You might be a Cats fan if...

This is my own personal take on Jeff Foxworthy. Items in italics are things that have actually happened to me.

1. You have your name officially changed to your cat name (e.g. Jagyularr)
2. You paint your room black and let it get very messy, then call it your Junkyard
3. People constantly catch you dancing around in the halls, no matter where you are.
4. You hiss or growl when you’re mad about something.
5. You can’t just say plain old “about” anymore; you have to drag it out into at least a ten-syllable word.
6. You’ve been grounded for trying to use the litter box.
7. You try to get plastic surgery so you can have a tail and whiskers.
8. You wear fake cat ears to school.
9. And no one notices the difference.
10. If someone’s watching the video for the first time you’re sure to tell them EVERYTHING you know, so they usually get tired of it and walk away.
11. You get bored one summer, so you and your friends put on your own production of CATS.
12. You actually use some video bloopers in that production. Without realizing it.
13. You blame everything on Macavity!
14. You and your other fanatical friends have your own clique at school. And you are surprised when you see your names on the bathroom wall.
15. You bring your CATS CD to a karaoke party...then hog the mike and kickbox anyone else who wants to use it unless they are going to sing along with you.
16. When you walk into a classroom, the first thing you do is to draw cat eyes on the board. (I used to do this; not so much anymore.)
17. You invent a cat “family” for yourself (e.g. Grizabella is my mom, Jemi is my cousin, etc.)
18. You are constantly comparing other dances to CATS or other dancers to CATS characters.
19. You call your room your "little den" and write your name on the door.
20. You try to fit into your dresser drawer and when you get stuck you make a fuss.
21. You travel all over the world just to see all possible versions of the show. Or you learn every language known to man just so you can translate CATS songs into those languages.
22. When you're with people you don't know, like in a crowd, you start singing CATS songs just to see if anyone will make a comment about it.
23. Perversely, if you hear somebody singing something from CATS, you rush over to them and start babbling about the show. ( I would do this if I actually had the opportunity.)
24. When you do manage to get to a live show, you mug the actors for autographs.
25. You break your restraining order and do it again.
26. While in jail for breaking said order, you use your one phone call to dial (insert actor's name here) 's number.
27. Consequently, you get relocated to a mental ward, but you don't mind the padded walls as long as you can have your CATS video.
28. If you have Neopets, you have a CATS username, password, names of pets, a CATS-themed shop, and are part of a CATS guild.
29. Every single picture on your family's computer has to do with CATS, so no-one else has any room to put stuff.
30. You throw a fit when your parents won't let you wear your CATS costume to the show.
31. You wear it anyway and they decide they don't care.
32. You have a choice of two or three DIFFERENT costumes to wear to the show. Finally, you end up taking them all.
33. You have to know the status of your fave actor (e.g Jacob, John, Michael, Karl or Drew) at any given time.
34. When you hear that your drama club is taking a London theatre tour in two years, you immediately sign up because you just KNOW that CATS will have a revival by then (in fact, you're astounded that it hasn't already).
35. You learn to draw every version of every cat ever invented, even the really obscure ones like Bill Bailey and Carbucketty.
36. You collect CDs by Elaine Paige and Sarah Brightman just because you know they've been in CATS. Also, you buy the soundtrack to the original Les Miserables because Susan Jane Tanner is Madame Thenardier, and the soundtrack of the original Mamma Mia! because James Barron and Leah Sue Morland are in the chorus.
37. You have learned every single dance move, including the entire Jellicle Ball, and have choreographed dances of your own, including a lyrical jazz to Memory.
38. Even if you can't dance worth crap.
39. By about the fifth time you've seen the show live, you beg your parents so long to get front-row tickets that they finally spend the night at the box office just to get you to shut up. You get your front row tickets. (*Slight* exaggeration there...my mom was fifteen minutes early, and I didn't have to beg.)
40. When CATS FINALLY comes to your hometown, you buy extras of all the souvenirs, even though you have them already, just so you can have a separate one from when it came to your city.
41. When the school band learns they are playing a CATS medley for a concert, everyone in the entire band thinks of you.
42. Everyone in the band tells you this news within the next 24 hours.
43. After you get the CATS: Ultimate Edition DVD for Christmas, you decide to get rid of your old VHS copy because you've watched it so many times it's all worn out. So you sell it at a garage sale, and it turns out one of your friends comes. They see the CATS video, freak out, call all the news stations, and the selling of your CATS video turns into a national event before you can even explain, and nobody will let you forget it for years.


Currently listening to: "Imaginary Love", Rufus Wainwright