Jet lag laziness

Ten O' Clock?

You may be wondering what you are looking at when you see the picture above. What you are seeing is the exact same thing I have seen the past two days when waking up. Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t mind the occasional sleeping in, but seriously… ten? Below you will find the best excuse I could come up with to make myself feel better.

Our wedding was approximately one month ago. We were married on Saturday and were scheduled to leave for our honeymoon on Sunday morning at 6:00 AM. We did not get into our hotel until late, and waking up the next morning was a struggle. We did manage to make our flight after a series of mistakes led us to jump shuttles for an hour before arriving at our gate while the last 3 rows were boarding. Needless to say we were EXHAUSTED! We slept the whole flight to Chicago, and spent the next 3 hours of our layover sleeping on the carpet of the O’ Hare United terminal (note 1 timezone change to Chicago).

From Chicago, we flew to Mexico (note a second timezone change of 3 hours) where we crashed for the rest of the night and relaxed all week. Just about when our bodies were getting adjusted to the time difference between the Mid-West and the West Coast we were on our way home. So back to Chicago we went (third time change). Our flight was delayed in Chicago and we consequently didn’t end up getting back home until 4:00 AM Monday morning (one more time change back to Ohio).

We left the next day to go to Illinois for job interviews and were there for two days (another time zone change).

We were able to stay in Michigan for a few days before leaving for South Dakota for Ryan’s Wedding (A 20 hour drive and another time zone jump of two hours). We were there for 5 days, and then returned home on a one way, non-stop, all night, driving extravaganza that took us about 24 hours on two energy drinks and four tanks of gas (last time jump back to Ohio). We arrived back in Ohio at 3:00 AM and slept until noon the next day.

I say all of that to say this… our internal clocks are about as jacked up as they have ever been in our entire lives. We go to sleep whenever we get tired, and have a terribly difficult time waking up in the “morning.”Of course the fact that we don’t have jobs until the middle of August somewhat lends itself to laziness and apathy, but until we get those jobs, bring on the late nights and even later mornings. I think we can handle it for another two weeks before starting real life. This is not throw a pity party, but rather an attempt to justify our sleeping habits. I hope it worked

Well, back to bed.