the story of rufus has been updated with added photos now. squeee!

once olive turned about a year old, we thought she might be ready to have another cat in the house. we thought a lot about the KIND of cat that would mesh with her best. she is very possessive of us, because she bonded so much with us, and was used to being the center of the household, so we thought we should find somekitty who would not ( Read more... )

this is so totally for you....

finally, a tool that won't tell you to "kill, kill"

What American accent do you have?
Created by Xavier on Memegen.net

Neutral. Not Northern, Southern, or Western, just American. Your national American identity is more important to you than your local identity, because you don't really have a local identity to begin with.

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my results said: "Neutral. Not ( Read more... )

olive came into our lives first, so, although she is the younger of our two kitties, i will tell her story first.

i have always had kitties; so has iainzard. but when i moved here, i couldn't find an apartment that would allow me to have kitties, and my lovely smokey kitty had to stay with my kitty-spoiling ex (which was fine, as he was always better at ( Read more... )

oh, god, it's a bloodbath... BOS 13, DEN 1, bottom of the 6th.

i'm going to be watching the rockies in a few moments, and writing up the first of two entries about the kitties -- the story of olive, and the story of rufus -- about how these lovable balls of fur came into our lives ( Read more... )

is there anyone on my FL who's a boston red sox fan? because.... i'm rooting for the rockies! yay!

i'm just glad that the sox broke the curse in 2004, because i would be really conflicted otherwise (they so earned that win over the years!); as it is... go rocks!

a) it's full of nifty people...

and

b) every time i spend time there, i learn about something cool.... like this time:

microloans via kiva.org (warning: some people on my giftlist are getting these instead of crap for christmas!)

and also...

happy discardia!

awwww... lapkitties :)

the handsome rufus:


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