Author: Average Jane

I actually had a photo shoot yesterday to get new headshots for my social media profiles, but because the implication of today's photo challenge is that you are to take a photo of yourself, I used Instagram to capture what I looked like today.

I almost never wear my glasses, but my left eye has been bugging me so I figured I could use a break from my contact lenses today. I also decided to take a break from smiling, despite the fact that smiling's my favorite.

If you want to see my new profile photos, feel free to look for my LinkedIn account, Pinterest, etc. They're out there!

The front door of my house is incredibly boring, so instead here's the front door to my office. If I'd known the fingerprint scanner would be placed to the left of the door, I wouldn't have scanned my right hand. Fortunately it's only necessary to scan your finger for entry outside of business hours.

I don't know about everyone else participating in this photo challenge, but this topic made me think, "Shut the front door!" all day long.

We didn't have any sun today, so I decided to post a photo from a month or so ago of Trillian recharging her feline batteries in the sunlit window.

I have a cool, faux black leather trench coat that I wear when the weather isn't too bad. It has a bazillion of these buttons: a long row up each cuff and lots of them in front. They fall off constantly.

Any time I'm wearing the coat, I have to attune my bat senses to the faint "clink" of a metal button hitting the floor. At any given time, I have at least one of these buttons in my purse and a couple more scattered between my office and home desks, all waiting to be sewn back on when I get out my mending kit.

It's still a rad coat, though. Especially if you don't know I got it at Hot Topic. Heh.

When my husband ordered a slice of the "Delight" pizza, thick crust, the cashier paused a moment and asked if he had ever ordered it before. When the answer was no, he explained that it was about an inch thick with another inch of toppings. It sounded like a warning.

My husband went ahead and ordered it and it certainly was impressive, but nothing he couldn't handle.

10 a.m. on Sunday = time to take the little doggers for a walk.

Here's the link to the photo challenge if you'd like to take part.

This is an old photo, but I selected it because of the uncharacteristically warm weather we've been having this winter. I don't think we'll be seeing any snowmen this year.

For today, I went with an image of the most common thing I see hands doing these days. That's my husband, by the way.

Here's the link to the challenge if you'd like to take part.

This evening I went to see my niece and nephew perform in their school talent show. Both of them did a great job. My 11-year-old niece did a dance routine to the song "Barbra Streisand" by Duck Sauce. I had heard of neither the song nor the band before she asked my husband to edit the song down to 2:25.

My 6-year-old (almost 7) nephew did a light saber routine of his own choreographing to a rocked-out version of the "Star Wars" theme, which was apparently such a huge hit when he performed it at the school earlier in the day that the girls were chasing him around the playground at recess. I'm glad to see that being a dead-serious "Star Wars" fan is not a social faux pas at his age.

The talent show organizers had two genius ideas:

1. Limit each performance to two-and-a-half minutes.
2. Have a DJ insert interstitial music for the changeovers.

So it was actually pretty entertaining throughout, although they needed disclaimers on the program for the old people, e.g. "School's Out" (not Alice Cooper) and "Shake It Up" (not The Cars). That would have saved us all some disappointment.

If you feel like joining in on the photo challenge, here's the list.