Did you guys know....?

That if you click on one of my pictures, you can view it much much bigger? I highly suggest you do so. Except with the ones of my face. I wouldn't appriciate that so much.

But the beautiful beach and palm tree pictures? Go for it. You'll be glad you did.

Unless everyone already knew they could do this and have been since the beginning. The pictures from my new camera show up a lot bigger when you click on them, then of the pics from my old poopy camera. Just so you know.

I don't know how I lived before without this camera

My birthday would not have been complete without a Baskin Robbins ice cream cake with 23 candles and 20 action shots of me blowing them out.

You can all thank me later.

New delights

My new camera has a few features that my old camera didn't have. One of them that I find particularly amusing is the continuous motion sports function or whatever the hell it's called. Basically, I push the button once and it takes 20 pictures at lightening speed of any moving object. It's pretty cool.

This is how we tested it out:

I mostly love watching Apollo's tail and look of excitement on his face. He really has no idea what to do with us. What the camera didn't capture was Dustin running up to me and me fearing for my life.

Pecan Pie Squares...want some?

Some days I wake up in the morning (afternoon) and I've overcome with the need to bake something. This happens multiple times a week. Pretty much every time I'm off from work or don't have to go until later. This happened last week.

I quickly pulled out my new giant Taste of Home Baking book and looked through every recipe. I've probably looked through it about 5 dozen times by then but had only made one thing from it so far. I knew I wanted to make something different. Something other than cookies, cupcakes or pies which is what I usually go for when I wanna relieve some stress.

Then I found it. Pecan Pie Squares.

And geezaloo, am I glad I made these! They were so easy and pretty and retardedly delish! And it made me want fall to be here so they would be more relevant.

Please take a moment and just stare at this picture. Isn't my camera wonderful??

That's me. I'm testing out Dustin's piece to make sure it's safe for him to eat.

Just so you know, I'm not very good with knives. I almost sliced my finger off a few times.

Good Lordy look at that!

Is this artistic? I don't know. I don't really care how it looked because it tasted amazing. If you don't make these and eat them right away you probably have no reason to live anymore.

A Tale of Two Cameras

Getting married was a good idea. It got me to live in Japan. It gave me someone to cook for. It gave me someone who is constantly nice to me.

Most importantly, getting married to Dustin got me a new camera!

A few days ago he came home with a black Nikon CoolPix and tried to hide it in the bedroom. He ended up just giving it to me a few minutes later because I knew he had it and was extremely excited. And there was no way he could've hidden it for a whole week until my birthday.

But let me tell you, this camera is better than I could've imagined. I have been sick of my pink Polaroid camera since I got it 2 years ago. It's total crap. It took a few O.K. pics over the years but it frustrated me more than anything. I hate it.


Oh! But look at my prettiful new camera! So shiny and thin. And it can actually take pictures at night! Stupid Polaroid never stood a chance if it was even remotely dark out. I missed out on a lot of cool night scenes the last two years.

And don't get me started on close ups of food! The Polaroid was just alright when it came to that but once I got my new camera in my hands I realized we had a beautiful journey ahead of us. A food close ups journey.

I just so happened to make pecan pie bars that day right before Dustin got home. Here's a shot of them with my old camera. Pretty blurry right??

And here's the new camera. Beautiful, right? So beautiful that I'm planning on writing a whole other blog about these bars just so I can showcase all of the beautiful pictures I took of them. It doesn't hurt that they were insanely delicious as well.

I quickly scrambled to find more food to take pictures of. Here's some peanut butter cookies I made recently of only sugar, eggs, and peanut butter.

Look at this closeup! I was doing happy dances like you wouldn't believe! This is all I really wanted in life people. Good, clear shots of food. It's all anyone really wants actually.

Here's a picture from our balcony.

My old camera never could've managed a freakin' sunset!

Then Dustin took the camera when he went to walk Apollo and took this cute picture of our casa. We live in the top right part. Going up those stairs is brutal in this humidity.

Our silly Toyota Windom. Yea, it's white. And no, we'll probably never clean it.

Geckos are everywhere here! Look how happy this one is. He kinda looks like a Jim Henson Muppet. There are also some sort of baby iguana that we've seen a few times.

Oh. This is Dustin's face close up that I wanted to do. I regret it now.

Cute Apollo! I love this one.

Something I always wanted to do since Dustin proposed. I really love my ring and I just wanted a good picture of it. Sure, that was before everyone had actually seen it but whatever. I still did it.

Upon closer inspection of this picture, I realized that I had a pecan pie bar crumb stuck in it. Thanks new camera!