“Spring forward,” they say.
But it’s more like a drop kick
Into exhaustion.
Feel free to add your own in the comments.
It’ll be nice to read things that make me laugh while I fight to keep my eyes open.
p.s. Yes, I am 117.
p.p.s. Love, MeMaw
My Time Change Haiku
9 March 2009 by
Ummm….ditto that!!! Especially after jet-lag…stayed up til about 3 last night!! Dern-IT!! ;-)
This time change thing leaves our whole house cranky. My 3.5 year old asked me yesterday at lunch… Daughter: “Mommy, am I allowed to tell you that you are on my last nerve?” Me: “No, you are not” Daughter: “I thought so, but just checking.” How am I supposed to deal with that attitude with an hour less sleep? : )
The clock is so shrill.
And the moon still shines brightly,
Unlike my tired eyes.
You’re a better woman than I. We just overslept, arrived at school late, and ignored the whole dern thing. On accident, of course.
Only solution
To this horrid “spring forward”
Is a nap or two.
Love it!
Go to bed sooner?
That’s easier said than done
When the sun still shines!
When I was night nurse
It never failed: work “fall back”,
Be off “spring forward.”
(That’s the truth. Seems like I always had to work the night in the fall when it was a 9 hour shift but never got to work the 7 hour shift in the spring! Totally not fair!)
Why am I sleepy?
spring forward is not fun
It really does suck!
I am cracking up that you call yourself MeeMaw. I call myself that all the time when I can’t remember a word, when I want to go to bed early, when I eat dinner at 5pm with the kids, the list goes on and on!
I am terrible
at haiku and keeping time
Spring forward or back?
Why do we even have this anymore??? It is not helping the economy, and it never helps my sleep. We were JUST starting to arrive at daycare in the sunrise – now back to darkness. GRRRRRR. I need a nap.
Well…..I just wasn’t put out enough by that whole fling forward thing! I had to go and drink up a big vanilla ice coffee yesterday bout 4 o’clockish!!!!
Can you say….eyes were BOINGING still at 2 am this morning??!!
I had to get up and look presentable to a couple thousand teenagers this morning! Ahh….I feel invigorated! NOT!!!
That time change is the devil!
Nothing is easy.
Why? Time change is for the birds.
I want more sleep now!
I think there is a special place in Hell for the person who invented Daylight Savings Time. I’m just sayin’.
The time change is just stinkin stupid if you ask me!!!!! And that’s all I have to say about that!!! :o)
This isn’t funny.
I want my hour back. Now.
No, seriously. NOW.
Bedtime comes early
thank God for this
But so does the morning
so I say “Boo Hiss.”
Aggies everywhere, unite. Boo Hiss means “I want NO part of it.”
I have no idea if I’m doing this right…but here’s an attempt:
I lost an hour
I will go look for it under the covers.
And stay there.
I was on a roll.. Or two cans of Red Bull and a coffee… Whatev!
Daylight Savings Tims
You are MEAN with no Spring Back
Bedtime Blown to Heck
AND
Cranky Pants at work
Bosses have no sympathy
Big bunch of meanies
Anne, I love yours!! lol
Am I the only one so far who doesn’t mind losing the hour? I just drink 2 cups of coffee and enjoy the extra daylight :)
I’m with you, Tina! EVERYONE I know hates when we spring forward but I like it. My kids sleep til “8” instead of 7 and I feel like I’m sleeping in. It’s a little thing I pretend to make myself feel better. =) And the extra sunlight is good for my SOUL. I need it!
Daylight increases
In direct proportion to
My need for Starbucks
(is “hour” one or two?)
what’s an hour lost
when the baby wakes often
I barely noticed
(ok so I noticed a litte but really the tiredness just runs all together these days)
The thing I don’t miss about moving from AL to AZ is daylight savings time … it doesn’t exist here! Woo-hoo!
Daylight savings time
Who is it really helping?
My house still ain’t clean
Actually I never say ain’t in real life. But who cares? I’ve lost an hour of sleep. I haven’t recovered yet.
While I agree that losing the hour is a not-so-fun adjustment … I adore the extra daylight in the evenings. It is my absolute favorite part of the day … that golden time between dinner and bedtime. Something about it just speaks to my soul.
Maybe THAT’S why our schools bumped up Spring Break to this week! The kids have a whole 8 days to adjust to the stinking time change.
Who said we HAVE to do the time change? Can we undo the time change and get our hour back? Not a fan until its Summer. Well, just decide to go to Summer and forget the whole Spring thing.
