As a general rule, I pretty much hate daylight savings time. Losing an hour of my day and having to completely adjust my body's internal clock every spring sucks. It also has some unpleasant associations--my paternal grandmother died just prior to it, so when I was a senior in high school, in addition to having to fly cross country and back while dealing with jet lag, I also had to deal with DST to boot.
This time, it's less stressful, it's just adjusting to the 8-5 schedule rather than the 5-2. It's very sad that waking up at 6:00am feels somehow decadent and sinful. This is only my second day at it, I'm sure things will change the longer I spend, but as it is, around 2:30 or 3 yesterday, I was ready for a nap.
Spring quarter starts today for me, so after work, I'm in class from 6:10 til 10:30.
I also need to get my shit together and start making and taking pictures of jewelry, and putting it all up on the website. There's a gem show this weekend at the San Mateo Expo, so I'm going to go up and replenish some of my supply, then I am going to start working on that more often, dammit. It's so easy to sit back and say, "Oh, I'm tired, I had a long day at work, I'll just do something tomorrow." Tomorrow turns into the next day, which turns into the weekend, which turns into next week, and so forth. I'd planned initially to have the website operational by the end of January, but...um...yeah. It's up! But has next to no content, nor can anyone shop from it. Not good.
An amusing side note from this past weekend: on Sunday, we went to the Great Mall to get a pair of sunglasses for my loving husband, and to see about getting a lightweight jacket for me. He was successful, I was not. We went to Dave and Busters for lunch, and on a whim, we decided to see how many 'Winners Circle' points we'd racked up--turns out we had almost 28,000. We were saving up for a digital video camera (...I know), but since Brett bought one not long ago, that fell by the wayside. We poked around briefly, and almost left without redeeming any of the points--though the GameBoy Advance caught my eye as we were getting ready to leave, and I thought about it. Then, doom.
Brett: "Hey, look, you could get an iPod Shuffle!"
So, to condense an already long story, I spent 25,000 of my D&Bs points and got myself an iPod Shuffle.
Now, if only I could get the )!#(*)^(&!)#& thing to work. Maybe it's the iTunes software rather than the iPod itself, but ease of use is not going to be something I recommend the thing to anyone for. At this rate, they'll be lucky if I decide to recommend it at all. :)
Posted by Liz at April 5, 2005 08:53 AM