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Daily Photo: Week Five
🕑 Added 2024-02-03 08:11:14 +0000 UTCI ended Week Four of my Daily Photo project believing that the month had concluded on January 28th.
Ladies.
January goes up to 31.
I realized my error the next day, which I thought was February 1st, but was, in fact, January 29th. "Oh!" I thought. "No worries, I'll just take a photo today like normal." The completionist in me would normally activate and just finish out those last few days.
But.
I didn't want to.
After writing my slap-dash faux-finale on the last post, I felt done. Emotionally, I had concluded my project. It was over! Never mind the reality that the month itself was not yet concluded, but my heart had already closed the chapter on this operation.
So, here's what I'm going to do.
I'm going to share some outtakes from the last month, some of the photos I didn't share in those earlier posts.
Like this one, from January 1
Look, I'm zipping up my fanny pack as I get ready to bike in to Helioscope. This is not a great picture. But you know what? It happened. There was a moment in my life where I was zipping up my fanny pack as I prepared to bike in to Helioscope and you didn't know about it in my first post but now you do know. You do know.
January 3rd. Matt making me laugh while I fold his unders.
January 13. I was so pleased with myself that I'd had the foresight to cover my young seedlings before the night before freeze, but my smug satisfaction quickly deflated when I looked out the window the next morning and saw that the snow had weighed down my protective covers so my little plants were still crushed by the frozen precipitation anyway. I went out and added some infrastructure under the sheets so that the snow couldn't weigh down onto them again- and they didn't! All my little plantlings survived the week of Portland's miserable ice storm!
January 16. This looks like a pretty average evening in our house. Drinking water. Matt walking around with socks and flipflops. Dicks everywhere. (I can spot three dildos, how many do you see?)
January 20. Dancing in the kitchen while I load the dishwasher.
January 22. Releasing my plantlings from their protective covers for the first time in a week!
January 23. Washing off the scale infestation on Lemony Snicket's leaves.
January 25. Exercising in my kitchen with my online barre class via my laptop that I stack on boxes to be closer to my eye-level. This move looks like nothing but it fucking hurts.
January 27. Tig helping me finish reading Emily Nagoski's new book before I'm supposed to interview her about it for her book release party at Powell's on Feb 7th. You should come!
January 27. Me 'n' Tig. Tig 'n' me. Just a couple'a pals. Oh, and those are the sheets (background, on the clothesline) I used to protect my baby plants (foreground) from the winter storm. I hung them up so they'd dry from all the snow and rain.
January 28. More exercising with my laptop in the kitchen.
Ok! There we go. January's officially over. We'll do this again in 2025!
Comments
Erika Moen
Dude, me neither. I have no idea how many days are in each month. I know it's generally.... like... 30? But then there's the randomly super short ones!!!
Tamara
Love seeing "the outtakes," thank you for posting them. And I've often wished that all months would just be a nice , round 28 days/4 weeks. Then maybe my time dysplasia wouldn't be quite so bad 😆. (I stillllll don't have that silly mnemonic about number of days in the months firmly in my head.)
Margaret Oliver
I took an online barre style class a couple years ago and oh my gosh it was *so much* harder than I was expecting. It makes sense considering how strong dancers can be, but I was still not prepared haha. I never thought doing repetitive arm exercises with just ONE POUND WEIGHTS could hurt so much. 😆
