{"id":20494,"date":"2025-05-05T21:19:42","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20494"},"modified":"2025-05-11T22:00:20","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T21:00:20","slug":"daily_3716_-_earlier_and_earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/05\/05\/daily_3716_-_earlier_and_earlier\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3716 &#8211; earlier and earlier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3716_early_morning.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still low-key amazed by how much better I sleep without a snoring bed partner. Since the beginning of the year, I am naturally waking up earlier and earlier without any effort. A decision, yes: when I wake up around 6 in the morning, I could decide to laze around and doze for another while, but I decide not to. But not an effort. I wake up alert and rested.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/02\/08\/daily_3630_-_good-bye_earplugs\/\">Initially I had the alarm set for 7<\/a> so I could wake Adrian for school. Then I started waking up before the alarm. Now I have it set for 6:30, just for peace of mind so there&#8217;s no risk of oversleeping, but I&#8217;m almost always up earlier than that.<\/p>\n<p>I can be packed and dressed and ready to leave for work shortly after 7. And that&#8217;s after also having emptied the dishwasher, folded the laundry and watered the plants.<\/p>\n<p>Or I can have a lazy morning and read the newspaper and scroll reddit and still be ready to start my day in the home office at 7.<\/p>\n<p>The snore-free bedroom may not explain all of it, but it certainly does feel like my divorce has given me an extra hour and a half of time every day. That&#8217;s enough to fully compensate for the free time I &#8220;lost&#8221; by switching to working full time instead of 80%. Not bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still low-key amazed by how much better I sleep without a snoring bed partner. Since the beginning of the year, I am naturally waking up earlier and earlier without any effort. A decision, yes: when I wake up around 6 in the morning, I could decide to laze around and doze for another while, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,799,4,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-divorce","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20497,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20494\/revisions\/20497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}