Yup, even in Indiana, it’s time to set your clocks back an hour to Standard Time. That’s if you live in the U.S., of course. But for everybody, everywhere, IT’S TIME TO CHANGE YOUR SMOKE DETECTOR BATTERIES!!

And while you’re at it, why not make sure your emergency flashlights have fresh batteries… we’ve had a couple big windy rain storms in as many weeks, and we nearly lost power yesterday. ::knock wood:: We nearly lost it yesterday, but we’re still up in spite of the howling I can still hear through the window.

I’ve always been fascinated by this time of year. Specifically, at 2 A.M. when the clocks go back to 1 A.M. Standard Time, what’s on TV for that hour? I mean, if you look at the TV listings today, they’ll tell you what’s on at 1:00 and 1:30 and then 1:00 and 1:30 again. But it didn’t used to be that way.

And how many years did I try and stay up until 2 A.M. and figure out what was going on and how it compared with the listings? Far too many, I assure you. And for me to share this embarrassing fact with you… certainly a horrific oversight, I assure you.

So speaking of the rain, maybe I’ll save the picture for this week’s WW, but we had these flash floods that put about a food of water in this one intersection near the mall. It was pretty wild, and the kids loved it! I guess it would have been different if we’d been stranded, but isn’t that always the way? As it was, my brakes were then wet and if I hadn’t known to expect that, I would have ended up rear-ending someone.

Oh yeah, so the time change… an extra hour of sleep, right? Ha! That’s only if you do it right, and I didn’t. Before I went to bed, I set my clock back an hour, like a good doobie. But what I FORGOT to set was the old cell phone I use as an alarm clock. And wouldn’t you know it, the time only resets if you’re switching networks, like arriving in your destination airport. So my alarm went off at 4:30, which was now 3:30, and I got my regular amount of sleep, more or less, and that extra hour gets tacked onto my awake time. Sucks, doesn’t it, but it’s my own damn fault, I know.

And OK, one more thing I was thinking about when I was turning back my clock. What if you could turn back an hour of your life… you did something and you could undo it and go back an hour and not do it… something like that. Would you? What would you do? I’m not sure I know what I’d do with that power!

I just think maybe I’ll crawl back into bed — if the cat will have me — and steal back that lost hour of sleep! :)