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this is not a luxury establishment.
I'm pretty busy getting ready for the uninvited houseguests, who will be here on Thursday. The house is SO set up for two people and some pets, NOT four people: we eat on trays, and have only two of them. We eat sitting in an area where there is only room for two people to eat at a time. We don't have seating for four in any area where videos or DVDs can be watched. Etc etc.
Initially my mom was going to let them sleep in her room, and sleep on the sofa herself, but we figured out that it would freak out the cats (who are already freaked out and hermitlike enough due to the dog, and only come out into her room to visit at night when she's in bed). So tonight we changed that plan & have decided to clean out the eating side of the kitchen, where we're getting rid of the table anyway, and put an air mattress there. All that's there is stacks of boxes and old magazines that need to be sorted and discarded and stuff.
Anyway, we went in pursuit of the mattress to Target tonight, with the intention of buying an Aero bed, until we found out how much the queen size costs. Ended up with something similar but less fancy by Eddie Bauer. I also found the "I SEE SOMEONE'S" underwear set and a clearance camisole, and got that new doublended L'Oreal mascara to try. It's a knockoff of a Bourjois mascara they sell at Sephora for which I refuse to pay $16+.
I am very tired now and must go to sleep before my eyelids fall off.
I feel really taken-advantage-of by these houseguests. They're not bad PEOPLE, but who insists on visiting people when they're planning to move within a month or so - especially when they're moving really close to the projected visitors? Hi, welcome to HOTEL VERBMINX. Where you sleep in the kitchen on an air mattress, because we told you that we didn't have anywhere else to put you. grr.
Initially my mom was going to let them sleep in her room, and sleep on the sofa herself, but we figured out that it would freak out the cats (who are already freaked out and hermitlike enough due to the dog, and only come out into her room to visit at night when she's in bed). So tonight we changed that plan & have decided to clean out the eating side of the kitchen, where we're getting rid of the table anyway, and put an air mattress there. All that's there is stacks of boxes and old magazines that need to be sorted and discarded and stuff.
Anyway, we went in pursuit of the mattress to Target tonight, with the intention of buying an Aero bed, until we found out how much the queen size costs. Ended up with something similar but less fancy by Eddie Bauer. I also found the "I SEE SOMEONE'S" underwear set and a clearance camisole, and got that new doublended L'Oreal mascara to try. It's a knockoff of a Bourjois mascara they sell at Sephora for which I refuse to pay $16+.
I am very tired now and must go to sleep before my eyelids fall off.
I feel really taken-advantage-of by these houseguests. They're not bad PEOPLE, but who insists on visiting people when they're planning to move within a month or so - especially when they're moving really close to the projected visitors? Hi, welcome to HOTEL VERBMINX. Where you sleep in the kitchen on an air mattress, because we told you that we didn't have anywhere else to put you. grr.
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just don't ever make the mistake of trying to blow it up. i did that in desperation when we moved here and had to wait two weeks for our furniture.
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the major advantage of the eddie bauer mattress, i think, is that it's cheeeeeeeper. the major disadvantage is that it takes batteries! they had a serta bed that plugs into the wall, but it was like $20+ more expensive, so we went for the Eddie, which I think will be just fine. It's astounding how cheap the mattresses without pumps are now. They used to be around $80 for a flocked full or queen (i forget which), now that same mattress is like $25.
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People jumping on their last chance for a trip to Florida with free accommodation? (sorry... I'm terribly cynical.)
But maybe the air mattress in the kitchen will give them the hint they need.
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the air mattress in the kitchen isn't even a hint - it's a concession, it cost us $80. my mom was going to let them sleep in her room. but that's not really a cool idea because of the setup with the cats and how traumatized they are since we got the dog. they hang out in our back room (a semi-patio that used to be open but is now enclosed) and only come out when the dog is in her crate, late at night. the entry to the back room is off of her bedroom, and they sleep in her room with her. if my mom wasn't there for them to sleep with, and instead were sleeping on the living room sofa where they aren't allowed, they'd be so fucked up about it. they're elderly & we don't want to upset them any further, because we worry about health decline.
the hints to the "guests" are more along the lines of them not really having anywhere to eat, us not having menus planned, that sort of thing. my mother is trying to talk herself out of the knowledge that her friend is totally taking advantage of her for a free hotel, but we all know it's true. said friend also passive-aggressively made my mother decide whether or not it was OK for her to come down - duh, it wasn't OK to ASK.
it's a fundie and her 9-yr-old daughter. whee. i have known this woman all my life. she's bipolar and ONLY ok to be around when she's taking her medication, and sometimes abruptly decides to stop. after my stepfather died, she wrote my mother a letter about how my mother hadn't been there for her enough previously. i think this woman is dead weight, personally, in the friendship department. the kid seemed all right when i met her a while ago, but making a kid go to a fundie church is one of the top five ways to seriously fuck them up. so who knows.
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I should add here, to clarify, that my mom did not want them to come, heavily hinted about it, suggested that they come in March instead (which the friend veto'd because she didn't want to pull her kid out of school - this is kid's spring break), basically did everything she could short of saying no, but friend didn't get the message. friend also said she would come for "a week" and will actuall be here for almost two weeks... I think it's something like 11 days. I seriously think we should make her hotel it for the last four.
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meanwhile, i fucking flipped my lid when my mom almost bought said friend the latest book in that "left behind" series that's so popular with the fundies these days. "Don't you put that in my cart. I don't want to be seen purchasing that hatemongering crap. Carry it yourself or hide it somewhere." (cos see, those Left Behind dudes are all about the negativity when it comes to portraying Jews, Muslims, homosexuals, etc.) It just gets funner and funner. The poor 9-yr-old kid coming to see us is one of those who isn't allowed contact with anything related to Harry Potter. Yech.