypt. I said I like history and he said oh well then you DEFINITELY have to go to Egypt. Duh. I would totally love to, but would probably land myself in a heap of debt just to afford it. Still. It'd be neat to see these places. And get a glimpse of all that sand.

My subject title is a line from "Sahara," by Nightwish. I told the dude I was totally obsessed with that song just a short time ago. :) I'm a DORK.

Am going back to 35 hours in about a week. At least it will be nice to go to work at 8a instead of 7a and work some shorter days. Did some more training from remote today; it's going pretty well. This month is Employee Appreciation Month and they are washing our cars on Thursday. I get a free carwash courtesy of my manager. Yay. For some reason the theme of Employee Appreciation Month is Broadway theatre, and they are asking trivia questions about Broadway every week for a chance to win a prize. Here's hoping I win something. They already asked a Les Mis question this week. It was freakin' easy, like "Name the longest-running musical in London's West End set in 19th century France about revolution and redemption and based on a novel by Victor Hugo with the song 'I Dreamed a Dream' sung recently by Susan Boyle." Duhr. Let me think a min...

On Saturday my work computer was hit with that same nasty virus that attacked my home computer some time ago. My hard drive had to be wiped and I had to re-do all my settings and links and everything. Was a huge pain. Have no idea how the virus got there. 4 other people got it too. Yuck.

I always plan to go to bed early, but then get stuck watching the end of the Cardinals game. Oh wait, they just won. Good night...

Better day today. Was depressed again in the morning, but in the afternoon I was given a new purpose: I am guinea-pigging a new system to train new employees working remote. The n00bs (who are in Boston) listen in on my calls and can watch my computer screen using LiveMeeting to watch me handle a call and then wrap the record for exchange/ticketing. It was sorta fun, although today we only had time to take one call. I don't know why they always insist on training people during the slowest times of the year... a lot of people are on vacation this week for the Fourth. Anyways...I'm doing it again tomorrow from 8:00a-12:00p. Should make the day more interesting and go by faster. My boss said I can stay out of tech support for a while in exchange for doing this. :) And she gave me a SuperBravo because I am just so helpful. And tomorrow is finally my Friday. YAY!! I knew I'd survive this week, somehow...

I am getting some reading done at work, at least, between calls when it's slow. Am reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and it is so simply but beautifully written. I am already almost halfway through.

Had some mushy bananas at home so I baked up a loaf of Apple Banana Bread. Since I was using applesauce instead of butter, and I had a couple of apples in my pretty little fruit bowl, I got the idea to chop some apples in it. I hope it's good. It definitely smells good. :)

I went to Books-a-Million today with a notepad and pen, and browsed up and down the Fiction/Literature aisle making notes of books I'd like to read. I added quite a few more to my list, but I also started another list of books that are well-known, but I'm just not sure if they're books I would enjoy reading. So I'm gonna post some titles here... If you think I should read any of these books (*cough* tigg *cough*), please tell me! :)

- The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
- The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Love in the Time of Cholera and 100 Years of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- Moby Dick, Herman Melville
- The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice & Men, John Steinbeck
- Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
- The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
- 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne
- anything by Henry James (I have heard they are terribly boring, but someone else might have a different opinion...)

While I was at the bookstore, I picked up A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, and Hard Times by Charles Dickens. I was looking for the third book in the Chronicles of Prydain series, The Castle of Llyr by Lloyd Alexander, but couldn't find those anywhere. Boo. Guess I'll get that from Amazon sometime soon.

So here is my current Book-et List. Please feel free to suggest more titles, if you think they're must-reads!

My day at work was a relatively easy one, couple of bumps, but got through them. Heard about Farrah Fawcett at lunch time. Sad news. It buzzed around the office for a little while.

As I was getting ready to leave (on time! Yay!) news was breaking that another famous figure was being rushed to the hospital. I curiously noted it but I don't think anyone heard me; a woman across said, "Hey, didja hear Farrah Fawcett died?" I left without thinking much of it.

