If you know me at all, you know that the #1 way to my heart is the thought of homeless cats and kittens never finding their Forever Home. So you can understand why I melted when this popped up in my inbox:

“I volunteer at a no-kill cat shelter in Alexandria, Virginia called King Street Cats. We take in all sorts of kitties, and all our money comes from donations and a big portion from our upcoming fundraising event. I’ve attached a press release outlining the party on June 3.

Bottom line: We’s be poh’ and we are in dire need of cash since kitten season is quickly approaching. Even if people can’t make the event, any donations are GREATLY welcomed. We’re always looking for crazy cat ladies and gents who might be looking to volunteer as well!”

Here’s the press release for the June 3rd event, which sounds like a blast. (If you can’t make it, send a few dollars instead!)

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KING STREET CATS TO HOST ‘PURRFECT’ THEATER NIGHT FUNDRAISER

Join KSC for a Night of Theater, Hors d’oeuvres, and a Silent Auction!

(Alexandria, Virginia) – Local cat orphanage King Street Cats (KSC) will host its highly successful annual Theater Night fundraiser on Friday, June 3, 2011 at 7pm. This entertaining event will be held at the Little Theatre of Alexandria, featuring the British comedy, “Move Over Mrs. Markham.” The event will raise money to support KSC’s goals of finding loving homes for all cats and kittens in their care and providing community outreach regarding cat welfare. The event promises an enjoyable evening of theater, hors d’oeuvres, and a silent auction.

Tickets for the event are $40 in advance or $50 at the door (if available). All ticket purchases and donations are tax deductible. Tickets can be purchased by visiting the Website at www.kingstreetcats.org.

Vivien Bacon, board president of KSC, said: “We are thrilled to welcome the community and friends to our 5th annual Theater Night fundraiser. The evening will be a wonderful social night and will serve to help us raise much needed funds to support our goal of finding forever homes for all the cats and kittens in our care. As a completely volunteer-operated organization, we could not survive without the support of the community through their donations.”

KSC, formerly known as The Albert Foundation, was founded in 2003 and is proud to be the only no-kill, cat-exclusive orphanage in Alexandria. KSC saves the lives of 200 cats who have run out of time and options; giving them another chance at life and at finding them the loving forever homes they deserve. KSC provides the care and medical attention they need until a new home of their own is found. KSC is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is entirely volunteer operated and is located at 25 Dove Street, Alexandria, VA.

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WARNING: These are the things I think about when I’m in that weird, not-quite-awake, half-dreaming place…

Imagine for a moment that there were no domestic cats in the world.

No Persians, no tabbies, no orange tiger kitties. No Siamese, no calicos, no tuxedos. They just never existed.

Now, imagine you went to the zoo, and you saw the Big Cats prowling around, all majestic and such:

You would look at these guys, and you would think to yourself:

“My lands, those are some fanciful beasts! What a pity there isn’t a teeny tiny version of them I could keep in mine own house. It would be like a mini horse, except a feline – just a wee tiger I could tussle and play with, but it would fit in my apartment and not be able to kill me!”

(You would SO use those words. Would too!)

Can you imagine how unbelievably cool that would be? To have a perfect, tiny lion/tiger/jaguar/panther just WALKING AROUND YOUR LIVING ROOM on the reg?!?!

You’d be all, oh, NBD, I just happen to have a freaking MINIATURE LEOPARD curled up next to me in bed. Juan likes to be the little spoon.

Mini cats: pretty much the best thing that could ever exist in the universe. AND THEY DO.

Well played, world. Well. Played.

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Want to spread the word about supporting your local animal shelter? Click here to tweet this post!

Have you seen the hashtag #savethefurbabies on Twitter lately?? AWESOME. Because it’s something I created to encourage support for our local animal shelters, whether you adopt, foster, volunteer, or even just donate a few bucks.

When MTV announced that our second challenge was to:

What inspires you and why? Answer using any form of media available to you. Examples include text, images, sound, or video.

Create a new hashtag on Twitter related to something you are passionate about. Use your influence to circulate your hashtag as many times and as broadly as possible.

I knew EXACTLY what I wanted to do. And I’m sure none of you are surprised a bit. (Sidebar: Have you voted for @livitluvit for MTV’s TJ yet?? Do it here in just a few clicks!)

