Week in the Life : Monday Photos + Words
Here's a peek at some of the photos I took today:
Still have dinner and evening routine to go here on the west coast.
I also wanted to share the things I jotted down on my Word document today. Because I didn't leave the house I decided to do my story in a list format that literally followed my actions over the course of the day. Tomorrow my journaling will probably be different - and that will be just fine. Remember, there is no right or wrong way to approach this project!
9/29/08
MORNING ROUTINE
1. Alarm off at 6am. One snooze.
2. Simon comes into our room + snuggles for just a minute.
3. I get up, let Lily outside, give her two scoops of food, turn on NPR and some lights in the living + dining rooms, and put Simon’s bagel in the toaster.
4. Take medicine.
5. Start coffee. Pour OJ. Bagels pop-up. Spread the cream cheese. Vitamins on plate.
6. Simon comes running out of our bedroom (I cheer inside for a happy wake-up).
7. He tells me about something he saw on Elmo yesterday.
8. Bagel with cream cheese and OJ are on the table.
9. Simon sits down at the table and asks to be wrapped in a blanket.
10. Chris pours cereal, gets paper, and sits down at the table.
11. Simon giggles about Mr. Noodle licking his hand and wiping his hair like a dog.
12. I grab clothes out of his closet and put them on the couch. Pants, short sleeve t-shirt, long sleeve t-shirt, underwear, socks.
13. Simon finishes breakfast and puts on his clothes in the living room.
14. Brushes teeth. Puts on shoes and stripped sweatshirt.
15. We all go outside to wait for the bus. Simon is still giggling about Mr. Noodle’s dog act.
16. It’s still dark when we get outside but over the five minutes we wait for the bus it gets light.
17. Lily the dog is insane with her ball. I think she is the most excited member of the family in the morning. She gets the routine.
18. Bus arrives. Simon climbs on and does the dog routine for Shelia the bus driver.
19. Chris and I wave as they drive off and wave as they come back around after going through the cul-de-sac. We go back inside to start our days.
MY ROUTINE AFTER SIMON IS OFF TO SCHOOL
- Check email.
- Take shower. Make bed.
- More email + start work. Establish to-do list.
- Breakfast: yogurt with oatmeal cereal
- Talk to Cathy on the phone.
- Chris leaves for meetings in Salem.
- Work on blog posts for the week.
- Feeling the little girl move around in my tummy as I work away on the computer.
- Turn off local NPR affiliate and change to OPB (more talk, less music).
- Start working on TT sample.
- Start load of cloth diapers. This is their first washing and they need to be prepped before the baby comes. Wash, wash, dry, repeat.
- Work a bit. Check the internet. Work a bit. Check the internet. Wait for paint to dry on TT project.
- Snack time: apple + string cheese.
- More work. Finish second TT sample.
- Lunch: chicken + tomato + cucumber sandwich. I usually read the paper or surf the internet during lunch. Today the paper felt “old” as the news of the day (failure to sign a bailout bill) had been happening so fast. Turned on CNN in the background.
- Moved the laundry around. Piled some to fold onto our bed.
- Back to work.
- Feel like I have to go to the bathroom all the time. Thank you baby.
- Mid-afternoon. This is the time of day I just want to take a nap.
- Uploaded some of my photos so far to Flickr.
- Thinking about how I am going to put this album together. Doing a write-up for my blog about the project for tomorrow.
- Waiting for Simon to get home from school.
- Feeling the baby move some more.
- Hear the bus coming down the street and go outside to welcome Simon home.
- Fix peanut butter cracker snack. Watch a bit of Elmo with Simon.
- Take a little nap on the couch.
- Simon finishes Elmo and is ready to go outside to play with the neighbors: light sabers + bike riding.
- Chris comes home.
- The evening routine begins.
That's all for today. So many awesome ideas in the comments section. Look for a post tomorrow morning that begins talking about possible ways to bring this together.
A complete list of posts related to the week in the life project can be found here.
I am so enjoying this, but I realized that I spend alot of my time in the car. Taking pictures from the car ranks up there with cell phones and texting. I think I may have been a traffic hazard!
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Tara - repetition is part of this project. It is part of the flow of our lives and an important thing to capture I think. Even though it may be the "same" it will most likely be different light or some other aspect will be different. Also, be on the lookout for different things than you usually see - things we miss because we are too busy moving through life.
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Kristin - today it was easy because I was here all day, never too far from the computer. Tomorrow will be a different story :).
