Random amusement from the President

As we await the CHANGE promised by the new President, we already get one piece of enjoyment resulting from his campaign:  Obamicon.  Paste Magazine has a fun little website where you can create your own Obamicon using your webcam or uploading your own picture.  It allows you to adjust the levels of the the four colors available to create whatever desired affect.  I created the above Obamicon in honor of my sweet kitty, Vash.  Doesn't she look ecstatic?  Here are a few of my favorites created by others.  To create your own, go to ObamiconMe and have fun!

Gung Hay Fat Choy!

This Chinese New Year is the Year of the Ox!!  Steady, stable... stubborn.  Hehe.  We had our family celebration on Sunday evening and once again gorged on delicious food.  We had two sushi platters, chicken adobo, roast pork, mushroooms with pork, sticky rice and Dave's super moist carrot cake.  For the first time, Dave and I had to hand out Lai See.  Since we only had six people we had to give to, I made the little red envelopes for each person.  They turned out pretty cute, if I do say so myself!  You can see more pics here.

Disneyland with Miki & John

Yesterday we went to Disneyland with Miki and John.  We thought it would be busy because of the long weekend, but we only waited 15 minutes at most for each ride!  Woohoo!  We almost didn't make Space Mountain because they shut down during our Fast Pass time.  Bleh!  But we came back later and it was all good!  We pretty much went on everything else of importance except for Nemo because the line was about an hour long.  Indiana Jones was awesome, as usual!  That's why it's my favorite!  We got soaked on Splash Mountain... really... I got seriously drenched!  Pirates of the Carribean was super fun, but Haunted Mansion was closed.  We went on the Matterhorn and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and we did two other things that I haven't done in almost 20 years.  We went to Tom Sawyer's Island and rode the Teacups!  The Teacups were pretty interesting.  Try getting four full sized adults crammed into that little space below the wheel!  And then the boys decided to try and spin us as fast as they could!  Oh yeah... this was right before dinner!  Speaking of dinner, we finished off the day with a wonderful meal at the Jazz Kitchen topped off with Double Chocolate Bread Pudding!!  Drooollll!  Check out more pics here.

Our friend Chika came for a visit from Japan.  To celebrate, a bunch of us went out last night and had a blast drinking and singing Karaoke at the FuzzyNest.  Thanks, Sandy for hosting!!  When I came back this afternoon, this is what I found waiting for me at home!  The kids that did it, took advantage of our newly trimmed tree and and really got the TP eeeeverywhere!  Poor Dave had to clean it up after just driving back from Vegas for CES.