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please welcome private henry j. buttersworth (heir to the buttersworth fortune) to the rin family! he is about two and the loviest cuddlebucket around. he is a loud purr machine and so laid back. he joined us on friday. if he behaves he will get a promotion from 'private' up to whatever is above it. i am not the house expert on military hierarchy.

as you may be aware, i was prowling craigslist for kittens but it was so difficult! nothing came through--people said they would save one for me for a day or two until i could get to their place, or wanted like $90 for a cat! i have no problem paying for a cat if it has had its shots and is fixed but not for a 8 week old kitten! i saw this guy get posted about five times and realised i should go check him out since he obviously needed someone to love him! the people who gave him up had found him abandoned and taken him in but couldn't keep him. he's about two and such a rad cat! way different than my cat misty blue (who is living with my mom in canada) who is a stuck up queen.

update: the people just emailed me asking for the cat back! no way, dudes. i saw the cat posted on craigslist several times over a couple weeks! they should have thought about giving him up before posting the ad so many times.

♥ today i may do the most american thing i have done yet: go to a baseball game! i definitely need a nap before i leave the house. i was up way too late missing canada but i had a good conversation with my mom today so i feel better about being far away.

♥ my mom has three siblings and about six weeks after i was born, her younger sister also gave birth to a baby girl! unfortunately, her sister was seventeen so she gave the baby up for adoption. i've always wished (selfishly, of course) that the baby could've been kept because there is no one close to my age in my family. about a year and a half ago the girl contacted my aunt, and she has been very interested in participating in our family. this week, after years of waiting, i have finally started talking to her! she is really cool. an odd coincidence: all the girls born in that side of the family for 10 years have had the initials a.z., the
adopted girl included. that is not too amazing until you consider that her adopted family is responsible for her name, not her birth family! five of us a.z.'s were born in a row! i don't know why my family likes that combination so much but no complaints here.

♥ today i watched a documentary on the bermuda triangle. i used to be really interested in phenomena like that when i was 8-12. i kind of forgot about the b.triangle until today when i saw the t.v. show and i realised: i flew through it on the way to + from the dominican republic!! how rad!! i mean, i know it's far less mysterious today since technology is better, but apparently mysterious things still happen. this could be because the magnetic field around the bermuda triangle is weakening at a faster rate than anywhere else on earth so it's likely that causes instruments to fail when they do not otherwise. anyway, i am happy to have made it through alive!

♥i went poking around some tide pools yesterday. that was really cool! i saw some crabs and anemones and picked up a couple really shiny, pearly shells. it was mega fun!

♥ bees are awesome.
even thoughi am allergic to their stings i still regard them very highly. they are interesting and mysterious! everyone knows that they do a little bee dance at the hive to show where the honey is but i read a book that discussed the dance. it depends on the speed and rotation (i believe) of their dance, and those two variables combine to communicate both distance and direction. animals are so amazing! i love how little we know about the natural world. knowing i have a lot to learn is a great feeling.