Mats and mattresses

Sounds like a word game, doesn't it? You know like "sense and sensibility"?

Anyway, I had decided not to go to yoga today, because firstly I had to stay at home waiting for the delivery of the new futon mattress for the sofa, and secondly because I think I've overdone yoga a bit this week and I'm feeling sore. Sears gave me a useful time frame of 8 to 18 when the mattress was going to be delivered, but it actually came soon after nine so I didn't have wait by the phone too long. The new mattress is better than the old one, still not quite as plump as the one they have on display - but it really doesn't matter as they didn't pick up the old one... so now we have two. Should be soft enough even for a princess.

And because I didn't have any yoga today I decided that I had been holding off too long giving my trusty yoga mat a wash so I decided to do that. I had the impression that you could just take it to the shower with you and wash it with some mild soap, so that's what I did. Only I hadn't quite realised how spongy material the mat really is, and that it becomes incredibly heavy when fully wet. In addition, it sucks the soapy water in like, well, a sponge, and getting the soap out is next to impossible. So I was doing weird acrobatics in the shower - just imagine me naked in the shower wrestling with a heavy mat (or not if it makes you feel funny), water spraying everywhere, trying to squeeze the water and the soap out of the mat...

Result: flood in the bathroom, dead tired kolibri and a mat that is now drying but full of soap water that will probably make it very slippery with a touch of moisture. I think I'll try the mat out tomorrow and try rinse it off again if it's too unpleasant to use. So here's my tip for people planning to wash their mats: use only minute amounts of soap, if even that.

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