A Week In The Life - the chatter thread

Arrrggghhhh!!! DH took my camera to work this morning!!!! He's climbing some towers today & need to get shots from the top in various direction to work out where to point the equipment. He needs my 55-300mm lens to get the best shots.

So I am stuck with my camera phone today
 
I'm so jealous of everyone who is taking a ton of photos...I'm trying to get my mom to take pictures of my son during the day...yesterday she forgot (gotta love her anyway)...by the time I got home I got a few pictures but I was so bummed I wanted to quit last night but I'm going to try to make the pictures I got work...Today's a new day!

BTW...great pictures and layouts so far everyone...
 
Rachelle, I'm not getting pictures of my kids day either :-( BUT I'm trying to remember that they will think its fun to see what my week days are like because they don't get to see that part of me either.
 
Last year, Karsten was in school so I didn't get to see his day either ...think of it more as an AAM project if that's the case...
 
I had a moment of growth as a person today, guys!! After swimming, I came to my car to find out that the car next to me parked so close leaving me like 6 inches to open the driverside door, thus forcing me to crawl in from the passenger side.... but because it was AWITL and if I would have left a nasty note on the driver's window (like every bone in my body wanted too), I would have had to document that!! :D I can't let future generations know about my road rage issues... instead I just took a photo of the closeness of the vehicle... and sadly no note... however - if it happens again next week... :p
 
MamaBee said:
I had a moment of growth as a person today, guys!! After swimming, I came to my car to find out that the car next to me parked so close leaving me like 6 inches to open the driverside door, thus forcing me to crawl in from the passenger side.... but because it was AWITL and if I would have left a nasty note on the driver's window (like every bone in my body wanted too), I would have had to document that!! :D I can't let future generations know about my road rage issues... instead I just took a photo of the closeness of the vehicle... and sadly no note... however - if it happens again next week... :p
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BAHAHAHAHA!!!! Hysterical Rebecca. You are a gal after my own heart. :)
 
BWAHAHAHAHA Rebecca!!

I finally scrapped my Monday!

I was so daunted by the number of photos I took that it took forever to get to the scrapping point!
 
My computer is acting up too. It wouldn't let me save the 12 x 24 layout, so then I tried to split it into two and somehow screwed something up so I had to redo the one side, but now they don't match up. Ugh. Whatevs. I just got all my photos uploaded and am hoping to scrap something tonight.
 
So I didn't take any pictures yesterday... I was thinking of doing double layouts but I'm not sure about that now.. I could but I don't have enough to say about yesterday to cover two pages.
 
mamaof3 said:
So I didn't take any pictures yesterday... I was thinking of doing double layouts but I'm not sure about that now.. I could but I don't have enough to say about yesterday to cover two pages.
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could you take photos of things your family uses? what type of shampoo and soap? laundry soup? kiddo's favorite toys? fav tv shows? etc? So not so much about the day, but a slice of life from a different angle for your family. :)
 
Here's a question--and my anecdote for today.

How do you document the "bad stuff?" The hubs and I got into a fight (one of those silent treatment sort of things) so ofcourse we haven't been talking as we usually do. I just scribbled "feeling bleh bec Mark was [insert insult of choice]"

Then he wanted to go out to dinner because he reeeeeally wanted roast chicken. I wasn't hungry but oh well, I'll go because at least it gets me out of the house. The hilarious thing is once he got his food he automatically set them up to be photographed (because I've been shooting our meals all week)! And I just automatically took photos! :blink:

You'd think this would break the ice, but it didn't. :glare: Now we're back home and not speaking again.
 
I write it as it is - maybe label it "What sucked today" or "The bad thing about today". There was one really really bad day when I did AWITL back in 2008 & all I had pictured was 1 photo. One photo and that was it :)
 
MamaBee said:
could you take photos of things your family uses? what type of shampoo and soap? laundry soup? kiddo's favorite toys? fav tv shows? etc? So not so much about the day, but a slice of life from a different angle for your family. :)
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That would work. The kids did watch more TV then usual yesterday. We spent the morning at doctors appointments, Rachel got a lab done, picking up meds, giving the the right child the right medicine (yeah DH almost gave Troy Lilly's meds), keeping the kids happy, separated and trying to clean up the mess that having them all sick made.
 
mrshobbes said:
Here's a question--and my anecdote for today.

How do you document the "bad stuff?" The hubs and I got into a fight (one of those silent treatment sort of things) so ofcourse we haven't been talking as we usually do. I just scribbled "feeling bleh bec Mark was [insert insult of choice]"

Then he wanted to go out to dinner because he reeeeeally wanted roast chicken. I wasn't hungry but oh well, I'll go because at least it gets me out of the house. The hilarious thing is once he got his food he automatically set them up to be photographed (because I've been shooting our meals all week)! And I just automatically took photos! :blink:

You'd think this would break the ice, but it didn't. :glare: Now we're back home and not speaking again.
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Oh Lexi.....I am in the same boat today. Hubs and I got into an argument last night and I had such hurt feelings that I slept on the couch. AND he is ignoring me today. I am so glad I have a girlfriend to meet for dinner later because I am about to loose it and that is my light at the end of the tunnel.
The dumb thing is..........the fight was ridiculous. I mean, totally wasn't worth the fight. BUT, he won't return my calls, text, emails.......he is totally ignoring me. Frustrating to say the least. I am not even mad.....now I am just really sad that something so silly caused this big of an issue.
 
