Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

I’m taking a fallback position?

- JENNIFER CHRISTMAN

Yes! It’s the very best Sunday of the whole year.

With daylight saving time ending at 2 a.m. today, we all get a precious extra hour to — ahhh! — sleep, laze, ease into the morning.

And yet even with all that extra time, we still end up late, driving on two wheels and — ackk! — cursing into the church parking lot.

For us, the bonus 60 minutes is just like any bonus money — spent before we even have it. But if you need ideas on how to spend that extra hour, here are some suggestion­s:

■ Changing back the clocks. Sure, your phone, tablet and computer all set themselves. But there’s still the oven and the microwave and your older car to adjust. And, of course, you have forgotten how. But, look! You couldn’t remember how to fix it during daylight saving time, so it’s finally the right time now. Whew!

■ Enjoy some alone time. Go see director George Clooney’s new box office bomb Suburbicon, starring Matt Damon. The movie, which made a mere $2.8 million its opening weekend, was one of Paramount Pictures’ worst performing wide-releases in history. (It still made more than the $742 made by Amityville: The Awakening, the first Weinstein Co. movie released since the Harvey Weinstein allegation­s went public.) You’re guaranteed to have the theater to yourself.

■ Get ready for MTV’s latest strangers-in-a-beach-house show that will debut at 9 p.m. Nov. 27: MTV Floribama Shore. The descriptio­n reads: “Set in the Florida Panhandle along the beach that stretches all the way to Alabama, MTV Floribama Shore is the story of eight young adults who come to spend the summer in the hottest beach town on the Gulf Coast, Panama City Beach, to party it up and put the real world on hold for just a little bit longer.” So to get prepared, make room in your DVR, find where in the world MTV is in your channel lineup after all these years and get all necessary shots.

■ Make amends with your ex. If after all their social media spats, singers Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez can be friends (or whatever it is they are) and go to church together, eat together and hang out with friends together, maybe there is hope for you and jerkface. See what he/she is up to the rest of the weekend. Speaking of The

Weeknd, Gomez’s current boyfriend, he might have his Weeknds free from now on.

■ Catch up with the Real Divorcees of Orange County. With cast members Shannon Beador and Kelly Dodd both going through splits after the latest season of Bravo’s Housewives, only half the cast is still married. For now.

■ Engage in activism. That’s what television host Chelsea Handler, who announced she’s taking a break from Hollywood,

is doing. She recently tweeted “So, Republican rep. Dana Rohrabache­r from California is was the original person who received info from Russia, because she works w/ them.” Only Rep. Dana Rohrabache­r is a man. Too bad Chelsea isn’t still pursuing comedy, as that made a lot of people laugh.

■ Get in the Christmas spirit. You haven’t finished all your Halloween candy (well, the Atomic Fireballs and the Dots — you already ate the good stuff), but Hallmark is in fullfledge­d Yuletide mode, cranking out a new holiday movie

each night as part of its Countdown to Christmas. Today’s debut, Miss Christmas (7 p.m.), is about a girl named Holly looking for a special Christmas tree when she meets a special man. Miss Christman says, this being the Hallmark channel, Miss Christmas will have a happy ending “fir” sure. ■ Correct people. Because everyone wants to say daylight

“savings” (plural) time, when it’s daylight “saving” (singular) time. Then after annoying all your friends and family members, spend the rest of the day saving (singular) your relationsh­ips.

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