Ying made me lots of delicious food to eat while she's out of town.... I have enough to last me 2 weeks!!  Half of this food is in the freezer while the other half is in the fridge.  If I get tired of chinese food, there's also Trader Joe's pizza in case I'm feeling... adventurous...?

For you "uncultured" readers, let me explain what we have here. Starting from the bottom-left corner we have tofu noodles with celery, carrots and cilantro... served chilled.  Above that we have two round containers of beef stir fried with pickled radishes.  To the right of that in the rectangular container is spicey mapo tofu (ground meat with tofu). There's a smaller round container above it with the same thing. To the right of the small mapo tofu is sliced bean curd. Below the bean curd we have 3 containers of sliced pig ears. The bottom-right corner is seaweed.  Yum Yum Yum!!!  I love you babe :) Thanks for making sure I'm well-fed while you're away!

跨年這個玩意兒好像是我來美國之後才開始普及的活動.

有年在環球影城與友人一起跨年,當下只覺得人好多好多好擠好擠,我好想好想回家安靜一下.

2006年底,我跟老爺照樣吃吃睡睡,甚至還差點忘了要跨年到2007這件事情.

7點半吃飽飯,覺得有點無聊,老爺說要看007.

10點半,看完007.每次的007電影一定會有這幾句台詞

"who are you?"-------->這句大多是壞人會說的

"Bond. James Bond."--------->帥氣的回答,接著主題曲就出來了...

我們的新橋段則是:

"Who are you?"

"胖! James 胖!" --------->老爺編的

11點半,朋友先來電祝賀新年快樂,接著又因為一時興起玩起了撲克牌,直到倒數前三分鐘,我們才"驚醒"開了電視和紅酒.倒數完,紅酒一飲而盡,吃了些蛋糕,又互相說些祝福及道謝的話.

大約12:30,大娘我因酒力不勝(我只喝了不到半杯的紅酒哦!)跟老爺說聲..ㄟ..我不行了,我要去睡了.老爺也是一臉紅紅的說,我也要去睡了.頭昏昏的.

就這樣,我跟老爺維持了搞笑的本性,神志不清的迎接了我們的2007年.

各位親朋好友們,新年快樂

老爺你在幹麼啊?!

我冷啊........可是懶得去拿小被子.

穿著四角內褲,翹著二郎小短腿,認真寫支票操持家計的老爺.

胖貞子+有鬍子的麵包超人

你幹麼啦! 我生氣到三層下巴都跑出來了.....

大娘我一早起來,眼睛都還沒有睜全開就看到我娘在MSN上留言告知南部有地震,但是叫我別緊張.親戚朋友都平安無事.

吁................(擦汗中.........)

我趕緊上網看了新聞,真的是有些嚇人啊!

當年921的時候我人在美國,因為沒有電視也沒有網路的關係,我根本就不知道台灣有大地震,還是一個很好心的日本同學打電話來說他在電視上看到台灣地震的消息,好像很嚴重.叫我快去他家看電視.當時國際電話不知道是線路太忙還是因為地震有受損,全部都打不進去,害我還擔心了好一陣子.

我想這就是人在異鄉要付出的代價,遠水總是救不了近火.來美國越久,越讓我領悟平安就是福的道理.

新的一年,希望大家都很平安.

Woah. ... has it already been 2 whole months??!?!

We had originally... "adopted" a poor, unwanted piece of art from the trash room 2 months ago to the day. You can read about TRT Part 1 (that's Trash Room Treasure for those of you not-in-the-know) for a refresher course :) And aaaactually, our faithful reader,  eagle-eye Caroline, was sharp enough to catch a glimpse of TRT Part 1.5 in this post.

Well, we didn't end up getting a tree this year.  So Ying thought it would be fun to do a play off of the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree ... except with our Trash Room Treasure.

Isn't it beautiful??????

In-The-Making:
So how did we go about making our tree?  All it took was a pair of scissors, some tape, a sacrificial Saks Fifth Avenue shopping bag, and of course our Trash Room Treasure:

Oh! And I would like to emphasize that this was all YING'S idea!!! She really likes that Trash Room Treasure -- she also likes scissors and shopping (bags) ...  I think some of my bad habits are rubbing off on her.

-Dean :)