It is that time again for another Music Monday. I picked another classic oldie, and I chose this video for its soothing qualities that match the feel of the song. Have a favorite tune? Feel free to post it for today!

Well, I am not really a princess, and this blog doesn’t really involve any legumes, but it does involve trying to get a good nights sleep.

I had been shopping for mattresses for a while and a few months ago, on Veterans Day in November, I finally got around to ordering a new set along with a different bedframe and a new recliner while I was at it, taking advantage of some sales. I opted to have everything delivered and the first date available was Dec. 3rd. There was, however, an issue that came up and my order was not going thru, so a call to customer service, and then another call the next day to my bank, and it was all straightened out. However, since the order didn’t go thru until the following day, I was then informed the next available date for delivery would be Dec. 27th. Argh!

Two weeks before the date, I got an email that my order was ready and for me to log into my account and pick a date for delivery. What?! Again?! Back to customer service. Evidently one item was backordered, so they didn’t put in my order until that item arrived. It didn’t matter that it came in BEFORE the original delivery date, my order wasn’t in the system for delivery. But it’s amazing how my payment was made and cashed immediately in November…. cue the steam rising from my head.

My new delivery date…. January 17th. So angry as I was, I went and flipped my old mattress …again… and waited for the day.

Early on January17th, they came with my new recliner, my new bed frame, and a new set of mattresses. The delivery guys were polite, cheerful, and anxious to be back on the road for the rest of their deliveries. There was one slight problem, one that had to be pointed out to them…. but they seemed nonplussed and told me to not worry, I would be contacted by the company in about 20 minutes about the issue.

Do you see something wrong with this pic?

I don’t know why it had to be pointed out to the delivery drivers that it is obviously not a matching, same size set. A queen mattress with a full-sized box spring. But they left it in the middle of the living room and told me they were leaving it for me…. so, I would have someplace to sleep.

Another call to customer service. Which they apologized for the wrong order and assured me the problem would be remedied immediately and I would be put on their schedule for delivery for February 14th.

I don’t think so, and I said as much. Delivery would be today, they would come with the right order AND pick up the obviously wrong order or they would pay for my hotel room, and I would consider the mattresses they dropped off as “abandoned and free”. More time on hold, and another delivery date given of possibly January 31st was the best that they could do.

Time to shift gears into very angry princess mode and demand to speak to the customer service’s manager/boss. Another lovely conversation centered around delivery availability, drivers, messed up orders not only for me, but at least two other people as neither of the deposited mattresses were from my order. Hmmm, you would think that would have registered with them without me having to point that out to them. That had them panicking and calling the drivers to go thru the truck, go thru the inventory, more calls back and forth between customer service and myself for the whole morning looking for my mattresses.

After my refusing to budge on accepting the February delivery, they finally called me one last time to say they would be back the next day with my new mattress set and they would reimburse me for the cost of delivery and a$120 credit which she would confirm in an email to me.

I never got the email, and I doubt I will be getting any credit. But I did finally get my new mattresses. So, I guess I am going to live happily ever after….. napping.

I’m feeling a bit nostalgic for today’s Music Monday, been awhile since I had listened to this song from one of my favorite bands. Have a favorite? Feel free to post it for today’s Music Monday.

Yes, I know I missed Music Monday, so for today… it will be “Tunes for Tuesday” to make up for it. I thought this song fit perfectly for today as for all of the past several days! Hopefully others that are out there feeling under the weather are starting to feel better.

First Music Monday of 2025! I chose this song today because it’s such a classic, and I love this video they made with clips from the vintage movie “Metropolis”.

Have a favorite tune running thru your head? Feel free to post it for today’s Music Monday.

Here we are, with the last Music Monday for 2024. I chose this cute and catchy song by Sia since there is a forecast for snow a few days this week…Ugh!

Have a favorite tune? Feel free to post it for today’s Music Monday.

Here it is the last Monday before Christmas. Still a ton of stuff to do, but thankfully my family is getting together after Christmas, so I have a few more days to procrastinate.

Lots of great Christmas songs to choose from, but I ended up picking this one but not after listening to several this morning.

A beautiful rendition by such a talented guy that sings all of his parts and put together this amazing video.

Have a favorite Christmas song? Feel free to post it for today’s Music Monday.

I had bought some Pillsbury crescent rolls in the tubes to make at Thanksgiving time, but didn’t end up making them as my sister-in-law had brought some other rolls as well. So, the other day I went looking for something to make with the unopened rolls of dough. I had seen several times the recipe for the layered cream cheese concoction of cream cheese sandwiched between two layers of the crescent roll dough but instead, I came across several different YouTube videos on making cream cheese Danish instead.

Is it a Danish? Is it a pastry? Is it a kolache? Who knows, it is a semblance of all of them I guess and a lot easier than making actually pastry dough the old-fashioned way. Most of the recipes were similar in their approach and to make the easy pastry, Danish, kolache is as follows…

Open up the tube of crescent roll but do not unroll the dough.

Slice the tube of dough into six equal round discs.

Place them on a parchment lined cookie sheet and then using the bottom of a cup or bowl or jar, etc, press down each round til there is a depression in the center of the disc, and they are enlarged a bit.

Fill the center of the depression with a cream cheese mixture or with a dollop of fruit filling, or both.

The cream cheese mixture consisted of an 8oz. block of softened cream cheese, granulated sugar, an egg, and either a bit of vanilla or lemon juice.

Brush the Pastry with an egg wash (I didn’t). and bake for about 20 minutes or until golden brown.

You can drizzle on a powdered sugar glaze which was optional.

With a little bit more tinkering I think it could be a pretty good easy go to idea for breakfast for company or just for family. I think next time I would try it with frozen puff pastry instead and maybe try adding the fruit filling along with the cream cheese filling.

I’ll give the recipe a B or B+.

The big day is getting closer and there are just too many wonderful Christmas songs to choose from! I finally selected this song, and it is hard to believe it is from 40 years ago back in 1984! How many of the musical artists do you recognize?

Brace yourself, Christmas songs are coming for the rest of the month! There are so many great Christmas songs out there by so many groups and singers it is hard to just whittle it down to just a couple of songs for this month. I chose this song to hopefully lift anyone’s spirits and get them in the right frame of mind for the season.

Have a favorite tune? Feel free to post a song for today’s Music Monday. Extra brownie points if it is a song that fits the holiday theme.