DITL - 2025

It's time for my annual DITL. Every year (save a couple in the middle there), I photograph an entire day of my life. I've been doing it since 2011. So, the girls were 3 when this started, and now they are 16. And we have a record, year by year of what an average day looks like through the ages. Here is 2025.

Wake up is 6:15 a.m.

Breakfast of champions for the girls.

Then I take my old person meds and check my blood pressure, lol.

The girls and I get ready for work and school.

I get to work and start on my to-do list.

Jon comes in and we talk about work and movies (probably).

Eating breakfast out of a tupperware container at my desk, like a winner.

My first duties are to sign us up for a fundraiser for Grace Marketplace, a homeless shelter in town, and to prepare a 'big check' for our Scholar Athlete of the Year--a $5,000 scholarship to the school of their choice. I also checked and answered emails and all that jazz.

Time to put up an NBC SNL promo, and check in on a commercial for the Chamber of Commerce.

Whenever we use tickets to an event or trade of any sort, I have to mark it down for our budgets.

This is what it looks like to put actual footage on the actual air. The first one is a commercial that runs on orders. They must run a certain amount of times on certain days and all of that is marked. The second is a PSA which will run overnight and is inserted manually into the logs given the cart number I assign it.

Then I have an off-site meeting with a new client.

After that I pick up the girls from school and drop them home before heading to the Scholar Athlete presentation.

But first I pick up a quick, unhealthy lunch and eat it in the high school parking lot where the presentation is taking place.

Congratulations, Scholar Athlete!

The rainy workday is over.

I run home, change for Body Combat, learn a couple new routines for the class, and drive to the Y to get it done.

Natalina goes to a different gym when I get back, and afterward, we stop at Walgreens to pick up some Valentine's Day gifts.

Done!

Once home again, I make dinner.

We all eat!

Then I complain to Google about the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico and mark it in my One Small Thing log.

I take the dog for his nighttime walk.

Check the blood pressure again, and it's garbage, so I do some silly breathing exercises again and it comes down, which is also garbage.

Time for bed, about 11 p.m.

But first I do a little reading. Good night!