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As I get older, I wake up earlier. I feel like I?ve been sleeping harder too, at least for that five-hour chunk of time when I first fall asleep. But in the winter months and with two antsy cats (one of whom likes to cry at 4 am), I do get up earlier and earlier. It sucks, but I also work well in the morning, so I get a lot of sh-t done here. I?m also one of those compulsively on-time people. I?m actually compulsively early for appointments, it?s just who I am. And I hate compulsively late people, I find it so disrespectful. Why bring this up? Rachel Brosnahan, star of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, has a feature in Self Magazine where she talks about sleep habits, her compulsive lateness and more. Self is actually doing a recurring feature called ?Sleeping With?? where they talk to celebrities about how they wind down in the evenings and more. I find it really interesting, but I love to talk about this kind of mundane sh-t. You can see the full feature here. Some highlights:
On her backward skin-care routine: ?I shower at night, rather than in the morning. If I?m taking a shower at night, which I almost always do, then I will wash my face in the shower with Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser. When I get out of the shower, I?ll use the Cetaphil Gentle Makeup Remover. I do this very backward?I know you?re supposed to take your makeup off before you wash your face, but I wait until it?s kind of all over my face, and then I take it off.
On her post-shower essentials: ?After I shower I?ll usually lie down with my dogs. I like to cuddle with my dogs at night?that?s kind of my consistent form of self-care. I have two dogs, and they?re not always allowed on the bed, but if they?re clean then they are. At some point I kick them off onto their own beds. I like to do a quick stretch to wind down, especially when I?m working in a corset and high heels all day long. At the end of the day, my feet hurt so much. Sometimes I?ll step on a ball, or I?ll do some twisting in bed.
She falls asleep with a script a lot: ?Sometimes I?ll learn my lines in bed if I have a big scene, either while I?m doing a mask or just as I?m lying there. I have, many times, fallen asleep with a script on my face, especially with Maisel. But I do often fall asleep learning lines, which I know isn?t the greatest because it keeps your mind moving?that it engages your brain right as you?re trying to slow it down. I find that sometimes, especially if it?s a very stressful week at work, I wake up in the middle of the night running lines.
She doesn?t have a TV: ?Once I?ve started my shower and skin-care routine, after that point, I don?t watch any kind of TV. I actually don?t have a TV in my house. I haven?t had one for seven yearsI don?t think I would ever have a TV in my bedroom. I try not to look at my phone late at night, but I feel like sometimes, in the process of thinking and reflecting, I?m like, ?Oh, sh-t, I forgot to answer this email.?
She has a noise machine: ?Depending on what?s going on in the neighborhood, sometimes I?ll sleep with earplugs in as well, or a noise machine. It?s super simple, but I really love the Dohm White Noise Machine. It just has two settings; it?s not anything complicated. It?s just white noise on a high or a low setting so that if my husband is awake and doing things in the house or my dogs are moving around, I can still sleep. I love it, and I travel with it when I?m in strange hotel rooms or apartments. I?m not a great sleeper, in case you couldn?t tell.
She?s always five minutes late: ?When I?m not working I set one alarm or I wake up on my own, if I have the luxury. But when I?m working I set three alarms because I?m so afraid that I?m going to sleep through one or be late for work, even though it?s never happened. I always set three, and they?re 12 minutes apart. I?m about five minutes late for things, no matter how much time I give myself. I could wake up five minutes before I need to walk out the door and I?d be five minutes late. I could wake up an hour before I need to leave and I?m five minutes late. I hate being late and I stress about it all the time. If anyone has any advice, it?s my New Year?s resolution every year.
[From Self]
Hate people who are late like that, but I think I have the answer for Rachel: it?s not some weird twist of fate that she?s forever five minutes late, it?s that she?s bad at estimating how much time it will take her to go somewhere. That?s my problem too, and it?s why I?m always early: I always overestimate how much time it will take, and she always underestimates. Just a theory. As for the white noise? yes. I CANNOT sleep when everything is silent, nor can I sleep when someone is moving around in another part of the house. I need white noise. I choose a box fan in my bedroom, kept on low, because not only is the white noise nice, but it actually circulates the air in my bedroom and I love that too. Its nice to work with white noise as well I have a fan in my office too.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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