Not the same as documenting a fight but my hubby was out of town last night so I took a pic of his empty side of the bed. Maybe you could take a picture of something that you normally have or do but don't have at the moment. Like an empty text screen?

I just finished Monday's layouts. It took me 2 days! I think narrowing down the photos took the longest. Towards the end of the layout I was tired of looking at it so I said screw the elements. Mine will mainly be photos and paper. LOL!
 
taracotta7 said:
the fight was ridiculous. I mean, totally wasn't worth the fight. BUT, he won't return my calls, text, emails.......he is totally ignoring me. Frustrating to say the least. I am not even mad.....now I am just really sad that something so silly caused this big of an issue.
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That's us, Tara! Well, we sort of started talking near bedtime, but he stayed up late last night in his office so we didn't talk before bed as we normally do. But I woke up around 3AM to crazy pounding rain and just cuddled close to him.

aggiefamily said:
Not the same as documenting a fight but my hubby was out of town last night so I took a pic of his empty side of the bed. Maybe you could take a picture of something that you normally have or do but don't have at the moment. Like an empty text screen?
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That's a great idea, Amanda. I did take a photo of me in bed but I could indicate that his side was empty.
 
One thing I DID screenshot...

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Finny's famous!
 
I just downloaded tues-fri pics. Um I have only 33 for Thursday and about half of those are blurry or bad angles. I guess we didn't do much on Thursday. LOL! I have noticed that as the week goes along I have less pictures each day.

I hope next year this happens during the fall.
 
Wooohooo! I finally got to choose and edit photos for my Monday-Friday. Then I finished my Monday layout. Holy heck but it took me four hours to do it! :blink:
 
so how far has everyone got to scrapping their LO's?? I am working on Thursday but have all of my pictures uploaded and in their folders :)
 
I only have Monday done!! LOL I have all my photos taken but I really need to sit down and figure out what was important enough to scrap..
 
Traci Reed said:
I only have Monday done!! LOL I have all my photos taken but I really need to sit down and figure out what was important enough to scrap..
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^^ This exactly. At least I've chosen my photos and done edits already, but OMG it took me four hours to do Monday's spread so I'm bit skeeered to touch the rest lol
 
Amanda, I'm doing it.. but I decided to do the week of August 14th. Ideally I'd like to pick a week every three months or so and do it, but we'll see lol
 
kscwgirl said:
Amanda, I'm doing it.. but I decided to do the week of August 14th. Ideally I'd like to pick a week every three months or so and do it, but we'll see lol
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I might re-do it sometime in August. I did alright for about half the week, and then I fell apart once we got to the beach, lol. I thought I could keep up on vacation, but I was wrong. By mid-august I hope to feel more human again too, which would be nice. :p
 
For me it's more of that I have things happening that week that I know I want documented, and I know I'll have my camera with me a lot that week.. so it is the easiest time to do it for me. We'll see what happens LOL
 
I've decided that I'm going to use Traci's templates but I'm going to use a different kit for every day... I have some kits in my unused folder that need to be used that I think will go perfectly with some of my photos. Normally, for these kinds of things I use just one kit... but decided to change things up a bit :)
 
heathergw said:
I've decided that I'm going to use Traci's templates but I'm going to use a different kit for every day... I have some kits in my unused folder that need to be used that I think will go perfectly with some of my photos. Normally, for these kinds of things I use just one kit... but decided to change things up a bit :)
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I was gonna do this too, but it takes me forever to decide on a kit LMAO!!!!!!! So I had to save myself the stress;)...but I do use a different kit for all of my P365 pages :)
 
I've decided to use some different kits too. I'm just looking at what we are wearing each day and finding a kit to match. Honestly, I'm not loving my pages, but I'm excited that I'm actually getting something done. If I can do double page spread a day then I'll be done by next Sunday. That might be a record for a project for me!

I'm trying to decide about adding two more pages to each day that talk about what's in the news, the weather, maybe let each kid tell a story? I dunno....I'm thinking it might be better to just get something done and then add to it if I feel like it.

Hope everyone else is working on their pages and will finish their project. I'm feeling thankful for templates that don't have too many photo spots. I see now too that I didn't get any shots in the evenings...next time!!!
 
I'm done with Tuesday's layout. I'm scrapping a spread per day, but doing it per page, not per spread. So I'm kinda worried they won't "match" up, you know? Ah well. I'm mixing up Traci's templates with her Slip ins and the 10080 Minutes kit + a bunch of other non-SSD stuff.

I was thinking of blogging about my layouts per day, and then using that as a springboard for random rambling. LOL. We'll see if I have some spare time.
 
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