Natalie wants my bed to be big enough so she can sleep in it (and Lukie too) and watch tv with me on it. The only problem is the fact that after I started my initial search a few months ago for the perfect new Sealy mattress set, I came across pages and pages of complaints about four different stores (one of which really surprised me considering it's a reputable department store) which not only bring the mattress to your house but they also bring bedbugs. So I postponed my new bed search in fear of accidentally bringing bedbugs into the apartment.

Seems like bed bugs have become the new rat of Manhattan.  And they are just all over the place.  Yuck.  News reports have people throwing out their furniture, management companies refusing to help them so they move out their apartment, and even a woman who left the state because of them!  Double Yuck.

Now even SNL mama Maya Rudolph has been bothered by bedbugs.  Her $13,500 a month SoHo apartment where she lived with her husband and daughter is infested with them.  Makes me wonder what the odds of someone living in a $3,000 a month apartment in Manhattan are for not getting bedbugs.

It's even gotten to be a running joke on Craigslist where posters write open letters to their bed bug roommates.  But seriously doesn't it just seem to be too much to have to go through such lengths that you are throwing out your furniture. You finally find a couch you like and now you have to toss it?

I just can't sleep on this bed anymore.  I've had it forever.  It's time for a change already. Hopefully in a few weeks when I get a chance to go shopping, it'll be a change for the better.
<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-11-02-maya-rudolph_x.htm">
Maya Rudolph - BedBugs Story</a>

<a href="http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/chi/196226851.html">Craigslist Bedbug Open Letter</a>

<a href="http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/bedbugs/">Harvard's Take on Bedbugs: More than you ever wanted to know</a>