Reinstate Recess!

Daylight Savings Time begins today: I am not a fan. It is a few days earlier than last year, which is two week earlier than it was previous to 2007 thanks to the Energy Policy Act of 2005. It may make some blind bit of sense in other parts of the country, but here it mean's we are cast back into getting up for work in the dark. Well, someone is... This semester my husband is teaching in the evenings, and neither of us is, by nature, an early riser, so I'm rarely out of bed before before 10:00am. Before you begin to feel green-eyed at all, dinner, at least twice a week, is at 11:00 or 12:00 at night, and scheduling a normal life around a work day that begins at 3:00 in the afternoon is a verifiable nightmare.

Yesterday, I was "adulting" all over the place! I completed four loads of laundry, changed the furnace filter, changed the cat litter,  vacuumed the floor in utility room, cleaned the bathroom, and made dinner for the family who spent the day at a charity auction for the St. Clair County Humane Society. You get the idea. I don't have a clear picture of what I imagined my life would be when I was a child, probably exactly as my life was then (with slightly more hair,) but I'm fairly certain that doing housework and paying bills wasn't it.

Last night at the gym I had another ridiculous thought about adulthood. When I was a child, my life consisted of running, climbing, carrying, and hanging on the Monkey Bars for hours a day. Now, I pay a fee to a gym so that I can go there and mimic all those activities, and I call it work. I actually have to schedule time in my day, and put off other priorities to do it. There is something wrong with that. Maybe the solution to the obesity crisis is as simple as instating recess, as well as nap time, in the workplace. I knew you'd come along with me on this... And maybe, since changing the established pattern of the North American work day is too much to ask based on my silliness, what it really means is that when I am angry or frustrated that my workout isn't going well, I'm not getting faster results, or just plain don't feel like doing it, I need to remember that this is play time!

Even if it does now have to happen an hour earlier.