Day Light Savings Time continues on...

At least for me.  So this year my contempt for standard time has reached new heights and rather than be told what to do by the federal government I have elected to keep living in daylight savings time.  Now I realize this isn't an option for everyone but with my job I don't have a fixed start time and I can come in an hour earlier and leave an hour earlier no problem.  Well if something happens to be going on I can easily get stuck at work for longer, but that could happen anyway.  So far the hardest thing is getting up at 4:30.  I know that this is the exact time I was getting up a week ago, but the psychology of seeing 4:30 does something too you.  I have tried to stay on the same routine for eating as well.  Breakfast is roughly the same time, my morning snack that I used to do after the morning meeting is now before the morning meeting but around the same time, lunch has been pushed back a half hour to 10 AM. After that I eat a snack of an apple, banana, pack of raisins and a zone bar one every hour.  It actually works way better in the evening though as now I can go run when I get home and then eat dinner at 6PM (7 PM in my mind) with the rest of the family.  Honestly I don't know if I can keep this up though.  The hard part is the morning, but once I'm up I feel pretty good.  But laying in bed for another hour would also feel pretty good.  Maybe there is a compromise somewhere, where I could sleep an extra half an hour one day when I'm not running.  I'll have to think about this.  I also need people to look at the weather when they are scheduling things, because if it is nice outside I need to go run, not sit at your meeting.  The cold weather is going to suck though and basketball season is starting, so running could get pushed out of the way a little.  The good news is over the next 2 months I have 10 days of holidays and vacations that should allow me to get some miles in.  The bad news is that I have 10 days off over the next 2 months that could really play havoc with me getting up at 4:30 in the morning for work... As of right now I feel pretty good about making it through Thanksgiving, but no guarantees after that.  I mean wouldn't that make more sense anyway to not change the clocks back until after Thanksgiving?  I don't want it to change at all anymore, to be honest.  When I was younger fall back was always the best, but now I want that extra hour of daylight in the evening, not in the morning.  Being dark at 5 o'clock in the evening sucks.  The blow of springing forward was lessened by the idea that the sun would shine for longer in the evenings and it was getting warmer.  Not sure what I'll do if I'm able to make it that far.  I mean why does everyone have to switch anyway?  If they schools think it isn't safe to have kids wait for the bus in the dark, then just move school back an hour.  "Well that wouldn't be fair to the kids to go to school at 8 AM instead of 7 AM".  Really?  is that even an argument?  Then the rest of us wouldn't have to switch our schedules.  I mean for regular businesses this can't be good right?  If you are a bank, wouldn't you want it lighter so people felt like they had more time to visit the bank, instead of being rushed at the end of the day and maybe not making it.  Or a resturant, or shopping center wouldn't they want it too be lighter later?  All I'm saying is that there will be 10 hours or so of daylight at some point this winter, and I would rather it be daylight when I am awake.  The problem is if you want to watch a show or something the T.V. schedule or sporting contest gladly goes along with the time change, but if they didn't what would it matter?  Oh no the game started at 7 PM instead of 8. Heck that is better anyway, because I would rather watch the end of the game than the beginning, but if the end is going to happen after I go to bed, why do I even want to watch the beginning?  (Looking at you MLB) So this winter is going to be a little bit of an adventure and we'll see how long this last, but honestly this changing of times thing is a little ridiculous.