Tonight hubby and I go to our friend's house for a Chinese New Year celebration. It should be a real treat. We bought her special flowers and a red hummingbird feeder as gifts, since they fit the theme (either red-colored or meaning of luck). Hubby will wear a red tie and I'll wear a pretty red blouse. 新年快乐

On a different website, relating to weight loss, someone brought up a favorite cookbook. I decided to mention that a recipe I submitted was published in one of the mentioned cookbooks. I didn't mention specifics, but the person asked for them. I had to decline for anonymity sake. It felt uncomfortable basically saying no to her, albeit in a nice way, but the fact is someone (maybe not her) could find my full name. Being a unique name, that could lead to a lurker's (or other person's) ability to find a whole lot of information about me. As wonderful as the internet is, it definitely has its downsides. For that reason, I try to maintain anonymity, or partial anonymity, as much as possible. My participation in social media is also limited and I have done my best to delete links between certain sites/social media.