The Truth About This Special Time In Your Life

According to what we remember from pamphlets geared towards 6th-grade girls, puberty is regarded as one of the most awkward and scary stages in a person’s life. It’s a time of horrifying physical transformations, scary new feelings, and growing interest in activities that you are still not old enough to engage in legally. Common symptoms of puberty include: braces, frizzy hair, baby fat, having a crush on 8th grader Steve Julius, blinding body odor and lame extracurricular interests like the violin or Bedazzling.

However, if personal experience has taught us anything, it's that there are experiences in life far more awkward, scary and pathetic than puberty. Here is a list of things that are:


WORSE THAN PUBERTY

Thursday, October 8, 2009

HOME EC/SHOP: Knitting Sweaters from Pet Hair is Worse than Puberty


I'll be the first to admit it; I have more than a little of the crazy cat lady in me. I talk to my cats, and they're the first thing I look for when I get home from work, and when the one starts nibbling on my ear in a way that's thisclose to lewd while he clings desperately to my neck in the morning, ohmygodiwassolonely, I let him, because dammit, it's cute that he hugs me.

But knitting a sweater out of yarn made from your pet's hair? I'm not nearly that crazy. I'm pretty sure that cartoon lady who throws cats at people on The Simpsons isn't that crazy.

Not only is this something people do, not only is the sweater in that picture (thanks to 9news.com for the image) actually made of cat hair, there are whole companies devoted to taking your little shnookums' hairy leavings (pre-digested only, please) and turning them into something you can, and I'm sure something they intend you to, make into clothes.

I mean, are you trying to guarantee that you'll die alone...until, dead, and thus not feeding them, your cats perform their final act of love and eat you, that is?

Sorta like teenage love affairs - "I love you so much I want to be inside of you, I want to become you!" And we all know how healthy, normal, and "real" teenage love affairs are.

-Posted by Jilly
at 9:44 AM
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