And the rest of the birthday

We spent most of the rest of Saturday just lounging around. Jessie’s stomach-vicinity has been giving her trouble lately, and so far the best medicine has been cuddling with her husband, which is me. Not that I mind, particularly. It’s a great excuse to relax, though I’ve been trying to work on some more music and it’s hard to compose while “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” plays in the background.

So Sunday, my actual birthday, for anyone keeping track, we mostly just wanted to get out and accomplish stuff. And accomplish we did. We went to Target to pick up some random clothes, Frys to pick up a new Router, and a sport store to pick up a swim shirt so that I can go swimming in the outdoor pool without burning myself clean off. And for birthday dinner...or...more lunch, really, we went out to McCormick & Smicks. Fish! Delicious fish for me! Jess even ordered some shrimp! (It’s working! It’s slow, but it’s working!)

Then Sunday evening was relax-time again. Mostly cuddling on the couch and watching a really, really odd Korean movie called “The Good, The Bad, and the Weird”. Very cool. And on Monday we DID MORE STUFF! Mostly around the house this time. I fixed a few pickets in our fence, setup our new router, hung posters and fixed up some more of our shelves so they won’t fall over if, say, a child were to try and climb on it. It’s a good motivator, impending fatherhood. I’ll either have to get this stuff done now or later...and later I’ll have a baby to deal with, too! Good grief, get those shelves up!

We’ve started a little reorganization around the house, too. We moved our activity shelf out of the guest bedroom and that place looks *empty* now. We’ll probably get some more stuff in there for our incoming guests. TV or something, or some more storage options. We’ll have a lot of use for that room in the future. We put the activity shelf in our ‘office’, so we can go access it without disturbing guests, and there’s every likelihood that the office will turn into the play room before too long. At the moment it just houses stuff and a lot of empty space. Plus it’s nearby the main action of the living room and kitchen. So when I drill those shelves into wall studs, you had best be sure those suckers are solid.

-N