Pillows
So for the past 3 or 4 months I have been on a quest for the perfect pillow.
Down pillows are great and all, but they always got too hot. I tried sleeping on one of those buck wheat pillows, and sleeping on it was like sleeping on exactly what it was - a sack of grain. I absolutely adore the latex foam pillows. I have four of them on my bed. Though they are durable, even they wear out and lose their support after 4 or more years.
However, when I walked into my local Bed Bath & Beyond, I found that there were no longer several brands of latex foam pillows. Perhaps I am the only person on the planet who likes them, which is why the foam pillow industry has dwindled down to one measely house brand. A house brand which sucks, because their pillows were less firm than the 4 year old pillows I have at home.
So that led me to my recent dillema. What on earth do I use for a new pillow?!
Could Target save me? Despite their Memory Foam pillow stock, they unfortunately could not. You see, after discovering what I thought were the joys of Memory Foam, my brother asked me what I wanted for Christmas. At first I told him panties, but that was just a trick to get him to buy my the more expensive memory foam pillow instead. When faced with the option of walking into Victoria's Secret to buy his sister panties, or going to Target to buy a pillow, he opted for the more expensive but less embarrassing pillow option.
So alas! I finally have my long coveted perfect pillow! Yeah right! Apparently Memory Foam has too good of a memory. Midway through the night, I would wake up and my pillow would be compacted. Upon fluffing the pillow, I noticed that it wouldn't fluff back up. WHY!? Because the damn Memory Foam wouldn't unremember the fact that my fat head had been slowly compressing it into a brick for the past 4 hours!
And back to square one for me .... what to do about a pillow? Well last night, I figured it out! I got thee perfect pillow. No more discomfort from sleeping on my neck funny. In fact, I slept like a rock and felt great this morning.
What was this modern miracle that I discovered? Was it an isotonic pillow? No! Did I by some miracle find a Beauty Rest latex foam pillow? No again! Did I boil the buckwheat and create an all new pillow on my own? The answer is no for the third time!
So what did I find? I found out that my blankie folded up neatly was the best damn thing in the world. Yep ... that's right ... my blankie. That damn thing that's been sitting at the foot of my bed for the past ten years.
I took a yoga class for the very first time yesterday, and the instructor put a blanket under my head when we did an "exercise" that consisted of us lying down with our eyes closed. And boy was I comfy! I'm not sure how long we laid there, but I nearly fell asleep.
Blankets rock.
Down pillows are great and all, but they always got too hot. I tried sleeping on one of those buck wheat pillows, and sleeping on it was like sleeping on exactly what it was - a sack of grain. I absolutely adore the latex foam pillows. I have four of them on my bed. Though they are durable, even they wear out and lose their support after 4 or more years.
However, when I walked into my local Bed Bath & Beyond, I found that there were no longer several brands of latex foam pillows. Perhaps I am the only person on the planet who likes them, which is why the foam pillow industry has dwindled down to one measely house brand. A house brand which sucks, because their pillows were less firm than the 4 year old pillows I have at home.
So that led me to my recent dillema. What on earth do I use for a new pillow?!
Could Target save me? Despite their Memory Foam pillow stock, they unfortunately could not. You see, after discovering what I thought were the joys of Memory Foam, my brother asked me what I wanted for Christmas. At first I told him panties, but that was just a trick to get him to buy my the more expensive memory foam pillow instead. When faced with the option of walking into Victoria's Secret to buy his sister panties, or going to Target to buy a pillow, he opted for the more expensive but less embarrassing pillow option.
So alas! I finally have my long coveted perfect pillow! Yeah right! Apparently Memory Foam has too good of a memory. Midway through the night, I would wake up and my pillow would be compacted. Upon fluffing the pillow, I noticed that it wouldn't fluff back up. WHY!? Because the damn Memory Foam wouldn't unremember the fact that my fat head had been slowly compressing it into a brick for the past 4 hours!
And back to square one for me .... what to do about a pillow? Well last night, I figured it out! I got thee perfect pillow. No more discomfort from sleeping on my neck funny. In fact, I slept like a rock and felt great this morning.
What was this modern miracle that I discovered? Was it an isotonic pillow? No! Did I by some miracle find a Beauty Rest latex foam pillow? No again! Did I boil the buckwheat and create an all new pillow on my own? The answer is no for the third time!
So what did I find? I found out that my blankie folded up neatly was the best damn thing in the world. Yep ... that's right ... my blankie. That damn thing that's been sitting at the foot of my bed for the past ten years.
I took a yoga class for the very first time yesterday, and the instructor put a blanket under my head when we did an "exercise" that consisted of us lying down with our eyes closed. And boy was I comfy! I'm not sure how long we laid there, but I nearly fell asleep.
Blankets rock.