Got home and turned on the computer, then the TV. I was opening my browser on my computer and listening to the TV over my shoulder. Things were looking pretty bad for the guy, and then the news broke that he died. I literally jumped and whirled to the TV when I heard the words.

And that's where I was, on June 25, 2009, about 5:15pm, when the news broke that Michael Jackson had died.

Later a news pundit remarked that MJ was in the same category as Elvis... I wholly agree. This day is much like the day of Elvis's passing, I'm sure.

I wonder if Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson ever met each other. Now they share a very intimate common bond.

They've announced at work that they are doing ANOTHER SHIFT BID, in August. Our schedules still aren't good enough, so they're starting over again. Have NO idea what I'm going to end up with this time. They aren't even decided if it's going to be 35 hours or 40 hours. We can't be sure of anything anymore.

Got to have some fun with the employee survey at least... they do a survey once a year to see how happy their employees are, and this one should be spectacular. I was starting to actually doubt they'd even do it this year, with how low morale is at work... but I guess they need to face the facts. I guess they could just point fingers in all our faces and say "HEY. At least YOU have a JOB. That's PLENTY to be happy about in these days." And they're probably right.

Change for the better could be on the horizon though... today they actually brought in a consultant to analyze our processes and see if any of them can be streamlined or made more efficient. That's good, I guess. They realize what a mess our job has become and they're hopefully going to make it a little easier for us. Because I really feel like I've gotten stupider in the past few months with all the changes and restructuring... but don't worry, we're not "interviewing for our own jobs"... :) They're just looking at the products/processes we use, not the agents themselves.

In other news sort of relating to work, my teacher from the community college was in my office last week, looking for some help for a certain project he and his students were doing, and stopped by my desk. He asked why I hadn't been around in awhile, and I told them that no one ever got back to me about my transcript from MU to see how much applies to my degree at the community college, so I'm kind of at a standstill. He told me to call him and he'd get it together for me. So hmm. Do I go back to school? I guess I have to see how my schedule works out, and if I'll be able to afford it. If we go back to 35 hours, I may not be able to. Would be nice to finish that degree though. I hate to leave things unfinished.

Ok, back to watching this stupid Cards/Mets game now...

During our family get-together for Father's Day today, we got into a big discussion about books we'd like to read. My dad is about to retire and so is compiling his list of books that he wants to get started on (I gave him Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, for him to add to his list). My sister is on a kick right now of reading classics she never got around to before (she is just now starting Jane Eyre) and Pulitzer Prize winners. My brother then coined this new phrase: the Book-et List (like the Bucket List). So now we all want to come up with books to put on our Book-et List. I just have no idea where to even START. I should, though. I have been more or less aimlessly wandering through books lately... I finally started The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander this weekend, but I've had it for a few months now and never started it. I keep looking at my bookshelf wanting to re-read stuff, but then there is always loads of new stuff I need to read. I think I might have to hit up a bookstore soon...

I'm making a banana cream pie for my dad for Father's Day. It's his favorite thing ever so I thought I'd try to make one from scratch. I made the custard last night and refrigerated it overnight. So tonight I was going to just assemble the pie, and make the topping. I started working on the topping first, beating heavy cream to make whipped cream.

I beat and beat and beat the stuff, with a hand mixer, until I felt like my hand was going to fall off. It just barely thickened, got to the point where I thought it was going to start getting to peaking-consistency, then somehow separated and I was beating liquid again, with some buttery fat in there. Spent another 20 minutes or so and got it to thicken back up a bit. Then my recipe said to add sour cream once it got to the point where it could hold peaks. Well then that completely ruined the consistency and it was back to liquid-y. By then I gave up. I didn't even think it tasted all that good with the sour cream added, so I threw it out. All that work for nothing. I'm just going to get some store-bought stuff and dish it up at the house. MUCH easier.

But still... am mad that I couldn't get it to work. Well we'll see how the actual pie turned out tomorrow... that's the important part at least.

