sleep before midnight

I’m a new mother — my baby is nearly 7 months old — so I went to sleep before midnight on New Year’s Eve and woke up at around 6 a.m. the next day.

If you never liked New Year’s Eve to begin with, this is the year to watch a bit of TV or listen to some music, go to sleep before midnight and revel in the fact that you’re probably not missing anything.

In my whole life it’s very unusual for me to go to sleep before midnight.

I’m talking about the Capitol Hill Block Party this past weekend, which is now a three-night horror of noise pollution that hurts people in the First Hill and Capitol Hill neighborhoods of Seattle who have to work on weekends — or who just want to go to sleep before midnight.

I believe that earlier sleep, before midnight, is better.