GUNG HAY FAT ME....

Today is the beginning of Chinese New Year and I'm already in trouble.. !

"There are many traditional taboos over the spring festival and Chinese New Year. The number "four", which sounds like the word for "death", is banned..."

About an hour ago, I returned home from the grocery store where I bought 4 green peppers and 4 rolls of toilet paper!

"Likewise, crying on new year's day means you will cry for the rest of the year, and washing hair is out as it signifies washing away good luck."

I just now finished washing my hair and got soap in my eyes which made me tear up!

"...And knives or scissors should not be used because they may cut off good fortune."

While my wet hair was drying, I started fixing dinner, cutting the 4 green peppers into slices for a quiche I'm making.. and then had to use a SCISSOR to cut open the package of mozzarella cheese!

Plus.... It's the YEAR OF THE DOG, and I have a CAT!!

This does not bode well..

Lucky Character: The single word " FOOK ", or fortune, is often displayed in many homes and stores. They are usually written by brush on a diamond-shaped piece of red paper.

So all I have left to say at this point is.... FOOK !!!

EAR YE EAR YE!!

Well, you think you have crazy stuff going on at YOUR place, just now about an hour ago, we had the POLICE arrive and now the CSI (Crime Scene Investigator) people here!! I was sitting here quiety at my computer about 10:00 pm, when all of a sudden the new neighbors right above me in #204 arrived home, and proceeded to make a racket up there. I heard screaming and banging, etc. Thought for a minute that maybe they were having a wild 'romantic' time... but then it got crazier with more louder screaming! Then my phone rings, and it's Sabrina from upstairs saying did you hear what's happening?? I say no, what? The NEW NEIGHBORS got into a domestic fight, (he's middle eastern she is ASIAN!) and SHE BIT HIS EAR OFF!!!

I run downstairs and find that the VICTIM is standing there in shock with half his ear missing and a piece of it hanging down. She, the PERP, is on the ground by our mailboxes handcuffed and screaming and talking nonsense with BLOOD dripping out all between her teeth and mouth!! Blood everywhere in the elevator and in the lobby! Now, our elevator has been declared a CRIME SCENE with yellow tape around it! the police are down there right now and the landlord is on his way over (The police say he has to clean the mess up!!! Ha ha! )... Anyway, now the CSI team are crawling around and the police are still all over the place and up stairs in the apt!!! The police had to search all over the place for the ear, even down the elevator shaft! Finally they found it out by the front steps and had to put it in a tupperware container.... oy vey!!

Just another quiet night at 1090 Insanity Street!! This Asian woman was behaving like a certified nut case, just like you see on COPS! God, I hope the landlord throws them out! I sure don't want someone like HER living above me! All the neighbors were down there and standing there in their pajamas and in amazement! What a commotion!

Somehow, I have lost my appetite for my dinner of chicken and EAR of corn.....