Only in Brooklyn?
After a week of contacting different rescue organizations and no kill animal shelters, then putting up a flier in my favorite coffee spot - Blue Marble, I finally found a foster home for the family of kittens. Brooklyn Animal Foster Network helped me capture the family (not without a few scratches and an intense bite) and will arrange for them to get their shots and spayed at a discounted price, working with the ACPCA. I met the wonderful young couple through Twitter. As I posted pictures and updates about the kittens, they realized, like me, that they couldn't not do something. So about two weeks after finding the kittens, I found myself in their living room in Brooklyn, checking up on the family while they were away at work. I get my kitten updates from the guy's Twitter feed. Happiness!
His Tweet "Fireplace repurposed #kittenpile Only in Brooklyn?
A few days prior, I attended an awesome casual Sunday dinner, that lasted till 1am. I was invited by a girl who lived in my apartment and whom I had met while feeding the kittens. By the end of the night, me, her friend, her and her boyfriend were laughing harder than I've laughed in months. I lived in Manhattan for five years and barely knew my neighbors, let alone broke bread with them - three months living in Brooklyn and I know three neighbors, have had friendly conversations with my super and already have a favorite local barista.
Last Sunday, I came back from an afternoon date to my friend's insistent text messages that I join her for a drink. She told me she made friends while drinking alone at a bar. Hey! Don't knock it. Apparently you can make new friends drinking alone. So I joined her and her ten new friends at a bar a few blocks from my apartment. We went to dinner and learned more about one another. Then dinner turned into - let's go watch a movie back at my place. So me and five others trekked to Fort Greene to one of the nicest bachelor pads I've ever seen and watched a cheesy, 80's Kurt Russell movie. While there, I discovered that one of my new friends works at a company I used to work at and dated someone I interviewed with. You can hang out in Park Slope, Fort Greene, Clinton Hill or Prospect Heights, throw an iPhone and it will hit someone who works in the advertising/ media world.
Only in Brooklyn?
Kitteh!
And then I'm going to train him to do this - and he'll be a YouTube sensation.
Cutest Video Ever
After having a conversation about Facebook's new privacy glitch and spending 5 minutes looking at profiles I shouldn't have looked at, I needed something to put me back into a happy place. Hello Lolcats.
http://www.viddler.com/player/2158f538/
To Negate the Picture of Sharon Stone..
The images above are of my two favorite cats of all time when they were kittens. Pippin is the orange tabby and China is gray with specs of orange. They were brother and sister and the most loving cats I've ever had. You could tell we all loved each other from the gecko. Both unfortunately passed away within the past 5 years and despite Mischief and Lola's quarks, I don't think we've had cats as loving as these two. Happy Friday!
Quote of the Day
Quote of the day from my 20-year old sister from email subject line "you are so right."
"I believe you once told me, "give it a couple years and every guy in high school will come out of the closet"
Nothing like starting out the day with an email from the sis with subject heading that I'm right. For an even better way to start out your Tuesday, I got on this email list- like a mini craigslist and these two kittens are up for adoption. If your heart doesn't melt, you have a cold, cold soul.
