November is my favorite month of the year!
Yes - One can have a favorite month!
It is autumn. The leaves are changing color. The temperature has finally cooled off. Soup is a daily meal. I'm most likely wearing jeans. Thanksgiving is approaching.
November is my birthday month! I have been known to use the entire 30 days to celebrate my birthday! I'm already amazed that today is the 5th, so that will not be the case this year. I believe that I will just celebrate the day.
What has thrown me off this year is TIME. It all started with the time change. In the USA, most states follow the Daylight Savings Time schedule and this past Sunday we returned to Standard time. Singapore, with its proximity to the equator, has no need to observe daylight savings as there are almost 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of darkness year round. Belgium is so far north that even on standard time there are very few hours of sunlight in the autumn/winter!!
I usually look forward to the return to standard time as it usually means getting an extra hour of sleep. However, as one gets older, this is NOT the case! All week my body is still thinking it needs to wake up at my regular time! You would think I would use this extra hour in the morning wisely and get lots accomplished. So far it has meant me lying around in my pajamas an extra hour and another cup of tea before I get around to starting my day! So I have NOT benefited from this extra hour!!!!! Worse yet, I feel I have lost the critical hour in the evening before supper!! We don't eat supper until 6:30 or 7pm because I like to eat together as a family and the Engineer has a horrible commute so he doesn't arrive home till then! This week, by the time I have supper on the table, it is totally dark and feels like 10:30pm and that the kids should have been in bed hours ago!!!! You also might think that I would be wise and go to bed on time as it already feels like midnight, but NO! Last night, the TV sucked me in with election results! I kept saying I'll go to bed after the next polls close! Ha! It was ridiculous as they were just predictions and not official results.
So MoustacheMan will ask me what this has to do with repatriation and I'm going to say nothing really other than I didn't have to deal with this on my last expat assignment - Daylight savings or election results as we mailed in our ballots and Singapore TV didn't cover moment by moment election results!
All in all - I just feel short on time. I need more time to cook, clean, plan, organize, exercise. . . . . just to live life! It just seems as if I've been robbed of it!
Ecclesiastes 3:1 - There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven.
