You're a Kitty!!!

Monday was a nice day, so the kitties got to go outside!

Lucky kitties!

Marge went first because he most loves the outdoors (ie: WILL NOT SHUT UP UNTIL I TAKE HIM OUTSIDE).Yes, that's a cat leash. Only the craziest of crazy cat ladies have those.

Marge enjoys watching Planet Earth, chilling with Mike (seriously, those two are in love), and taking long walks on the beach.

Did I tell you about the time he escaped, got stuck in a tree, and the fire department came and got him out? That's pretty much the story. Except when the fireman was carrying him down the ladder, Marge jumped out of his arms, ran over to our back door, opened the screen door with his claws, and ran inside. It was pretty remarkable that he did that all by himself. It's also remarkable that firemen actually get cats out of trees.Oh yeah, and Marge is a boy with a girl's name. It's because he grumbles like Marge Simpson. Seriously, JUST like her. He's a freak.

Then it was Taffy's turn. Taffy is my sister Tess' cat, and he enjoys dragging himself sideways across carpet, jumping on people's backs, and hiding in boxes. Then it was Spocky's turn. Spocky's hobbies include cleaning other cats, being Marge's wingman in their two-cat gang (they have jackets and everything), and tormenting me by letting his anal sacs abscess. Actually that only happened once, back in November before I went to Argentina. But it traumatized me, and I refer to that incident as "Spocky's buttsplosion." Because seriously, his butt exploded. It was disgusting.

But look how cute he is now!He's a ham.And then it was Romeo's turn. He looks like a caterpillar.
Is this cat not ridiculous?
Romeo's hobbies include looking grumpy, eating my hair, and meowing at walls. I would LOVE to get a pet psychic up in here. They would run out of our house screaming.Molly hung out outside too. She has crazy hair.That's her hobby. Having seriously crazy hair.We have another cat too--Juliet--who doesn't leave the upstairs because she's afraid of Two-Cat-Gang Members Marge and Spocky. Yes, my mom is a crazy cat lady. Although now that I live here, maybe that makes me a crazy cat lady too. Yikes.

But I'd never call myself a "cat person." I like both dogs and cats equally. We didn't even have cats until I was a sophomore in high school--when we got Romeo--and before we got cats, I thought I was a "dog person." But I had no experience with cats, so I didn't know what I was talking about. I think what most people dislike is the stereotype of cats, and if they lived with a couple cats, they would realize how awesome they are too. I LOVE dogs, but there's so much drama and politics that goes on with cats that you don't get with dogs. It's so entertaining. And Spocky is pretty much a dog anyway, in terms of affection. When you walk in the door, he immediately starts meowing and wants you to pick him up. So BOTH cats and dogs are awesome! So sayeth me.

Our family also has three African water frogs. My mom did that thing where you get tadpoles in the mail, then raise them as frogs. That was back in 1990. I was in kindergarten, and those crazy frogs ARE STILL ALIVE. My mom said the package said something like, "If you take REALLY good care of them, they'll live a whole year!" Well apparently our frogs are immortal. Our dog is blind and deaf, our cats are crazy, and our frogs are immortal.

And the humans in the house? Totally normal.

Just as this graph from xkcd illustrates.It's so true, it hurts.