Edited to add: Pie turned out alright. Would've been better with the homemade whipped topping and a homemade crust. Store-bought crusts are so eh. But the pie itself was quite yummy... very banana-cinnamon-y. Mm. Forgot to take picture. Oh well.

At least this day ended on an "Up" note. I just got back from the movies seeing "Up" with dirty_gypsy. Had a great time. What an original story. I love the dogs. They are just so... doggie. I want to play with dogs. Because I LOVE them. :) Not ENTIRELY sure it beats out "Wall-E," but I still liked it. Oh and the short film before the movie almost killed me with the cute. Pixar knows how to pile on the cute.

This morning I got to work, plopped the cinnamon roll cake on a nearby table, and sat down to read my emails. I got one that the subject was the name of a certain ex-coworker from a year or so ago... the one that had the brother I once liked... well I opened the email thinking that maybe she was coming back to the office to work. Turns out instead, she died. Later I found out it was suicide... her boyfriend had killed himself just a week or two before. The circumstances of the whole thing were just horribly tragic. I became overwhelmed by it all and couldn't concentrate on work... I even cried a little there at my desk, and became embarrassed when people saw me... and it didn't help that this morning was dreary and rainy... I don't know how it got to me so bad, but it did. I can't imagine what the families are going through... suicide is just a horrible, horrible thing.

And the phone had absolutely no sympathy for me whatsoever... every call I got was a nightmare... Canadian exchanges that I just couldn't figure out for myself, having to call airlines on just about every call, one passenger that her ticket had been screwed up so bad by the airline she had two outbound flights and no return flight and the managers at US Air kept hanging up on me... I couldn't believe it. Every call I just wanted to say, "REALLY, AGAIN???" It was ridiculous. I wish they just wouldn't count my numbers for that day.

Maybe the cinnamon roll cake was good comfort food to people... I brought home an empty dish at least.

I think it's going to be a rough week again still... I'm sure I will still have trouble concentrating. Have been feeling a lot of burn-out. My numbers have taken a nosedive lately, mostly due to this stupid new "Contact Recording" system. But I hardly care. They're not doing anything for us to encourage us to boost our numbers. They just want us to work more and more. So I hardly try anymore. I don't take my breaks and lunches when I'm scheduled to; I just go when I want. I wonder when things will bounce back and they will start caring about us again.

Well it's late and I better go to bed... will try to sleep off some of this funk...

Since today I started my little ABCBaking venture on My Other Blog, I just had to get in the spirit... tonight I baked a Cinnamon Roll Cake with Cream Cheese Glaze. I think it turned out pretty well.



I think my coworkers will be happy with it tomorrow, but THEY didn't get to have a nice warm piece, right out of the oven with fresh glaze... :)



Num. Plus, I didn't use all the glaze that the recipe made. So now I guess I gotta come up with something else that uses cream cheese glaze...even if it's just me and a spoon... :)

Another rainy day, and I have nothing to do. So I'm just gonna sit and post. In fact, I am debuting my "ABC Baking" list on My Other Blog when I get done with this. It'll just give me something to do for awhile, and I do love baking, and pictures of baking. So should be fun. Maybe I'll do some baking later today, if I have enough stuff or if I feel like running out to the store, if we get a break in the rain... my coworkers are actually asking when will I bring another baked treat into the office... it's up to me to improve morale there, I suppose... :)

Had a fun day yesterday, for the most part. Got to drive out to Aviston, IL to the winery where Tracie and Preston are getting married in the fall. Tracie's mom is in town, so she wanted to see it. It was our first time there in a busier season, so the brunch room was a lot fuller. It was good though, because the food kept being brought out in fresher batches instead of sitting out. We walked down to the pavilion so Tracie's mom could see where the actual wedding will be. Then we enjoyed a nice afternoon back inside sipping wine. I left early-ish, because my parents were going to be going to the mass at the Cathedral which was going to take up a few hours, and I wanted to grab some prime piano time while they were out. I don't think I'd gotten a chance to play in months. Yes, months. I was sad about this.

