Women are from JMU (men are too) - Move-in

When I leave JMU this December, I'll be upset about many things - leaving my friends behind, talking regularly with my favorite professors, missing the beautiful spring weather on the Quad - you know, the usual JMU mushy mess.

But mostly, my mascara will begin to run and stain my tacky, bright purple robes for one big reason. I have to move out.

This may not seem like anything to cry over, but if you've accumulated as much crap as I have over the last three years, moving out of and into dorms, apartments and houses becomes the bane of your existence.

Let's start out with freshman year. I treated preparing to live at JMU the way I would treat living in a third world country. I packed everything so that I would be prepared for those first couple days of homesickness, the year of the random roommate, being sick when all campus health centers were closed, potential bombings and a contingency plan in case the food service employees went on strike.

My parents and I loaded up the family minivan with clothes, toiletries, electronics, make up, decorations, hair products, DVDs, comforters (yes, multiple), mattress cushions, pillows, a bulletin board, school supplies and my computer.

Accompained by a printer, a shoe storage unit that only fit a third of my footwear, three different styles of backpacks, multiple bags worth of groceries (when I didn't have a real kitchen) and four stuffed animals I had hidden in a box until I could decide if my roommate would judge me or not.

During my drive to JMU, I was shoved up against a window with my leg over several boxes in a warrior three yoga pose for two hours while my mom talked about missing me and my dad talked about how I should protect my expensive computer.

By the time we arrived I was in a mood that can kindly be described as less than perky. Unfortunately, the FROGs and those helping me move in were a little overzealous in their attempts to make me feel at home.

They wanted to know all about me, my boyfriend, my major (that I had yet to declare), my hometown, my astrological sign, my favorite color, my hobbies - you get the drift.

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That's better than stuffing it under a mattress, where the $100000 would be worth $76923 today, or investing in the stock market, where it would be worth $69935, he said. If you purchased your home before 2005 and are in for the long haul,



Women are from JMU (men are too) - Move-in

My parents and I loaded up the family minivan with clothes, toiletries, electronics, make up, decorations, hair products, DVDs, comforters (yes, multiple), mattress cushions, pillows, a bulletin board, school supplies and my computer.



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He said the primary entertainment consisted of sitting on a ratty mattress watching your urine pool in front of you. After several months of this, he was moved to the prison where I was. By then he'd developed severe high blood pressure.



John Stoeger column: No sure path to joining Super Rich

Her attorney takes everything except your investment properties, which he convinces the judge are still worth the million you paid for them. Now homeless, you move into the cupboard-less apartment and sleep on a mattress on the floor.




Articles 20VN | The Seven Year Itch | four poster | bed | beds ...

My company makes four poster beds and I was talking to my mattress supplier the other day, a company that hand make high quality mattresses to any size. We were discussing mattresses, their lifespan, peoples' attitudes towards them, and the differences between a high quality pocket sprung mattress and the new memory foam mattresses that are becoming increasingly popular.

A good quality pocket sprung mattress has a lifespan of five to seven years, no more. Not ten or twelve. (I am talking about a mattress used daily, not a mattress used occasionally in a guest room.) It should be turned regularly, once a week for the first month from new, then once a month after that, but in reality, they are lucky to be turned every six months. You must also remember that there are four ways to turn a mattress, not two. (Around 180 degrees, end for end, and completely turned over, then end for end again.) Traditional mattresses are made from materials that compress, and settle, they contain springs that compress under weight, and need to wear evenly, so by turning a mattress, you spread the wear over the whole mattress, evening it out, and not creating high spots, low spots, lumps and bumps.

Apparently the average adult perspires about half a pint of fluid every night. If you think that that is disgusting, then think about the dead skin that ends up in the mattress as well. I'm sure I don't have to mention 'bed bugs' and the warm environment they have in a bed, with moisture and dead skin to feed from. Using a mattress protector, will stop everything filtering into your mattress. You want to be lying on something healthy for the next seven year. One of the best things to do on a regularly is to use a vacuum cleaner on both sides of the mattress. Please remember that a traditional mattress has moving parts, so they wear out.

The new alternative is the memory (visco-elastic) foam mattress. The idea is that you sink into the foam, it supports you evenly, and when you get off the foam will return to its former state, in truth, a traditional pocket sprung mattress should do a similar thing. The memory foam mattress is a sealed unit, so that moisture, dead skin and bed mites cannot penetrate. It will cost you more than a traditional mattress, but equally, it is usually guaranteed for more than twice as long, so is it expensive?


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Why?, Trusting God When You Don't Understand

Why?, Trusting God When You Don't Understand

Called "the best preacher in the family" by her father, Billy Graham, Lotz shares her heart and God's teachings on the universal problem of suffering.

Start with why, how great leaders inspire everyone to take action

Start with why, how great leaders inspire everyone to take action

Suggesting that successful businesspeople and companies share a common inspiration that motivates them to perform beyond standard levels, an anecdotal reference ...

Why Read?

Why Read?

A scholar and author of Teacher: The One Who Made a Difference argues that questions about the uses of literature are essential to a literary education and that ...

Why?, The Best Ever Question and Answer Book about Nature, Science and the World Around You

Why?, The Best Ever Question and Answer Book about Nature, Science and the World Around You


The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw

If the child gives the effect another turn of the screw, what do you say to TWO children--?" "We say, of course," somebody exclaimed, "that they give two ...

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