It takes me about two weeks to adjust to it and then I like it. Since Tater Tot is only 2 1/2, we don’t have to get up early, so it’s not like we’re on a tight schedule. But waking up at, oh, 9:30 instead of 8:30 means that bedtime and naptime are coming a little later and that’s throwing me off a little. But, you know, whatever.
Loved the haiku, MeMaw.
Um, YES!!! I so agree–the time change equals ex-sauce-tion at its finest. In fact, as I’m writing this, I’m actually thinking, my little man just went down for a nap, I am ex-sauce-ted, and maybe I don’t have the energy to write and should just leave this mid-sentence and go take a nap. In fact, that sounds like a really good
Where is the jar
in which daylight
is saved –
aha it is broken over my head resulting in throbbing headache
(no haiku – more Texianku)
Dark when I awake.
I slept through Bible study.
Is it spring break yet?
Despite the fact that I got a nap yesterday AND extra sleep last night, I STILL find myself needing an unusually high amount of chocolate intake to keep moving.
But it’s worth it.
That extra hour of glorious sunlight – I would be willing to eat untold amounts of chocolate for that privilege.
I’m freakin tired
and the kids cant sleep
cause the sun has not set
I’m with you, spring what forward?
Seems chocolate is what I’m trying to get me through this once again:)
Blessings today and always,
Kaye
Generally not
So easy this time change thing
This time not so hard.
Seriously, normally the Monday after the time change I am a ZOMBIE! Today, though, I’m o.k. We’ll see what tomorrow brings.
I had a Memaw!
I actually lost 2 hours in 5 minutes. Saturday night at 11:20, I decided to change the clocks. I kept thinking, “spring forward, fall back” and proudly changed ALL of the clocks to 10:20. About 5 minutes later, I realized it was wrong and I had to go back and change them all to 12:25 A.M.
I was sure tired after that.
Daylight savings time?
More like momma torture time
With kids up at dawn!
Seriously. We need to write our congress peoples and let them know there are wound up children and cranky mommas everywere!
I hate it! My kids don’t want to go to bed because it is still light outside, and I need to see the sun in the morning!!! I live in Michigan…I need some sort of highlight during my day! The sun is one thing that shouldn’t change.
I am with you sister!! I despise spring forward!!
Y’all CRACK ME UP – the haikus are hysterical!
Spring forward fall back
Glad my God never changes
unlike all these clocks…
My first graders come
Eyes barely open, half-sleep
Quiet morning. Good thing.
HATE the time change. I feel like I have jet lag for days. Totally screws up the kiddo’s sleep schedule too. Grrr!
Sometimes I wonder
What are we saving it for –
just turn the lights on!
Daylight Savings Time
Makes Me Very Thankful For
Room Darkening Shades!
and
Sad, but very true…
but I just got all the clocks
set BACK the fall time!
This morning when we opened the garage and it was still dark outside, my four year old said, “Uh, WHY is it still dark?” I reminded her that we changed the clocks this weekend. She said, “Oh, yeah. To save daylight.”
And I love the haiku!!
The evil time change
has robbed me of precious sleep.
Oh, to just Fall back!
We never used to change
we always stayed the same
oh, the good ol’ days!
Is that a Haiku? 3 lines, 17 syllables?
It’s a cruel, cruel joke! I just posted that on Big Mama’s blog.
Toddlers do NOT change their internal clocks.
I want my hour back!
I would like to know if we can boycott Daylight Saving (or Savings or WHATEVER…they talked about that on the radio) Time.
Anybody with me?
I knew a reason
I loved autumn the best
My lost hour’s back!
Baby girl speaks truth.
“Silly, we can’t go to school.
It’s still dark outside.”
I’ve never even attempted a haiku.
The syllabic requirements for each line, plus the weird way all the lines are to logically fit together and link somehow in some mysterious order (see? I don’t get it) totally overwhelm me.
Kudos
(Laughs her bummy off.) “Memaw…”
Oooooh (Wipes away tears.) You slay me.
Could this haiku be any more accurate?
Am. Zombie. Cannot. Function.
From this former high school English teacher:
BooMama can write
So hilarious I cry
Thank you for your thoughts!
My husband, the farmer,
Delights in the spring torture,
More work time for him.
My eyes have seen the
Glory of the setting of
the sun. It’s bedtime.
Oooooh Goodness, loving this post. Wishing I could make one up, but I’m currently too sleep deprived.
Here in Greece, we have not lost our hour yet. this also makes it seem we are a little closer home, in time that is… instead of the 7 hour time differnce we are now only 6. It’s the strangest things that keep you connected to home. Ministry overseas can be grueling at best.