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[nny]

I'm sure you'll be relieved to know that I did, indeed, get my giraffe. He's currently sitting on my bedroom floor.

I've wanted a stuffed giraffe for ages. I trace the desire back to reading an "old bear" book, which had a giraffe in called Jolly Tall, but I'm pretty sure that I always thought they were cool. I have memories of one of those "oh, the poor deserted bear, let's find a lonely child OTP!" Christmas books, and that had an illustration of a giraffe toy.

Have you ever seen a giraffe? In real life, I mean, because television doesn't even begin to cover it. They're just... out of this world. And I'm not using that as a meaningless WOW phrase, I meant it almost literally. They're so very far outside of every day experience, because they are on such a completely different scale. They make me think of dinosaurs, bizarre as that might sound. Elephants are huge, but they're huge in a very solid way. They look real. Giraffes... they're so delicate looking.

So last night, on my way to the shop on a late night mission, I saw a giraffe staring at me dolefully from the window of a charity shop. He was clean and in perfect condition, and... so *damn* cute. I'm twenty one years old. I'm not supposed to do cute any more. I was entirely helpless against black button eyes.

So yeah. I now own a giraffe called Chris. I also own Don Quixote, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, and something called Reading in the Dark, because I'm entirely unable to pass up a bargainous book.

This icon? My in denial/childhood icon. It makes me happy.

Comments

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

I was obessed with giraffes when I was a kid. Probably for the same reasons you state. Their elegance, the beautiful eyes, the stately stilts. The tongue is a bit off putting, but still...

I had a stuffed giraffe that someone gave me when I was a kid. Mum got rid of it a few days after, but I still remember it.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

Dude, the tongue is *cool*! Giraffe's are secretly blackjack addicts. As in the sweets, not the game. Maybe the game too? They could play blackjack for blackjacks. *g*

[gwendolen.livejournal.com]

Ponders teddy-bear-collection. Considers the fact that she turns 32 in two months and decides there's nothing wrong with being unable to resist stuffed animals be they teddy-bears or giraffes. ;-)

[villainny.livejournal.com]

I only really have one other teddy. I mean, I have various stuffed things in a kinda ornamental fashion, 'cos I'm a student and that's what we do, but I only have one I hug. It's actually kinda two dimensional now, 'cos I use it as a reading pillow. *g*

[gwendolen.livejournal.com]

I have one teddy for hugging and cuddling who's also almost two-dimensional as he often has to function as an additional pillow. But I also have a lot of teddies sitting around being mostly ornamental. Though one of the smaller ones always comes with me when I travel. He's already seen quite a bit of the world.

Friends also often give me teddies. Or they used to. Now I have convinced most of them that books are better than teddies.

Hm, I think I need a teddy-bear icon.

[villainny.livejournal.com]

...

You kill me dead with your Krycek icon. Aaah, memories of old fandoms. *g*

You need a black teddy bear. With green eyes. And one arm...

[gwendolen.livejournal.com]

Nothing better than Krycek :-) Wouldn't an X-over between XF and HP be fun? Krycek dealing with Snape? Mulder driving Dumbledore up the walls? Scully dealing with Death Eaters? Heh, Voldie would have no chance of winning.

And I need a teddy with a black leather jacket! And definitely with the green eyes. I'll even take one with two arms. My poor little rat. ;-(

[ygrane.livejournal.com]

The first thing a giraffe experiences is a six foot drop.

This has been another useless fact.

*smooches*