Birthdays and the Beach

Justin and I have been busily getting the house "perfectly" organized. I guess you could say that we have mostly succeeded at this point, though we're probably still not done. We've still got a little left to do in our bedroom. But, we have a shoe rack (THANK GOODNESS!!) which is keeping our shoes and things in order by the door. We have a second book shelf, which is also almost full, so we're likely to be needing another one sometime, but for now this one will do just fine. :-) Perhaps we should actually have gotten a second shelf like the first. We have the computers mostly organized (like that will ever *really* happen). Justin still has to figure out a better method for dealing with the cords, but I guess that will come sometime down the road. :-)

I've spent the last few days not feeling too great. I spent Monday curled up on the couch in a blanket, half asleep. We're not really sure what caused it, though it may have been a cross contamination from a wooden spoon used in something I can't eat at some meal previously made at Justin's parents' house. We're not sure that that is what caused it, but at least it offers somewhat of an explanation. I guess we'll just have to be more vigilant about what is used on and in food that gets cooked over there. But, I'm starting to get back to feeling good again, which is wonderful! Justin prefers when I'm feeling good because I tend to be in a good mood when I'm feeling good, hehe. He's been good about dealing with me not feeling good though, and with my lack of ambition in cooking lately! At least his favourites are easy to cook-- anything pasta is "perfect" in his opinion, lol.

Tonight on the menu will be pancakes, which he thinks is rather odd. He apparently grew up in a family where pancakes are only for breakfast or brunch. Strange, in MY family, we ate them for breakfast, lunch, or supper... whatever meal for which the mood struck! I guess he'll have to adjust to that one, because my family did pretty well anything for any meal, though I have to say I don't think we ever had pasta or baked chicken or anything for breakfast unless it was leftovers! We did have second day spaghetti a few times for breakfast though (if I recall correctly), so really, I don't suppose I've ever been conditioned to ONLY having certain meals at certain times of day! Of course, the tendency was, is, and will be in the future, to have cereal or something for breakfast (ie, normal breakfast food), but I don't see what is wrong with having "breakfast" for supper. Anyway, all that to say, we are having pancakes with fruit on top.

We've had a lot of birthdays this past month! First my mother (who lives too far away for us to go there for her birthday). Then Justin's mother, for whom we had a cake at their house. Then, on the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd of the month we had Justin's Dad, our nephew, and Justin! We had a cake for the three of them at their house (his parents) on the 20th, and then we invited them over for a celebration of Justin's birthday at OUR house this past Sunday.

Sorry for the quality, but this is the best picture I got. If you look closely, you'll see that the candles are all burning different colours! VERY cool! They must be treated with chemicals of some sort to cause the coloured flames or something. Anyway, all but the white one burned the colour of the wax. The white one burned pale blueish purple.

Justin and I went to test out my camera after getting the dust off the various areas we could see that had issues. We're hoping that it's taken care of the problem now, but here is a pretty cool picture that resulted in our testing!

This was also a part of those test shots. I think it actually turned out pretty good! It's probably one of my favourite pictures of Justin at the moment. Of course, they only seem to improve. Perhaps that is my skill improving, or perhaps it is Justin learning to smile more often when a camera is pointed his direction.

And, after the couple of test shots by the marsh, we went over to the beach. Of course, we probably would have stayed at the marsh if we had more area to explore, but there was a gate and barbed wire fence around the areas we were thinking we would explore, so we decided to go to the beach again. So, here's to a walk on the beach at sunset!
And, this shell just looked beautiful with the sunlight hitting it at the angle it was! It really seemed to bring out the colour in it.