“Pretty Lights” Cedar Park, 2016
“Dinner” Cedar Park, 2016
“Baking Station” Cedar Park, 2016
Wordless Wednesday
“Pretty Lights” Cedar Park, 2016
“Dinner” Cedar Park, 2016
“Baking Station” Cedar Park, 2016
“Pretty Lights” Cedar Park, 2016
“Dinner” Cedar Park, 2016
“Baking Station” Cedar Park, 2016
🎶 Martin Mittone – Deep in Dreams (Original Mix)
🎶 Have a good evening!
A brief bit of sunlight
こんばんは！How’s it going?
Today was another cold day, but it started out with clear skies and when I arrived at work, the sunlight was streaming in from the east side of the building. It looked so cool that I had to take a photo of it.
Lately I’ve been having a bit of wanderlust, since I enjoyed our road-trip so much and I’m looking forward to traveling more in the near future! We have a few trips planned, which reminded me of a bit of advice I heard last year… It was something like, “Always have something to look forward to.” I didn’t really know what it meant, but I think I am starting to see how it can be a nice way to keep yourself motivated.
Or maybe it’s not so much motivation, but just keeping yourself in a positive mindset. I’ve always thought that my days and years were spent trying to achieve a certain goal, and once I reached that goal, I could just coast. Kind of like I would dread doing my taxes, and I thought when I finished my taxes, then I could rest forever! But of course the next year’s taxes come again… and again.
So now as I get closer to 50 years old maybe I realize that it’s just an ongoing journey, and that it’s the journey itself that’s important, not the destination. Or maybe just shifting my thinking that the destination isn’t an endpoint, but more like a milestone and to look forward to the next milestone. And things do get easier, the more you go through.
Eh… I have no idea if that made any sense or not, but I’m pretty sure I am not articulating my thoughts well. But I’m not going to go back and edit this. You know, life’s too short to spend too much time going back to edit.
Anyways, I do think it’s good to have some things on the horizon to look forward to. Make some fun vacation plans and put them on the calendar!
I hope you had a great day!
おやすみなさい！
– B 
Tis the Season
こんばんは！How’s it going? Have a good Monday?
As you can see from today’s photos, Koa and I did a bit of holiday shopping. Specifically, we went out for Christmas hats that he and his percussion-mates will wear during their holiday concert in Chicago. 🎅
It seems that each section of the band is supposed to have matching hats so I took Koa to the party supply store to pick up hats for his section. It’s interesting (to me, at least) that Koa was able to take photos of the different hat choices, then share via group chat with his section-mates, and they all decided on the antlers and Rudolf nose in a matter of minutes. Kids and their technology!
I think it looks pretty good, and the nose actually lights up too. 😜
I hope you had a great day!
おやすみなさい！
– B
Recovery Day
こんばんは！Hi, how’s it going?
Today I was a zombie… I guess you could say I had a mild hangover from last night’s pie party. And the weather today was rainy and grey and I just wanted to sleep… I felt like how the cat looks in the photo above.
But we had things to do, so I soldiered through it all and helped decorate the Christmas tree, put up some lights, took Bay to get his haircut, visited the grocery store, enrolled in my work benefits programs, and then cooked dinner. Around 5 PM, when dinner was almost ready, I was just about back to feeling normal. 😄 Unfortunately, now at 10:39 PM I have a headache coming back. I need to sleep! 😴
But before that, here’s a photo of the spaghetti dinner I made for the kiddos. It turned out pretty good, I think!
おやすみなさい！
– B
