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Jun. 6th, 2012 11:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewlisian_aferOkay, so ... guys. This polar pillow? I love it. It might not be the best hundred bucks I've ever spent, but it's way up there on the list. A couple people expressed interest in a review, but I'm not sure exactly what you wanna know, so ... I'll share a couple observations/thoughts I had, and then you can comment and ask questions, if you have any?
- It weighs fifteen pounds, so you're not gonna be dragging it around with you if you're and toss-and-turner. However, I found I wasn't tossing and turning. I'm not sure if that was a one-night fluke or if it's because I'm that much more comfortable with a chilly pillow. I guess I'll be able to answer that after giving it another couple of days!
- It's also quite flat, so I had to put other pillows under it. And since it's so much heavier than normal pillows, it took some adjusting before I figured out how to arrange things so it didn't slip off the pile. But it was totally worth it because ...
- It really does stay cool. At first I slept with my arm under it, and that was really cold. It actually made my skin feel icy! But the part touching my face stayed pleasantly cool without giving me frostbite. XD When I woke up after a few hours, it was a little warm, but I'm pretty sure that was the pillowcase soaking up my body heat. I'm a very warm person; I fog up car windows just sitting still. It's kind of ridiculous.
So, that was what I thought was important, after one night of using my polar pillow. If there's anything specific you wanted to know about it, leave a comment. I might have to use the pillow with your question in mind before I can answer it, but I will get back to you!
Also, I'm leaving this post unlocked because I'm not 100% sure everyone from Twitter who asked for an opinion follows me on LJ.
Stupid History: President Lincoln has long been admired as a great and fair president. However, during the Civil War, Lincoln did a few things that would be considered downright un-American. In 1861, the Lincoln administration not only censored the news but also closed down publication of the New York News for anti-administration editorials. In 1863, they closed them down again for alleged spy activity. Lincoln liked a good joke -- he could apparently dish it out but he couldn't take it. When the New York World satirized Lincoln in 1863 he personally ordered the paper shut down and its editors arrested. How can anyone be expected to act civil during a war, anyhow?
Word of the Day: frog-march - v. : to seize from behind roughly and forcefully propel forward.
When the patron became loud and belligerent, a hulking bouncer swiftly pinned him in a half nelson and frog-marched him out the door.
There are a couple of variations of the "frog's march" used to carry away an unruly person. The first involves carrying the person face downward by the arms and legs; when this is done by four people each holding a limb, the person's body resembles a stretched-out frog. In another version the person is carried off by his collar and the seat of his pants, again giving the image of a frog but this time with limbs uselessly flailing about. These methods of moving a person gave us the verb "frog-march" in the late 19th century. The verb was also extended to cover more general, less froglike, methods of removal, such as forcing an intractable individual forward with arms held in back or at the sides.
- It weighs fifteen pounds, so you're not gonna be dragging it around with you if you're and toss-and-turner. However, I found I wasn't tossing and turning. I'm not sure if that was a one-night fluke or if it's because I'm that much more comfortable with a chilly pillow. I guess I'll be able to answer that after giving it another couple of days!
- It's also quite flat, so I had to put other pillows under it. And since it's so much heavier than normal pillows, it took some adjusting before I figured out how to arrange things so it didn't slip off the pile. But it was totally worth it because ...
- It really does stay cool. At first I slept with my arm under it, and that was really cold. It actually made my skin feel icy! But the part touching my face stayed pleasantly cool without giving me frostbite. XD When I woke up after a few hours, it was a little warm, but I'm pretty sure that was the pillowcase soaking up my body heat. I'm a very warm person; I fog up car windows just sitting still. It's kind of ridiculous.
So, that was what I thought was important, after one night of using my polar pillow. If there's anything specific you wanted to know about it, leave a comment. I might have to use the pillow with your question in mind before I can answer it, but I will get back to you!
Also, I'm leaving this post unlocked because I'm not 100% sure everyone from Twitter who asked for an opinion follows me on LJ.
Stupid History: President Lincoln has long been admired as a great and fair president. However, during the Civil War, Lincoln did a few things that would be considered downright un-American. In 1861, the Lincoln administration not only censored the news but also closed down publication of the New York News for anti-administration editorials. In 1863, they closed them down again for alleged spy activity. Lincoln liked a good joke -- he could apparently dish it out but he couldn't take it. When the New York World satirized Lincoln in 1863 he personally ordered the paper shut down and its editors arrested. How can anyone be expected to act civil during a war, anyhow?
Word of the Day: frog-march - v. : to seize from behind roughly and forcefully propel forward.
When the patron became loud and belligerent, a hulking bouncer swiftly pinned him in a half nelson and frog-marched him out the door.
There are a couple of variations of the "frog's march" used to carry away an unruly person. The first involves carrying the person face downward by the arms and legs; when this is done by four people each holding a limb, the person's body resembles a stretched-out frog. In another version the person is carried off by his collar and the seat of his pants, again giving the image of a frog but this time with limbs uselessly flailing about. These methods of moving a person gave us the verb "frog-march" in the late 19th century. The verb was also extended to cover more general, less froglike, methods of removal, such as forcing an intractable individual forward with arms held in back or at the sides.
