Five random acts if cuteness.

Good Morning,

Not too long ago this mysterious clip went viral (or okay was at least a big hit among cat lovers) on YouTube.



Thanks to my favorite language expert (hello Eto : ) I've learned there was a huge trend in Japan where people discovered that if you put kittens beside a nabe pot (those pots you see in the video), they will climb in and curl up like it's a box. This is a particular game show in which they decided to do it en masse. At the very end of the show, the hosts declared it 'a success' because most of the kittens climbed into the nabes...

There really seems to be no further explanation. Kittens are cute and, okay, the Japanese are odd.

or maybe they are just really more in tune with finding the joy and delight in the everyday. With two weeks left of winter and a solid study routine, I feel myself slipping into the mundane...

Now, inspired! I've challenged myself to see if I can find at least Five Random Acts of cuteness...in one morning.

Five Random Acts of Cuteness

1. A little girl in the bathroom stall at church. I listened as she was schooled on what not to do with the communion bread. This little one had torn off a piece and instead of dipping it in the cup of Christ had left it to bob and swim in the grape juice.

2. The children of St. Andrew were called to the front for special prayer and community praise. They had been keeping coin collections for their brothers and sisters in Haiti (?) who as one child put it "Do not have as good a walls as we do." All sat with attention toward the woman kneeling with the microphone except two. Two random children turned to look for their parents both with fingers sticking in their noses. (I've been told they think better this way : ).

3. The 11:00 service Adult choir soloist. I know you're not supposed to have favorites but i do. A very tall woman in her 60's (59 and holding) sings with such spirit and energy it is catching. Her solo was a planned event but sitting in the back with obstructed view it seemed random. Halfway through the folksy bluegrass spiritual I saw her rock the page boy and lift her somewhat shrill soprano in jubilant vibrato. My heart leapt as she beamed and then acceded the planted microphone to an equally expressive (i.e. cute) "Man of (In)Constant Sorrow..."

4. Pastor Holly she is sometimes random and is cute...

I wasn't feeling too well but somehow perked up as she managed to equate Jesus' Transfiguration i.e.,

"Atop a mountain, he became radiant, spoke with Moses and Elijah, and was called "Son" by a voice in the sky..."

to a young child in the 1950's patiently kneading a yellow dye tablet into an opaque blob of lard.

5. Okay, sorry just a random thought. How did they discover that kittens will sit in nabes? According to Wikipedia, a nabe pot is Japanese earthenware typically used for communal eating of stews and soups. How did more than one person discover...I mean what was the conversation that occurred to discover that both of us have kittens that might curl up nice n easy in the communal stew pot? Just a random thought.

okay off to study or see if I can get Mitty (the pen stealing kitty) to sit in a crock pot : ),

Happy Monday,

Amanda