Just Sayin'

If you're a longtime reader of my blog, you know that one of my least favorite events each year is Daylight Savings. If you're new here, allow me to introduce you to my disdain for, as I call it, Evil DST. Proof positive:

I grew up in Indiana. We never changed times. One time. All the time. Beautiful. And then...the arrival of Evil DST. I know a great many of you are fans of the later hours in the summer. And I'm not going to lie...I am too. It's the switching back and forth that gets on my nerves. If you want the time we have right now...fine by me! But can we just stay that way all the time? Pretty please with sugar on top?

My uh...reputation seems to have gone before me. Saturday evening I received not one, but TWO texts from friends who thought of me while changing their clocks. (woops.)

I wasn't going to blog about the time change this year - especially after taking some flak after a Facebook comment on the subject. But this is my blog...and I wanna. So I'm gonna.

Read this article on Sunday...and I have just a smattering of comments to make. Just a smattering. Take a look-see.

1. Heart attack rates increase by 10%? SUPER!!!! Because I definitely have time for that. (I really didn't need to know this. I'm such a hypochondriac.)

2. Night owls who get less than seven hours of sleep a night may take up to a week to adjust? The fact that it takes me until the next time change to adjust should clue you in to the amount of sleep I get every night.

3. Start going to bed 15 minutes earlier a couple of nights before the time change? Helpful, when I read the article the day OF the time change.

4. Set your alarm 30 minutes earlier on Saturday and Sunday? Um, I'm sorry...Saturdays were not made for an alarm, and Sunday I got up AN HOUR EARLIER because, you know, the time changed.

5. Go outside early Saturday and Sunday morning? I did! I went out before noon on Saturday (11:45) and the equivalent of 8 a.m. on Sunday...body clock time.

6. Exercise outside but not after 4 pm? Ummmm so are employers supposed to give you time off during the day to account for this?

7. Refrain from napping over the weekend? So we'll pretend those two on Sunday NEVER HAPPENED.

I'm also going to guess the Coke, caramel macchiato, and 2 iced teas on Sunday may not have helped. Just a theory.

So there we go. I'm just hanging out hoping to be in the 90% of non heart-attacked, sleep-deprived, non-DST fans.

Please still love me.