I'm Late, I'm Late, For a Very Important Date

Summertime chill has got me good. We have been staying up later, waking up later, and I have been a lot more lax about our schedule. At the beginning of summer I was trying to be a little stricter about our schedule and doing more scheduled activities with the kids. I am one of those people that always always always wears a watch. Like that rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, I am always running around with a watch and looking at the time saying “I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date! No time to say hello, goodbye, I’m late I’m late I’m late. I am kind of a slave to my watch!

After a few weeks of summer and outdoor activities, I got a really unattractive watch tan. So I decided that I would just not wear a watch for a few days and hope to get some sun and get rid of the funky tan. I figured I would just use my cell phone for the time and clocks around the house. I was nervous I might not stay on schedule and that I wouldn’t get my important calls and texts. See, I have an Apple Watch. And I was so used to getting notifications of emails, texts, and missed calls constantly.

This ended up being such a good exercise for me. So after a day or two I noticed that I wasn’t really missing anything important by not having my Apple Watch on, giving me instant notices all the time. I checked my phone enough throughout the day when I had down time to catch up on things and that worked out fine. I liked not being bothered and distracted constantly by the buzz of the watch for scheduling items, to dos, texts, emails and phone calls. Anything important I could get on my phone. And as far as the time went I had enough clocks around me and my phone still, so all good there.

Funny thing is, now that I have gotten more used to not wearing a watch, my watch tan is still there! So not sure if or when it’ll ever go away! Jokes on me!