I’ve been 5’9″ since I was in fifth grade. Haven’t grown even a fraction of an inch. This is good, because when I was two and they were estimating my future height based on normal growth curves and my height then, it looked like I was on track to be 6’5″ by the time I was 16! I’m easy to pick out in my class pictures from grade school – I’m the one looming in the middle of the back row. And I played a lot of basketball during grade school and junior high, even though I was terrible at it.
Interestingly, I don’t really think of myself as tall most of the time. I do when I’m shopping for clothes, since womens pants are nearly always too short for me; I mostly wear mens jeans. I also thought of myself as tall when I was doing the internet dating thing – it turns out that most guys might say they’re ok with dating women taller than they are, but in reality… they’d get weird about it.
That second piece of tape in the first picture? I was trying to figure out what Chaos’ Height is. Let’s just say that it’s not easy to measure a cat and this is the best guesstimate:
“Hey, it’s kind of fun to pull this off the wall.”
At 5’1″ I have the opposite experience of life. I was always in the front of the class pictures and pants are always too long. My daughter is likely to be quite a bit taller than me — her dad is 6’2″.
At the very least if you’re tall you can eat more and still stay at a reasonable weight!
I’m just barely average height but I am okay with that. Really I am.
psst – chaos –
you know what’s even better than srm? those fur-covered mice that look SUPER realistic, especially when you start playing with them in the middle of the night ON THEIR PILLOW. Bonus points if you get them to scream as they jump out of bed.
love, cricket
My father’s fuzzy cat Luther has a bit of a tape fetish. He likes all kinds of tape but scotch tape is his favourite. We have to be very careful around holidays lest he ingest too much tape and get a tummy ache (or require emergency surgery).
My family thought I would be tall. In the sixth grade I was among the tallest. Apparently I stopped growing around then and everyone else started growing.
I saw somewhere that you could use double stick tape to keep cats from sharpening their claws on the furniture. Katie just pulled it all off.
LOL… I’m just 1.5 inches shorter than you are, but I sooooo understand the pants-too-short thing LOL. Oh and at least men’s pants don’t have those freakin’ low waists going either.
It is funny… in Highschool I was the 3rd shortest person in my class… I went to school with mostly dutch kids and they were all a LOT taller than I am… and now at the office (lots of greek/portugese/spanish/italians/french) I’m one of the taller people LOL.
Cheers Eva
My little sis was supposed to be tall, but stopped at a certain point like you. I however am the eldest and the shortest of my sisters, skinning the 5’1″. I don’t mind, apart from when I have to reach the top shelf in the supermarket!
That Chaos is too much, all 1’2″ of him!
My SIL is 5’10”, and thin, lanky – it’s hard to find pants, but she’s got “buttloads” (as the kids say) of money, so does pretty well. She’s got the perfect model body.
Me, 5’5,barely, and actually well-proportioned under this fine layer of fat I’ve got going on – I really should do something about that. (actually, I started the “lifestyle modifications” yesterday – aka diet and exercise, let’s hope they stick this time- wish me luck!)
I’m a shorty. 5’4″. There was a brief shining moment in 6th grade when I was the tallest girl because I’ve been this height since I was 12, but then everyone else caught up.
And all my pants are too long :o)
I’ve always wanted to be tall, but I hit 5’4 and stopped. I guess I’m an okay height though, I’m just the right height to lay my head on my husband’s chest when we stand together.
I just love the pictures of Chaos pulling the tape off the wall. i wonder where he keeps hiding SRM?
I’m 5’5″ and I have been this height since 7th grade. I was the tallest girl in the class and then everyone blew right past me so I know what you mean.
We are two peas in a pod! I am 5’9 too, and have been that same height since 5th or 6th grade – always the back row middle 😉 always taller than the boys in the photos too… wow, I guess I was not the only one in the world!
LOL! You two just crack me up! Thanks for making me smile with my morning coffee.
i’m 5’4″. average height.
my friends are normally shorter than me…
but… i wear a size 9 shoe :(…
WAH!
speaking of shoes, go check out the ones i’m ordering soon
p.s. my brother’s friend is pushing 6’9″. he’s ScARY tall
Why would Chaos need SRM when new tape is obviously much more fun. My guys are playing with the plastic tab rings from plastic milk jugs. I though for sure one was sneaking up ready to attack Charlie but thank God he saw it in time and pounced before it was too late.
I’m one of the 5’4″ people. I consider myself short, but I guess I’m more average.
I saw Chaos’ twin this past weekend at PetSmart waiting to be adopted. It looked more like a small cougar than a cat. If only my aunt would allow cats in the house…
Sometimes the best cat toys are the unintentionaly ones. We like to put wadded up receipts in the (empty) bathtub for our cats. Endless fun. And they love beer bottle tops. Which are kinda loud on a hardwood floor at 3 a.m.
