My thoughts leading to hang new curtains in our small apartment led me to write this random post. We have postponed curtain hanging for a long time, thinking that we would be moving to a new place. Shortly after, we will. Truthfully speaking, I am so attached to this place and less likely would want to move. So, I begged Nasim to give me this opportunity to see my curtains hanging, which are tailored specifically for this apartment. My husband agreed to help me hang them and decorate our little bird nest!
As I was getting ready to drop an emotional “look-I-am-so-happy” entry in our blog, I searched the computer for the “before” images of our apartment. I ended up looking through the pictures of 2006, which by the way, are all point and shoot camera images. As I was looking at them, memories gushed through my brain with simple, but very pleasant moments. I did pick one picture of our living room, but decided to choose some more images to portray the beginning of my journey that started back in 2006.
When I look back and think about what has come out of my actions, steps and desires, I get amazed about how dramatically I impacted my own life. Here I am, staring at a piece of paper, not even imagining that shortly thereafter I will get married and have a wonderful family! Life does go by fast, but the quality of time we spare for things that are most important, should always outweigh the speed of time.
Sometime later, we find out that I am pregnant and I am religiously looking for a dress to a birthday party to accommodate both Omar and I :)
Though I knew how to cook, I was never kitchen-savvy or a gourmet cook by any means! But I did manage to make a couple of things to cheer up my husband. Hey, a woman has got to be able to feed her family! :) Our favorite kebabs were prepared right before Nasim was supposed to get his routine blood work done. Later, we found out that the results were disastrous! His cholesterol sky-rocketed and he was doomed to use the treadmill for life! Little did we know then that he was supposed to fast for at least 12 hours before going to the doctor. In the battle of fasting vs. fatty kebabs, cholesterol won! The doctor had to redo the blood work to make sure that everything was in a good shape. The results came back good, but to be on the safe side, Nasim swapped fatty kebabs to fish oil capsules :)
This picture of my first Apple Pie is blurry as heck. I did warn you that all the images were from our point and shoot camera. But that’s not the problem here – I was such a photo-lamer back then, that I didn’t even know how to utilize a simple point and shoot camera! This is where it all began with my starting to dare myself in the kitchen and trying to make desserts, which I could never make before. Most likely, because my mother never made desserts for us at home, which is probably why I was not a big fan of desserts growing up. So, it never was my plan to be a pastry chef, not until I met my husband :) After getting married, I had to do something to impress my husband, who is a big fan of desserts! Ultimately, this was the beginning of my food photography journey.
When Nasim snapped this picture, we had about 2 ft of snow in Denver. It was so thick, that even with my 8 month pregnancy belly, I didn’t sink in the snow! I do not know what I was thinking about while laying there and making a snow angel, but it was surely one of the most amazing moments I had in a long time. Did I mention that I was wearing Nasim’s ski pants? Yes, I couldn’t fit in anything else!
Even if it is blurry, grainy, out of focus and lacks composition, this is still one of my favorite pictures. Omar born and attached to his father. He still is. I remember the days I used to cry, because Omar wouldn’t come to me. Some days, he would slap me in the face and look for his father!
This is the picture of the party dedicated to Omar’s birth. Dearest friends, family and lots of food prepared by my adorable mother, my sister and of course moi :P See those windows with shutters and no curtains? That’s where I am slowly getting :)
This is our Red Rocks Amphitheater and me twice as heavier before I got pregnant with Omar :) I have a weird thing going on with my hair. I can never find one haircut that suits me best. That’s not even half of the problem. The problem is that one hairdo will not look the same if I make it again tomorrow! What’s up with that?
Again… grainy, blurry, out of focus :( This is THE picture that finally pushed us to switch to a DSLR a.k.a. Professional Camera. I snapped this picture of Omar in his favorite swing. I sent it to Nasim via Google Talk, but he was so upset that a picture worth millions for us, came out so bad… The next thing I know, we got the Nikon D80 with a kit lens. What can you do? When a picture comes out bad, you always blame the camera! :)
We are still standing strong and I pray every day that we stay like this until the day we die… I love my husband, my perfect better half, my perfect match! PLUS, he is going to help me hang my new curtains today :D
My curtains will go on these windows and the bedroom windows. This is how it was when it all started… For me it is Zen like. I would like to write more, but I decided to break down this post in two. Right after we hang the curtains, I will take another set of “After” pictures and add Ozzy, who was born after we got into the photography world.
Lola Mansurov