darn time change

Homegrown Tomatoes · November 04, 2008, 05:54:10 AM

Why is it that the fall time change, when I am supposed to get an extra hour sleep, always messes me up worse than springing forward? Last night, I went to bed around ten, and then the baby woke up at 1:30 in the morning, so I got up with her. I hadn't been back in bed and asleep for very long when my oldest woke me up with a nosebleed at 3:00. By the time I got her fixed up and her sheets off and replaced, etc., it was about 3:45. Never could get back to sleep, so I finally just got up and made a pot of coffee. Have a feeling I'll need more than two cups today. Maybe after another cup I'll get around to scrubbing the tile where DD dripped blood (I didn't notice it in my half asleep stupor earlier, but just picked it up on the radar after my first cup of coffee.)

southernsis · November 04, 2008, 07:20:35 AM

I understand. Woke up at 3:30 and couldn't go back to sleep. Hate the change and wish they would leave it alone.

November 04, 2008, 08:25:57 AM

You could always move here to AZ. We don't have daylight savings time. The clock stays the same year round.

MountainDon · November 04, 2008, 10:45:28 AM

Don't rub it in des. I've always admired that.

Messing with the clock alters my sleep/wake pattern for a week or less, but it's still a nuisance.

StinkerBell · November 04, 2008, 11:51:41 AM

How very very odd. I was up starting at 3:45a then about every 45 minutes after that.
hmmmm

November 04, 2008, 12:39:17 PM

Funny. I was talking to my nextdoor neighbor while we were in line to vote, and she said she woke up before 4 AM today, too. Maybe it's something in the air (like Glenn's non-dissipating vapor trails???) Yup, switching the clocks back and forth and chemtrails... must be a conspiracy.

glenn kangiser · November 04, 2008, 11:42:27 PM

I have no doubts. Keep them awake and confused then slip the pres in that they didn't want --- it's a conspiracy alright...

Homegrown Tomatoes · November 05, 2008, 12:01:27 AM

Yup, you're definitely on to something here, Glenn.

desdawg · November 05, 2008, 07:53:37 AM

Quote from: MountainDon on November 04, 2008, 10:45:28 AM
Don't rub it in des. I've always admired that.

Messing with the clock alters my sleep/wake pattern for a week or less, but it's still a nuisance.

We have so much daylight we don't need to save any. I never really understood the concept anyway.

Homegrown Tomatoes · November 05, 2008, 09:06:21 AM

I wish that they would just leave it on daylight savings time year round. I don't mind waking up when it is still dark, but have a hard time staying awake when it gets dark early in the evening, I guess. When I worked in the Grand Canyon one summer in college, I would wake up at 3 or 4 every morning because it got light so stinking early. Then I'd go hiking for a few hours before I had to go to work. And, as soon as the sun set, I would be nodding off.