A Happy New Year! 2010!
A Happy New Year!
I can’t believe it’s 2010!
My last day of 2009 was busy on housecleaning. I got drunk from the afternoon on 30th, so that I had to do cleaning on New Year’s Eve. AB was at home but he had to work from home instead of going to the office. Actually his job was almost done by noon and I expected his help. However, he stood up, put on a coat, and left for his friend’s place with his new buddy, Catan. Man!
I put Christmas Decorations back in a storage, rearranged the living room, and vacuumed & wiped the floor. It was 3 pm when everything was done. Well, I left the bathroom (toilet and bathtub) cleaning for AB. “Participation is what counts”.
The room got nicer than before, I guess.
After AB came home around 4pm, we went to the seafood market near Grand Street Station (L) and got some scallops for New Year’s Eve Dinner. While I was cooking dinner, AB was devoted to his work, scrubbing the toilet bowl!!
Dinner on New Year's Eve
The dinner menu was chicken pilaf, scallops saute in butter with balsamic sauce, broccolini saute in garlic butter, and some seaweed salad. It was good, especially the scallops. Yum~.
After dinner, we played Dominoes! yea!
Look how many tiles I have compared to AB! I was in trouble! AB was about to win!!!!!
Gee…. My tiles look like Stonehenge.
And the result was……
I won!!! Wow!!! Poor AB…. feel pity for ya.
We played a couple times because AB begged me to play until he wins. Well, sadly but his dream never came true. When we looked up the clock, it was already 9:30 pm. So I started cooking soba noodles. Eating soba before New Year on New Year’s Eve is Japanese tradition. Some people eat it at dinner time and some people eat it after dinner. We call the soba that we eat before the New Year Toshikoshi Soba or Year-End Soba. Is there any reason why we eat soba?? I think it’s related to longevity. Please read this for a full explanation. This year, we had dinner earlier (7ish) and ate soba at 10ish.
Eating soba before New Year is Japanese tradition
After we ate soba, we headed to George’s apartment near Morgan Station (L) to celebrate New Year. It wasn’t so cold outside, so walking toward his place from the station wasn’t so bad. The time we got to his place was 11:30 pm.
Before we knew it, the time was already 2010!!! Thank you for the no-countdown on MTV! Wow, we missed the moment…..
Anyway, Everybody! A Happy New Year!
At George's Apt