Made the hour-drive back and I think I actually blew out my voice while singing to my newest music obsession, Dark Passion Play by Nightwish. Holy COW am I obsessed with this album. I love the whole thing, but particularly track 7, "Sahara"... it just pulls you into a movie scene in the desert... I can't get enough of it. Even the hardcore "Master Passion Greed" has been growing on me... even though I'm not sure I agree with them bringing their messy issues with their previous singer onto their album, I still appreciate the emotions of anger and betrayal brought forth in that song. I just really like when a song can successfully emote its subject matter... the lost nostalgia of "Meadows of Heaven," the isolated ocean-swept lighthouse in "The Islander," a little girl's loneliness in "Eva"... and the added depth that the London Philharmonic Orchestra brings to the rock element... I admire and almost envy the talent for composition evident on this album. :)

So I got to my parents' house with my voice hoarse, started my laundry, and sat down at the piano to get some more writing done. Started playing around trying to build on my music and it just felt so mediocre to me. It already is, but even more so when I'm trying to expand on something I'd already written and it just goes nowhere. I feel like I'm trying to fight through a thick fog. Hardly got anywhere and then my parents came home, having not gone to the Cathedral at all. They didn't make it there on time and went to Mass at their own parish. It sounds bad, but I was pretty frustrated that they showed up early and I got nothing done. Sigh. I need to get my own keyboard for my apartment. Although I'm not sure this whole songwriting project is really worth it. But at least I could just play when I want to.

Anyways... oh I have my new bed now. It's definitely firmer than my old bed, which will take some getting used to, but I think it's what I needed. It's not so firm that it's uncomfortable, at least, so that's good. And it's a little taller than my old bed was... I like being a little higher up. :) Haven't gotten the information on the groceries deal yet, but that's supposed to arrive in the mail soon.

Well, I guess that's all I've got for now... everyone try to have a good Monday, even if you're getting all this rain with me...

I totally want to make this. Too many sweet treats in one delicious dessert? Never. Reminds me of little kids playing in the kitchen, grabbing whatever they can get their hands on. Am tempted to make it for the birthday party I'm going to this weekend, but they will probably already have cake, and I'm just not THAT sure that everyone else would like it as much as me. So maybe I'll just bring cookies or something.

Need to just relax and enjoy this weekend. I have a lot of fun stuff going on: kritterj's wedding tonight, guitarlisa's birthday party tomorrow afternoon, craigjw coming in town tomorrow night, and my dad's birthday celebration Sunday, which is also seda_la_roja's birthday, but I'm taking her out for lunch on Monday. Crazy busy weekend, but it'll be a fun kind of crazy. Not crazy in the sense this past week has been...

I don't think I've ever been so mentally exhausted from a week at work. I worked Memorial Day, which you would THINK would be slow, but we had to deal with all the Canadian and international reservations because they don't recognize the holiday, so it was much more difficult than expected. Then on Tuesday they rolled out a new tool we are using to log all of our calls. They call it "Contact Recording." It takes TWICE as long to log a call, because there is more info we have to input, and plus the stupid thing keeps crashing throughout the day, and we have to manually track our calls we weren't able to input, and then go back later when the thing comes back up to log them all in, and we never have time because the calls just keep coming in like crazy. We still cannot meet our service levels, and I am officially back on 40 hours starting next week (except for the fact that I am taking Saturday off as a vacation day). I'll be working 7a-5:30p most days, except Thursdays, which will be 6:30a-5p. Ouch. Not really happy about that.

While dealing with all of this, we have reorganized our seating arrangements to coordinate with some of us being shifted to new management teams. So I have a new desk and a new manager. I think she'll be fine (much less micromanaging than my last manager, which is a good thing), but she's one of those people who might say something and you just don't know if she is joking or not. She has sort of a dry humor.

