<p>My goodness, I have been so exhausted, tempermental, and just feeling very out of it this week. I blame it all on this weekend’s time change. I lost the hour I love. Oh, can I be the only one?</p>
<p>I’m with you! The alarm went off this morning for me to get up and run before work and I felt like I was in the middle of a dead sleep. It was VERY dark outside. I can’t believe I got out the door.
We’ll adjust.</p>
<p>I can’t tell you how many times I have said that I hate this time change. I like the daylight in the evening, but this adjustment period is just awful!</p>
<p>Same here! Love the extra light but in desperate need of an early bed, all week.</p>
<p>I don’t get it. Where are the energy savings? We are either turning on the lights in the morning, or at night. Either way.
Except now I have been dragging my heels all week.</p>
<p>and here I thought this was another hot-flash thread … I drive to work due east and home due west. I hate the time change that makes me suffer the blinding glare on the horizon twice per season.
We used to live in Denver, where the sun-up glare was a huge problem with commuters - I say pick one time zone and stick with it!</p>
<p>with 4 dogs who are totally confused, tell me about it</p>
<p>I HATE the early daylight-savings-time change. I work in a high school where start time is 7:30 am. This is a cruel thing to do to teens to begin with, as there are more and more studies showing that teens are biologically programmed to go to bed later and sleep later than adults or younger kids. </p>
<p>So NOW, instead of trying to learn at 7:30 am, our kids are trying to learn at 6:30 am. </p>
<p>For a few wonderful days, here in the far northeast, the sun was actually coming up when my alarm went off at 6. Now it’s back to the pitch black again.</p>
<p>AARRGGHH. And to think it was a congressman from our state who was pushing this…</p>
<p>Tell me about it! I swim in the mornings, in the water at 5:30… which now is really 4:30 a.m. and that is downright ungodly. Have to wake up at 4:45 a.m. which is really 3:45 a.m!!! </p>
<p>I have been cranky and out of sorts all week. Insomnia, too. Ugh. I wouldn’t mind if it was saving energy. It’s stupid to do this twice a year for no reason.</p>
<p>Is there any possibility that there may not be time changes in the future? Or, has Congress pretty much written this time change thing in stone?</p>
<p>I don’t mind it at all in June/July/August. It’s early March that kills me.</p>
<p>I LOVE the daylight in the early evening, I’m not a morning person. It also makes a big difference to be on the eastern edge of the Central time zone- go not too far east and an extra hour in the evening. Light until 7 pm is heaven, too bad it seems out of place with all that white everywhere…</p>
<p>I’m with wis on this. I don’t do anything particularly productive in the mornings anyways, being very much the opposite of a morning person, so the later light is just perfect for me.</p>
<p>Hubby tripped the circuit breaker turning on a light after I went to sleep Sunday night. Breakers in the new apartment aren’t labeled. It was the one attached to my alarm clock.</p>
<p>9:15 AM the next morning, husband wakes me up. “Shouldn’t you be at work…?” Ensuing freak-out, throwing-on of clothing…</p>
<p><em>sigh</em>. I hate this time of year.</p>
<p>I love the daylight at the end of the day but I have had the worst insomnia all week. Couldn’t fall asleep until after 1:30 and woke up at 4:30 and couldn’t get back to sleep.</p>
<p>Glad to know there is at least one theory to why my week has been this way…</p>
<p>Hope I adjust soon or I may need this thread for my defense.</p>
<p>I had the double-whammy of flying cross-country day after the time change. So I have the jet lag (when it’s time to “wake up” here - say 7 a.m., it’s 4 a.m. in my head because I just left the West Coast) PLUS the lost hour (making it 3 a.m. in my head). I’ve been questioning my sanity all week… left 75 degree weather to return to soot-blackened snow, grey skies and a promised storm this weekend.</p>
<p>Of course, I am wide awake at 1:45 am.</p>
<p>The joy.</p>
<p>And here in WA 10th graders had to begin their “all-important” WASLs at 8 am on Monday. Talk about grumpy, sleepy kids…</p>
<p>I hate it for the kids’ sake… I dislike it for my morning-sake… but I sure do love putting on SUN GLASSES when leaving work at 6 PM…</p>