Okay, it looks like I'm not quite done with the "Me me me!" journals. :)

Using the rough definition of 'soft surface, soft filling, probably animal-shaped', I just ran a head-count, and I've got 52 of the things in my bedroom, assuming I didn't miss any. (Plus assorted hard-plastic toys, finger puppets, and whatnot). It may sound like a lot, but all but 4 of them are lined up along the tops of my bookshelves, or tucked into the shelves in spots where books don't fit. (3 of the remainder are on non-book-filled shelves, and the last is a MLP Luna keeping guard at the head of my bed.) (In case you're curious, other than the bookshelves, the most prominent decorations in my room are a variety of reproductions of old local maps, of varying degrees of inaccuracy, starting from ones in the 1600s that barely accept that where I live even exists. Oh, and one highly-inaccurate but nice-looking map of the celestial sphere.)

All but 4 are shaped more like the actual critters they represent than classic teddy-bears; of those last, 1 is a cartoonish mouse holding cheese, 1 a cartoonish tiger in a t-shirt, 1 is a teddy-bear wearing an HBC scarf (I was a bit of a fanboy of the Hudson's Bay Company for some years), and 1 is a teddy-bear in a park ranger's uniform.

I've got more than a couple of mice and rats, as you might guess, plus squirrels, bunnies, foxes, skunks, raccoons, horses, seals, dolphins... and (at least) one each of buffalo, bat, hedgehog, badger, red panda, non-red panda, dog, leopard, giraffe, otter, sheep, hippo, and a lobster. (Yes, the lobster is also plush; I got it at the amusement park Canada's Wonderland.)

One of them, I think I've had since 1980 - a beigeish/yellowish seal, which accompanied me on my school-age trips from BC to Nova Scotia, and even down into the US. Most of my plushies, I mostly think of as decorative, easily replaced if ever lost; this one I'd be genuinely sad if something happened to it. For the last couple of years, it's been resting alongside my great-great-grandfather's diaries, family cookbook, and similar mementos.

So, how about you? Care to share any part of yourself that might be revealed through stories about your own plush toys? :)