Autumn Notes on Home and Daylight Savings

I have got to plant out some bulbs today, even though it’s probably late. I’ve been waiting for it not to be too cold so that I won’t feel like I’m dying. Soon, because winter is coming, I won’t be going outside ever again.

Speaking of which, winter I mean, tomorrow is daylight savings.

Should I just go ahead and say some bad words? Or what? To what can I compare my deep sorrow that some jerk sitting in some office somewhere controls the hours and the days? I don’t mind getting my hour back tomorrow, because it never should have been taken from me. But when it’s pried from my ice cold exhausted grasp in the spring I will have some more things to say.

I read somewhere that Wednesday was National Stress Awareness Day. Imagine, a whole day to concentrate on and become more aware of your stress. There were some helpful tips about how to reduce stress. All of them, though, included more things that you have to do to get rid of your stress. Because, you know, you’re stressed and overwhelmed, so you should get right on that by adding yoga, meditation, and just not being so stressed. At the end, there was this parting gem, “There are over 1,200 national days. Don’t miss a single one. Celebrate Every Day with National Day Calendar!”

Kill me now.

Anyway, I didn’t celebrate National Stress Awareness Day. Instead, over the course of the week, Matt and I collaborated on our first ever boiled water pie crust. He made the dough on Tuesday night and then I rolled it out on Friday and produced a sort of a meat pie. I say ‘sort of a’ because even though it was stuffed with pork and beef, it wasn’t layered beautifully inside, it didn’t have any bacon, and it was a little bit too juicy. If the panel of judges had come by, they would have pursed their lips because I couldn’t get it out of the tin. However! It was totally delicious and we’re going to try again almost immediately.

Oh yeah, and get this, because of einkorn, I literally deep fried some fish this week, and ate it, and the scale didn’t move up one tiny inch. Take that Regular Wheat!

I mean, I do just have to say it. I love bread so much. Every morning I eat two oven warmed einkorn biscuits lathered in butter. And then later I eat luncheon, which is now regularly carbed up with einkorn one way or another. And then in the evening I eat a pickle. And in this rigorous way I have managed to get slightly thinner and forestall the idea of actually exercising, although I do watch Jillian Michaels prance around once or twice a week. I stand there and watch her and feel bad for her and then turn her off so I can go fold laundry.

So that was the week. My first quarter of school is almost all wrapped up, even though it almost killed me. Maybe we have finally hit our stride, just in time to ruin with with thanksgiving and Christmas. As a reward for all this thankless work I get to haul all the children out to some ghastly box store to buy them shoes and trousers. I don’t see why I should have to do this since they take their shoes off the minute they walk in the door of any place, but I’ve been told they need shoes, so I guess they need shoes. It’s going to be such fun.

In closing, I offer you this gem. I overheard Marigold saying to Gladys, “N was such a disappointment today.”

To which Gladys replied, “Mmhmmm. You know what I really enjoy about myself?”

At which point Marigold walked away and so we never found out what it was.

Have a lovely day!