It's About Time

I was filling out my timesheet at the end of last week and thought for moment what a unique and versatile word “time” is. It can be used in so many ways and is the basis of so many expressions. For giggles (I have no life), I Googled it just to see what I could come up with and I was amazed at what was there for this one small word (because, again, I have no life). “A blog post?” I thought to myself. “Only if you want people to think you’re nuts.” Myself answered. Time will tell…

Seeing as I thought of this at work, some really simple things came into my head. Things like working part time or full time, what time is quitting time or can I take a month of vacation time (the answer to that question was a resounding “no.”)

Song titles with the word time in it? You would be surprised at how many you can find. I told you this word was amazing. You have Big Time. You can Love Me Two Times. Have Time In A Bottle (because who doesn't love Jim Croce...me). And Time After Time, Time Is On My Side (yes, it is). If you’re hungry, you can do the Breakfast Time Hollar (come and get it, come and get it). And that’s enough of that because It’s Howdy Doody Time.

I tried songs with the word time in the lyrics but that was just too much. The list is endless and I don’t have the patience for that. So I looked up television shows with time in the title. Just to name a few because most of them I don’t recognize, mainly due to the fact that I don’t really care for TV. I do remember Good Times which was pretty much dyn-o-mite. Timecop? Never heard of it. There was the fictional Tool Time…a television show within a television show. Much too confusing. And finally, Timmy Time, which is a kids show that is mostly annoying since it’s about a young sheep boy who goes to school and the dialog is all in animal language. Elijah loves it so it’s still on once in a while in our house.

There weren’t too many movie titles. All I found that I recognized were things like The Time Traveler’s Wife (read the book and hated it), A Time To Die and The Time Machine. And then I found Land Before Time…all eight, yes eight of them. I suffered through them all whilst I was raising my babies and am suffering again since Elijah just loves anything dinosaur.

One thing I didn’t have to look up was expressions that involved time.  Those are easy. I had a list in no time. Things like time is relative. Of course, if you have relatives like some of mine, time is endless. That’s when the time is ripe to hit the road, after saying a good time was had by all…whether it was or not. But then again, time heals all wounds, hopefully mine when some of those relatives read this post.  Quite honestly though I don’t see them wasting time getting angry over a few words because, after all, time is precious.

Well, speaking of time, what time is it? Must be almost bedtime. And I want to take time to post this before I fall asleep. And it’s only a matter of time before that happens, I hope. Here’s hoping you take the time to read this. I was able to write in up in no time.

 

"They're coming to take me away, ha ha hee hee ho ho..."