B and I rescued our own furbabies, Murray and Axe Murderer (sidebar: don’t ever tell your boyfriend he can have uncensored naming of a pet), from the unbelievably awesome Homeward Trails about a year ago. Though B was hesitant (and allergic) at first, he now openly admits it’s the best idea I’ve ever had. (And I catch him singing to them on the regular. Hopefully he doesn’t read this…)

I spent Friday busy on the Tweet, asking you to share pictures of your own rescues and their stories, tagging them with the hashtag, which led to it being the top trending topic on Twicsy… which meant we could see ALL the #savethefurbabies pictures right here:

http://twicsy.com/tag/savethefurbabies

Melt melt melt.

And, more importantly, we also tweeted about HOW to help support our local shelters, like the Washington Humane Society:

ADOPT

VOLUNTEER & FOSTER

GIVE

(If you can’t donate $$$, they need plenty of other things, like linens, food, litter, etc. More info in the vlog below.)

Yesterday morning, I headed over to the Washington Humane Society to have a chat with Jess Townsend, the WHS Adoption Manager. We walked around taking pictures as I explained what I was trying to do, and she filled me in on ways people could help, told me the animals’ stories (a few of the kitties there were rescues from the hoarder’s house in VA), and laughing at how ridiculous the ladies on “Say Yes to the Dress” are. (What? Reality TV is forever intertwined in my life. I can’t help it.)

Here’s some pictures of the gorgeous creatures I got to see:

Afterwards, we did an interview so Jess (the expert!) could personally tell you guys how you can help. Check it out!

Check out adoption info at 0:49

Donation info at 0:52

Sponsor a specific pet info at 1:25

Come play with the animals! Volunteer info at 1:57

Fostering info at 2:47

Spay, neuter and shots info at 3:17

***ESPECIALLY*** Senior cat event!!! info at 4:05

For any of you keeping a tally of how many times I said “That’s awesome,” don’t worry, I’ve already shot myself. Also, eff you.

Finally, I MUST give a shout out to the Washington Humane Society’s photographer, Sora DeVore- all of the absolutely unreal pictures on the WHS website are done by her, and she donates her time to do them. Sora, you are an angel. A very, VERY talented angel. Look at these!

So, where are your furbabies from?? Leave a link to the shelter in the comments or tweet it at me and I’ll post it here!

Washington Human Society (follow them on Twitter! @Wash_Humane)

Homeward Trails (DC, VA, MD)

PetFinder (finds a pet at a shelter near you!)

Humane Society of Utah

Cape Anne Animal Aid (Massachusetts- raising $$$ to build a new shelter!)

San Francisco SPCA

Rocket Dog Rescue (San Fran Bay area)

Western Border Collie Rescue (Colorado)

Kitty Haven Cats (Washington State)

Last Chance Animal Rescue Inc. (DC, VA, MD)

Greenville Humane Society (South Carolina)

Coastal Pet Rescue (Savannah, GA)

Greyhounds Only, Inc. (Illinois/Wisconsin)

Fairfax County Animal Shelter (Virginia)

Capital Area Humane Society (Ohio)

Isabella County Animal Shelter (Missouri)

Rescue Me Pet Foundation (Los Angeles)

Virginia Beach SPCA

Berkeley East Bay Humane Society

New England Society for Abandoned Animals

Beagle Rescue, Education, and Welfare

Pet Rescue by Judy (Orlando area) 

Southern Pines Animal Shelter (Mississippi)

Greyhound Welfare (Mid-Atlantic and New England)

Animal Rescue League of Western PA

Animal Friends (Pittsburgh area)

Helping Hands Humane Society of Topeka, KS

City Dogs Rescue (DC area)

Animal Haven (Kansas)

Forever Friends Animal League of Kansas City

Animal Welfare League of Arlington (Virginia)

Orange County Animal Shelter (Chapel Hill, NC)

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P.S. Totally off topic, make sure you check out my brand new Jersey Shore tumblr, “I Wish I Was Orange” ! Oh, shame… it tastes so good.







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So, I’m stoked about the MTV TJ’s first challenge! Here it is in a nushell: 

(Help, help! How did I get into this nutshell!) 

Ahem. 

CHALLENGE: 

Description: The MTV TJ needs to be self aware and self assured. It is important that we see how the TJ candidate expresses their own identity, but also how they use their social aptitudes to unite and bring people together. With this challenge, the TJ candidate will be asked to tell their personal story through a digital medium of their choice, and to boost their network of followers on Twitter. 

