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!

Resolutions - 2025

Ten resolutions for myself, five for the kids. 2025 edition.

10) Continue to do one small thing a day to make the world better, to resist, to provide a little kindness, to help where I can.

9) Work out four times a week when able.

8) Read 12 books.

7) Push up challenge (1 added on each day).

6) Drink 8 glasses of water a day.

5) Get and keep the house clean.

4) Fix three things about the house.

3) Maintain a number of healthy friendships beyond work and family. Re-ignite at least three friendships I have let slide.

2) Continue to work on the deep-seated issues that prevent me from being a firm, steady rock, authoritative but kind, that my family needs.

1) Take some time every day to be centered. Stretching, meditation, rest with no outside stimulus, Chill Zone at gym, whatever.

Kids:

5) Firm boundaries and consequences for 75 percent of negative interactions, at least.

4) Enforce new chore schedule, ready them for adult responsibilities.

3) Work out how licenses and cars are going to go, and stick to it.

2) Get the girls dual enrolled, and SAT tested. Help them with college stuff.

1) Keep an open line of communication and honesty to the best of my ability.