Skip to main content

Time

Where does the time go?  It is so elusive.

I don't have that much to do and I can not fit it all into a typical day.  I am pretty sure that I did not even brush my hair today.  I did shower, brush teeth, and floss though.  It was cold so I wore a hat when I had to go out.  So even if I did brush my hair, it would not look it.

It was also so cold that I don't have the outside work to do.  So why can't I get through my "to do" list?

I swear that fewer day light hours means that there really is less time.  Scientist should really look into this.  Twenty-four hours is not a fixed quantity.

Maybe it is because I am continually tricked into thinking it is time for bed, it's so dark, only to realize it's not even 6 p.m. yet.

Maybe it is just that time of year.  Some people love the increasing darkness, the cold, and the gathering in for a time of introspection.

Yeah, I can be introspective enough in the day light.

Comments

  1. CarolNovember 19, 2013 at 8:05 PM

    My daughter and I were having this very same discussion last night. She was saying daylight savings time messed her up and she couldn't get as much done. I told her it doesn't matter what the clock on the wall says...it is still the same number of hours of daylight. (neither of us are fans of daylight savings time) but I agree, the day just zooms by before I get what I expect to do done.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Jenn JilksNovember 19, 2013 at 9:43 PM

    Isn't it true??!!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Linda ReederNovember 19, 2013 at 10:14 PM

    I loved your last line. Me too!
    And "me too" about seeming to run out of time and not get everything fit in.

    ReplyDelete
  4. MargaretNovember 19, 2013 at 10:46 PM

    We try to tame time but we cannot. Before the industrialization people slept so much more in the winter, and sometimes they had two sleeps.

    ReplyDelete
  5. susie @ persimmon moon cottageNovember 19, 2013 at 11:40 PM

    I haven't adjusted to the time change either. Amazing to me how just one hour can feel like such a difference to my inner clock. I am sleepy when I shouldn't be, awake when I should be sleeping, and hungry all of the time. And even with all of that, the days (and weeks) are flying by faster than ever.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Linda MyersNovember 20, 2013 at 12:21 AM

    I agree. Water aerobics in the morning and lunch and then only three hours until dark!

    ReplyDelete
  7. AnonymousNovember 20, 2013 at 1:40 AM

    I love chill climate but it is difficult to live in chill climate. Can't do any work, shivering, need to be more careful that summer...

    ReplyDelete
  8. KayNovember 20, 2013 at 3:07 AM

    I'm really glad we don't have the time change here in Hawaii. That is one thing I don't miss about being in the Midwest. Our days are shorter here too though and I find we're not able to get our walks in now because it gets darker sooner.

    ReplyDelete
  9. AnonymousNovember 20, 2013 at 6:53 AM

    I lived in New York City for 5-1/2 years and simply hated the winters. So dark, cold and dreary.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Arkansas PattiNovember 20, 2013 at 7:01 AM

    I'm like you. Dark makes me sleepy. I have to work at it to stay awake till the bedtime of the average 8 year old.
    I use to hate it when I worked. I'd just get home and it was all ready dark. I do enjoy the cold weather, just not the short days.

    ReplyDelete
  11. Muffy's MarksNovember 20, 2013 at 8:07 AM

    OK, now you're going to hear one of Muffy's famous quotes!! "Since I've retired, I have all day to do nothing, and some days I don't even get that done!" Some days that's just the way it goes.

    ReplyDelete
  12. Meryl BaerNovember 20, 2013 at 8:23 AM

    So true. I am more tired, lethargic, and lack the motivation daylight seems to provide. Cannot wait until spring.

    ReplyDelete
  13. SextantNovember 20, 2013 at 8:35 AM

    I don't know why but this year, it seems that it gets dark even earlier than in the past. Cant be, but it seems that way. I have found that since I retired the clocks are no longer tyrants.

    ReplyDelete
  14. UnknownNovember 20, 2013 at 9:21 AM

    If the day ever comes that I get through my entire "to do" list -- you will probably hear me letting out a big cheer all the way to your house! It just never happens and like most everyone else -- I hate the time change.

    ReplyDelete
  15. MuffieNovember 20, 2013 at 11:15 AM

    I don't finish my to-do list because I put too much on it! Summer or winter, I'm just overly optimistic! With the earlier sunsets, I've seen some real beauty in the evening sky.

    ReplyDelete
  16. Wendy AnnabethNovember 20, 2013 at 12:26 PM

    Yes, the time change has really got to me too :)

    PS - Thought you might be interested in the Almondina Giveaway I'm hosting
    http://www.domesticsweetheart.blogspot.com/2013/11/delicious-cookie-without-guilt.html

    ReplyDelete
  17. TaborNovember 20, 2013 at 6:43 PM

    The other thing that royally screws around with my mind is the changes in daylight savings time. I hate that and wish we would stop!

    ReplyDelete
  18. Granny AnnieNovember 21, 2013 at 7:12 AM

    Thank you for putting words to my exact feelings. The "to do" list remains and my tiredness arrives long before the hands on the clock move to a decent hour for sleep.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

I appreciate readers' comments so much. You don't even always have to agree with me.

Popular posts from this blog

It's TIme

 It's been a while since I have posted anything and even my reading your posts is falling by the wayside. I am in Florida now. I have a yard where little attention was spent on landscaping for the past years so I am slowly and (somewhat) methodically addressing that. I also volunteer to work at the pollinator garden and the edible garden I helped install at the UU grounds and I took over the volunteer job of cleaning out the overgrown community garden by my neighborhood mailboxes. The neighbor who was doing that got sick and could no longer attend to it. It's a bigger job than I'd thought at first -- not only overgrown with weeds, but the plants that are wanted there are in life and death competition for each others' spaces. And two walks a day, morning and evening, so Levi can keep up with addiction to canine social media and a daily rousing came of stick or ball midday take up another chunk of my time. I have a weekly meditation group that I co-facilitate, and my own ...
10 comments
Read more

New Furniture

 We went shopping for a new couch. I liked this one, the first store we went to. Of course it would be an impulse to buy the first one so we trekked around to other stores -- something we liked more, a better deal? No surprise that we ended up going back to that first store the next day and purchasing that couch for our living room. Also a matching love seat for the den where we watch TV. Because I had replaced my old love seat with two recliners. We couldn't keep three households worth of furniture after all. Well, my recliner was not big enough to accommodate both Levi and me. Poor boy had to watch TV from his bed on the floor. There! This is much better! Spoiled much? The little tail on the floor belongs to his toy squirrel, Buddy. It's like having a toddler with the need to be picking up toys or risk tripping over them. But his very favorite play thing is that bathmat that can be found anywhere but the bathroom floor.
10 comments
Read more

Walking

 I have always been a walker. Now that I have a high energy dog there is no excuse for not getting out there. And the weather is not an interfering factor here. Early morning and early evening are our preferred times so even when it gets hot we should be okay. We can get quite a long walk going around the neighborhood, greeting neighbors out working in their yards or walking their own dogs. But the landscape changes quickly just beyond the confines of the housing developments. It could be described as natural Florida or as sites of future housing developments. I do prefer the first option. And I really enjoy being out in natural areas so I often opt to head to a nature setting. I would have liked to put a picture here. Unfortunately my iPhone has made a unilateral decision. It will no longer be sending my photos to my computer. Why? I have no idea. However, we may be walking along happily enough -- me listening to the birds or trying to identify wildflowers and other plants while L...
10 comments
Read more