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A Day in the Life – 2013

January 31, 2013 By Dana White 8 Comments

I canNOT believe tomorrow is February.

In February of 2012, I had fun participating in Simply Rebekah’s “Day in the Life” link-up.  (Here’s my post from last year.)

Last night, at exactly 6:45, it hit me that if I was going to take 24 hours worth of pictures AND get the post written in time to link it up again this year, I needed to get started.

Like . . . right then. 

So I did.

I took a picture every hour for 24 hours, except while I was sleeping.  (Since that would just be creepy.)

At 6:45 p.m. last night, I was at choir practice:

At 7:45, I was at praise team practice:

Those are my fellow singers.  They were more than willing to pose for my pictures.

And yes, Mother, I dyed my hair.  It’s supposed to fade . . . but for now it’s basically black.  And I’m having an identity crisis over it. 

And yes, I really need to re-apply make-up before taking pictures at the end of a long day . . .

At 8:45, we were still rehearsing:

This was actually right BEFORE we were supposed to come in, so we were  only pretending to sing.  Debbie’s pretty believable, Karina . . . not so much. Me?  Not at all.

At 9:45, I was just getting home. The dishwasher and dryer were both running when I walked into the house.  What a man!

At 10:45, I was heading to bed.  I stopped by the linen closet to grab a clean, not-yet-slobbered-on pillowcase for my wake-up picture.

At 6:45 this morning, I was pretending that it wasn’t really time to get up yet.

At 7:45, I was drinking my one cup of coffee for the day, and doing my Bible Study lesson (after having dropped the kids at school).

At 8:45, I was emptying the dishwasher.  (Usually this is a 6:45 job, but this morning I was still pretending I had time to sleep  . . .)

At 9:45, I was getting into my “Nony” costume:

At 10:45, I was in the middle of shooting the finale to the Master Bedroom Saga:

Why yes.  That is my fancy equipment.  It’s my iPhone attached to my tripod with rubber bands.

At 11:45/12ish, I was washing two avocados to make guacamole for my lunch.

You don’t wash yours with soap?  That’s weird.

At 12:45/1ish (the every-single-hour thing was starting to get a bit muddy at this point), I had just started back to work in the master bedroom when I remembered what I had meant to search for online while eating my lunch.  So of course, I went back to find it, and proceeded to cry the entire time I watched this video.

At 2ish, I was vacuuming the Master Bedroom:

At 3ish, the picking up and driving all around began:

At 4ish, we were heading back out to pick up the brothers, after my 6yo had made them a snack:

At 5ish, I was browning 10 lbs of ground beef and my 6yo was making the meatballs for tonight’s supper.  (She was on a cooking kick today!)

At 6ish, after taking my 11yo to basketball practice, we had Family Kitchen Clean-Up Time.

(That’s my 9yo making Daddy’s lunch for tomorrow.)

And at 7ish (24 hours after I started), I was heading back out to pick up the basketball practice-er.

 

And that . . . is one random day in the life of a Slob Blogger.  2013.

Go check out more “Day in the Life” posts at Simply Rebekah!

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How to Keep Up with Emailed Coupons

January 30, 2013 By Dana White 7 Comments

I love my iPhone. I knew I would, I just didn’t know how much.  It hasn’t solved all my problems, but it sure does help with a lot of things! One of the things I love is that I don’t have to print out (and then lose or forget) emailed coupons.  (Just to be clear, […]

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Should I Keep the Old One? Just in case?

January 29, 2013 By Dana White 21 Comments

Note #1: I’m sure I’ve written this same post with different objects at least once. Probably six times.  Note #2: Yes.  I’m aware I have issues.  The only thing I wanted for my birthday was a new can opener.  Seriously. I’m pretty sure I received my old one (on the bottom) as a by-request birthday […]

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When You Can’t Remember a Memory

January 28, 2013 By Dana White 13 Comments

That broken Christmas ornament perplexes me. I’m going to be honest.  It’s sitting in a Donate Box in my garage.  If I can’t remember where it came from by the time that Donate Box leaves the house, it will be gone forever. Here’s the thing.  Hubby and I have a tradition of buying Christmas ornaments […]

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So So Tempting . . . (And a Family Kitchen Clean Up Report)

January 27, 2013 By Dana White 13 Comments

We’ve been doing our Family Kitchen Clean-Up Time for three whole weeks now. We get off track on the weekends, but during the week we’re pretty much rockin’ it. And . . . it’s fun. I know. So strange. But really, one of my biggest excuses/reasons for not cleaning up the kitchen in the evening […]

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Giveaway!! – Fish Foam Window Cleaner

January 25, 2013 By Dana White

Random Observation #1: It makes me giggle that as a Known-to-the-World Slob (seriously, I know I have readers in Germany, Egypt, Serbia, Lithuania and more), companies ask me to test out their cleaning products.  It’s great motivation to clean! Random Observation #2: Taking pictures of dirty windows is hard.  You know how a window can […]

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How to Declutter Birthday Cards

January 24, 2013 By Dana White 83 Comments

Step One: Read the card one last time while thinking nice thoughts about the person who wrote it. Step Two: Throw it in the trash can.  If the person who wrote it will be coming over soon, place another piece of trash over it so they don’t see that you threw away their card.  (School […]

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Since I Only Remember at the LEAST Convenient Time

January 23, 2013 By Dana White 7 Comments

It’s winter. You wouldn’t know it from the gorgeous weather last weekend, but we do have random spurts of insanely cold (for Texas) temperatures that make me want to bury myself under a blanket. Unfortunately, I can’t (always) do that.  And my kids really can’t, because they have to go to school. So we  bundle […]

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It’s My Birthday, and I’m Having a Sale!!!

January 21, 2013 By Dana White 19 Comments

I’m sorry. This sale has ended. Partly because I’m not 39 anymore. I’m posting this on Monday evening (while I’m still 38), but by the time most of you read it . . . . it will be my birthday!!! And yes.  If you just added 1+38, you figured out that I’m turning 39.  For […]

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