Saturday, December 31, 2011

How To Become A Cat

It's hard.
I tried.

So first, you need to grow fur.  Unless you're one of those hairless asian cats, but those things are almost as freaky as spiders.....so you're not allowed to be that.  Sorry.  Now, if you want to be a quality cat you're gonna need to grow a lot of fur.  Make sure that it's long, fluffy (no matts!!!!!) and super soft.  You also don't want to shed.  So if you feel the need to drop some fur, stop feeling that need and hold it in.  I mean, honestly, no matter how fluffy and adorable and cuddly and amazing and kittenish and purr-fect (yes,  I did just go there) you look, no one will want to hold you if you're going to give them a new and quite unexpected sweater.

Now that you have fur, you will need to get to an appropriate size because your current [insert feet] foot [insert inches] and [insert weight] pounds of you just isn't natural for cats.  I'm sorry, it's just not.  It'd be really frightening, actually.  Unless, of course, you want to be a lion or a tiger, but that's a whole different guide.  So just think and dream small and cute thoughts for about 34 hours straight andBAM! You'll be the smallest and cutest cat out there.*

So after all of that hard work trying to transform your physical appearance, you want some well-earned R&R, right? WRONG.  Now's the part where you must be the cat.  That means working on your four-legged swag and owning that cat walk (oops, I did it again**),  getting your kitten meow down to a science, and being able to find the warmest spot in the house at a moments notice in the dead of night.  For the cat language, catlatin, it is recommended that you sign up for the boot camp in Spain run by SeƱor Puss in Boots.  Okay, not really, that was a joke because he actually can't speak catlatin.  He's a fake.  Although, he was quite talented in the cute classes they also offer.  BACK ON TOPIC NOW.  The camp runs for 6 weeks, but classes are for only an hour each day because you'll be sleeping twenty hours out of every twenty-four hour day, and you'll be needing your spare time being awake to bathe yourself obsessively.....because.....it's......that's just what cats do.

Once you've graduated from your 6 week house-cat boot camp, you'll be sent to the battle field--or family (they're the same thing).  You'll spend your life with one family, if you're lucky.  If you aren't, you could end up in the pound or another owners home.  Just for the sake of not typing all the possibilities, let's say you get to live with a solid family that spoils you silly.

That's it.
You get to live in a house with nasty food and a grody box as your toilet....Have fun during your 9 lives and enjoy these photos of your new kinfolk.





















I had way too much fun finding those pictures.



*No promises
** Major props to you if you sang that in your head with Britney's voice

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

The death of a word

Every english-speaking person will know what I'm talking about after they read every one of the 'welcome's' OUT LOUD below.  Every. Single. One. Of. Them.

welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcomewelcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcomewelcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcomewelcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcomewelcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcomewelcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome welco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By the way, if you actually read everyone of them I would LOVE a video clip of it.  Seriously.  Embronda@gmail.com   do it.

But as you said the word over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again, it started to turn from a word that means to greet in a polite, glad, or friendly way, to weird repetitive noises that have no meaning whatsoever.  I just thought of this while searching for the the 'welcome' sign I put on the bottom of the previous post.  SO MANY WELCOME SIGNS.  So go enjoy your procrastination time!

WELCOME.


I've actually learned that this is called

Semantic Satiation

because you need to know.

What is this???

This is my newest form of procrastination.
And possibly yours, too.
I plan on posting my more interesting thoughts.  Maybe with pictures..... But because it is a form of procrastination, and I usually have work to do, there will be plenty of posts!
So I hope you enjoy reading them because making this blog was not the easiest thing to do.

First, I had to open google.  Then I needed to actually move my fingers and type 'blog', which was most definitely all the exercise I'll be doing for the week.  Naturally, life wouldn't allow that so it made me slide my right pointer finger across the track pad on my MacBook to click on a link which led me to--get this-- more work.  I had to name the blog, pick colors (which I'm sure don't work together after the hour I spent on them),  and choose fonts and formats.  Then I realized blogs need posts.  That threw me off, so I went and listened to 'Sexy and I Know It' by LMFAO while building an underwater room on Minecraft.  I finally worked up the determination or whatever I needed from myself to type words.  I ended up with this box of shakespeare worthy writing that should win an award for just existing.

Now that my complaints are out of the way, I've realized this could slowly transform from being a form of procrastination to a form of work.  This will not fly.  Because of that, I make sure not to write a post unless I have a science write-up to be doing....like right now.....I suppose I should do that then.  Even though the chances of me actually doing that are so slim that they're not even real.

So ta-ta for now, etc. etc.
BYE