If One Picture is Worth a Thousand Words...

The last time I posted is when I adopted Ash... that's pretty sad isn't it?  Too make up for this absence I went through the photo roll on my iPhone and picked a bunch of pictures from the last few months.  It will be a fast summary and the large amount of photos will help me feel less terrible about not updating when I said I would.  YEP YOU GET PITY PICTURES: DEAL.

First off, my kitty is continues to be totally adorable as evidenced here: 

Yes, I know her tags are huge,  find me more proportionate tags, I promise I will buy them

We kept her contained in the kitchen for a while with 3 baby gates stacked on top of each other... I had to pee one morning and only took down the bottom two but left the top one up.  I promptly ran into it with my face:

Sad off center Harry Potter

Ash also had her first vet visit.  She did not like it: 

Not pleased with her carrier

I started to get EeeBeeDee ready for Anime Midwest and Comic Con by making a bunch of plush sushi:

Lots o' sushi plush

Chad went to Italy.  He played in the Umbria Jazz Fest and had an amazing time.  He also got this tattoo:

Italy Souvenir: It is the logo from the Umbria Jazz Fest, the words mean "Everything in a moment"

I got promoted at work, and could pay my own rent.  So I got this tattoo:

It's a Frank Lloyd Wright design.  I think it's beautiful and it's a Chicago momento.

Anime Midwest went well and I worked on making more stuff for Comic Con:

Lucky Owl Plush

Chicago Comic Con was a super fun time!  I made back over double my booth fee and it was generally awesome:

Look at all that plush!   

One day before I left for work my closet imploded:

I actually had to dig myself out to get to work.

The shelves were always super janky and eventually they gave up the will to live:

Dilapidated shelves

But that's okay because now my closet looks like this:

Organization!  Or at least my version of it.

I got promoted at work again!  I don't have a photo to represent this, so here is a picture I took on one of my morning walks to work:

What lead to these circumstances?  Did they wish to recycle the Gumby costume?  

I worked a bunch on my SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for my Etsy shop and it seems to be working, I've made 3 sales in the past 7 days!

Shameless plug for my Candy Baticorn Plush

This weekend my best friend got married!  I was the maid of honor and it was a super awesome time!

Getting ready times!

Chad took a train out for the occasion and even though he was here for only about 36 hours it was so great to have him there for the wedding!

Spiffy times

Everyone had a wonderful time at the wedding and I'm super happy for Liz and Mike!

Awww they love each other 

So there you go.  That's 16 pictures, which is the equivalent of 16,000 words.  Now I'm officially overachieving on this blog, not slacking.  So there.

So I Adopted a Kitteh.

On Tuesday of last week I adopted a kitten.  This is the most awesome thing ever and you should be aware of it.   As documented in my comic, I annoyed the crap out of Chad for a few days before we actually went to the Anti Cruelty Society.  We were up in Minnesota for his cousin's wedding so couldn't actually go to the shelter for a few days.  So Chad's life was basically him trying to have a normal conversation with me and I just kept interjecting with "KITTY!" every few minutes...

So finally on Tuesday we went to the Anti Cruelty Society!  We went into a room FULL OF KITTIES and I said I would like a very cuddly friendly kitty.  A little black kitten was the first kitten we met and she crawled all over us and eventually settled down to snuggle on my lap.  I knew that this kitty was awesome but figured that we should probably meet some more, so we chilled with a Calico for a while but then held the black kitten again and I declared the she was to be my kitty.  And after all the paperwork was filled out she was!  Hooray!

They put her in a cardboard box with holes in it, which she DID NOT LIKE.  She meowed the entirety of the way home and kept sticking her paws out of the holes making bids for freedom.  It was just about the most adorable and sad thing all at the same time.  But now she is home and is a very happy kitty.

Naming her was somewhat difficult.  Chad and I were pulling up lists of potential baby and cat names off the internet.  There were such horrible things as "Black Magic", "Blackie", "The Darkness" and other assorted nonsense.  We did find the name "Nox" on one of those lists which was the number one front runner for a while (it's the spell that puts out lumos in Harry Potter), but I was not totally in love with it.  Her info card at the Anti Cruelty Society said "I'm an athlete," which remind me of Fantastic Mr. Fox because his son keeps saying "I think of myself as an athlete, but I don't think you guys see me that way..."  I looked up his name, which was Ash, and it was perfect.  Fits the black cat theme and it can be tied into Pokemon for Ash Ketchum.  Win.

This is her house/cat tower.  She sleeps in the little arched house part with a Mickey plush that smells like Chad and I.  It's totally adorable.  Also, yes she is super teeny.  I have always wanted a kitty and having Ash is basically the best thing ever.  May we live happily ever after in adorable kitty love magicalness.