GO!!!

Happy New Year of the Water Dragon!
Gung Hay Fot Choy. Sun Nien Fai Lok!

get set

This year, Chinese New Year (Lunar New Year) 4709 - begins on Monday, January 23, 2012.
The celebration begins that day and continues for two weeks.

When I was a kid growing up in San Francisco, CNY was BIG.
Bigger n' Christmas, it was.
Really.

That surprises a lot of people who know me but did not grow up in households that emphasized the importance of this holiday.


Where I live now is quite a bit of a stone's throw from where the bulk of Chinese New Year festivities take place. Every year, this fact always has me feeling a bit out of the celebratory loop.

However.
That doesn't stop me.
From getting excited.
And all geared up and ready
for
some good ol' fashioned ...

Gung Hay Fot Choy

image from:

http://www.foreigners-in-china.com/chinese-new-year-symbols.html

for all you list makers and letter writers out there

a website of lists.
so cool!

and here is a related, website of letters.
also lots of fun.

ooooooh. another!

thanks to Shaun Usher 
for all of the above.

another fave-o-right thing

the 'Bag Cinch' by OXO.

it's DollinkHubby's new fave-o-right thing.

fact of the matter is ...


... DH is the one who tossed a 3-pack of Bag Cinches into our cart whilst shopping at Tar-Zhay last week.

and boyohboy is that man gaga over how well these little cinchy wonders work on our cello bags o' bread. but then, he is easily amused.

actually, the Bag Cinch does work very well indeed.
it's also cute as all get out.
as far as kitchen gadgetry goes, anyways.

i dare say, OXO Bag Cinches are even niftier than Chip Clips.

on your mark