Today, I woke up after almost eight hours of sleep. I don’t remember the last time I slept this long in my old apartment—it was always something I managed on vacations outside the city. In fact, I only remember waking up too early once this week and getting a glass of water before getting back to bed and sleeping.

Auto-generated description: A graph shows an upward trend in average time asleep, highlighted in red over the period from February 10 to March 12, 2025 showing an increase in time sleeping

Another hopefully trend in the making is my exercise routine. My new room is huge, bigger than I ever remember having (in the city, for sure), and it allows me to have a dedicated exercise corner with some of my equipment out. The neighborhood is mostly quiet, with one main road at the end of a long segment of stairs from our street, which provides a natural opportunity for a warm-up before a quiet run into the local park, where I can run different trails of different difficulties. I’m happy to report that I already tested it once, and with the stairs, my stamina has improved enough to earn me a nice protein shake with an espresso shot made at a nice local juicery.

Auto-generated description: A compact home gym setup features a white bench with arranged dumbbells, a barbell, a foam roller, and a leaping rope.

I hope to keep this up and make this apartment my self-recovery and self-improvement place.