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, November 19, 2009

HOME EC/SHOP: Dusting is Worse than Puberty

Yesterday I got inspired - tidied up the piles of papers in the living room, wiped down the stove, scrubbed out the toilet - basically, ended up pretty impressed with myself.

I even cut a rag, dampened it, and dusted surfaces. Gold star.

And this morning, sitting down, I looked across at a few of those surfaces, expecting to feel proud of myself, allergy-free, and Martha Stewart-y.

Instead, I saw dust.

Most thankless of tasks, most constantly necessary, why do you taunt me?

And how does the boyfriend's mother keep everything immaculate?

-Posted by Jilly

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