Chaos looks like he finds masking tape to be pretty appetizing. 🙂
thank you sooo much for the pattern referrels! i can’t wait to get some materials and get started on them!!!
ooo… i love crafty things.
napoleon shares chaos’ joy in masking tape. we had to tape the cupboards shut so he’d stay the hell out of them and all he was concerened with was eating it off!
I’m the same — 5’9″ for as long as I can remember.
Chaos is, as always, adorable and hilarious all at the same time. Hmm… I think Mooky’s due for a photo shoot soon.
Height is all relative. I’m 5’5″ making me the shortest of 6 in my family, but my husband’s siblings describe me as “tall.”
Height is so relative….unless you are not in any stretch of the imagination, tall. I used to get by with petite, but when you are somewhat “fluffy” shall we say, short is all you can call yourself at 5’2″.
Chaos looks very determined to get that tape off the wall. Go, Chaos, Go!
All this chatter about height is lovely but what I really want to know is this. Is that a Christmas stocking hanging up on the closet door in the first picture?
I’m 5’3 and capri pants fit me just like regular pants fit normal heighted people.
I was the tallest kid in kindergarten, but that’s about it. I do remember having size 8 feet in 6th grade, though, so I felt pretty abnomal. (My now-size-9s come in handy during yoga balancing poses, tho.)
I love Chaos! Measuring Matisse the long way cracks me up because he’s from throat to ankle. Big cat!
I’m 5’4″, but with a tiny torso and long legs, so my legs are the same length as my protospousal unit’s 6’0″ legs. It is? FREAKY!
It’s a good thing I never liked bare belly looks, because those short sweaters from 10 years ago, or the baby tshirts? Perfectly porportioned on me.
Let’s hear it for the tall girls! 5’9″ since 4th grade. All those middle school dances, where none of the guys would dance with me because I was the tallest person at my school. Not the tallest girl…the tallest PERSON.
Then they figured out that I had boobs, which were at eye level. Not exactly an improvement.
I’m just happy that my Honey is tall enough that I can wear heels and not feel like a freak.
I think I’m 5’7 or 8 but I don’t consider myself as tall though! I think you should count yourself lucky that he isn’t after the Chris piece of tape!
LOL My mom has those marks on her wall. Mine stopped in 7th grade at 5’2″…all my bros & sis kept on going and going…
I LOVE that you tried to measure the cat. Even better are the pictures of Chaos eating the tape. Almost like he’s upset that he’s so short. 😉
Another 5’9″ checking in. I, too, was always smackdab in the middle of the class pictures (the boys ALWAYS stood on chairs in the back row). Nice to hear I wasn’t the only one.
HAHAHHA!!!
I’m 5’1″. Chris, I’m afraid we can never, ever meet.
🙂
SNAP! 5’9″ up here too 🙂
I was also the tall skinny kid! Not much has changed lol
I can’t believe he pulled that right off the wall! How RUDE!
LOL! ok that picture of Chaos chewing on the tape with his name and height on it ROFL!
5’7″ here.. just barely.
Chaos a stealth tabby, WOW! I can really see it in the pic, so pretty too ;o) oh wait.. handsome!
Wow, who’d have thunk it? Tape for pet toys. Do you think it works the same with kids?
Wilbur the Amazing Deaf cat is also very fond of sparkly mice, but he would be distressed if I attempted to measure or otherwise quantify his majesty.
I’m 5’8″ and have the same problem with pants. IF I can find Talls, which I usually can’t, they’re a little long, but regular length are so short that I buy the Talls on those rare occasions that I find them. (My current boss has banned cropped pants, but some of my regular pants look cropped, even though they aren’t.) I was the shortest of my friends in high school – it wasn’t until I moved to San Antonio that I realized that people in my mostly-German part of the midwest are taller than average!
Simon and Harley think they might like some masking tape, too…..
Oh, and it got up to 99 here today – broke another record.
I’m 5′ 8″, but now I think I’m starting to shrink. Maybe a positive feature of middle age?
I am one inch shorter than you. cheshire is almost as tall as Chaos. Nutmeg is a fair bit shorter. I would like it to be 82 degrees f (not C!). I would like to go for a bike ride this weekend but it is going to be in the low 60s and that is Too Cold for me to ride.
i’m 5’7 which i didn’t hit until highschool. but talk in the family was that i would be decently tall (my maternal grandfather was tall but all of my relatives are/were tiny little french people) because i was wearing a size 9 shoe when i was 9. i remember those shoes too. blue sandals with flowers on a low platform. they were cute. hey it was 1972.
my issue with the pants though. what is with the short inseams?
I’m 5’7″ and I married a man a half inch shorter than me. I don’t wear heels often because I tower over him, but he says he doesn’t mind, that it gives him a better view of my cleavage. Good thing he has a sense of humour:)
Oh, tape is such a good toy! The wide strips from clothes rollers – the noise they make when pulled off the roller – is as good as a can opener for getting The Meezer to come running! Yeah Chaos for getting that piece off the wall!
(((hugs)))
Heh–try internet dating at 6’1. Limits the available options, let’s just say.