Thursday, March 12, 2020
I am adjusted to daylight savings time already, darn it. I was hoping I would keep sleeping in until approximately 15 minutes before I start my morning routine until it started to get lighter earlier again. No such luck. This morning I woke up an hour earlier than I need to function, which is normal for me. I know I am in the minority; I do not use an alarm clock. On the days I am still sleeping when my significant other, Donald, does my morning care, he wakes me up. On the very rare days my older daughter, Megan, gets here before I wake up, she wakes me up. I sleep for six or seven hours and then my brain wakes up.
I love daylight savings time, and since standard time was shortened into the first Sunday in November to the second Sunday in March. I think daylight savings time is almost the perfect length (standard time could end the third weekend in February and that would be ideal). I do not understand why everybody raises a fuss about switching our clocks twice a year. Personally, I have always found it more difficult to fall back than spring forward. The loss of evening daylight is what affects me so much.
Daylight savings time is now a safety issue. Most people in the United States have regular evening events, and fewer violent crimes happen during daylight hours. It is safer to be out at events at 6:00 p.m. in April than January. Seventy-five percent of pedestrians killed by cars in 2018 were hit after dark. When I had an office job before I started my own business, I would leave at 4:00 p.m. instead of 5:00 p.m. during standard time, so I would not need to roll from the bus stop to my house along dark streets without streetlamps. I am less concerned about getting hit in the dark now because my newest power wheelchair has flashers built in.
In Colorado, some of the lawmakers want to quit changing times, but they want to stay on winter’s time all year. Apparently, it takes an actual act from the United States congress to change Colorado‘s time to stay on daylight savings time all year. I simply cannot understand why so many people would rather it be daylight at 5:00 a.m. than 8:00 p.m. in the summer. I do not require much sleep, and I almost never want to get up before six in the morning. Why waste the sunlight?
I think our state legislators are listening to people complain about changing their clocks and looking for the simplest solution. Colorado could switch to daylight savings time all year, without an act of congress, by changing to the central time zone and opting out of switching to daylight savings time in the summer. It is a win-win situation. We get more daylight when more people are active, and nobody switches their clocks.
I did not leave the house at 8:30 a.m. this morning and I feel out of sorts. I do not have a weekly blood draw or wound care appointment today, and I am adjusting to this schedule. I am excited to have the time for myself, but not sure what to do with it, since I do not schedule any work Thursday mornings. I am taking the opportunity today to write my journal entry early in the day for a change, but I am nearly finished, and my helper does not arrive for a full hour. I will be able to start another task before my helper gets here. I am usually on or waiting for a bus at this time when I am getting a blood draw.
I am not missing the time commitment my chemotherapy requires, even if it will take a few weeks to adjust. I will probably resume my chemotherapy treatments as soon as I get adjusted to having a little more time to myself. I will then need to rearrange my work schedule, yet again, to work around all the required treatment hours.
My piece of advice to you is to enjoy your time off. In a month, I could start my weekly blood draws again, so I will make the most of the Thursday mornings I have now to get more work done. I do not want these Thursdays off now, so I am using them to give me more free time this summer with my seven-year-old.
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.
I am adjusted to daylight savings time already, darn it. I was hoping I would keep sleeping in until approximately 15 minutes before I start my morning routine until it started to get lighter earlier again. No such luck. This morning I woke up an hour earlier than I need to function, which is normal for me. I know I am in the minority; I do not use an alarm clock. On the days I am still sleeping when my significant other, Donald, does my morning care, he wakes me up. On the very rare days my older daughter, Megan, gets here before I wake up, she wakes me up. I sleep for six or seven hours and then my brain wakes up.
I love daylight savings time, and since standard time was shortened into the first Sunday in November to the second Sunday in March. I think daylight savings time is almost the perfect length (standard time could end the third weekend in February and that would be ideal). I do not understand why everybody raises a fuss about switching our clocks twice a year. Personally, I have always found it more difficult to fall back than spring forward. The loss of evening daylight is what affects me so much.
Daylight savings time is now a safety issue. Most people in the United States have regular evening events, and fewer violent crimes happen during daylight hours. It is safer to be out at events at 6:00 p.m. in April than January. Seventy-five percent of pedestrians killed by cars in 2018 were hit after dark. When I had an office job before I started my own business, I would leave at 4:00 p.m. instead of 5:00 p.m. during standard time, so I would not need to roll from the bus stop to my house along dark streets without streetlamps. I am less concerned about getting hit in the dark now because my newest power wheelchair has flashers built in.
In Colorado, some of the lawmakers want to quit changing times, but they want to stay on winter’s time all year. Apparently, it takes an actual act from the United States congress to change Colorado‘s time to stay on daylight savings time all year. I simply cannot understand why so many people would rather it be daylight at 5:00 a.m. than 8:00 p.m. in the summer. I do not require much sleep, and I almost never want to get up before six in the morning. Why waste the sunlight?
I think our state legislators are listening to people complain about changing their clocks and looking for the simplest solution. Colorado could switch to daylight savings time all year, without an act of congress, by changing to the central time zone and opting out of switching to daylight savings time in the summer. It is a win-win situation. We get more daylight when more people are active, and nobody switches their clocks.
I did not leave the house at 8:30 a.m. this morning and I feel out of sorts. I do not have a weekly blood draw or wound care appointment today, and I am adjusting to this schedule. I am excited to have the time for myself, but not sure what to do with it, since I do not schedule any work Thursday mornings. I am taking the opportunity today to write my journal entry early in the day for a change, but I am nearly finished, and my helper does not arrive for a full hour. I will be able to start another task before my helper gets here. I am usually on or waiting for a bus at this time when I am getting a blood draw.
I am not missing the time commitment my chemotherapy requires, even if it will take a few weeks to adjust. I will probably resume my chemotherapy treatments as soon as I get adjusted to having a little more time to myself. I will then need to rearrange my work schedule, yet again, to work around all the required treatment hours.
My piece of advice to you is to enjoy your time off. In a month, I could start my weekly blood draws again, so I will make the most of the Thursday mornings I have now to get more work done. I do not want these Thursdays off now, so I am using them to give me more free time this summer with my seven-year-old.
Until next time,
Susanne
Please check out my GoFundMe page.