🎶 Hope you are having a nice day!
Print day
”Instax Printing” Cedar Park, 2017
こんばんは！How’s it going?
This evening I printed out several photos that I took in December and earlier this month. I love using my Instax printer! Not only does it make the photos cooler, but it makes me examine my photo library in a different way. When I am making my selections, I ask myself why this photo over that photo, and how come this one is good for sharing online, but it’s not good for printing.
Most of the time it’s because the prints are mostly for myself to look at, while online photos are less personal, less sentimental. I don’t think strangers care about holiday photos so much, do they?
I also use the Instax printer to make prints of my favorite actors and movie posters. I use them as bookmarks or just because I like to look at beautiful faces sometimes. It’s a little odd to be printing those kinds of photos out, but whatever. I love my movie/tv poster prints!
We’ve gotten so used to taking photos to share on Instagram or Facebook that it seems odd to create them simply for our own personal joy.
I hope you had a nice Wednesday.
おやすみなさい～
バロン
🎶KGO – 海の見える街 (Morphil’s Izumo Fusion Mix)
🎶 Have a wonderful Wednesday, Kiki’s Delivery Service fans!
Looking for a Routine
“Cameras, Instax, and Fuchiko” Cedar Park, 2017
こんばんは！How’s it going?
The rain is coming down pretty hard tonight, ⛈ and while I love the sound of the raindrops on the roof, there’s always a part of me wondering if our roof will leak. I guess it’s about time to get our roof inspected and I can put my mind at ease, huh.
Anyways, lately I’ve been trying to rework my schedule to find time for Japanese study. I’m kind of torn between the “old way” of doing things, which means looking at the schedule and figuring out a consistent time each day, or the “new way” of doing things, which means being flexible, but making sure to do it every day.
For the past year, I’ve taken and posted at least one photo per day, and I’ve also posted to this blog each day. I didn’t have a set schedule for doing these things, but they usually happened in the evening, or close to bedtime. After a few weeks, this just became my normal routine and I didn’t feel any stress to do it. In fact, I missed a day or two, and then doubled up the next day. Not worth beating myself up for not being perfect, right?
So I am thinking that I would like to incorporate my Japanese study into that same type of routine… but that means maybe staying up a little later, or perhaps trying to study at lunchtime at my office. I actually thought about doing that the past couple days, but I am already in my routine there where I just work straight through lunch and get my 8 hours in.
I guess this week I’ll just keep an eye open for times when I am free, for instance when I get home and the kids haven’t returned from school, or even when they are doing their homework or practicing piano/percussion. I think there will be plenty of time, I just have to commit to it and get it into my mind that it should be part of my daily activities. I’m excited!!!
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Today’s photo is of a shelf that we have in our house that I keep a few of my cameras on for display. The Nikon and Minolta actually have film in them and my friend Matt (who is also camera-crazy) has taken a few photos with them. I’m curious to see what he took!
I hope you had a nice Tuesday!
おやすみなさい！
– B 
HONNE & Izzy Bizu – Someone That Loves You
My 15-year-old son and I were listening to music on Youtube and he shared one of his favorite artists with me. I thought the song/video was pretty cool. We have similar tastes in music, I think.
Enjoy!
(I miss Tokyo ❤️🗼)
