Day 157: For yesterday. I didn't forget to post, honest. It was kind of an experiment. You see, I've been having some trouble sleeping lately. Almost like clockwork I wake at 2:00am nightly, and have been for weeks. At first I was just putting it up to being so sick, but even now that I am well it's still happening. Doing a bit of research into "sleep hygiene" I discovered something that wasn't really a newsflash, but also hit me pretty hard: my phone is probably keeping me awake. I keep my phone on me almost all the time and probably check it 300 times a day (if it buzzes, if it hasn't buzzed in awhile etc). This includes right before I sleep, when I wake in the morning (it's my alarm clock) and yes, at 2am when I wake mid-sleep. I think I have a problem! In the reading I've done about sleep hygiene it says to stop looking at any kind of lit screen at least one hour before you want to sleep. So my habit of waiting until the bitter end of the day to post these things certainly wasn't helping. I decided, somewhat unintentionally, to conduct an experiment. Last night en route to curling I realized I'd left my phone at home. I panicked for a second, thoughts flowing through my mind like WHAT IF SOMEONE NEEDS ME?!?! but decided to *not* turn around and make myself late, and just see how it felt to be phoneless for one evening. You know what? An interesting thing happened. Instead of checking my email when I wasn't sweeping, I watched the game. Instead of texting when waiting for my turn to throw a rock, I spoke with my team. What a concept! I decided to continue to not look at my phone for the rest of that night and didn't check it until this morning. And you know what? Life went on. Nobody was freaking out that I wasn't available to "Like" a post. The only notification I missed was a birthday reminder (Happy Birthday V!). The biggest win? I slept all the way through the night. To summarize, I was pretty happy that I tried that. I'm going to see if I can post these earlier in the day, and push back from my laptop and maybe finish my day with a real paper book for awhile and see if it helps. Taking a break from technology was my happy for yesterday. #365happydays
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