I was born and raised in Hawaii and we don’t have daylight savings time there. It’s just Hawaiian time all the time, HA! What that usually means is people just roll on in when ever they get to it. I didn’t really follow that rule – even though I’m half Hawaiian….must have been the Dutch side of me. 🙂
Back to the topic. Last night I did what I’ve been reminded to do from all sources, which was move the clocks in the house forward an hour so that when we woke up this morning we would be on time. I need to do 13yo and 11yo’s alarm clocks, the clock in the office and the clock on the coffee machine. I’m trusting HunBun can move his own alarm clock forward, I guess I’ll see when I go back and check.
I think daylight savings makes more sense the further into the “savings” we go. Right now it’s still dark in the am and dark in the pm – but I know how quickly that will switch. One morning I’ll wake up and be like “dang did I oversleep?” and at night I’ll say “dang, is it 9 o’clock already?”.
This week I’m prepping to be running around like a nutter. I’m headed off to So. Cal this week for work. For someone who didn’t plan any meetings I’ve sure booked up my calendar. It was my good friend Ann’s birthday last week so we are celebrating Tuesday night when I come in. I’ll be taking her to Natural Café for a celebratory dinner – see we’ll eat a healthy dinner so we can go find us a not so healthy treat for dessert. We’re smart like that.
Today I was very productive. I hit the treadmill for an iFit run through Solvang, CA. I tried the Beta version of the map feature – it worked fine for the first half mile then got hung up on the rest. So I just stared at my route without seeing the street view as I would have liked. Bleah. I hope iFit get’s its technical issues fixed soon. It’s been a real pooter.
Solvang is a bit hillier than I thought. I was able to maintain the 6.0 at 6% incline – but when that sucker kept scooting up to 10% incline I had to punch my speed down to 4.0. Every now and again I have a fear of flying off the edge of the treadmill – usually when my thoughts start wandering and I forget I’m on a moving belt. Whoops. That would be no bueno for sure.
After getting my healthy on I decided to get my spring cleaning on – by tackling the office. We have one of those 5×5 shelves from Ikea. I love the clean lines but also the volume of space it has for us to fill. I went through and put a bunch of stuff into 2 shred piles – a personal shred for our home shredder and a business shred for the shred bins at the office. I also tossed a bunch of stuff into the recycle bin – you know magazines that I had been saving for years (oh, yes the date was from 2009) and some Dummy books for Visio & Excel that I had bought for work. Those? Oh, those were from 2008. Good Gravy!
I also have a lot of books which I rarely part with. I did a double shelf on some of those just to not spread them through the entire 5×5. I found some old photos of HunBun and I when we first started dating. Man I dressed like a schlub – Gee Whiz! I mean I’m no fashion plate but Yikers. We have a lot of new photos from our many Disney vacations (hee hee – planning for another this Summer, if I can get him to agree – which I will, Bwahahahahaha) and in those I think I’m looking ok. Sometimes clothes just don’t fit like you think they fit while you’re wearing them – it’s only when you see a photo you say “is that how that shirt hangs…eeps”.
My plan was to clean the whole office – desk and file folder and stuff on the walls. I was only able to get through the 5×5. It seriously is a lot of work to go through all these boxes and see all the stuff that I’ve been hoarding for no reason. HunBun was pleased. Whee. He’s the clean freak of the couple – so for him to be happy about how much I threw away was a gold star for me.
Oh and my weekend started with a great success – I finished the hardest (worst) puzzle we have ever done. HunBun gave up weeks ago. Yes, you read that right – WEEKS AGO! We started this puzzle before our trip to Florida and I just finished it Saturday night. UGH! It was one of those puzzles that is a picture made up of teeny tiny pictures. So each piece was made up of 4 individual pictures. Geesh! I made it my mission to finish it this weekend. We had not eaten on the dining table for so long that I had had enough. See that piece of paper at the top? That was my best friend during this puzzle-palooza. It was a picture of the completed puzzle and I literally folded and unfolded that thing so often to find where these darn pieces would fit. The easiest were the pieces with people on them…then after that it was a bunch of rockets and shuttles…then I had to deal with just splotches of blue, green, yellows, pinks, purples and black/whites. Oh my! So glad I finished it. This is NOT one that I will redo. It’s going into the “To Donate” pile.
Van Gogh’s Starry Night…. Now it’s off to bed – to start a week with more daylight in it!
See ya later!
Cathy
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