Daylight What Now?

I've lived in Arizona for 27 of my 29 years. I'm usually not given to bragging about this fact, because, as I've mentioned, I hate it here. But there is one thing that Arizona has gotten right...we don't observe any kind of Daylight Savings Time.We never set our clocks back. We never set our clocks forward. We just kind of mosey on through the year, keeping time consistently and never losing or gaining anything. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

This would be perfect if not for one thing. The only thing thing standing in the way of me and time nirvana is the fact that I have quite a few family and friends living on the east coast. Half the year, there is a two-hour difference between us. But now it is three hours, and I resent the impact this has on my daily life.

Calling McMama now requires some complex scheduling, as I have to fit our calls into the very narrow window between my gym time and my sister-in-law getting home from school. She is a teenager, after all, and she has no problem annexing McMama's phone for hours on end. I also can no longer rely on my evening chats with the Boyfriend. He likes to go to bed with his wife, of all things, and their bedtime is now coinciding with my dinner time. The only thing saving me at the moment is that my big Brother is dealing with long hours at work right now, so there's a chance that we might be able to chat, despite the time difference separating us. Still, that's only going to be the case for a few more weeks and then I'm stuck in the same boat with him, too.

It's enough to make me want to stomp my foot and pout. Which I have done, when the situation has warranted it, I'm not ashamed to say. You know how they say you're only as old as you feel? Well, I'm five. Don't judge me.

In any event, I would like to make a case for doing away with this pesky Daylight Savings thing, altogether. However, I have the sneaking suspicion that this new three hour time difference is going to have an intriguing side effect. I suspect that for as long as McMama and I are forced to talk early in the day, and Boyfriend and I are only able to IM while he's at work, and the big Brother and I are only able to trade e-mails when there's light outside...don't quote me, but I think I might actually have to go out and get one of those LIVES everybody's been talking about. You know the ones....where you actually DO things and you're not attached to a computer all day? I mean, not let's get hasty or anything.....But it could happen.....