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!

DITL - 2024

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 15. And we have a record, year by year of what an average day looks like through the ages. Here is 2024.

I wake up at 6 a.m. and I wake up the girls.

I make them breakfast and lunch while they get dressed and ready for school.

Carlos takes Fletchie for a walk and I throw in a load of laundry while the girls eat.

Off they go!

I get to work and check in with my boss. She's the best.

I get to my desk and make my to-do list. First thing today is a shoot at a wildlife conservation foundation!

We saw cheetahs!

And hyenas!

And tigers!

And more cheetahs! Babies! And then it's back to the office.

I work on a podcast instructional manual and sneak some food.

I attend a corporate zoom meeting, copyedit a community planner script, and copyedit a web story.

Then I check out a magnet program for Natalina. Didn't end up working out.

Station leadership meeting at 4 and I'm done for the day. (at work, anyway). But we have our body combat launch on this day, too! So I rush home to get ready.

Carlos was washing the car.

Natalina was snuggling the dog.

And I had to eat something before the launch because a handful of Life cereal wasn't going to cut it. Then I get ready and head to the gym.

Success! It was Mardi Gras themed. That brings us to dinner time.

Okay, laundry, dishes then dinner.

Tired but here it is!

Then I walk the dog, while the girls do chores and homework. And then finally. Finally.

It is time for bed.

I know this is VERY picture heavy for a DITL, but believe it or not, I pared this way down, lol. It was a long, varied and exciting day, for sure. Next year, I'm sure it will be boring. Here are all the years past, if you wanted to see what my life has looked like on Feb. 13 throughout the years.

2023

2022

2021

2020

2017 

2016 

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011