What is more precious than gold, but cannot be bought, earned, or saved? Spoiler alert!
Time.
Most would say that time is the most valuable commodity we have. Tomorrow is Daylight Savings Time and clocks will be set back one hour. We’ll gain an hour. ONE WHOLE HOUR PEOPLE!!
Instead of sleeping in and wasting it, I came up with a few suggestions for how to use the precious 60 minutes.
– Peruse the leaked Black Friday ads.
– Write a bonus blog post.
– Go on a hiking, running, or biking adventure.
– Update your bucket list.
– Take down your Halloween decorations.
– Reorganize your Twitter account by making lists such as, Funny People, News Sources, Fabulous Friends, (don’t forget to add me! @susielindau) Don’t have a Twitter account? Use the hour to set one up.
– Print out your favorite Halloween photos.
– Pull out the waffle iron/bread maker/crock pot you never use and make something delicious.
– Read James Rollins new short story, Blood Brothers.
– Catch up on television premieres like Dracula.
– Make a list of goals you MUST attain before 2013 ends…tick, tock…
Do you still want to sleep in?
Susie Lindau's Wild Ride 
This is all too much work. It gives me another hour to drink beer! That, or I’ll just finally get some extra sleep for once!
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Well, there you go! That sounds productive. I will wake up early anyway!!!
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Out of a sense of geekiness I tried to calculate what the resulting time difference would be between Colorado and New Zealand in hours, given that we’re on NZ Summer Time right now, but it made my head spin. Time travel without the help of a TARDIS. 🙂
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🙂 I wrote a book that takes place in France and had to keep notes of the time difference! NZ is even crazier. Aren’t you 19 hours ahead?
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Usually! But it varies by a couple of hours when one or the other is on summer time, and New Zealand changed when that was quite recently. It’s a practical problem in my family because half of us live in the Netherlands & there are periods in the year nobody can ever work out whether it’s 10 or 12 hours difference when trying to skype through.
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Oh that is so funny! Mental gymnastics!
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The interesting thing is that my child and pets will still get up at the same time, so sleep is most likely not an option 🙂 Just more time for Sunday Brunch! Love the halloween photo!
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The brunch is a great idea! Thanks so much!
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You`re exactly right. We shouldn’t fritter our time away. I love having an extra hour to do whatever I want.
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I think so too! I haven’t decided what I am going to do with it yet…. waffles sound pretty good right now…I went running today!
Enjoy your hour!
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I like to use my hour when I first get up in the morning, rather than sleep it away overnight and maybe not notice it. Whatever you decide, enjoy it! Waffles sound good, especially if you`ve done your run and you deserve a treat.
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I made waffles, pumpkin cake and bread in the bread maker. I think I went over my one hour limit! Hope you enjoyed your hour!
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Nope – like you, time’s a wasting ( that Rollins’ story sounds good) – plenty of time to sleep once the bad weather sets in! Enjoy the bonus time, Susie
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I agree! We have a storm headed our way on Monday! Can’t wait for the white stuff!
Blood Brothers is a quick story and a set up for his new book. 🙂
Enjoy your extra hour!
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Must be the calm before the storm here over the lake. Mallards splashing down early this morning – got outta the north lands before the chill. If they are here, winter’s just down the road. Bound to be a good one.
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I hope we get more snow than last year.
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What great energy coming from you, Ms. Susie! Let’s see, I already put away all the Halloween decorations, I have started my xmas list, I’m running down to the cellar to get my crock pot after I finish here, I’m following you on twitter….I think I will sleep in for that hour and THEN finish what I haven’t done! Sleep is my BFF! 🙂
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Isn’t that the truth!! I will do anything for a good night’s sleep. Short of taking a pill for it..
Sounds like you are already in great shape! You do deserve to sleep in! Enjoy your Sunday!
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Thanks, Susie! You inspired me to do some writing!
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Oh! I am so glad! Enjoy your 60 extra minutes!
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Good thinking!
I shall apply it if and when I am in a place which has Daylight Saving Time!
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I think it is ridiculous and would opt out if it didn’t mean I would be late for everything!!! Spring ahead is the worst! Then we lose an hour…
Thanks Colonist!
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Actually, when I sample the lovely long afternoons overseas compared to dark at seven in full summer here, I wish we would get it!
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Those are short days!!!
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OK, I appreciate the extra hour, but I hate losing it again in the spring! I think the time switch is dumb. Anyone want to go on a campaign to get rid of it? My books of choice this week: Let the Great World Spin by Colum McCann, and hey — did you check out Carrie Rubin’s Seneca Scourge? It’s good!
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I am with you girl! Let’s get rid of the madness!!! It’s going to get dark so early now.
I read Let the Great World Spin! I picked it out for book club a few years ago. I loved it! I haven’t heard of Seneca Scourge, but will check it out!
Enjoy your hour!
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(Carrie Rubin = blog friend making her way!)
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I’m in! The time change has never made any sense to me – yes people have given me “logical” excuses for it, but I don’t think any of them hold up. And everybody knows what a nuisance the switch is!
