I don't hate DST, just the much earlier start to it, this year. I would rather stay the same time all year, though. They should split the difference between standard and DST, is what they should do.

Happy Birthday Tommyrot!

My motivation to get anything done today has just evaporated. I think best friend's son absorbed all the energy I should have in the process of fidgeting himself into a higher dimension at dinner last night. (He's ADHD and they let him off his meds on weekends so his appetite will improve.)

Happy Birthday, Tommyrot!!

I missed the lap swim this morning by sleeping through it, but there is an open swim from 1-4:30 during which they're supposed to leave a few laps up for people to swim without having to dodge kids. SInce it's already almost noon, I'll have to head over in 30 minutes to claim my half-lane.

Then, when I get home, I'm showering then heading over to a friend's house at 4:00 for a birthday party (must remember to stop by Walgreens for a card and something small for a gift). He just called to invite me--sort of last minute, but I don't care, it'll be fun.

I have hives. Or an allergic reaction. Or something. And 24 hours to endure before I can see my doctor.

Still, though, I love that I can call for an appointment Sunday morning and get in the next day.

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Eeek, Dana. Can you take some antihistmines in the meantime.

I find the older I get, the more that one hour shift in time discombobulates me.

It's 2 pm and I just finished breakfast. Including coffee I made for myself that was undrinkable. Bleachh! I am still uncaffeinated and inertia seems to be an overwhelming force in my life these days.

Okay, that hour's sleep wasn't bad. But I can still feel the night's terror in my arms. At least my head no longer hates me.

Happy Birthday, tommyrot!

I love daylight savings, although today is a day in which I could particularly use that hour. I'm so not a morning person that it doesn't matter what's going on outside. It could be dark; we could suddenly have been transported to another dimension. I wouldn't pay much attention to it until about 10. It's more light while I'm awake that I love.

This DST change is annoying for its sheer stupidity, though. It was about the only concrete thing to come out of various government commitees supposedly devoted to saving energy. While daylight savings saved energy when we were less dependent on artificial light, there's evidence that it won't make any difference in energy consumption today. It clearly didn't even occur to them the havoc it could wreak in computer systems.

Happy Birthday Tommyrot!

I am a DST hater, because I am a morning person. All I am doing in the evening is driving home from work, grocery shopping, or working in a costume shop with no windows! I like to wake up and have it sunshiny for the time before I go to work. But I am such a morning person that I pretty much come home from work, eat dinner, and go to sleep, unless there is something specific for me to do. And then I get up at 4:00 or 4:30.

Also, I still don't understand how it saves energy. Now I have to have the lights on when I am getting ready in the morning.

Eeek, Dana. Can you take some antihistmines in the meantime.

I'm already on a daily antihistamine for allergies (Zyrtec).

I love DST in a selfish way, because I love when it stays light until 8PM, and it seems like this endless twilight.

I'd rather have the evening bright time -- I don't want to do gardening or go walking first thing in the morning, because it is the time that I spend blinking and fighting my way to consciousness.