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Jennifer - I almost always shoot horizontally (almost never vertical). Not sure why...just what I do ;).
You can make them work together by cropping into squares when you bring them together into a collage or try to keep either the width or the height the same.
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So personal, real, ordinary and extraordinary. Love how simple you've made the journaling. Thanks for the second post today. I was hoping. Mac
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Here's that almost identical shot I was talking about: http://www.flickr.com/photos/11249284@N04/2900125859/in/pool-documentaweekinthelife
It's neat to see how things are so similar, yet so different...
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I'm not a good Monday person, so today sort of blew past me. It was helpful to see how you've organized your thoughts. How do you get the shots of you during the course of your day? I find that I'm rarely in my photos since I'm usually the one with the camera, and my husband works out of town, so I'm often home alone. I would love to have pictures of me doing things, especially for projects like this.
As usual, thank you SO much for the inspiration!
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This was so much fun today! I had my 13 year old son take photos of me at work today (I work on the computer from home on my website) then I took photos of him. I found myself jotting down stuff throughout the day. Took photos of my kitchen, my cat and the kids wrestling around after school. This is fun!!!
Les
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Hi Ali,
Thanks so much for the creative boost. I was so inspired.
I got a giggle out of the fact that you were reading Huff Post today too. I was glued to my computer today!
Anyway, thanks for the info. I'm really enjoying this process. I forgot my camera after taking some morning shots, but that's OK. It's all good right.
Elisa
PS-You look beautiful pregnant.
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Hi again Ali,
I forgot to say Kudos on the cloth diapers. I have used them with my latest baby and I love them. Well, as much as you can love something that holds...well you know LOL
Elisa
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Hey Angela - if your camera has a self-timer, use that :). It works great!
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Ali, thank you for the inspiration and motivation - I can't wait to see what we'll do with these words + photos!
My Monday is here: http://blog.angieflinn.com/2008/09/week-in-the-lif.html
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your photos are great. loving this project so far. i feel like i totally captured that slow, beginning of the week, monday feeling today. i added a few favorites to the flickr group and my blog. thanks again for the inspiration.
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Awesome post! I just had to tell you...that sandwich with the cucumbers on it looks SOOOO good! :)
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Ali, you are doing a much better job than me! I only got a few pics today and didn't journal anything! I will do better tomorrow. I joined the Flickr group, but my account is full :( so I am just sharing my photos on my blog. I am very excited about doing this project, I will do better tomorrow, I promise! Any suggestions to help an unorganized, fellow Oregonian? lol
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Ali, thanks for the suggestions about sizing my pics to be uniform. I made them square and it really helped. :~)
http://gardenymph.com/?p=166
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Hi Ali !
it's funny to see we have the same way of starting, I simply listed activities of the day, as I moved on, with one or two thoughts, mostly, short, short, long comments for the rythm. But i'm a bit upset that i didn't get the camera out as I often as I wanted, even if I did pick up stuff in my memorabilla-envelop.
so let's go on for a new day !
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hi friend.
love your shares. your photos. loved your cku week in the life album workshop a few summers ago. was just looking at the album last week. totally need to do another one. with you would be ideal.
wishing you much joy and peace.
blessings,
erin
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I would love to do this. I am now going through my emails and trying to catch up. We are traveling and on our way home. I will start taking photos when we return. I wrote down all the wonderful photo ideas....
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I've had such fun the last three days documenting my "boring" life in pics... I actually now start to plan things to do just to take photos. Love the one of your coffee cup... will definately try that angle.
I'm using my blog as my notepad... then I can keep everything in the same place.
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I was struggling whether I should take part in that project or not, because I have tons of other photographs to scrap. Well, I made up my mind, so I Ihave been taking pictures since this morning, although I am one day "late" :-).
It's fun! I'm just not putting down as much information on a notepad as Ali does. I'm fine with that though.
Thanks for the inspiration, girls!
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I love this! I started yesterday - check out my blog www.mariannepollock.typepad.com. My photo's seem a little more boring than Ali's but I guess we all think our everyday is rather boring! I am in Australia, we are in Spring - beautiful weather, it makes me feel great.
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Ali, I took that same picture of HuffPo! I think this is going to turn out to have been a very interesting week to record.
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You know what's hard, Ali? As I look through my pics or as I take them, I start to 'evaluate.' Does this ever happen to you?
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love your pics, especially your made bed. Love making the bed here, just sets the tone for my day! Where did you get your lovely pillows?
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