My new desk is nice and big, which is great, but now I am sitting near people that I don't know as well. And they don't know me. So they were quick to judge when I had sort of another one of my famous fits... I was sort of freaking out that I didn't have information to give a caller about what to do about the new TSA requirements that mandate your name on your ticket has to EXACTLY MATCH the name on your documentation when you check in for a flight. So I was agitatedly trying to get the information from one of our leads, and one of my new neighbors didn't like my behavior, so she/he (I don't know who it was) sent an email to a few of the managers, saying it was "WAY too much drama." Just great. So I got called into a meeting with my now ex-manager, and she was saying that I need to watch it, etc. etc. I had sort of a meltdown and it took me awhile to calm down enough to go back to my desk. I didn't even think it was that bad at the time, which just throws into harsh reality that even what I would consider a minor outburst is not acceptable to them. Now it is just super uncomfortable sitting in my new area. Someone there doesn't like me and is probably just watching for me to screw up again.

And I don't really need to be told that that kind of behavior is loathsome. I hate it in myself enough as it is. I wish sometimes I could borrow someone else's personality for awhile. High-strung people annoy me, which means I annoy myself being that way.

So I've been in a real funk this week. And I couldn't even hide it... my new manager asked me what was up, because I looked sad. I said I was fine. Yeah right. Damn, I wish my emotions weren't so readable all the time. I just attract attention to myself. At least I got to unload a little on geotrekker last night over some beer and wings, that was good and needed.

Anyways... So hopefully the rest of this weekend will be some good therapy, being with my friends and family... and I will be able to take it all on again next week. Just need to brush it all off and move on.

And yeah, carilea... I totally ganked your icon. What are you going to do about it??? :)

I am so confused by all my schedule changes recently that today I did a super dumb thing: I forgot what time I was supposed to leave work. Was supposed to leave at 5:00 and I had it stuck in my head that it was 5:30. Then I got stuck on an issue and actually left at 5:45. 45 minutes past the end of my shift. I could've been home and relaxing by then. Stupid stupid. You think I would KNOW when I was scheduled to leave...

This is a long week on top of it all... for me at least. Four whole days in a row. Yeah, yeah, I know, you all work five... these are long days though, so I think it's even. But then I get a four-day weekend. Am already ready for it to be here.

When I woke up this morning, I had no idea I'd be buying my new bed today! But when I got to my parents' house, my dad showed me a great deal Rothman was having on mattresses for their Memorial Weekend sale... they were offering free gas or groceries if you spent a certain amount, so we just had to go check that out. Turns out one of the mattresses was right in line with what I was looking for: firm, but cushiony on top, so I didn't feel like I was lying on stone, but not on pure feathers either. It was pretty comparable to the one I liked at the first place I went to.

The gas/groceries deal works like this: You have to spend $100 in gas or groceries in one month. Each month that you spend at least $100 (and it has to all be at the same location), they send you a $25 gift certificate for that store. You can do this as many months as you can in 24 months, so the most you can get in gift certificates is $600. I opted for groceries, because there's no WAY I spend $100 on gas in one month... I live only a few minutes' drive from my work, so I don't have to fill up that often... so I opted for the groceries deal. I don't think I will be spending $100 EVERY month, but my dad and I figured that if I space out my shopping trips right, I can spend $100 every other month, shopping at the very beginning and end of a month and then I can earn $300 in free groceries, which is still great! Yay, free food!! :)

My new bed will be delivered on June 12 and I sign up for the groceries deal then. Am excited!! My old bed's days are numbered... after almost TWO DECADES. It is TIME for that thing to go. I also got a new bed frame and mattress cover... just wanted to replace the whole thing, except the headboard because mine matches all my furniture. Saw no need to get rid of it. Which is why I stuck with a full-size bed instead of upgrading to a queen... also don't want to replace my comforter/duvet cover and all my sheets. That would've been just more money spent, and I like my down comforter.

