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Maybe things will get better after November 3rd?

November 3rd marks the end of daylight savings time ends. The clocks get turned back an hour, and daybreak comes an hour earlier.

I just hope I can make it that long. There's still 14 days to go.

The last couple of weeks have been particularly difficult. All I seem to want to do is sleep. 6 o'clock comes around, and it's still dark outside. So I turn over, bury my head in the pillow, and go right back to sleep. That's never my plan when I go to bed the night before, but it always seems to work out that way. And it doesn't seem to matter what time I go to bed either.

Then on top of everything else, my nose started bleeding this morning. I haven't had a nose bleed in over 3 years, but whenever I do get one, I can't help but think back to 4 years ago when I had to get my nose cauterized and 12 years ago when I had to go to the emergency room.

Fortunately this latest episode wasn't that severe, and I was able to get it stopped relatively quickly. [And won't happen again.]

Oh well, like I always say, such is life, and even if things don't get better, hopefully they won't get any worse.
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Becky said…
I thought daylight savings occurred before Halloween. Or my memory is shot! Sorry to hear about the nose bleed. Maybe it's just the dry weather.
2:21 PM
Marc said…
It was, but they moved it back [or forward depending on your perspective] another week, supposedly to save energy.

Yeah, the nose bleeds could be due to the dry weather, but that doesn't help if they keep occurring. And are they result of physical exertion? Now I'm afraid to do anything physical for fear I might trigger another episode.

BIG SIGH! :(
2:43 PM
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