Worried about a zombie apocalypse? I\u2019m not, because I\u2019ve got a MUCH bigger problem – my home is, at this very moment, overrun by hordes of Hello Kitties! They’ve taken over! Everywhere I turn, that anthropomorphic white feline is staring right back at me, her eyes saying what she cannot (given that she has no mouth):<\/p>\n
\u201cSucka!\u201d<\/p>\n
And what can I say? She\u2019s right. I have no one to blame for my Hello Kitty Apocalypse but myself. I<\/i><\/b> let them into my home. To be sure, many were gifts from friends and relatives. But all I had to do to prevent the HK takeover was to be the parent and just say no. I did not, and as a consequence, these Hello Kitty-branded items currently can be found in my home:<\/p>\n
19 dolls and toys
\n21 books and coloring books
\n14 school supply items
\nHundreds of stickers
\n1 sewing craft kit
\n4 magnets
\n4 keychains
\n9 bags
\n7 food containers and utensils
\n7 pairs footwear
\n22 pieces of clothing
\n1 sock organizer
\n20 plastic jewelry pieces
\n34 hair accessory pieces
\n6 bedding and linen pieces
\n1 box of Band-Aids<\/p>\n
Like I said, they\u2019ve taken over!<\/p>\n
Hey, don\u2019t give me that judgmental stink eye. I\u2019ll bet a lot of you have Hello Kitties in your home, too. And if you\u2019re a parent to young Asian American daughters, I can guarantee it. Some of you even have more than my family does!<\/p>\n
But I confess, I do lie awake at night, anxiously tossing and turning while I wrestle with the possibility that I’ve doomed them to a slippery slope. Will they grow up to be two of those hard-core fans that fly EVA Air\u2019s And then, in the darkness, a comforting thought calms my parental nerves:<\/p>\n Better an HK Apocalypse than a Disney Princess Apocalypse!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Worried about a zombie apocalypse? I\u2019m not, because I\u2019ve got a MUCH bigger problem – my home is, at this<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11068,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Worried about a zombie apocalypse? I\u2019m not, because I\u2019ve got a MUCH bigger problem – my home is, at this","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":152,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=11068"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11068"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}