Expanding the Family

No.....not having children. God help them when that happens.


Brian and I are getting a cat. I'm still not sure how I feel about that, since I'm still not sure overall how I feel about cats. This one has a story though, so I felt bad for it. My co-worker's voice teacher is moving in with her partner (the one with the cat) and she has 2 dogs AND is allergic to the cat. So, her partner needs to get rid of the cat. She didn't want to give it to a shelter, because (here's the part where I couldn't let it just go to a shelter) when she was living in California, there were alley cats behind their office building and apparently one of them had gotten into the ceiling and had kittens. So, she heard a lot of mewing from inside the wall one day, and found out that this cat and his sister had fallen down into the wall. She had the maintenance people come and tear out a big section of the wall panels and she took them home. She found someone who wanted the sister cat, but not this one.....and so she's had him for 5 years. So..........now he's coming to live with us. He comes with the name Sprite, but we (being the anime lovers we are) are re-naming him. He's gray and white, so we can't name him Kyo (cause it wouldn't work). We thought about naming him Haru, but Haru is a cow, not a cat.....maybe if he were spottier...........So (though he looks NOTHING like this cat) we've decided to name him after the cat in The Prince of Tennis and call him Kalpin. We're picking him up on Sunday.......and then I will have a cat.

He looks like this: