Happy Year of the Boar!

It's soooo good to be home. We had the usual New Year's Eve dinner and the first New Year's meal, which was a vegetarian dish of various Chinese vegetables (in which oysters somehow don't count as meat). I also partook from a gigantic Wegman's bread that was in the shape of a dragon (sprinkled with colorful sugars on top) and had clam chowder and rice cake.

It's such a night-and-day difference to be home and not at 6K, to be able to watch basketball with the entire family (yeah NBA All Star games!!!). For once, I'm not the odd basketball-crazed fan who keeps changing the TV channel from Roommate A's favorite channel of Food Network to ESPN or TNT, nor do I need to make sure the TV is free right before a must-see game so I don't have to end up sitting through some random VH1 show. Because here at home, the thing to watch was the NBA All Stars games *g*

Squeeage: Arenas at the 3-point competition? Awesome. Dwight slapping a sticker of himself on the backboard at 12 feet 6 inches during the slam dunk competition? Genius. Oh and Steve Nash with his new haircut? *melts* Dirk's short hair looks great too. And there's Yao Ming, tall as ever! So many basketball stars, I can go on...

...uh, yeah, this is supposed to be a Chinese New Year post, so: Happy New Year and all the best to everyone in the Year of the Boar!