Why is it that Daylight Savings Time doesn’t seem to really seem real until the actual week starts?  Yesterday, it was more of a marvel.  An exclamation during the day; “Wow, it’s 6:00 and the sun is still up!”  But life getting back to “normal” seems to throw the change into sharp relief.  Normally, I would be eyeballing the clock right about now, wondering where in the dickins Kile has gotten to but now?  With the sun up (wouldn’t you know it went behind a mountain just as I typed that?) and the sky so light, it just doesn’t seem quite so late.

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I saw this headline on my start page last night and had to laugh.  I haven’t read the story, and I don’t even think I want to.  But the headline, it is a classic.

“Chuck Norris the only WMD in Iraq, say US troops (Reuters)”

Sometimes, I gotta say, I just love our country.

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I have to wonder: I can’t be the only pregnant lady to pack alcohol in her hospital suitcase, can I?  Work with me on this people.  It’s been far too long since I’ve had a) a Hornsby’s Hard Cider, b) champagne and c) an appletini.  This does not make me a bad mother, does it?  (Don’t answer that.)  For what it’s worth, I’m not planning to feed the new baby booze-laced milk fresh from the tap.  I definitely plan to take advantage of the hospital pump.

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Am looking greatly forward to reclaiming my body.  I’m not going to “give myself an easy out” and say that I’ll wait until I’m done nursing.  From my experience, the post-partum nursing period is one of the best times to lose weight because your metabolism already has that nice jump-start provided from breastfeeding.  Now, don’t think that this means I plan to launch some radical fitness routine or diet.  Ha!  As if. No, but I am going to get my rear in gear, move around more than I have lately (which is pretty much NOT AT ALL) and cut out all the darned sweets.  Because DUDE.  I think I’ve eaten enough sugar during this pregnancy to last me a lifetime.

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Spring Break is this week.  This makes me want to throw something because WASN’T THIS CHILD JUST OUT OF SCHOOL FOR A WHOLE MONTH??  Add to that my annoyance that Spring Break has been carefully crafted in recent years to NOT coincide with Easter.  What the heck is THAT about?  I know we have to be all careful and politically correct and not tarnish the whole “separation of church and state” thing, but COME ON.  Even non-Christians celebrate Easter, don’t they?  And we get “Winter Break” during Christmas so what’s the deal here??  I mean, what if I wanted to go somewhere for Easter (besides the hospital to have this baby, of course)?  We couldn’t!  Argh.  Anyhow.  Drives me nuts.

^{(like it’s that far of a drive… *snort*)}