Pillow talk

So, I have been excitedly anticipating the arrival of my new Tempurpedic pillow for more than a week now, and it is scheduled to arrive today. I have been looking forward to this pillow delivery with an eagerness that is perhaps mockable, but hey, it's the small things in life that can make a big difference.

Last Tuesday after I won the eBay auction I had this grand notion of taking my devoted blog followers on a visual journey of my pillow's travel from California to New York. I decided I would make use of my UPS tracking number and create a map pinpointing the stops on the cross-country trip.

However, UPS let me down. After telling me the package originated in Oakland and letting me know it traveled fewer than twenty miles to San Pablo the next day, there were no updates for five days, until it suddenly appeared in Parsippany, New Jersey. Such limited info makes for a pretty lame visual:


But despite the lack of details, UPS did its job, and assuming they can actually deliver to my no-doorman building, my head is going to be pleasantly supported come tonight.

I became suddenly obsessed with having a luxury pillow after testing out a few during a recent trip to Bed Bath & Beyond . I've lusted after Tempurpedic mattresses ever since I first stretched out on one in a store several years ago, so I wasn't surprised to discover their pillows were equally seductive. However, the one I wanted was $100. Not quite as prohibitively expensive as the mattress, but still, a lot for a pillow. Nonetheless, it was love at first touch and I am good at justifying my desires. And after a show of patience and persistence via eBay auction-stalking, my high-end deluxe comfort object only cost me $60.

I'm really enjoying being awake today, but I can't wait to go to sleep.