Birthday

It was my birthday last week - last Thursday in fact. I had a nice one. It was the first one that my parents were in the province for. They moved to BC last summer. It's really nice to have them here, but it is a bit of an adjustment for us. We are used to being on our own and not having to take other family into consideration for holidays or long weekends. It is different having to spend my birthday with them when it hasn't been an option since 1997 - 8 years is definitely long enough to create new habits. :-)

Friday night CM insisted that we spend the evening just the two of us. It was really nice. We had dinner at Feenie's, which is a restaurant that the two of us have wanted to go to for a while. It was funny because he picked some fabulous dished and really enjoyed the play of flavours and textures. The funny part is because he has always said that he doesn't have the tastebuds to enjoy really fine food. It just proved to me that taste, like anything else, is something you can develop. He has learned about fine ingrediants and how to mix flavours through reading and tasting good food for the last 4 years. Before we got together he rarely cooked and when he did, it involved frozen tater tots. Sorry, but to me that's not cooking - that's eating to survive. I don't think that is being snobby either. I don't mind fast food, but come on. It's really not that hard to make a pasta dish for yourself. Anyway, the point of this was that he hadn't been given the opportunity to learn about this stuff - and now that he has, he really enjoys that. That makes me happy that I have been able to share one of my loves with him.