Sleepless nights...

* If the kitchen headache isn't enough to cause sleepless nights, we now also have to deal with a problem with our mattress.

* When they delivered our bed/mattress a few weeks ago, we noticed that they had brought the wrong mattress. They acknowledged the problem and would bring us a new mattress but in the mean time (6 weeks or so), we could sleep on the wrong one. We slept GREAT.. so we really hoped the new one would be just as good or not better.

Not so... the new one is harder and Wim wakes up in the morning with a sore back. So after two nights I head back to the store and ask about whether we could get back the other one. The owner (a neighbor so that helps) explains that the core of the mattress is the same, only the cover is different, and the one we have should be the best on the market. But he is willing to put the old cover around it again so we can sleep on that one for a few nights. He wants us to be happy with the mattress (being our neighbor and all ;-) .... not the usual Belgian customer service.

* Another item causing me sleepless nights is the passport issue (on which I am now not going to elaborate because of Big Brother watching me) ... paranoia hits Belgium too....