Angry Kat

The worst question to ever leave my lips - "What is this Angry Birds everyone is talking about?" - has ruined me for life. A few weeks ago a friend of mine on Facebook wrote a status about how she was playing Angry Birds while in line at the DMV (or was it the grocery store, or gas line, or...well it was someplace with a line (yes Jenn, I'm talking about you)). I had no idea what this Angry Birds game was that she spoke of, and really, I should never have known. What I should have done was just closed out of Facebook and gone along my merry little way. It would have made my life so much calmer.

But of course, not I. I had to go google it, and of course, because the universe was working against me, it was a free download available for my IPod Touch, and of course, I had to download it.

Never in my life (and by that I mean, since the creation of the Sims) has something taken over my waking hours like this damn app. I'm STILL stuck on the first level but I've spent time in line at the grocery store, at work during downtime, in my car while gas is pumping, on a cross-country airplane ride, at the Denver airport where I ended up being stuck for four hours during said cross-country trip, and once, in traffic waiting for whatever it was that was holding us up (I swear, I put the game down once my tires made one full rotation). The happiness I feel when those birds smash the glass and wood that houses those pigs is only equaled by the irritation and madness I feel when I try, shot after shot after shot, and that damn enclosure will NOT fall down. I'm pretty sure I've gritted the first layer off of my teeth and I feel sorry for any soul that just so happens to be people watching while I'm frowning, gnashing my teeth and uttering un-ladylike words under my breath as once again I get that evil 'LEVEL FAILED!' screen.

This is the greatest, and worst app ever.

Angry Birds has turned me into Angry Kat. All I need is a slingshot and the ability to triplicate myself toward a huge wood and glass tower filled with smirking birds.