Time and No Time

Yikes!!! I just lost an hour of my time, and on Sunday mornings that hour is precious. It must be that time of year again where the clocks change, but usually I see warnings of that. This time nothing. Not good. I'm feeling really 'out of it' and wishing I could go back to bed for awhile, but I'm an hour late. So I must run and hope I get to church on time.

Edit @ 7pm (by the computer clock)

Well, this morning was confusion and then some. When I looked at one clock (the one I set last night) it said 8:33 am, and when I looked at the clock on the VCR in my bedroom it said an hour later. So I thought I'd set the alarm clock wrong and reset it, then went back to bed for another hour. Having had a 'bad night' I was rather tired, though I must admit I'm always more tired in the morning than I was when I went to bed at night... part of Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue. Anyway.... being tired, and having a headache, and the silly clocks being off (living room VCR agreed with bedroom VCR, and computer agreed with alarm clock before I figured it was wrong and changed it). Having Fibromyalgia there is a thing called Fibro Fog that I sometimes go through, and I don't know but that could have played a part in things this morning.

All I know for sure is I ended up deciding to not go to church, even though I was to preside over the celebration (service). I called the Centre and got forwarded to Rev. Dale's cell phone which was turned off. Called their house (still not knowing what time it was and thinking there must have been a time change) and got their answering machine so left a message about the time change and not feeling well, etc. As I continued to try calling the Centre, I again got forwarded to his cell and then to the house and left another message. Finally I gave up and went to sleep. Then the phone rang and it was Rev. Dale wondering where I was as the celebration was about to begin and the presider, me, was still not there. I know I said something to him about time change and headache and confussion about the time, etc... when I asked, he said it was 3 minutes to 11am. After what must have been a very 'odd' conversation, we hung up and I went back to sleep. Slept until 2:30... or was that 3:30 this afternoon.

By then, I was feeling much better and the confusion had lifted away with the headache. I missed Sunday at the Centre, including the Board Meeting I had today. And I phoned and cancelled another appointment I had for this afternoon.

I did manage to get outside for a short while just before and into dark and do some more clean up out there. I plan to make a dump run this week. I should have taken some pictures of the yard/mess before the work started, but you will all just have to settle for pictures of it once it's finished, or as close to finished as I can make it this fall before snow flies and ground freezes. There were some plant pots I moved today that had water and ICE in them. Yuck!! I planted the Globe Thistle and covered it up a bit with fallen leaves from the lilac trees there. There are now several bags (empty pellet bags from heating the house) now filled with stuff destined for the dump and I hope to get the rest done tomorrow. I figure that after the company I'm expecting leaves, I'll go outside and get back to work, rather than waiting 'til it's nearly dark, haha.

Oh ya, I figured out what happened with the time. The fall time change used to take place this weekend, but doesn't now until next weekend, or something like that. The old VCRs do an automatic time change, so they 'fell back an hour'. I don't wear a watch because I wear magnetic jewelry including bracelets on both wrists and that would kill the watch, so with the clocks in the house all screwed up I didn't have a clue what time it was, haha. Now I have to manually turn the VCR clocks back and the alarm clock... back to the correct time, then next week I'll have to manually change them all agian. Sheeeesh!! haha.