Personal: Who are you? Answer using any form of media available to you. Examples include text, images, sound, or video. 

Social: Using your social skills and promotional abilities, increase your Twitter following (!!!!!) by as many users as possible. 

So, yanno, feel free to tweet the following… 

RT @LivitLuvit Pledge: So if I can hit 3500 followers by July 8 midnight, I will film myself rickrolling a bar and post it. BAM #zyncMTVTJ 

(Also, you can just click here to share my plight with your friends on the ‘Book. Love you long time. SMOOCHES.)  

Well, I’ve got something amazing in the works a la vlog to answer this burning question of WHO AM I, but in the meantime, I’d like to introduce my new followers to LiLu via my internet faves. If you want to know me, my sense of humor, what I love and what I’m about, you need to know about these… 

1. Hampster on a Piano, (Eating Popcorn on a Piano) 

Oh, Hampster and I. We go way back. Since the first moment I saw this video, about lizzed myself, and immediately tried to make it my ringtone, I knew we would forever be as one. 

2. SNL – Don Draper’s Guide to Picking Up Women 

Yes, this is partly because he’s the second sexiest man on earth next to B, but also because A) it’s one of the few truly greats to come out of SNL in the past decade, and B) OH EM GEE, THE AWESOME, IT IS OVERPOWERING. 

Also? C. Funny cause it’s true. 

3. Kitten Mittons – Always Sunny in Philadelphia. 

(Yes, mittons. Not “mittens.” You’ll see.) 

I laughed. I cried. I almost convinced myself to learn to crochet. And then I remembered I prefer drinking beer. 

But the video still kills me, each and every time. 

4. Where the Hell is Matt? (2008)

For the Schmoopy McSchmooperson in all of us. I’ve seen it over and over and over, and I still can’t get through it without tears welling up in my eyes. I once said here that one of my greatest fears is the knowledge that I’m going to live my life without meeting even a billionth of the people on this earth. That remains true, and I think it’s why this video touches me so much… the man had a mission, and while making this video, he lived out my dream of meeting so many new people. 

5. One of my own: “Surprise Trust Falls: Abusing Tourists on the National Mall”

(inspired by my lover @danieltosh over at Tosh.0 )

I’ll say it. I’m just damn proud of this one. Make sure you make it to the happy ending!!!

Honorary mention: Kids re-enact Little ‘Jersey Shore’

Because hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha YES.

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I’m going to be a bit MIA while I rock this whole jury duty thing, but I figured I could give you a taste of how my weekend was. My dear friend cavy was in town, so I figured the only thing to do was throw her a party.

This is how that went.

Actually, this is just the tiniest TASTE of how that went. Let’s just say there will be the vlog to end all vlogs tomorrow, inspired by Tosh.0′s “surprise trust falls.”

You’ll see.

Trust me.

(Thanks to Berto and Lex for the image credit. You can split responsibility as Axe Murderer’s sponsor when she enters AA.)

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The videos that made me happy in my pants this week.

This is bootleg, BUT SO WORTH IT. From Tosh.O last night…

Next up, this one is… decent. But it was really B’s commentary after he showed it to me that made it:

me: weak
B: i liked it.
me: it’s the same thing for a whole minute!
B: yeah, but its a dog. on a trampoline.
      dog + trampoline = smile.

So, I one-upped him with this gem CarissaJaded sent me. WIN.

Also? We’ve decided we need some balloons in our apartment, STAT.

And finally, by now we’ve all seen the “Epic Oakland Bus Fight: White vs. Black,” yes?

But you probably haven’t seen this…

Happy Friday!

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P.S. Ollie’s Place, a NYC no-kill animal shelter, is going through a rough time financially. If you can spare even a few dollars, every little bit helps! Do it for the furbabies! Donate here.






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Today, I am at the office.

It is, thanks to snOMG, the first time since last Thursday.

All week, I’ve heard growing moans of despair as the District announced snow day after snow day.

To the moaners I say… What. The. Fuck. Is wrongwithyou???

Every night this week, B and I waited anxiously to be granted yet another day of heaven in our cocoon of cat, food, booze, not showering, and Netflix on demand. We rooted for the Impossibly Corny Newscasters as though they were announcing the lottery, and exploded with high fives and fist pumps every time the Federal Government’s roulette coin landed on “snow day – white.”

Every night, we were rewarded.

Until last night.

