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Branching Out

Thing I’d like to do in oh-nine:

• Start blogging more cooking-related things.  Maybe wine notes or recipes that we’ve made.  Photos, photos.
• Likewise about the design.  Of course I should start designing more in general, but I’d also like to share with you what I’m working on.  If, at the very least, to be a record of where I’m at for future-self.
• I’ve neglected teamEggers pretty hardcore for a while. I think being a newlywed took its toll and I’ve just been living a bit under the radar.  I would really like to start posting every day again.
• “Find my calm center.”  Also known as “Stop being so uptight.”.  This is the new-years-resolutiony-thing.  I need to calm down.  Slow down.  Enjoy life more and stop being so stressed out all the time. But the big question remains… how?

Dreams of Cherry Blossoms.

We’re moving to Japan in 2 weeks.  Two. Weeks. 14 days.  Slowly, it’s starting to hit me.  Until I had the plane tickets in my metaphorical hand, I wasn’t positive that I was going – which means that I haven’t really thought about this until very recently.  But here we are, fourteen days out and counting.

We’ll be sure to keep the blog updated with photos and adventures, so be sure to stay tuned.

In the past few days of visiting with friends and family, it’s come up in conversation a bit.  Talking about it so much has made it seem more real. Up until now it’s just been something of a dream – our preparations more rote than mental.  I very much hope that we don’t hang out exclusively with other Americans from the base. That we branch out, explore, get lost, and are shocked by the extremities of another culture.  I can’t wait to try new foods I’ve never heard of and find myself in situations that I’ve previously only dreamt of.

I’m looking forward to the cherry blossoms in spring. The long nights of sake drinking.  I’d like to learn how to cook regionally. Find local fish markets.

Until then, KMF.

Projects

I’m working on our wedding photo-books.  I now understand that the reason for paying the photographer an extra 2k to lay them out for you is so that they actually get done – it’s just so easy to procrastinate. And then to stare at the page layouts and wonder if what’s front of you is good enough. If those photos are really the ones you’d like to have on your coffee table, for the rest of forever.

Anyways.  I really should get them done.