The blogs: "desperate" in the Year of the Tiger

I just posted a new item to the local "paper" on their website - a follow-up to a Facebook post about my desperation at Bed Bath and Beyond on Monday.  Check it out with this link to annarbor.com.  I have a link to the general blog on the sidebar too.  I'm enjoying blogging for them and hope it won't end now that the holidays are "officially" over and all the trees sit at the curb, week-long cast-offs now.

My tree is still up and will probably be until the end of January, just around the time of Chinese New Year.  We will mark it again this year by going out for special feast with friends at Great Lake Chinese Seafood Restaurant just around the corner and down the road from us on Carpenter Road.  We are regulars there - my kids and I especially love it.  The girls have a 2010 wall-scroll calendar from them featuring the Chinese zodiac.  This year will be the Year of the Tiger.

If I am going to pay for a meal out, it has to be fresh, delicious and something I can't make myself without enormous effort, expense and timely trial-and-error.  Dim sum - here are some on-line opinions of Great Lake's spread - is one of those few meals which fit the bill perfectly.  And it's something I'm often quite desperate for in the middle of the day, ironically.   Much more so than those appliances.  Fortunately, many of our friends love dim sum too.  I think it's one of those meals best shared with a group.  Very social.  Very delicious.