I have a confession to make: I have an obsession with pillows. I prefer to sleep with 3 pillows, but I can make do with 2 if I must. If I'm spending the night somewhere and I don't have 2 pillows, I will roll up whatever clothing I was wearing that day and use it in place of the missing pillow. I absolutely cannot stand to have my knees touching while I sleep, so not having a substitute
pillow is not an option.
I know I have issues, but I'm willing to accept them and move on.
This strange obsession flows over to the part of my brain that loves to decorate. On each bedroom of my house, I feel the need to have a "Pillow Show". I realize that this pillow show is really only put on for me to see, but I feel that each bed must have multiple pillows to decorate it. Have you ever seen a bed with just the obligatory 2 pillows, and thought, "that is a beautiful and decorative presentation!" No, of course you haven't! Multiple pillows are essential to achieving this statement. My own personal bed currently has 11 pillows decorating it. And that is after downsizing! I used to have 13! Well, technically I still do have 13, but 2 are hidden and used for actual sleeping on. I realize that taking 11 pillows off the bed each night, and replacing all 11 again each morning is time consuming. It takes approximately 1 minute to remove the pillows at night, and about 2 minutes to replace in the morning (it takes more time to strategically place them in the correct places than it does to take them off the bed, even though after taking them off, I do neatly line them up at the foot of the bed in the same order that they are laid out on the bed). Yes, I already said that I realize I have issues.
So, I spend 3 minutes a day on the pillow procedure. That breaks down to 21 minutes a week, 1092 minutes a year, or 18.2 hours. So, close to 1 day out of my year is devoted to arranging pillows. But in my mind, it is time well spent.
Presenting, The Pillow Show:
My Bedroom Pillow Show
Bedroom #2 Pillow Show
Bedroom #3 Pillow Show
The End.
My pillow show has expanded because YOU bought me 2 new pillows! Your obsession is spilling over into other people's houses! But I love it :)
ReplyDeleteOkay, okay, calm down. They are just pillows! Ha!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you on the sleeping issue, though. I need an extra pillow to put my arm on when I'm on my side so it doesn't go to sleep. It's scary how much you are like me! And, grandma always put a pillow between her knees! Guess it's in the genes!
I love pillows too! Now if only I could get in the habit of making my bed each morning. Let me think, we have 10 pillows, but most of them are plain ol pillow case pillows for sleeping. I don't like to put my nappy head on my pretty pillowcases. I wish you could come over and help me arrange pillows, but you'd die of cat hair overload. Do know, if you ever stay here, my guest beds have 6 pillows on one, and 8 on the other. That should get ya through!
ReplyDeleteI never realized how few pillows I have until now.
ReplyDeletejenn, go get jason an extra pillow.
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