How to make the most out of daylight savings time

14 March 2010 | Misc

1.  Sleep in until 10:30.  Which is really only 9:30.  But still, that’s pretty late.  Except it was totally not my fault because Blaine is painting our bedroom so he unplugged the one clock that we have and when I woke up this morning I knew thanks to daylight savings time that the brightness of the room could possibly be misleading so it was most likely earlier than I thought it was so I just rolled over and went back to sleep and never even heard Blaine leave for church but when he came back home he totally woke me up because the garage door opener is directly under our bedroom yeah maybe moving our bedroom upstairs to the old game room wasn’t such a brilliant move but still thank goodness for the noise because otherwise I might have slept until noon.

2.  Finally drag yourself out of bed, and have two bowls of Cocoa Krispies.  Breakfast of champions.

3.  Complain about mild, annoying headache you have had since yesterday that you still can’t get rid of.

4.  Take two more tylenol after you eat the Cocoa Krispies.

5.  Headache is getting worse.  Decide you should give the tylenol a chance to work by “resting”.

6.  Try to lay down in the den; kids are fighting.  Try to lay down in the living room; dogs keep licking you.  Try to lay down in master bedroom; Blaine is painting again.  Give up and lay down to “rest” in Kendrie’s bedroom.

7.  Wake up two hours later.

8.  Still have headache, worse than before.  Who said naps are restorative? 

9.  Take two more tylenol, sit around holding forehead in hands, complaining.

10.  Realize you are starving and eat the leftover FABulous lobster-tomato-tortellini you cooked for dinner two nights ago.  Let your children eat Oreos for lunch because there is not much tortellini left and quite frankly, you don’t feel like sharing.

11.  Realize you are still hungry so eat half a tube of Bacon Ranch Pringles.

12.  Not as good as regular Pringles, by the way.

13.  Complain you still have headache.

14.  Have the light-bulb go off when you realize that you haven’t had a soda since Friday morning.  Clearly, this is a caffeine-withdrawal headache.

15.  Drink a damn Coke.

16.  Oh my heavens cue the angel music its a miracle the headache goes away.

17.  Curse yourself that you didn’t realize that sooner.

18.  Start preparing the fixings for the grilled burgers you are making for dinner, in anticipation of a lovely family dinner. 

19.  Not until the cable guys come, because the television in the living room suddenly quit working yesterday, do you realize that you are still in your pajamas and bathrobe from this morning.  Because in between the eating and the napping and the tylenol taking, you clearly didn’t have time to get dressed today.

20.  Give up when the burgers are ready, the french fries are ready, and the veggie tray is ready and the cable guys are still here, with no idea why the television has no signal.  Let the family serve themselves and eat off their laps watching Hannah Montana in the den.  So much for quality family time around the dinner table.

21.  Laugh at Blaine when the cable guys discover that not only did he unplug the alarm clock in our bedroom when he started painting yesterday, he also unplugged some kind of cable extension box thing and that’s why the tv no longer worked.

22.  Admit exhaustion from …… well ……… from all the ……….. ok, so you haven’t actually DONE anything today, but admit exhuastion and lie on the sofa for a while.

23.  Realize headache is coming back.  Consider getting another soda, although that will most likely start some vicious headache rebound cycle from Hell and do you really want to subject yourself to that?

24.  Hell yes you do.

25.  Ask Blaine to make you a soda because you are just too tired …. what with all the napping you’ve done today.

25b.  Discuss with Blaine how this is Spring Break and you feel the need to get the kids out and do some fun activities, instead of sitting around the house for the next five days watching tv and playing on the computer.  Because clearly, today hasn’t been so productive, so perhaps a change of plans is in order.

26.  Watch the last fifteen minutes of Undercover Boss and wish you had seen the beginning.

27.  Decide its time for bed, but because you are still wearing your pajamas from last night, and not having to change shaves ten minutes off your bedtime, so you get on computer and update blog instead, with most boring list in the history of the universe, about all the things you have NOT accomplished thanks to daylight savings time.

28.  The end.


11 Responses to How to make the most out of daylight savings time

  • 1 kimybeee Says:

    Got up yesterday morning at 7:30am – went to steer weigh-in. Finished and was home by 10am. Told husband that we were eating lunch and taking a nap (husband had worked 16 hour shift and got home at 7:30 am and didn’t want to take a nap.) We both went to sleep just before noon and woke up at 7PM!!!!! Talk about a power nap…we have baby goats that we have been bottle feeding every four hours for the last two and a half weeks. All those nights of interupted sleep caught up with us. The kids had to take care of the goats from Saturday morning until tonight to give me and Dad a much needed baby break. And we both still went back to bed and slept last night. Gettin ready to go make bottles here in about half an hour. So I guess everyone needs a sleep marathon occasionally. Don’t beat yourself up – just be grateful that Blaine and the kids and the critters let you sleep!!

  • 2 Renee Says:

    Sounds like a perfectly good day for me. Except you forgot the Reese Cups….

  • 3 Tracy Says:

    Did you know that sleeping too much can actually cause headaches?? I’m just saying . . . .

  • 4 cakeburnette Says:

    Not boring at all! HILARIOUS!!!!

  • 5 Cindy Says:

    LOL Sounds kind of like my day minus the sleeping in, headache, napping, Tylenol and cooking – other than that just like my day. The first words out of my mouth this morning were “Oh Daylight Savings Time you are so not my friend – yet”

  • 6 Rosemary Says:

    Starting to feel like a stalker, because I read your blog every day, but hardly ever comment. Hello! Out here reading and laughing! Not at your headache, because I hate those. At your day, because it sounds just like mine..except I watched TV all day while my husband worked in the yard. Didn’t feel even a little guilty, not sure why!

    Just a side note.. If you have Time Warner Cable, in our area they offer Primetime on Demand. Undercover Boss is one of the shows they offer, so if you wait a few days (and if you have the free on demand in your area), you can actually see the beginning of the show!

    Have a good day.. hope your head feels better.

  • 7 Mika Says:

    Reckon your headaches are from the paint fumes? Hope you have a great break with the kids & get the rest you need!

  • 8 Kristie Says:

    No, good guess, but the headache starting the day before the painting started ….. its gone today, so that’s all I care about. :) Kristie

  • 9 Kim Warcholik Says:

    If it makes you feel any better, our master is above the garage and it shakes our entire room and sounds like a bomb going off…it bothered me when Kenny left for work before 5:00am every day for about a month. Now I sleep right through it…kinda scary. I NEVER hear it, yet I can still hear every kid and animal in the house in a seconds notice(and you know there are a lot of both!)…weird and nice!

  • 10 Mary Z Says:

    Better increase your stash of DDP!! :)

  • 11 Kim Warcholik Says:

    So really my point was that you need to practice napping, a lot. At the end time when the nap should be commencing, have the kids open the garage door. After a few weeks, with a lot of practice, it won’t even wake you up and you will just keep on napping. Then you can be happy with you level of nap success!

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