Can't wait for my first night in my new bed!! :)

I moved to a new desk today... they're moving our teams around to accommodate the restructuring of teams and who has which manager... I am getting a new manager as well. Also for the next few weeks, my schedule is changing just about every week... sometimes I go in at 8:00a, sometimes 7:00a, a 6:30a day is still sneaking in there... sometimes I stay till 4:30p, sometimes 5:30p... I can't even keep track anymore. They can't seem to decide if they want to still call our switch to 35 hours permanent, or if they are playing with moving us back to a 40-hour week. We are just still too busy. I couldn't even take an hour lunch today, that I had a free certificate for. Sad, too, cause that's the only "perk" left to us. Just keeping my nose to the grind and trying to stay in perspective...

...will be spent working 8:30a to 5p. I couldn't resist signing up to work, because they said we WILL be paid holiday pay that day and we won't have to take off an extra day to balance it out. So I will actually be getting holiday PLUS overtime for working a day outside my normal schedule. Extra money? I'm in.

And 5:00 is early enough to make it to a BBQ somewhere. I hope there will be one going on!! :)

Wish I could've slept in a bit more today... but my damn neighbors have a dog that starts whining, crying, and barking at 7am. Sigh. Oh well. I should wake up early consistently everyday anyway, to help with going to work so early all the time now...

Ever since we've been working these new 35-hour workweek schedules, our service levels have been tanking. They offered "flex hours," but maybe I was the only one taking them up on that offer... they said interest was too low and they still weren't getting the coverage they needed. So they released mandatory new schedules today, with increased hours. They said it will just be temporary. For the moment. Until the winds blow again.

I am now working 7:00am-4:30pm Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, starting Thursday, May 14. Nice and consistent, but now I have to go in early EVERY DAY that I work. IGH. At least I don't have any more of those 6:30am days that were killing me. Still, this isn't that much better. But I think it will be better if it's consistent. Going in early one day a week was not really working for me. They say we will go back to our old schedules, but I am sorta doubting it. I doubt they will reduce hours again once we start meeting our service levels. I am having trouble believing much of what they say anymore.

And they still keep acquiring new accounts. They keep transitioning more and more accounts to our department to handle. So our work is getting harder and more frustrating, yet they keep taking more and more from us. No more bonuses. No more matching on our 401k's. No more raises. They even did away with a free goodie from a treat basket when we score 100% on our monitors. Not to mention this whole schedule see-saw... and I am one of the lucky ones; I have no life and can work whatever hours they tell me, but what of the people with families who have to negotiate with their spouses who is going to pick up the kids, etc? I can't imagine what it must be like for them. Makes me wish we could stage a revolt. Because it's getting downright ridiculous.

But at least I have a job. At least I have a job. At least I have a job... and there is nowhere else to go.

I have set my goal to have my new bed by the end of June (because the offer of additional Cashback Bonus on home purchases on my Discover card is good until then). I am so excited to have a whole new bed and be DONE with my old falling-apart thing. I want to be careful about my purchase though... it has to be perfect for me, but not too pricey.

So today I decided to test some out at the mall just to start. I was going to try Sears, but this particular Sears I went to didn't have mattresses, so I tried Macy's. I tried out a few that were around the price range I'm willing to pay for my new bed, and one of them, a Serta, was right at the top of that range, but I LOVED it. It just felt RIGHT - it was firm enough, but it had a pillowtop cover to take some of the firmness off a bit. Most of the other ones I lay on were either TOO firm, TOO soft, or just felt like I was laying on foam. But the one I liked could totally be my new upgrade in my room. I could get the whole mattress set, plus a new bed frame, and delivery/disposal of my old bed would be free. Sounds like a great deal, but I have to shop around first. I will go check out some other furniture stores and see if there's anything else I like as much as that one... if not, I may have already found my new bed!

Although... I tried to find some online reviews of this particular model, and came up short. I couldn't even find this particular one in Macy's online catalog. I know it's a Serta Perfect Sleeper, but the tag said "Serta Whittmer Limited Firm Euro Pillowtop" and I found nothing that matched that. I wonder if that means they're going to discontinue that one? Hope not!