Week 19: Time is relative
This week notes stretches from Dec 8, 2025 to Mar 3, 2026, lol.
I did it again. This week note is twelve weeks long. Clearly, the concept of time is completely relative and a week can be as long or as short as I see fit. So much has happened in the past three months, I don't even know where to start with this "week" note.
- To begin with: heeeeey, Happy new year! It's 2026 already! 🎉
- 🐶 In January we celebrated Astro's 13th birthday and we had to say goodbye to him only two days later. It was very hard at first, but time is helping. Luna is also helping a lot! It's been very nice to focus on Luna, taking her for longer walks in the mountain, teaching her new tricks.
- 💍 On January 31st we also celebrated our wedding anniversary. And we realized we don't have ANY printed photos of our day! It was a simple and quick celebration at Stockholms Stadshuset back in 2015, only me, him, his parents and Astro (the cutest thing, wearing a little bow tie). We had two photographers documenting and they gave me an edited selection plus all the raw files so I could edit my way and make an album. I was a wedding photographer myself at the time, I had access to amazing album vendors and I had the skills, this should have been easy, but nope. Never did a thing. The photos just stayed in my computer until now!
- 🚗 Took my driving exam and failed! My nerves got the best of me, the test was only a week after Astro, the landlord wanted to raise my rent, I had a streak of losses in trading… It sucks, I cried so much, I really wanted to be done with this.
- In February we celebrated my husband's birthday. We could really do with some happiness after everything that's happened. I planned a week long celebration: breakfast in bed, flowers, chocolate cake, three different tasting menus in Michelin restaurants, an orchestra concert, a hike, a day at the beach. It was really nice to get out of the house, take photos, eat good food, drink good wine, create new memories. ❤️
- Bought a Canon Selphy CP1500! I want to create a memorial album of Astro (I have 7000+ photos and videos of him!), I want to make my own traditional wedding album, I am also working on a photo album with random scenes, family moments (cooking, playing games) and "best of" photos (the best 3 or so of any day trip or event). Now I can print whenever I am done editing something! No more photos forgotten in the depths of my hard drive! Now things get physically printed!
- Still in love with my Xiaomi 15 Ultra. The phone is fantastic – my old samsung was six years old, so there were tons of new shiny and/or helpful things to discover. But the camera itself is the most exciting. It is simply a joy to use. I haven't touched the Fuji not even once in the past 3 months, the Xiaomi has effectively become my EDC. The fact I can have in my pocket, at all times, a macro lens, a wide angle, a telephoto with amazing zoom, and all of that weights like, I don't know, 300g or something? 💙 Battery life is really good, and before anyone wonders: my phone has zero ads.
Here are some reviews I enjoyed about the 15U! Tech bros on youtube know nothing about photography and love comparing benchmark specs that won't make a difference in real life. Here are real photographer's perspectives on the phone — after all, any flagship phone will perform wonderfully, and the camera is THE reason to buy this specific model (the new one just came out, the 17U).
Amateur Photographer's review by Amy Davies
Framelines review by Shane Taylor a.k.a. @heroesforsale (yt)
Samuel Nam's blind camera test - Iphone 16 Pro, Samsung S25 Ultra, Xiaomi 15 Ultra (yt)