spring forward sanely...

Time is a impossible thing to capture.. and yet every year we spring forward and fall back and so in a sense, jerk time around.. While I do enjoy the extended daylight hours of spring and summer, why do we fall back after that, such a cruel season of the year for your mind. I have no scientific or history lessons to share about this subject, cause well, my time is more valuable and it would change nothing about it happening or not. But it's a mental thing to know that "tonight" your supposed to change all of your clocks backward or forward so you don't wake up total confused or walk into church earlier/later than your supposed to. Perhaps that is why it DOESN'T happen on a Sunday night into the morning of Monday... payroll concerns would just a logistal nightmare of call ins and whether you take comp time working later that day, or make it up another day, let alone if you showed up early...

Last night we completely forgot about the process and so I woke up at 4:00 a.m. to pee, cuz we actually went to bed at 8pm just out of sheer exhaustion from an endless amount of weeks on end of busyness and activity. I intended to read, but got about 12 pages read, and Greg's loud breathing pattern as he slept, just encouraged me to fall asleep.. and so I did. Shane was supposed to be at work at 5ish and so at 4am I trip downstairs to find his light was already on and he was up having remembered to change his own clock when he returned from poker playing the night before.

I am encouraged by my cell phone and another clock we have that updates by satelites.. need more of that to just make this time of year a smooth transition without thinking to much into it. Because I like both times of year for different reasons; fall back, gain hour of sleep that I can't seem to manage to do on my own very often (like last night) but yet you lose daylight and the day seems "done" earlier than the clock tells you. Spring forward, gain more daylight for being busy outdoors after being in the office all day, but yet you lose an hour of valuable sleep.. good grief, there's no making us totally happy. And than go to AZ for a weekend, they don't acknowledge Daylight Savings time, so ?? are we an hour ahead or behind when there?

And as I sit here this afternoon just chillin in my "day of rest", I think going to bed early actually is a good plan for feeling better.... now to work that into a routine of more occasions.