Introducing....

Fuzi Miao and I on the bed
Originally uploaded by Alison J. L.

Everyone, this is my new kitty, Fuzi Miao. dun dun dun dun!!!

We inherited her half by accident, and she is a super sweet kitty, though this portrait may have you believing she is mildly evil. There will be thousands more kitty pictures I am sure, this is just the first.

The people we replaced, Brian and Celia left her behind when they moved. They had given her to some other teachers at another Ding Ding Dang school who didn't really want her. She wasn't happy at their house and rarely came out from under the bed. They played a lot of loud music and weren't really cat people. When Celia and Brian asked us if we liked cats, I lit up like a Christmas tree and basically from then on, the cat was going to be mine. Last night, Timber and I went over to their house with our neighbor Danni to bring her home. She is super happy to be back in her old house and is currently cuddled up with me on the sofa while I type. We all get along very well. I hope I can bring her home with us, but we'll have to see what the next year brings.

She'd had several names over the last year, so we decided to give her a new name. I'd had one picked out since the China trip and bestowed it on her. Fuzi Miao means a couple of things. First, Fuzi is a Chinese herb, Aconite which is used to warm you up, basically. it can be toxic if used improperly or in doses that are too high. Miao is well, what cats say. Fuzimiao is the name of the big shopping market we went to a lot in Nanjing. So there you have it, her name means a lot of things that mean a lot to me and I think she likes it.

She's pretty young, though we will probably never know for sure how old she is. She plays a lot with the toys we got her and has a sweet little voice and a silly demeanor. She's getting used to us being affectionate people and likes to bump her head on our legs a lot to say hi. In the summer, I'm thinking we can probably take her up on the roof with us when we get our patio together. There's no way she can be an out door cat. For one, there's no real outdoors and for two, Koreans don't like cats much.

So that's the big news so far. Now that I have the internet at home, I hope to blog at least every other day, and I'm taking pictures like nobody's business so be sure to take a look at the flickr site.

I miss all my friends and family, especially now that it's officially the holidays. I'll be excited to send everyone presents home through, the street vendors are great, and will be sending my mailing address out soon, hopefully tonight, if you want to send me christmas cards or what have you here.