How do you like your eggs in the morning?

So clearly I am crap at documenting my ‘everyday life’ as I said I would try to do. But honestly my ‘everyday life’ has been incredibly boring lately. It’s cold, I don’t go out much, and I was sick for a bit which was tedious and not anything I felt like memorialising for posterity (slept most of the time anyway).

But I did think perhaps I might share with you all what we had for breakfast this morning:

Yes that’s right, what better way to start the weekend than with a nice plate of elaborate bacon and non-polluted eggs? (I do generally prefer non-polluted eggs, you know.) Don’t ask me what made the bacon so ‘elaborate’; I haven’t been able to work it out. It tasted very nice but I can’t see that it was particularly more complex than simple, ordinary bacon.

Anyway, today is Chinese New Year’s Eve. We kicked off the holiday celebrations last night with some friends over at their place; they live in our housing complex and their little girl is M’s age. Ordered some Indian food and drank some wine and had some good chatter. The girls ran around being princesses and playing Barbies and picking up inappropriate dance moves from a Lady Gaga video. (Yes, terribly poor, un-feminist role model parenting, I know I know.)

Tonight we’re off to some other friends’ new apartment on the 30th floor, a combined housewarming/CNY party. Will try to get some photos of fireworks from on high; there should be many many many thousands of them tonight. M and I made cookies to bring – now I know they look an awful lot like Christmas cookies, but you have to trust me, they are Chinese New Year cookies, mmmkay? and those ones that look like teddy bears, just use your imagination a bit and I think you will clearly see that they are in fact, tigers!

Xin nian kuai le, everybody!