Visit the eastern hemisphere!

K: Bon voyage and safe travels to Africa! And, welcome to the eastern hemisphere! If anyone else reading this is headed this way (preferably landing several hundred miles north of, say, Africa, although I'm willing to travel!) chez Molly Murphy is theeeees close to throwing the doors open. And when I say theeeees close, I mean that I need to get to Ikea on the double becuase I am refusing to make an Army issue bed as part of my decor. Why is this important? What could be so bad about Army furniture? Well, nothing, unless it's the Army issue bed that you're talking about. Now, I know what you're thinking: is this bed a field cot? The good news is that no, it's not a field cot. I'd say it's probably, oh, a full step better than a field cot, which isn't saying much. We newcomers quickly learned that the Army issue bed consists solely of a mattress that I'm fairly confident had a previous life as a cushion on a piece of lawn furniture. The comfy yet pool-furniture-ish mattress is then laid on top of a low platform of 2 x 4s. Mmmm...comfy! Way back when we arrived, most of my friends ordered the Army-issue bed to use in their apartments thinking, "Hey! This is great: free furniture!" Quickly, however, crippled by the lounge chair mattress, most threw in the towel, and spent the money for real mattress and box spring combos and are sleeping peacefully as I write this. So what happens to all of those discarded Army issue beds? Will the Army move them back out of your apartment for you? Uh, no. Thaaaaat's right: you just move it into your spare bedroom, of course! M. and I think that the Army issue bed is the furniture that says to your guests, "Don't get too comfortable!" Have a good Wednesday!