Getting pwned by Daylight Savings Time

How many of you have forgotten to change your clocks with the switch to or from Daylight Savings Time and shown up early or late for some engagement that day? I'll admit that I have once upon a time...and felt quite foolish showing up to church as it was letting out.

Well, here it is 3 days after the time change and I feel even more foolish. I slept on the light side last night due to having to get to work a bit early today for a training class, so I didn't want to oversleep. Like we normally do, Ed hit the snooze a couple of times and then I made myself get up & start getting ready. I took a slight detour into the computer room to check on the weather & such, got dressed, Ed got up, and I finished fixing my hair, etc. When I went downstairs to put my lunch together, Ed was curled up on the couch watching SportsCenter (a normal before-work activity). He looks up and says, "You do realize it is 6:30, not 7:30...?" I looked at him blankly and asked, "What do you mean?" He replied, "I thought it seemed rather dark out, so I checked the clock on ESPN and it's really 6:30. " This confused us to no great end, because we've made it to work without problems the past 2 days. So we either snoozed the alarm for much longer than we realized on those 2 days, or when setting the alarm last night, the time got boogered up.

So Ed is napping on the couch for another 45 minutes, and I get some free time to play on the computer (with my luck, if I tried to nap, I really would oversleep!). I know tonight will be "early to bed" for the "We are so not morning people" Morgans...!

I'm baaaaack!

To sum up the past 4 1/2 months: The wedding & reception were great, the honeymoon in Whistler was lots of fun, I've worked a helluva lot, I'm loving married life! On to today's blog...

After having 3 inches of snow on Monday, Saturday brought temperatures in the 70s (it may actually have hit 80) with a beautiful cloudless sunny sky, so Ed & I decided to go walk at the Fred G. Bond Metro Park. We parked near the lake and decided to head down one of the trails that goes around one end of the lake. When we hit the back of one of the subdivisions that borders the lake, we saw a sign that said "Rough Trail - not recommended for joggers". It was also marked as a black diamond trail. Hmmmm, what to do when you're out of shape and only intending to walk a couple of miles before hitting a sports bar to watch the NC State/Miami game? And you see that the trail ahead is muddy? Well, for once I decided to push myself instead of opting to turn around and taking a different paved trail, so I told Ed that we should go for it.

The trail reminded me a lot of the trails that I hiked in Ecology Club in high school on backpacking trips to state parks. Lots of tree roots to maneuver, determining the best way to avoid the mud, up & down terrain...and it wandered all the way around the lake perimeter, including following one of the offshooting fingers off the lake. Several projects had been done by Eagle Scouts & one of the recruit classes from the Cary Fire Academy, providing wooden bridges over some of the marshy sections of trail. The entire walk took an hour and we estimated about 3 to 3.5 miles...and boy, were my hips feeling it afterwards!! But that's not necessarily a bad thing...they need the exercise!!!! It was a great day to be outside and we both wished that we could have today's weather year-round - I'd be Susie Outdoorsey if it was like this all the time!

One thing I look forward to exploring with Ed is the Greenway Trail System in the Raleigh area. Much like the Silver Comet Trail back in Cobb County, these paved, multiuse trails wind through the Triangle and are just the thing to encourage me to get back to trail-walking and getting back in shape. And hopefully future weekends will be like today...when I want to and love being outside!