stuff and zoo trip! also! kittens!

we went to the zoo yesterday! we hadn't been to the akron zoo in a couple years (i think since we went with chris and sam for a halloween event??), but tony had been wanting to go for awhile and there was finally a nice day to get out and walk around (no trams!). we snagged a zoo pass from my work (we have them for the zoo and for stan hywet, which we haven't been to at all) and spent the afternoon there

it was apparently 'bird fuckin' friday' b/c all the avians were doing courting dances and outright fucking in their enclosures (the condors gave us a....show and the lady amherst's pheasants were dancing around)

i got a really good photo of the bear enclosure that doesn't even look like you're in akron, ohio lol

there's a handful of exhibits closed rn, the aviary b/c of bird flu, and another spot that a new animal is going to be put into, but still a pleasant trip nonetheless - and even better b/c it's free lol (i still spend $16 on chicken strips, fries, and a drink, but they were GOOD chicken strips and fries)

i also bought myself a pin (with the komodo!) and a new pressed penny book b/c my previous one tony got for me from the st. louis zoo is filled up now! (i also got 8 pressed pennies from their machine lol - the komodo one is SO misaligned rn)

i ended up staying up until, like, 3AM because i've been organizing my itunes/music and i fucked up and accidentally renamed a bunch of artists one thing b/c itunes is fucking stupid so i was fixing that and then finally figured a good way to go thru and check for proper artist naming and such so i can clean up duplicates and all that. got hyperfocused, didn't realize it was midnight and i still needed to grab a bath and all that lol

now i'm sitting at work, waiting for the day to wind down (we close at 5) and then i'm probably gonna hit up angel falls after and try to work on some art x_x

OH ALSO, shuttled a litter of seven (seven!!!!) kittens off to a rescue last week after we saw the neighbor had been letting them on the porch and they were getting adventurous and migrating OFF the porch. the neighbors' porch sits right at the sidewalk and there's only that and a devil's strip separating the porch from the road so.....

but i told them i'd take them in (they'd been asking randos if they wanted a kitten the last week) and spent the day at work last saturday emailing, like, 40+ rescues in the area and thankfully one very local had space so sam and i went and dropped them off last monday