And Windsparrow, sorry for your travails! Sounds like a DAY.

Thanks! It was a Day, indeed. However I kept thinking, "Later on, this is going to be really funny. No wait, it's pretty funny right now."

aw ... poor grey kitty. Although your being able to track him by the sound reminds me of a college boyfriend's roommate. He was SERIOUSLY nearsighted and you always knew when he was wandering around at night (without glasses) by the sound of (bump) "ouch, dammit" as he bounced off the walls.

Not the same thing but,

Darby gets up for a big drink of water about 5-10 mintues after my light goes off. Every night. I guess it's her own little bedtime ritual. I had no idea how much I subconsciously listened for the sound before falling asleep until she was staying at my sister's or somewhere so I didn't hear it. It made me oddly anxious until I reminded myself why.

When Koogie had a cone, he would go to his preferred dripping faucet, stick the cone under the edge, then lick up the water that was gathering inside the cone. Then empty the cone into the sink. However, he'd keep catching the cone on the edge of doorways and get stuck and kept pushing rather than move over a couple of inches.

Ugh. I hate when pictures remind me that I do not always look like I do in my head. I was at a dance convention over memorial day weekend, and a dude took a ton of pictures and is slowly putting them up, and I finally found a few of myself...and my face is all piggy looking, like my features are too tiny and sunken for it, and my belly is enormous (several pictures in profile--ACK). UGH. And of course I see all this as I'm eating a ham and cheese croissant (so delicious...so bad for me). Just...not how I see myself looking when I dance.

meara, I think you're lovely, but my BFF and I both sympathize. She just got a driver's license photo taken and was deeply bummed over her appearance. We have the same problem as you: we don't look like we think we look, and the disparity is sad-making.

Okay, I've gone and bought a cat-size inflatable collar. I didn't notice until I got it home that it's supposed to be attached to the pet's collar. Gray Cat doesn't have a collar. Will it work anyway? Or do I need to go buy a collar too?

It was damned hard to inflate! People with asthma should all be issued a handheld inflating device.

We have the same problem as you: we don't look like we think we look, and the disparity is sad-making.

Pictures from my bridal shower, mostly profile, are what solidified my decision to NOT wear my hair up for the wedding. From the front, I didn't realize I had so many chins. Horrifying. Not the way I want to be captured in pictures.

I avoid photos as much as possible (I renewed my driver's license the first week of May and still haven't looked at the photo). Also mirrors.

I don't think we do look exactly as we do in photographs. I actually look a lot better in photographs than I often do in person. I happen to be photogenic, which can also be problematic because it's not a true portrayal of how I look in person. In any case, even Beyonce looked terrible in many of the Super Bowl halftime performance stills.

What photographs don't capture is our fluidity and a lot of other things that can add to attractiveness in person. I'm not saying it doesn't mean we can't work on getting rid of double chins if they bother you (I know I've got one when I hold my head a certain way, and it does bother me) but photographs aren't the only evaluative tool to use. I know some downright beautiful women who just don't photograph well. And there are people like Cameron Diaz who literally wouldn't catch your eye if you saw her in person. I mistook her for a barista when I saw her in LA. She was very sweet about it, but I couldn't believe how ordinary she looked in person. The camera LOVES her though. And it's not at all uncommon.