It’s Anne kitteh!

My 24th birthday was Saturday and what a glorious day it was! My boyfriend who lives in Maine flew down in the morning and we passed a pleasant day of not really doing anything at all and enjoying the sparse patches of sunshine. He gave me my glorious presents – Douglas Musenukle – a stuffed and snuggly soft moose to cuddle with when he is not here, and the most hilarious t-shirt I have ever seen; Cornelius the Fat Unicorn from Shirt.Woot.com. It’s pretty freaking awesome and I’m not gonna lie, I wore it all weekend.

The awesome shirt that John got me.

Then my sister and her husband came over with bags and bags and boxes of presents for me. They made me open the card first and I’m very glad that they did. Inside was none other than the adoption forms for a new KITTEH! complete with handmade coupons for help with veterinarian bills and unlimited petsitting! Sarah informed me that when I called her crying because I thought I may have the Swine Flu, she decided then and there that I could not live alone any longer and I needed a four legged friend. So she and my Mother worked it out that they would pay for all the upfront costs (rental appartment pet security deposit included!) for me to adopt a little pet of my own. The rest of Saturday was spent with friends at a Mexican restaurant which was tons of fun but I couldn’t help but get distracted with visions of my soon-to-be pet!

Sunday afternoon John and Sarah and I made our way over to the Animal Control Facility to pick out a kitteh for me! I am pleased to report that although that facility does euthanize animals, those that get to live on are treated very well with very clean and large cages and kind people taking care of them. I made a short list of about 4 kittehs that I wanted to meet and play with – but ran out of time and only got to see one. But this one was so perfect and so adorable with such beautiful markings that I went ahead and took him home! I figure, I was bound to fall in love with pretty much any animal I held that day – it’s a weakness of mine. So why not take the one that is sound asleep in my arms and purring right now!? So that’s exactly what I did, thanks to a little bit of paperwork finagaling by my sister and brother-in-law!

So now I’m sitting in my living room with the most adorable tortoiseshell cat playing at my feet. She is loving and gentle and all mine, mine, mine!

Me and Anne Cat