A Day in the Life...

A long time ago I stumbled upon this blog: http://community.livejournal.com/ditl/. It's a LiveJournal community where members post photographs showing "a day in their life". Surprisingly, looking at photos of strangers' mundane lives is rather interesting! It seemed like a fun photography project, which I decided to tackle myself. To do this project, you wake up with your camera, carry it with you throughout your day, and go to sleep with it.

The main difficulties I encountered with this project were a) it's very difficult to take a photo of yourself, thus most photos don't even have me in it and b) whipping out my camera in public (without some scenic view or anything really worth photographing) felt a little awkward...I was convinced I looked like a total weirdo. Oh, and I didn't want to make my coworkers uncomfortable by taking their photo, so I kept my lens aimed away from them.

Without further ado, a day in the life of Dana. This was a mostly typical Wednesday.


After hitting the snooze button multiple times, I finally wake up.


I shower (no photos of that, sorry) and put on my makeup.


About an hour later, I'm ready to go!


I drive to work... (I was pulled over to the side of the road, for those of you freaking out that I took a photo while driving)


...and arrive in Naperville at 8:00.


I stare at this for 8 hours...


...answering emails and doing other unexciting work things.


I'm trying to eat healthier snacks, so mid-morning I stop for some carrots, celery, and peanut butter.


Aaaaand then its back to work, building a website.


1:00, it's lunch time! I sit in the conference room, to get away from my desk.


I do all my reading on my lunch break! And I totally overcooked my frozen dinner :(.


After lunch it's more of the same...


...until at 5:30 I leave the office for home! I had to work late :(.


Today wasn't the best day at work (because of something I screwed up), so I listen to the angry rock station on Sirius, lol.


The weather matches my mood. It's rainy.


I stop at Wal-Mart for some milk and fabric softener.

I actually cheated on these next two and used a flash. It was simply too dark.


Rob had a hair cut that evening, so Grandpa J was at my house watching Luke. When I walked in the door, they were hanging out on the couch.


Later I realized it looks like the clock is growing out of Luke's head. And yes, Luke is wearing Halloween pajamas in January.


We say bye-bye to Grandpa...


...and have some dinner!


We're getting VERY good at using a fork!


After dinner I unload the dishwasher and put away dishes...


...do a little vacuuming...


...and open the package that came for me. It's the new camera bag I ordered, hooray!


Rob gets home, and we give Luke a bath. It's his favorite time.


Hi!


Daddy is in the bath with Luke, so I wait outside the tub for them to finish so I can take Luke and dry him off.


All clean!




This is blurry but I still want to share. Luke gives his daddy a kiss goodnight!


With Luke in bed, I finally get a chance to eat something. It's late and I'm hungry, so frozen pizza it is...


I put up my feet and relax on the couch with Rob for awhile.


Watching TV.


Then I take out my contacts, swallow my pills...


...and bed time :).

And that's my unexciting, but very busy day!