My son had some tests at the hospital last night. So I went with him and spent the night there to be with him.

Since he was the patient he was able to sleep in a nice hospital bed.  I, on the other hand, was given the privilege of sleeping on the hospital provided Transformer chair-bed.  I’ve “slept” on them before and I never look forward to doing it.

With each of our children’s birth I’ve tried to avoid sleeping on them as much as possible.  My wife didn’t like it much, but there was just no way that I was going to be able to spend too many nights on those things.

Last night was no different.  The tech came in and Transformed it into the “bed”.  It was uncomfortable enough as a chair and it only got worse as a bed.

It had zero padding on it, so it really was like sleeping on a slab of concrete.  The biggest problem was that I couldn’t just sleep flat on my back because my shoulders were wider than the bed was.  So I ended up trying to sleep in all kinds of crazy positions.

Nothing seemed to help body parts were tingling and asleep, but I was hardly able to get any kind of rest.  So when it was over this morning, I came home and jumped into my nice soft warm king sized bed and slept for over 3 hours.

Just a bit of advice for Hospital Administrators out there, why don’t you look at getting a partnership going with Serta.  Maybe Serta could provide you with some great beds for the parents to sleep on and the parents could subject themselves to hearing the Techs/Nurses/Doctors calling it by name every time they mention it.  “Hello sir, here are your linens for your Serta Perfect Sleep Hospital Edition bed.  Have good night’s rest.”

I would think that the parents would love a good night’s rest and who knows maybe they’ll go buy a new Serta mattress just because during that super stressful time that they child was in the hospital, they remember that they got a great night’s sleep on a Serta mattress.

It’s funny how sometimes the smallest things can cause stress in your life.

So I haven’t been wearing it because my hands have been a bit swollen and I couldn’t wear it comfortably.  It was sitting on my night stand and we recently discovered that it was missing.  Now I’m pretty stressed trying to find it.

It’s funny how when life throws us the little curve balls that our stress levels tend to disproportionately grow.  Or maybe it’s just me.

If there was a simple way to remove all of the stress from our lives, I don’t think that I would go for it though.  Far too often the stress leads to things that I’m far more grateful for after having gone through what I did to get there.

I’m just hoping that we’re able to locate my ring without too much more stress.

Went shooting this morning and spent the rest of the day doing next to nothing and it was great.

I did run to a few stores and was surprised at how not busy it was.  Maybe people are wising up and not putting everything on credit and are instead only buying what they can afford.  Maybe some good will come from this economy after all.  Than again maybe I’m just a bit too much of an optimist today.

Growing up I always remember Thanksgiving as being a huge holiday.  We would have family from all around come to our house, mom would get out her nice dishes and we’d have a great meal followed by a couple of traditional family games, then Pie and Ice Cream, visiting with family and then once we were hungry again left overs.

It seemed like Thanksgiving lasted all day long (ok, I know that it technically lasts all day long, but this was spending the entire day eating and hanging out with family) and I loved every minute of it.

So this year we had Thanksgiving at our house.  I had been yearly for a return to yesteryear, so a huge Thank You goes out to my family for indulging me and allowing me to relive some of those old Thanksgivings today.  It was great.

I am a total creature of habit, so claim that I’m a bit stuck in my ways, I beg to differ.  I don’t need much when it comes to certain aspects of my life, especially clothing and fashion.  I don’t need to be the most fashionable person and I certainly don’t need expensive clothing.

I certainly don’t need dozens of pairs of pants, a ton of shirts or even that many pairs of shoes.  With the exception of when I was 18 and working at a shoe store I don’t really need more than 2 or 3 pairs. Side note: While working at said shoe store I had approximately 50 pairs of shoes, but that’s another story for another day.

When you only have 2 or 3 pairs, you tend to wear the same pair quite a bit which is exactly what I do.  I get a pair, wear them out and then get another pair.  Several months ago I needed a new pair, so I bought some and have been wearing them.

Apparently I bought a cheap pair because they’ve been falling apart, so I went to purchase a new pair at a local chain store that is going out of business.  I figured that I would hopefully get a decent deal on a good pair of shoes that would last me through the winter.

As I walked into the store I did a double take.  I walked through the first set of double doors.  On the door was a sign “Now Hiring, See Service Desk for details” and as I walked thought he second set of doors was promptly met with huge signs of “Store Closing, Going Out of Business, Everything 40-60% Off”.

Huh?