Here's my work flow:
1. Buy camera, claiming to wife that it is birthday present to self.
2. Buy another camera, claiming to wife that it is Christmas present to self.
3. Buy yet another camera if I get a bonus this year. (MY bonus! Mine! No justification to wife needed!)
4. Buy another camera, claiming to wife that I put in a crazy lowball bid but unexpectedly won.
5. Stop tempting fate with the wife.
6. Buy film (Ilford B&W and Kodak color from last remaining local camera shop; Efke from Freestyle)
7. Choose one of aforesaid cameras.
8. Load slowest film that the expected conditions will allow, ideally Efke 25 speed.
9. Shoot. w00t!
[Hereafter assuming the case of B&W film shot]
10. Turn on Led Zeppelin or similar
11. Process film in bathroom (Ilfosol 3 developer and Ilford rapid fixer, as they're about all the aforesaid local shop stocks, and I'm trying to support them).
12. Tediously store spent chemistry, as I am on a septic tank system; haul jugs of it to local waste processing center every few months.
13. Dry negs by hanging them in the shower.
14. Scan to TIFFs on second-hand Epson 4490 (OEM holders; want to get BetterScanning.com ones eventually)
15. I'm in transition re: post-processing software, from GIMP to Lightroom. Resize, fix flagrantly bad contrast, etc. -- but I try to keep it to minimal PP, both to be true to what the film saw and because I have little patience for it. Process to JPGs for low-res uses (posting online, etc.).
16. Show the wife that one fabulous shot of her cute little niece or nephew (out of 111 shots on 3 rolls) that delights her; claim that this justifies the camera purchases in steps 1 - 4 above.
Seriously, I shoot film because I love the aesthetic of wonderfully made metal manual cameras ($20 - $300 each, in the kinds I buy, and timeless) and get frustrated quickly with the fiddly little buttons on a digital SLR ($1200 etc., fast obsolescence). I second what others have posted, too, about the moment of child-like wonder that results when opening the processing tank after the fixer and seeing actual images on the negs. It never gets old.
--Dave