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So the FAA had us turning off our phones for all these years without one case of interference, but the day after we spring ahead there is a jump in suicides, accidents and heart attacks!!!!
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I never know when the time change is happening, so I’m glad you told me! So now one of my clocks will be right again. I should use the time to make them all right.
But I won’t. 🙂
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Why bother. You’ll have to change them all again in 6 months! 🙂
So glad I passed it along. It can be a shock when you are an hour late for something! We used to live across from a Church and could see people driving in that didn’t set their clocks back…
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I usually change mine about halfway through, when I finally get sick of mentally calculating the real time, haha. And I’ve been late and early to work before because of not knowing the time change weekend.
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It has freaked me out too!
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After reading that exhausting list of suggestions, Susie, I feel like crashing now until the alarm rings at 7:30 Monday morning.
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Hahaha! Those were just off the top of my beady head. Imagine what I would have come up with if I would have thought about writing this post last Wednesday… 🙂
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Oh you make it sound fabulous, Susie! What to do what to do.
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Thanks Catherine! I am leaning towards the waffle iron, but the bike ride sounds like fun!
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Good ideas.. Thankfully I have taken down my decorations..:)
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Me too, although I will find bats hanging around for weeks. I get used to seeing them!
Thanks Linda!
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It’s an opportunity to time travel, so you know I won’t be sleeping through it!
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Hahaha! I see a blog post in your future…. 🙂
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There’s always a blog post in my future… 😉
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See???
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🙂
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Susie – I love your spunky attitude…. Make that extra hour count! Do something to make it worthwhile… Love it. I am gonna watch the sunrise and grow a mustache! More to come!!!
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Hey! Great ideas! Ir is No Shave November after all!
Thanks Clay!
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Suggestions are wonderful, but I’d still rather sleep in !!! 🙂
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You are allowed, I guess…… 🙂 Thanks Paul!
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Fall Back Day is my favorite day of the year. Always use that extra hour to do something special with the family. Maybe I’ll have the family help take down Halloween decorations. 🙂
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Now that’s a double whammy! Good thinking! Snow is coming in on Monday….
Enjoy your Sunday Piper!
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You, too, Susie. Snow sucks.
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Noooooo! I love the snow! It just sucks for raking…
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I couldn’t have slept in even if I wanted to. My daughter has a swim meet this weekend, and we had to be at the pool at 6:00am.
That’s right, I’m there now!
Happy Daylight Savings!
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Oh wow! That is early. I hope she did well!
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I’m going to go walk on the beach!
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Oh NICE!!! I hope you dug your toes in the sand for me!
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Done!
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Heck no I didn’t sleep in! Got up at 4am and am trying desperately to catch up on blogs since NaNo started! I’m so behind on reading alll my wonderful blogging friends’ posts!
How’s your book coming, Susie?
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4 AM??? Wow! Now that’s dedication!
I sent the 30 requested pages to an agent and am on pins and needles. I am polishing in the meantime and plan to send it out to more agents… Fingers crossed!
Thanks for asking!
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Yay! Good for you 😉
I’ll look forward to updates!
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Me too! I haven’t heard anything yet… Thanks Denise!
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You can organize a Twitter account? Making lists? I did not know that, Susie. Guess what I’m going to do with my extra hour today? Thanks for the suggestion!! 🙂
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You’ll enjoy them! It makes checking on tweets a lot easier.
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Looove that extra hour! Could we have one of those every day because I am absolutely certain our days are getting shorter. Must be something to do with global warming! I definitely don’t have enough time in my day as it is and now that you have given us so many other options … well … Susie, with your persuasive skills … please see what you can do to make it happen?
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Wouldn’t that be great? This whole year has spun out of control. I need to make the most of these last two months!
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I love the extra hour, always look forward to it. And not for the purpose of sleeping in, but for what it gives me on a Sunday morning. That bonus hour always makes me feel as if I thieved something, as if I beat time at its own game..if only temporarily. So this AM, I was up by 6 (the former 7) and running by 6:15. I enjoyed a beautiful brisk walk in my cool down and then wrote a little something. Capped it with chocolate chip/walnut pancakes topped with sliced bananas while watching the NYC marathon. Now, I’m enjoying my favorite bloggers with another cup of Joe as the runners take Manhattan.
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Fantastic!! Thanks for including me in your faves!
It does feel like cheating. Being a good Catholic girl, there is something naughty about that.
I kinda went nuts yesterday and made waffles, bread, and a pumpkin bunt cake. Courtney came over and we watched Forest Gump! I went way over my hour!!!!
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I used the time to watch a scary movie and clean my desk. Which gave me space to journal! Felt good to take a little time out and clear my head! Fun post, Susie!
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Thanks Jess! That sounds like an excellent use of the hour!!!
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I would like to say that I did something worthwhile like memorizing the periodic table or finally cleaning that junk drawer in the kitchen, but honestly I used it to sleep in. Shh! Don’t tell my to-do list. 🙂
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I value sleep too! Danny woke me up waaaaay too early this morning. Now I feel jet lagged!
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