Cute animals that are not cats (!!!)

WHAT. It must be a sign of the apocalypse.

Cute fatty fuzzy platypus!

Heart-shaped ferrets!

Adorable otters!

A silly corgi in a stroller!

A bunch of cute foxies!

Snuggly bunnies!

A little lamb!

Fluffy chinchilla!

Fuzzy baby seal!

A dik-dik! (Lol what a ridiculous name.)

Some kind of weasel eating berries!

A puffy fluffy Samoyed!

Japanese dwarf flying squirrels!

This was all very strange and new to me.

A day in the life of a boss.

Making some breakfast....like a boss.

Getting dressed for school....like a boss.

Driving in the car....like a boss.

Passing notes in class....like a boss.

Racing in P.E....like a boss.

Going to bed....like a boss.

I guess it is the life of a high-school boss, lol. 

And now for a day in the life of a cat-boss.

Showing troll-birds what's what....LIKE A BOSS.

(Ahahahahahaha I hate birds.)

Caturday: Kitty babies are the best kind of babies.

Look at all these precious little kitty babies!! LOOK AT THEM.

AWWWW. I highly recommend that you click to see this full-size.

A tower of ginger kitties!

I really like that fatty in the back.

Sooo tinyyyy~~ *o*

Little kitten sleeping bags. :D

Can't talk about kitty babies without some Itty Bitty Kitty Committee action all up in this hizzouse! Awwww jyeahhhhh.

Three of The Dearborns!
I especially love Phoebe, the brown tabby in the middle. -3-

The whole Dearborns bunch!

Speaking of brown tabbies...The Trimble Tabby Trio!

Speaking of trios...The McGillicuddy Girls!

Speaking of girls....The Suprenant Sisters!
(Lol okay I will stop with this caption pattern...)

And these are The Medleys!
Quite the varied medley of kittens, indeed.

Yay kittens! Kittens are the best. The only thing better than kittens is grown-up kittens. :3 Yay old cats!

via The Itty Bitty Kitty Committee and.....random other places, lol.

Short story: The Lottery

I am planning to read The Hunger Games series some time before the first movie comes out in March. In fact, I read the first couple chapters of the eponymous first book of the series, just to make sure it was tolerable and that I could go through with my read-then-see-movie plan. Actually, Alan read the chapters out loud to me from his Kindle because I, in my lazy and sleepy state, asked him to and he obliged (he has already read the whole series, btw.). Verdict: It seems pretty interesting and exciting, although it may take me a bit to get used to the fact that it is written in first-person present tense. I tend to dislike first-person narration, and I HATE WHEN STORIES ARE WRITTEN IN PRESENT TENSE. But I'll get over it. Lol.

Aaaanywayyyyyy, I stopped reading The Hunger Games for now because I want to finish the volume of The Wheel of Time series that I am currently reading (WoT 4 LIFE SUCKAHHHHHHHHS!) before really diving into the HG books. But I did also read the first few HG chapter reviews/read-alongs at Mark Reads, which is an absolutely hilarious and wonderful site and you should go read all of the Mark Reads Harry Potter posts, they are amazing. (Actually, that reminds me that I need to do a whole blog post dedicated to Mark Reads. But I digress.) ANNNDDDDD getting back to the topic of this post FINALLY, in his reading of the first chapter of HG, Mark mentions how The Reaping brings to mind a short story called The Lottery (a.k.a. the title of this blog post) (p.s. don't read that Wikipedia article for The Lottery yet because it has spoilerrrrrs omg no not that).

Naturally, I went and found the story and read it because I was intrigued and because I ♥ short stories due to my short attention span, as explained in this previous post, lolololol oh. Anywhoo, Mark is correct as always because he is the most awesomest and it is indeed a really really good short story sooooooooo without any further incoherent rambling ado go read The Lottery by Shirley Jackson right HERE!! You're welcome.

A cool personality quiz you should take

This personality quiz is really interesting! It's called VisualDNA and, as the name implies, it is an image-based visual personality quiz. For each question, it gives you various pictures to choose from as your answer. I've never seen a personality quiz set up like this before! And...I have taken a lot of them. Lol. (I may do a post in the future with some of my favorite/the most informative/the most entertaining ones. -3- )

Here are some of the answers I chose. *w*

Apparently I am a Harmonizer! Which means I am organized and like when things go according to plan. This is true. And apparently I have great style! But the quiz also tells me I need to exercise more. Um, rude. But still true, lol.

