My husband and I will be celebrating by eating all of our favorite foods covered in soy sauce. Not as great on banana pancakes as I'd hoped. We'll also be car shopping (cue nosy phone call from relative with unsolicited car advice). I can't wait to celebrate the lunar new year by buying a car made in Asia.
Here is a Flashback Friday picture from when I lived in China. That was sometime around 2005-6 and this is Hunan Province:
I've been a little under the weather, and then my friend was here so we could re-enact some scenes from Rocky III, but he didn't know I meant fake punch and he accidentally broke my jaw.
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Just kidding. My jaw is fine. I could totally take him, anyway.
In other thoughts I'm having right now - you'd think there would be a huge public outcry about that whole West Virginia water supply thing. A chemical spill at a poorly maintained and completely unmonitored chemical facility has tainted the water so badly that people in the area couldn't wash their hands for days. West Virginia, most well known for its incest statistics and being the "other" Virginia, is fucked. It's pretty terrifying. They haven't exactly "cleared" the water for use, but water distribution centers stopped operating as the sense of urgency faded, so when people stopped getting free bottled water, they basically had to go back to using that chemical shiz coming out of their faucets. Crazy, right? I tried to think of funny things to say about that like "Oh people from West Virginia don't take showers anyway! It's not like they need to brush their teeth because they don't have any!" But really, it's crazy that they do not have water. I think anybody who complains that there is too much guv'ment in business needs to be reminded at least once an hour of this example of lack of government oversight and how much government oversight was needed. These people need water to cook their instant mashed potatoes and make their moonshine. They should be high on alcohol fumes when they go blind, not stone cold sober and trying to take a shower. That ain't right. Now go light some fireworks and scare away that dragon! (for Chinese new year)
