This is my buddy, Pendleton. He is a Russian Blue. I adopted him from the local animal shelter. He had been mistreated before he came to the shelter, so I've been working with him for the last couple of years and he's become quite social and is very much my cat (or, in the words of Mister Peabody, I'm his boy). He was around 20lbs and he's on a weight plan to get him down to 14lbs. He's at ~17lbs presently.
Pendleton enjoys sitting at the window and cussing at the birds in the garden. He holds long conversations (in Meowese) with me daily about Important Things, gets along with my girlfriend's dog, and he loves his brush more than anything except food (fishy flavor only, no substitutes!).
It's amazing what a little kindness and friendliness can do to bring out the best in a cat.