If you're on Instagram (or, hey, even if you're not) you probably know that in 2012 a list of photo prompts has made the rounds with specific hashtags by month. I like the idea mostly because it reminds me to take more photos, which I'm naturally pretty bad at. This is one reason (of many?) why I'll never be an uber-popular blogger. Most of the uber-popular bloggers take photos of their lives while I just watch a lot of tv.
I participated in February and probably will again in March and I thought I'd round up those photos here. I didn't take a photo every day, either because the prompts got weird (does anyone really want to see a photo of "inside my bathroom cabinet" because I'm pretty sure my Band-aids look just like yours) or because all the prompting in the world can't make me a completely different person, and I plain forgot some days.
"Your view today": This is my view most mornings, as I start my drive to work. I love that Instagram made my drive look kinda beautiful when it's really just annoying as hell.
"Words": This is a signed copy of one of our books, an anthology on The Vampire Diaries. One of the editors signed it for me at Comic-Con this year, and she signed it "Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, and Lots of Vervain," which I love so much.
"Hands": Kyle's hands, playing with the camera he got for Christmas.
"10am": We were at my in-laws, having a morning playdate with Kyle's cousins, who he just plain adores. Can't you see the happy written all over him?
"Dinner": I wanted to make something fancy this night, to impress all my Instagram friends, but my desire to be cooler than I am is usually trumped by my laziness. So, here's some hummus (which photographs horribly) doused in hot sauce with some delicious sweet potato chips.
"Self-portrait": I look so sleepy! Or annoyed! Or sad! I can't tell what expression I'm really making here. I didn't mean it, whatever it is. Behind me you can see the Veronica Mars anthology cover that I have framed in my office.
"Makes you happy": Hi Mike! He does make me happy (as does his sweatshirt), but this particular day was my morning to sleep in, and I woke to bagels and coffee in bed, so I was happy for like 10 different reasons.
"Blue": Beautiful, beautiful (turquoise) blue appliance. I just realized the bowl is missing but it's because I had just USED my mixer (notice the mini banana muffins on the cooling rack in the background).
"Something new": New cupcake shop in town. Not just in town, my friends, IN WALKING DISTANCE IN TOWN. I can now walk to burgers, pizza, barbecue, Mexican, fried chicken, and now cupcakes. I can also walk to yoga, but guess which I walk to more?
"Handwriting": A note I have in my office, that I hand wrote when work was particularly stressful for me. You can also see the quote here.
"A fave photo of you": From our honeymoon. We were so tan and young and happy. We're still one of those things, at least. Funny though, about a minute after we took this (self-timer FTW!), I fell down the stairs of our villa, so the look of pure relaxation on my face was fleeting. Very fleeting. Because I was bleeding not long after.
"Where you work": Yep, that's my building.
"Something you're listening to": When I thought of the prompt, this is what song was on my Pandora shuffle.
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Here's the list of March photo prompts if you want to play along this month! (You should, too.)