Anyway, if you have some time to kill and/or enjoy taking personality quizzes, I recommend that you take this one! And tell me what your results are. :) Just click the link I gave above and start picking photos! Huzzahhhhhh.

via the Visual DNA website

Math + Harry Potter = Combination that could only possibly be improved if cats were somehow incorporated

Hahahahahaha oh. This is awesome. I would have given this person full credit.

If you don't get this then ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm WE ARE PROBABLY NOT FRIENDS ANY MORE. Sorry.

Caturday: Mini version

Ohhhhhh it's been so loooong since Caturday. *Le tear runs down cheek* 

I already made a blog post today though, so I will keep this cat-post concise.  

ONWARD!!

Awwwww it looks so weeeiiiirrrrrrrd

HAHAHA rabbit cat. This is creepin' me out. In a good way.

Okay, I saved the best for last. Apparently there is this website called In20Years.com where you can upload a photo of yourself and it will give you a picture of what you supposedly will look like after having aged 20 years. And.....well, this is a Caturday post, so.......just. Just look.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ohhhhhhhhhhhh noooooooooooo I laugh sooooooo hard, ahahahaha! My brain can't even process how simultaneously hilarious and freaky as hell this is. Oh gosh. My entire life.

images via tumblr. It is where I get all my cat photos these days.

L'Occitane is L'Awesome.

The trip Alan and I took to New York last weekend was very exciting and eventful! First we entered the rush lottery for Wicked (the theater for which was literally about a minute's walk from our hotel) and BOTH got our names drawn!! Alan's name was second and mine was around eighth out of about thirteen names that were drawn out of a pool of probably over a hundred entries. I was so excited when Alan's name got called that I was totally dumbstruck when MY name was called as well.... I just kind of stood there for a second, then awkwardly popped out of the lottery-entry group towards the lottery-winner line and yelled "I'm....with him....." while gesturing flailingly towards Alan, since each of us entered for two tickets and I therefore didn't need the ones I had just won. A bunch of people from the entry crowd yelled "TAKE THEM! TAKE THEM!!" but....I did not, lol. And the show was really fantastic! I heart Galinda (with a "GA") aka Glinda (the "Ga" is silent) so much, she made me cackle like a crazy person.

I also spent like a billion dollars at Kinokuniya and saw this badass building:

I also saw a rat in the subway and a dude peeing in broad daylight on the sidewalk of a busy street. Gross.

BUT! Getting back to the topic of this post, I also went to L'Occitane! I kept seeing them ERRYWHERE and then remembered this post on TheGloss and, being a lip balm addict, began bugging Alan to let us go to a L'Occitane store. Lo and behold, the nearest location to our hotel was in the exact same building as the jazz show we went to on Saturday, so I GOT ME SOME LIP BALLLLLLLM. And it is totally awesome. Sooo, naturally, I ordered more stuff from the L'Occitane website once I got home. Lol. They gave me a coupon to get a free Best of L'Occitane sampler pack with a $25 purchase, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT ME TO DOOOOOOO. Just NOT spend more money on expensive soap and lip balm!? That is crazy talk.

I got the Desert Rose balm in the store, but while I was there I also tried the Hibiscus Flower tester and........it smelled awesome. So I ordered it. Lawl.

And the free sampler pack included a bar of their Milk soap, yayyyyyyyy I was gonna order it anyway!! I am a sucker for milk-scented bath products. And honey-scented bath products. HOLY CRAP MILK AND HONEY IS EVEN BETTERRR omgeezie. Okay. That was an amazingly profound and sagacious blog post and I don't think anybody can handle any more of my mind-blowing insights so I am gonna go now.  (ノ￣ー￣)ノ

Spider-meme, Spider-meme, does whatever a spider-meme does.

The easiest posts for lazy people for me to make are lulzy-time posts. 

As such: SPIDER-MEME FOR ERRYBODY!

A little double-meme action...

...And a gif to finish off our Spider-meme time

Oh man, I love me some Spider-meme.

via ERRYWHERE, including tumblr and Know Your Meme