Pillow Woes
3 August 2009
Back in May, I had the brilliant idea of washing our pillows. I’d done it several times before, but either I did something wrong this time, or the pillows just weren’t up for it. One came out so lumpy it was unusable. The other only half lumpy, and therefore still kinda usable. Usable enough that Ben’s been sleeping on it since then.
Yesterday we finally went to the mall in a quest for new pillows. I bought some back in May right after “the incident,” but they were way too thick and neither of us could sleep on them. We’ve casually looked since then, but most seem too firm and others too flimsy. Yesterday we walked into Macy’s and discovered all their pillows were half off and so we determined to settle this thing once and for all.
Oh. My. Gosh, is it hard to pick out a pillow.
If it weren’t for McKenna, I probably would have frittered away tons of time in there. You can spend basically as much as you want. (I pointed out a $300 price tag to Ben, to which he replied, “For that price, it better give me a neck massage.”) I’ve suffered the consequences of spending $11 on a pillow, so I wanted to aim higher than that, but otherwise I really had no idea what I wanted. I sleep half on my stomach (for which they recommend soft pillows) and half on my side (for which they recommend firm pillows). So that’s no help. And while I attempted to lie on various pillows and test their squishiness, you can really only tell so much on the very hard floor of Macy’s. Added to the stress of not knowing what’s best for me was the fact that there were tons of choices.
In contrast with the pillow experience, thirty minutes later we were at Backwoods, a sporting goods store that specializes in backpacking and camping gear. We were there for Ben (did I even need to say that?) but they actually carry a lot of really cute, albeit expensive, women’s clothes. They were having a massive sale, and I spotted a shirt I admired about 6-weeks ago. Thinking I was crazy for even checking, I flipped the tag, shocked to find it was now 50% off. I turned the shirt to Ben, my mouth hanging open. He took one look and said, “That shirt was made for you.” (It’s green and there are dragonflies on it. That makes it a “Stephanie” shirt.)
Hope all my fabulous blog readers are having a found-an-adorable-shirt-for-half-off kind of day, rather than a totally-overwhelmed-and-can’t-make-an-educated-decision-on-this-stupid-pillow type.
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