This weekend was lunar new year! Most of my family was off celebrating in another city (as per usual), so there was no big getting together or exchanging of envelopes etc. We did manage to eat fish and noodles and dumplings (in the form of leftover hot pot), though! And we made calls to all the parents/grandparents at some point over the weekend.
We learned from my father-in-law that we are not supposed to sweep the house (unless you sweep "in" to the house) or take out the trash on new year's day. We asked about vacuuming, which according to him is totally fine to do as long as you don't empty the vacuum cleaner and then take out the trash. We were also not supposed to use any sharp objects (knives/scissors) for somewhat unclear reasons, and in this we did not fully succeed (i.e. we forgot and C used a knife to chop some sauce veggies, I used a knife to open a fish package, and then I made a batch of scones and used a butter knife to cut butter and portion the scones) -- oops.
C insists that more important than avoiding the use of sharp things is that we weren't supposed to do any work, but I also worked on some emails and documents for work this evening after dinner. Alas, such is life in the age of remote access.
At least we didn't sweep the floors!
Non-culinary highlights of the weekend included a lot of sleeping in and going on a few walks in the neighborhood.
A bunch of things have been happening lately, but none that really merit descriptions specifically here.
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