Sent in by kyla

Your first major mistake was indulging the Hello Kitty fanatic and taking the photo. Your second major mistake was assuming that this photo was a fun little episode between the two of you. While you thought that this photo was only going to be seen in private, the Hello Kitty fanatic had other ideas and decided to send it to a website like this to try to convince me what a great significant other you are.

The result is that you end up on the Internet holding a Hello Kitty bath mat with an awkward smile on your face for friends, co-workers and the rest of the world to see. It doesn’t take long for you to realise that the “innocent” photo that you took was in reality the confirming fact that you are living in Hello Kitty Hell. I’m sorry to be the one to have to break the news to you…

Sent in by Stephanie who now has to explain to her “sweet hubby” how she ever thought for a split second that sending this photo to me could be a good idea…

Update

Sent in by Kay who will also have to explain to her husband how she ever thought for a split second that sending this photo to me could be a good idea…

Left in the comments by Re (via wiskerno) saying “My significant other willingly posed with a bunch of hello kitties knowing that it was going on the Internet” who now must be fully regretting any short term gain he got from this stunt as the reality of the Hello Kitty Hell sets in.

Sent in by sneakers

Here’s a tip that you should write down immediately and never forget. Never, ever get drunk with a Hello Kitty fanatic when she has tattoos on her mind. Granted, the guy probably thought he was doing something “cute” in his drunken stupor when the alcohol was dulling his stupidity warning system. Unfortunately, he woke up with a splitting headache the next day which grew immeasurably greater when he realised that he had inked the Hello Kitty onto his leg.

Of course, my wife thinks this is a wonderful idea and started to talk about how we should get matching Hello Kitty tattoos as well as soon as she saw these. I immediately reminded her in detail about her fear of needles and how painful getting a tattoo would. While this has thankfully delayed the talk of tattoos again for the time being, you know that it’s only a matter of time before this topic takes Hello Kitty Hell to new depths…

Sent in by Michelle who has already punished herself and her boyfriend far more than I ever could imagine doing since one day they will wake up and actually realise what they have branded themselves with…

Sent in by Getsu

Hello Kitty Girl Mike Carroll Skateboard Decks
Hello Kitty Assault Rifle (update)
Hello Kitty Schoolgirl
Hello Kitty LCD TV (update)

And now onto the contest…

I have been able to breathe a sigh of relief because the Hello Kitty toaster and both the pink and black Hello Kitty “shoulder massagers” are on their way to new homes that are — and this is quite significant — not where I live.

Of all the things that came in the unwanted, creepy Hello Kitty package that turned out not to be so creepy, the only one that I don’t think that my wife has in her collection is the Hello Kitty optical mouse and mousepad:

That is not to say that she doesn’t have Hello Kitty mice and mouse pads – she has plenty of both to the point where she has even purchased me one for Xmas a couple of years ago – I just don’t think she has this particular pattern.

This fact makes this giveaway a bit riskier than the others since there is no way of knowing how my wife will react when she finds out, but this has not lessened my determination to make sure that the contents of that box don’t end up in my wife’s collection (especially since the cheeks on the mouse supposedly light up. I don’t want to have to spend a month listening to how cute and adorable that is every time my wife uses the computer).

Entry into this contest is going to be a bit different than just leaving a comment and will help me clean up this blog at the same time. If you have been following this blog for any amount of time, you will know that my posts often have many spelling and grammatical mistakes in them. While I’d love to lay the full blame of this on the evil feline (and part of this is true because I don’t feel like spending any more time on this blog than is necessary to get the next inexplicable Hello Kittified item up), the other is that I simply suck at writing.

For this contest, find a spelling or grammatical mistake in any post (not comments since I didn’t write those) and point it out to enter the contest. Your post should have the following 3 bits of information:

1. The url of the page that has the mistake
2. The paragraph (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.) in the post that has the mistake
3. The correction of the mistake

For every mistake that you find, you get one entry into the contest. You may enter as many times as you like. If you find more than one mistake on a post, be sure to list each one separately as a comment so that you get an entry for each. The more mistakes you point out to me, the better your chance to win. I know there are hundreds of mistakes in this blog so there are plenty of chances to enter.

I will have a random number generated for all the comments left below. The person’s comment that matches the number will receive the mouse and mouse pad, which will be sent out by my parents.

The contest starts now and will end at 11:59 pm eastern (10:59 pm central, 9:59 pm mountain and 8:59 pm pacific) on Friday November 20th so there is plenty of time to look around and find the errors. Open to anyone living anywhere in the world except at my address in Japan.

Sent in by danny.

Of course, my wife loves it and immediately asked me what I thought about it which is always a no win situation in Hello Kitty Hell. If I tell her the truth that it looks like a cat got hold of a flock of pigeons and puked them up after drinking a gallon of Pepto Bismol, I would most certainly be spending the rest of the week on the couch in the Hello Kitty sleeping bag. On the other hand, if I lie and tell her that it looks nice, then there is a good chance that I will have something similar sitting in my house for the rest of the holiday season.

Unfortunately, my tactfulness is running in short supply these days due to the constant reminders that we failed to go to Three Apples (doesn’t bode well for the rest of the holiday season) and I may have let some of the cat/flock of pigeons/puke and Pepto Bismol slip out. At least I’ll be sleeping on the couch knowing that pink monstrocity won’t be our holiday tree this year which counts as a tiny victory when you are living in Hello Kitty Hell…

Sent in by mariammbaby who is punishing herself far more than I could ever imagine by simply thinking that this is a positive addition to her home…