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A beginner’s guide to Instagram (pt. 1)

Want to learn more about Instagram? This first post walks you through the basics and offers some useful tips along the way. (Not just for beginners.)

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“I eat and I know things.” 🦁⁣ ⁣ We can’t believe Game of Thrones is over! ⚜️ What house would your cats be in? ⚜️⁣ ⁣ Ani definitely has the Lannister look. Kafka would be Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch. His name even means jackdaw, a type of crow, in Czech! 🐦

Brown fluff, yellow eyes, master mind 🧠⁣ ⁣ —⁣ Hi everyone! Well, that “short” break lasted a little longer than I announced. For the past 1,5 years, ever since I adopted Kafka, I posted on Instagram daily. I was very proud of myself, because before that moment I never managed to do anything daily in my life. I’m a chaotic person and my life has never been very structured. I was happy that sharing Kafka and Anakin’s lives, and my photography and writing, not only came with so many sweet followers, but also offered some very welcome structure to my life. I’ve always felt like I lacked perseverance. I am very creative and started many projects throughout my life, but for every finished project there are always many more unfinished ones.⁣ ⁣ However, over the past months Instagram started to feel like a chore. The thing I had to check off my list, before I could go on with the things I needed or wanted to do. I spent way too much time editing photos (by my own fault, because I set high standards towards myself) and writing captions (getting stuck, because I couldn’t think of anything funny or insightful). I ended up posting late in the evening and spending ages commenting on other posts, because I would feel guilty for not keeping up with my followers and friends here. But all this time on Instagram took away from the time I could’ve spend on quality time with my boys, meeting with friends and my recovery. In other words, lately social media actually made me less social in real life.⁣ ⁣ I think many here feel some sort of pressure to “perform”, to post good content and to engage. Taking the pressure of posting daily off helped for while. However, I didn’t know how to get back to Instagram again. Like I needed something good to show. But I don’t. So here’s a repost of Kafka. I need to rethink the way I spend time on here, but quitting altogether or not posting structurally isn’t going to make me happy either. Because I miss you guys and I miss posting about Kafka and Ani. I just need to lower the standards I set myself (in terms of content) and take the pressure off.

We’re back! 💛⁣ ⁣ Hi guys! Long time no see. Sorry for our absence. We haven’t posted in almost a week. No worries. The boys are doing just fine. They’ve been playing and snuggling daily, as always. Kafka’s health is stable at the moment too.⁣ ⁣ I just needed a little break because I started a rehabilitation process for the traumatic brain injury I got after hitting my head at the end of December. I am no longer dizzy and things are finally looking up. I started going to the gym daily to regain energy and muscle strength, since I haven’t been able to move much for four months. I’m also seeing a rehabilitation doctor at the hospital to help with my migraines, posture/neck and sensory overload. I also started work again. Unfortunately I got sick two days ago. A viral throat and skin infection, so it should get better soon, but it’s a bit of a setback since I need to stay at home and rest again.⁣ ⁣ Anyway, I’m trying to get back to my daily life again. I’m super excited to finally make real progress, since recovery so far hasn’t been easy. ⁣ ⁣ I had trouble prioritizing Instagram this week, because I already have so much on my plate. I’m going to try to post more regularly again, but I might not post daily anymore. I just don’t want to spend so much time online, since I also need to spend a lot of time on my health and recovery. I’d rather play with Kafka and Anakin, and have quality time with my friends and family.⁣ ⁣ Of course I really love all our followers, and your involvement in the boys’ lives, and I deeply appreciate your messages. I hope you understand! ⁣ ⁣ 💛 Amber

Ani: “And then... 🤣 then the cat says: because there are too many cheetahs. Get it? Cheetahs, like cheaters!! 🤣🤣” Kafka: “... 🙄 Stop laughing at your own jokes.”

That food you’re eating... that’s mine. Everything is, you know that right? That’s the price of my company 😼⁣ ⁣ —⁣ Ani still has that cute little baby face, and he knows how to use it. No matter what I’m eating, he wants it. The little beggar.

🌎🌍🌏 “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.⁣ ⁣ The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.⁣ ⁣ Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.⁣ ⁣ The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.⁣ ⁣ It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”⁣ ⁣ — Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994⁣ #earthday

Nose kiss anyone? ❤️⁣ ⁣ —⁣ Wet cat noses are just the best. I love rubbing my nose against the boys’ noses. Kafka in particularly comes up for a nose kiss every time he sees me.

“Easter spells out beauty. The beauty of new life.” 🐣⁣ - S.D. Gordon⁣ ⁣ Happy Easter Monday and happy Earth Day! Let’s celebrate life with a throwback to little baby Anakin, last spring 🐥 Take good care of the earth for all living creatures 🌏 #earthday

Have an eggcelent Easter everybunny! 🐰🐣⁣ ⁣ All puns aside, we wish you all an amazing holiday with your loved ones 💛 ⁣ ⁣ I went to Amsterdam to visit my uncle and friends this weekend, and just got home to spend the rest of Easter Sunday with my two favorite people: Kafka and Ani. My friend stayed in our house so they wouldn’t be alone, but for some reason they started fighting as soon as I came home. I don’t know what happened exactly, but Kafka was really upset and hid under his cat house. I ended up feeding them treats together and having a nice work out/play time to blow off some steam, and all seems well now. Do your cats act differently when you’re away from home? 🐥⁣ ⁣ —⁣ Bow tie by @furreverfluffs

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