moved my bus time up, any point?

Hatchling Kindly Curious · 2026.10.27 09:03 · Views 95 · Likes 7

Follow-up to the missed-bus mess from a couple weeks back, 3 times in one week… I finally did something about it, switched to the 7:10 instead of the 7:40, leaving a good half hour earlier than I’m used to.

It’s actually helping, I get home with enough time to do the skin stuff before I collapse, managed it 5 nights this week already, which for me is something!

Still not sure I can keep it up once winter hits and it’s dark and freezing at that hour though. Has anyone stuck with an earlier bus like this through a full season, or does it fall apart the second the weather turns?

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DewyDreamer10.27 09:20
Following this because I tried an earlier start for interview prep and it fell apart by week 3 once mornings got dark, hoping yours holds up better!
SkinHarmony10.27 10:55
mine fell apart once it hit 6am dark
WellnessWanderer10.27 10:56
5 nights is solid how cold is it there at 7am?
SunnySide10.27 13:29
the first stretch of any earlier schedule is always the easy part, it’s whichever week throws something unexpected at you that actually tests it… I pushed my own wake-up up about 30 minutes back in September so I could get a walk in before my first video call, and it went fine for a while, until the mornings got properly dark and cold, after that I started hitting snooze instead and letting the
SleepyOtter10.28 02:42
i tried this too, lasted 3 weeks for me
WellnessWanderer10.31 19:47
mine actually held through a full winter, but only because my husband was mid-flare and the earlier train home was the one way I’d actually get to help with his routine before he was too wiped to do it himself. Switched mine to the 6:50 and just kept going through the coldest stretch, dark mornings and all.
Good Enough Skin11.03 10:07
Half an hour doesn’t sound like much but that’s exactly the gap between getting the skin stuff done and just giving up and collapsing instead, so it makes sense it’s helping already. For me it was never really the cold or the dark that wrecked an earlier schedule before, it was whichever week the freelance workload piled up and ate the whole routine anyway…