While this year has been great for me at The Brighter Writer as far as exposure, sponsors, and luck of the draw, I'm certainly not the world's most professional social media influence. I hear constantly about blogging conferences, seminars, and opportunities but I rarely take advantage of them. I read the advice columns about the importance of consistent writing but I just don't have the time or energy to write as much as I'd sometimes like to.
But I do just fine.
I'm very happy with my little community of readers.
And I thank the people who constantly show up to read what I have to say.
This week I'm trying something different.
It seems as though the pages in which I subscribe are all participating in NaBloPoMo. I can't write every single day for a month. I just can't. And I can't imagine anyone would want to read a post where I was really reaching for a subject. I would think after a few weeks I would just run out of things to write about. Which is why, I suppose, I've been reading all these articles lately from my fellow bloggers along the lines of "100 topics for writer's block" or "50 ideas to get your blog started" or "creative writing jump starts..." You get the idea.
Out of complete curiosity, I read one of these lists and it was totally not my cup of tea. (Idea 27: Write about the last thing that made you cry??? What the hell?!!!)
However one of them took me to the link of a photo challenge. This totally insane woman took a photograph every hour on the waking hour, for an entire year. Partly for her readers who like to see how other people live, and also to just have a journal to look back on some day.
I won't be doing that either.
But I thought it might be fun to try it for a day.
I set my alarm for every hour on the hour, and wherever I am, whatever I'm doing, will be photographed.
So in the words of Pee Wee Herman, "Why don't you take a picture, it'll last longer?"
6AM: I meet up with this stud, Mr. Coffee, and we fall deeply in love.
7AM: Everyone in the house is physically awake yet mentally still asleep. It's still quiet enough to get a little work done. Today's essay: The Brotherhood Of The Traveling Unicorn (final draft).
8AM: I listen to my husband sing a nice little homemade song about how much he enjoys food ("♪♫ Oh my God, I love food so muuuuuch, ♪♫ I love the way it tastes in my moooouth and I wish I could just eat all the tiiiiiime...♪♫") and an encore about how today is definitely a hat day while he tries to fix his hair. Kalynn and I eat the breakfast casserole which is freshly out of the oven.
9AM: I (along with my entourage) listen (and dance around) to our favorite Pandora station while I put on my makeup.
10AM: We're roaming around Target, checking out the toy section, making a mental note of our list for Santa.
11AM: Kalynn makes the executive decision of being this hour's photographer since she already has possession of my phone. In true Marie Antoinette form, she instructs me to smile and then cuts off my head.
12PM: We make our way downtown to the Lincoln Center to buy tickets for Kalynn's performance in the upcoming Nutcracker ballet. The door is open so we pop our heads in and check out where she will grace the stage as the cutest and most talented snowflake that ever lived.
1PM: With half the day successfully behind us and nap time creeping up fast, we take a few minutes to construct and jump in the world's largest leaf pile just outside our building.
2PM: It's time for my break. And by break I mean time to fold the laundry, wash the dishes, prepare dinner and pick up the living room. It is also the hour when I become queen of the creeper club and spy on my baby and her cuteness.
3PM: Both of my children are freshly awake with emotions deeply rooted in codependency. Everyone wants soy milk and a snuggle from Mommy and nothing else will substitute.
4PM: Time to clean out the car. I'm on fruit-bar-wrapper patrol while Kalynn mans the camera.
5PM: Jason is home! And he brought Happy hour with him!
6PM: Turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy, stuffing, green bean casserole and brown sugar sweet potato pie.
7PM: There are 2 things to remember about the gym: #1 Summer bodies are made in the Winter and #2 no matter how slow you go, you're still lapping everybody on the couch.
8PM: Bedtime for Kalynn. But first, snuggles with Daddy in the book nook.
9PM: Wine and my pup-doo.
10PM: Goonies never say die!
10PM: Tomorrow night there is a full Moon in Taurus and a meteor shower shining from the constellation Leo. The combination of being a Leo myself and having an influential Taurus in my life, it kind of makes it feel like this particular full moon is my very own. The Universe is apparently on our side right now.
There you have an average day in the life of Me. Goodnight!
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