So it's official... I started the paperwork for moving today. I don't think the two little beings hanging out on my shoulders are an angel and a devil, but one of them is going "yeeeeah!" and the other one has its face down in its hands, shaking its head as if to say "what have we gotten ourselves into now?"
Moving is going to be a real pain. But it will be worth it. You've got to keep on movin', I keep telling myself, as strains of Matthew Wilder's "Break My Stride" well up from some unknown depths of my memory. I remember them singing that on "Kids Incorporated." Yes, I mean the Saturday morning kids' music show from the 80's sponsored by Jordache.
Anyway, all that aside, NaBloPoMo is nearly over. In reflection, I didn't achieve as much of my goal of catching up with things that I've done over the past year as I had hoped, but I did manage to post a few key events. After the 'Mo is over, I'm certainly going to cut down on my blog time, but as usual I hope to post once a week or so. If I start to go below once every two weeks, feel free to kick me (via email of course).
In the spirit of posting memories, here are a few more pics. And because it's starting to get damn cold here, I'm going to go with some pictures from the summer.
Let's see how many photos I can crop, tweak, and upload before I pass out from lack of sleep. :) By the way, in case you didn't know, you can click on the photo to go to its Flickr page, then click on "All Sizes" and choose a high-resolution version to download. I think most of these photos are in there at 1024x768.
First, a sailing picture. You have no idea how many awesome pictures we took on this sailing trip. It was my first time out on a boat this size, and it was a blast! Maybe I should save the stories for a blog post of their own.
Yodogawa hanabi! We had amazing seats, right under the center of it all. I'd never seen a fireworks display so spectacular or well-choreographed before!
Our wonderful seats were thanks to the connections of my soon-to-be-neighbor Peter. It was great to see him again too... it's sad how you can live so close to somebody and almost never see them.
The Ulfuls concert was awesome beyond words. Thank you so much to Yoko for the hook-up. These guys are my favorite band in Japan (sorry, Rip Slyme!) and mechamecha kandou shita! (By the way, they let you bring cameras in but ask you not to take photos during the show... so I took this photo just after the show was over. :)
To-kae, a light-up festival in Nara that has no deep meaning. Pretty, though.
This shot was also in Nara during To-kae. It's times like this when I guess I'll miss living so close to Nara. Not a lot of quiet, candlelit mountain paths in Morinomiya. :P
And this was our picnic to celebrate the end of summer. We had it in the park that sits upon the archaeological site of the ancient first capital of Japan.
Here we are moving the picnic to follow the shade. Even though this was in late September, it was still unpleasantly hot in the sun. I think it was my idea to just drag the entire picnic tarp... that turned into sort of a mini-disaster, but it got the job done. People kept telling me that it was a stupid idea, and we should just leave the tarp where it was, but something inside me kept telling me ... you've got to keep on movin'.
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