I’m still reeling from the time change (Daylight Saving). Meh, I hate DST. Why, why, why? It’s like evil revenge on those of us who don’t fly in jets. What if they gave a Daylight Saving Time and nobody did it?

Here are this week’s questions….

Questions:

1. Are you excited for the holidays or are you dreading them?
Neither. Well, maybe more dreading them than excited for them JUST BECAUSE I want to stick to the budget but the prices of things keep going up and up while my pay remains the same or lower. We don’t do anything for Christmas, so that eliminates a TON of stress. We celebrate Thanksgiving Day, and give each other one gift. Every year, it seems that everyone I know bemoans the enormous amount of stress and money spent on the holidays, and I sympathize! The holidays are much too commercial. But we make them commercial, don’t we? What if — like Daylight Saving Time — we refused to do it?

2. Do you hit the snooze button or get right up?
Oh I used to be SO energetic in the morning! I would bounce out of bed right before the alarm went off. For a few years, I didn’t even need to use the alarm. But somewhere along the way, I got exhausted, lol. Now, I hit that snooze button. A couple of times, even.

3. Do you still have your tonsils?
Yes. Unfortunately. They are such a pain.

4. What was the last piece of candy that you ate?
Hmm…. I think it was… M&Ms. My husband brought home a little “handy size” pack from work. We don’t do Halloween so I don’t have any candy in the house. I probably seem like a real fuddy-dud because we don’t do any holidays, I am a fun gal!!! REALLY!

5. Do you shop at thrift stores?
Yep. I shopped exclusively at thrift stores for many years. Only recently have I purchased some new stuff for the kids and I. I always bought brand new shoes and undergarments, but the kids always wore hand-me-downs until only recently.

How would you answer these?

Have a great week, friends!

Daylight Saving Time is dumb, I think. My pal Jean put it best on her blog today:

A Native American, when told the reason for daylight savings time, had this to say:

Only a white man would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom of a blanket, and have a longer blanket.

LOL! That tickled me.

I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who first came up with the intial idea of DST (the idea of rising earlier, that is). He thought that if we set our clocks to the rising/setting of the sun, we’d save more time and be more productive. Americans ARE the most productive people on earth, but still… it wasn’t until 1905 that the idea got rolling. And it wasn’t the United States that started it, either! This is from Wikipedia:

Germany, its World War I allies, and their occupied zones were the first European nations to use Willett’s invention, starting April 30, 1916. Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year; and the United States adopted it in 1918. Since then, the world has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals.

If you just can’t get enough about Daylight Saving Time, or want to inflict your homeschooler with an assignment about it, here is a very cool site I found that tells all about it! Everything you ever wanted to know about Daylight Saving Time RIGHT HERE. LOL Have fun!

[and I'm grateful for the extra hour of sleep I'll get. I'm still exhausted from the hour we lost last spring...]