Haha, keep the cat photos coming. There is a niche for that for sure.

About the voting process: You burn 2% or your voting power with each upvote. Every 24 hours you regenerate 20% voting power. That means you can upvote 10x each day to keep an equilibrium. As soon as you hit 500 Steem Power you get the slider that allows you to upvote less than 100% each time (confusing: not 100% voting power but 100% upvote which burns 2% voting power). Then you can upvote more often each day with smaller upvotes.

Since you have such a small Steem Power it happens sometimes that you upvotes don't show any higher payout number. Don't get bothered by that because your vote always counts. There are just fluctuations of the upvote pool and the steem price that make it look like nothing. It is never nothing so keep upvoting. As soon as you have gathered a little bit of Steem Power you will see your upvotes all the time.