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 - 2023

Every year I do a DITL (I skipped 2018 and 2019 but I've been back on track for a couple years now). Through the years, I photograph an entire day, usually around Valentine's Day, simply because that happened to be the day that I started it all in 2011 or so. It's cool to look back on how the days have changed.

Morning starts at 6 a.m. now that the girls have to make an earlier bus.

Wake up for everyone.

Breakfast ready.

Lunch ready.

Blood pressure medication keeps my body from stroking out, so that's good.

Fletch is ready for his walk, but not quite yet.

Breakfast time!

And I get ready for work.

Girls missed the bus, so we get to drive in morning school traffic.

Almost there.

And off they go, Bobcats.

Get to the office.

First thing I do is replenish the coffee for the office.

I check my email and make my to-do list for the day.

Morning rounds with my production staff, Elena and Gator.

Then I visit the reporters, since I've just come off a stint of being acting news director and I miss them.

My production manager comes in to ask if he can go home yet, and the answer, of course, is always no.

This is the system where I enter the promos. Each video segment gets a code, a time code, a title and description. That code goes into the system, digitally connected to the video which I upload to a different system under those numbers for Elena to fill the log with and for master control to hit the button when it's time to play it.

I check in with Ryann, our digital reporter, before heading to lunch.

I go home, throw in some laundry and get my lunch ready. I'm hungry bc I forgot to bring any cereal for breakfast.

Leftover beef stew, biscuit and some reading. Borrowed this book from my daughter.

Just because I'm on lunch doesn't mean Carlos or Fletchie are. Hard at work, these two.

I then start making dinner. It's a two-part process.

Grab a quick hug from my husband before going back to work.

I approve the community planner which airs throughout the week on our channels, after I pick three events and Elena writes a script off those descriptions, gets a voice over for it, then puts all the graphics and text together.

This is a PSA. I go through what they send us, and choose which ones we will air. I download the video.

Then I give the videos a code and put them in the system.

Here are the back satellites, where we transmit and receive information.

I color in between tasks to chill out.

End of the day and I've done only part of the list.

Time to go home.

I change up and go to body combat right away. I get out a little after 5 and this class starts at 5:45.

Afterward, a couple of us talk for a few minutes.

Back home for part two of the dinner.

This is tomato crab bisque. Audrey taught me the recipe years ago. 

It's the perfect complement to the sausage bread. My mother's recipe.

We all eat up.

Fletch helps me fold the clothes.

Then it's good night for everyone.

And that is a typical day in 2023. I've now had this job for 15 months, the longest I've ever had a job where I go to the office every day.

To see the other years, here are the links!

2022

2021

2020

2017 

2016 

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011