Does Anybody Really Care?
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"Does anybody really know what time it is, does anybody
really care, if so I can't imagine why..."
I can’t imagine why either. Do you know what year this is? It
is NOT leap year. You know what that means? No February 29th….I cannot for the
life of me understand why we can only get a February 29th every......4 years
(unless the year ends in 00’s). Oh I tried to read up on leap year in the Wiki
Tiki Taffy Pedia..but it started talking about the intercalary or bissextile
year and Gregorian calendars, lunisolar calendars, and astronomical and seasonal years…too many
big words and too much science for me. But do you know what they call a year
without February 29th?? A “common year”…and that’s why I don’t like ‘em. Who in their right mind would ever want a ‘common
year’?
I want every year to be special and who decided we could
just ‘add a day’ or ‘subtract a day’?? Who?? You know what this means? NOBODY
really knows what time it is. Nobody even really knows what DAY it is and
obviously NOBODY cares.
We have been traveling so fast across this great country
that even our smarty pants phones can’t keep up with the time….the Eye Pads can’t
keep up with the time. We don’t have a
clue what time it is or what day it is…until today…when I realized we lost
February 29th. Just flat out
lost it--an entire day…. I would have probably found a cure for cancer or
invented disposable clothes if I had just had that one extra day instead of
just another ‘common year’.
I am normally going to bed when my friends and family are getting
up to go to work. Not that I didn’t do that before I was on ‘Mountain Time’ but
I realize more and more that time is relative. When I call home three hours
behind my family and they say…”For the love of Oprah Winfrey and Tom Cruise,
why would you be calling us at midnight?” …I say, “Well it is only 9 pm here…get
up”!! I know that time really means nothing. It is just according to where you
are. And in just a few weeks the ‘powers
that be” will make it even more complicated by changing to ‘daylight savings’
time…like they are going to change how much daylight we have. It doesn’t matter what your clock or watch
says people…there will be the same amount of ‘daylight’ hours and ‘nighttime’
hours. The sun and the moon will do their thang regardless of whether we spring
forward or fall back…I promise.
They try to convince me that the whole ‘saving daylight’ was
for the farmers…bull malarkey…farmers get up with the sun and go to bed when
the moon comes out.. they do not care what time you call it. No…the whole ‘daylight
saving’ time thingy was invented for 9-5 people to be able to go home and cut
their grass. They could have just changed their schedule and went to work one
hour earlier and saved us all the trouble. Nothing makes me madder than changing
time to ‘save some daylight’. Just means I have to get up when it is dark so I
can have a little more daylight to pretend to be doing something productive.
And if we REALLY ‘add’ another hour on to daylight every year…why can’t we just
add February 29th every year? And how about a December 32nd???
I don’t know about you but I would like
two New Year’s Eves too..as a matter of fact I would like three December 25th’s
and at least four Thanksgivings. I already celebrate my birthday all month so I
don’t see why we can’t do that with every holiday.
The whole point of this rant is …well…I can’t remember the
point because I am too excited at the thought of celebrating Halloween for ten
days straight. Nothing better than a reason to dress up like the Walking Dead
or Marsha Brady…and while we are at it…let’s have National Chocolate day every
Wednesday…then it will no longer be burdened with that awful “hump day’
nickname.
Does anybody really know what time it is? No we do not. So I say it is 5 o’clock everywhere right now…so
you are all now officially off work...
Party on… ~Squirrely Girl
