Gong Hey Fat Choy, friends!

From the school of we celebrate everything comes this week’s third (or fourth) holiday… Chinese New Year.

Chinese New Year was one of my favorite holidays growing up because, well, we made a big deal out of it. We celebrated everything.

According to the Chinese zodiac calendar (remember when they’d put that on menus in Chinese restaurants?) today begins the year of the dog. Why is this exciting for me? I’m a dog! Yeah, every 12 years “your” year comes around again and this is my year. This is only the third time, really, I get to experience such an honor (the ’82 dog I don’t remember too well), and I plan to make the most of it.

Yeah, this year is going to be for the dogs.

And I mean that in the nicest way possible.