I know it was greedy. I know it was selfish. I know people out there were without power or internet or their sanity and I sympathize with them- I do.

But for me? This week was a gift from the ancient gods. Something so magical it would never have occurred to me to do, and therefore all the more special…

A ONE-WEEK STAYCATION.

Followed by a long weekend.

DC may know it as the Snowpocalypse of 2010… I will remember it as the week all my dreams came true.

Oh, and also the week we learned that Axe Murderer barks at squirrels when we’re gone all day. First Murray fetching, now this? I guess I was wrong when I told B he couldn’t turn the cats into dogs…

(Hopefully you can hear the audio- my work computer’s speaker isn’t powerful enough. But if you can’t, isn’t she preeeeeeeeeeeeeeetty?)

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P.S. My lovely friend Stevie in Seattle’s brother is currently serving America the Beautiful in Iraq, and soon he will make a lucky woman his bride. Please click here to read their story on Stevie’s site and vote for him and his fiance to give them the wedding of their dreams!!!

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I’ve mentioned a few times how I have a little trouble with The Sleeping.

It makes no sense, right? It’s one of the few things we as humans are supposed to be PROGRAMMED to do. Eat, sleep, bone a little, eat afterwards, pass the eff out. In a perfect world, that’s how it would be.

But for some reason, MY body prefers to “pass out, wake up to pee at 5 am, fitfully try to go back to sleep but end up thinking about omgthereissomuchtodotoday and I forgot to take the rent check downstairs and it’s the 5th so I actually need to do it today and I can just SEE the dirty dishes in the sink mocking me and my skills as a good housegirlfriend and OH EM GEE I still have not unpacked my suitcase(s) from ten days ago, am I really a grown up? REALLY? because I’m pretty sure my grandmother who taught home ec for 50-odd years would be ashamed of the woman I have become…

…until Axe Murderer inevitably reaches through the end of the bed and sinks a claw into my big toe, at which point I sigh heavily, give up on sleeping all together, and shuffle out to the living room to begin what already feels like A Helluva Day.

So, a few weeks ago, my doctor gave me a prescription for Ambien. Which I put into action over the vacay last week… and found to be positively magical. I slept through the night, woke up rested, and barely noticed the kitty teeth gnawing at my itchy witchy toesie wosies in the wee hours of the morning. B even high-fived me on Sunday when I woke up at the oh-so-late hour of NINE THIRTY (gasp!!), and said, “Great sleeping, baby!”

And all was right with the world.

EXCEPT.

I’m not much of a dreamer. Maybe a flash here or there, but it’s been years since I woke up and actually remembered a dream.

Apparently, Ambien changes all that.

Suddenly, you’re dreaming- vividly- about cleaning out your grandfather’s recently-deceased (fictional?!) neighbor’s house, when you happen across a program for an old ballet recital you had, oh, TWENTY YEARS AGO. And you’re so out of it you can’t even remember if it was sweet or creepy in the dream.

The next night, I had no eyelashes. They were just… gone. I desperately tried (and went through) about a bucket of falsies, at which point of course I was covered with them and they, naturally, turned into bugs. Creepy crawly bugs. On my face. (Wait. Did you hear me? MY FACE.)

Last night was the kicker. We started watching “Deadwood,” and I was all stoked for some cowboy dreams.

What did I get? A little Seth Bullock “Montana” action? Maybe he rescues me from the evil Al Swearengen and we live happily ever after running the swingingest saloon in town?

Rawwwwr. Lasso me, baby.

Alas, my friends. I dreamt that Maxie and Lexa and I were in Vegas, feeding tigers cinnamon and accidentally killing hookers.

I think.

It could have been a panther.

But it was definitely a jungle cat.

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P.S. Oh, dear god. Apparently I am also here today. With back up singers @lexalemmy and @katierose_ . Um, sorry I didn’t warn you guys?

The shame.

P.P.S. Did you vote for me yet in the 20SB Bootlegger Awards? You totally can. Til Sunday. I won’t even get mad. Swear.

P.P.P.S. Yesterday, my friend Rob’s blog about the documentary he’s directing looked like this.

Today, it looks like this.

Thanks to little ole me.

LOVE.

And cavy? You’re next.

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Ever since Maxie showed me this, I have been unable to stop watching it.

(If I turn up dead? B killed me, and this video is why.)

*giggles uncontrollably*

No? Just me?

Sigh. It’s hard being weird sometimes.

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