But after I saw one of my teammates carrying one during softball season, I thought they were incredibly cute! I think everyone else on my team thought so, too, because the next thing I know, almost all the players on my team had one.
I wanted one, too! But I had a budget in my junior year. My money went to minutes, food, bills (I get child support, f.y.i, and my mom uses it for bills), apps and headphones (I break headphones easily), clothes, and books.
I finally got one when I went to Washington D.C. last month. An orange fox named Franky~
And Franky eventually inspired me to look at the pillow pet website, mypillowpets.com.
I wanted to see what kind of pillow pets they had. I wanted to see if there were any rare ones I could buy, too.
After going through their website, I found out...
- Some pillow pets had names already! Like Krissy Koala (which I want, btw, with a penguin... and a buffalo [Billy Buffalo] and Kangi Roo [A kangaroo, if you didn't know] ).
- They also had blankets, slippers and hats.
- They have dinosaur pillow pets.
- They have a 'Jolly Giraffe' and a 'Chocolate Moose.'
- They have an alligator called Ali Alligator.
- They also have a Rainbow Unicorn.
- They have sports team pillow pets. Like the Chicago Cubs, New York Giants, Green Bay Packers, and Oakland Raiders (I have to tell my best friend about that-- her dad is a big Raiders fan). And every one of them is made to look like the mascots.
After reading this, I realized two things... I have a tendancy to put things into lists, right? I didn't notice that before! And another thing... I sound like a collector. Whoa. Am I turning into a pillow pet collector? I feel like I lost my identity or something. Who am I?
Well, since I know that I won't be recovering from my missing identity case anytime soon, shall we move on? *Adjusts glasses*
While searching through the pillow pet website some more, I came across a link to the pillow pets blog, http://mypillowpetsblog.com/.
This blog is really interesting. It makes it out like the pillow pets are really real. All blog posts are from Ms. Lady Bug, Krissy Koala and such (they even have profiles for them, too, about where they live and what they like). Of course, it looks like this blog hasn't been updated in a really long time, but it's still good.
They talk about certain events. Two posts were about auctions and contests on Facebook (www.facebook.com/MyPillowPets). They also talk about where an animal pillow pet came from and about holidays. But what really interested me most was the support events they hold or mention.
A blog posted back in March talked about a guy, Jacob McConahay, who was working to collect 1,000 pillow pets for kids with illnesses at a hospital. And Jacob himself was fighting against cancer. That's way cool. Jacob rocks.
Well, I think I've done enough about all this pillow pet talking. In fact, I think I might've overdone it. Haha. Sorry, readers.
Seriously,
Wicked
