“Just deposit $500,000!”

It’s miscellany time, frugal people!

When you have been incorrectly put on a mailing list…

You guys know that I did some “open a new bank account and get a bonus” offers last summer, since for the first time in ages, I had a direct deposit paycheck (from the hospital).

Well, I got an offer in the mail for a $3,500 new account bonus (ooh!). 

But when I opened it up, I discovered that I needed to maintain a $500,000 account balance for 90 days in order to qualify.

And this made me chuckle. Imagine having $500,000 just sitting around waiting to be used for an account-opening bonus!

It was definitely an error to put me on this marketing list. 😉

“I’m going to work” still feels strange

This is neither here nor there, neither good nor bad; just an observation.

From 2008-2024, I was solely self-employed (piano teacher, church musician, blogger). So, while I was always working in some capacity, the phrase, “I’m going to work.” never crossed my lips.

Everyone else in my house went to work, but not me.

So, even though I’ve been working at the hospital now for almost a year, it still feels really weird to say to Zoe, “I’m going to work.” or to miss a call from Lisey and text her to say, “I’ll call you after work.”

It took me two years to glue a puzzle

Zoe and I put together this New Yorker puzzle in the summer of 2023, intending to ModPodge it and hang it on a wall.

However, shortly after we finished it, I started nursing school and we know how life went after that! This puzzle has been sitting on my kitchen table for almost two years. Ahahahaha.

But looky looky! I finally got out the ModPodge and coated the puzzle.

I hung it up down in the basement, just using Command strips.

It’s wild how much easier it is to get things done now that I’m not in nursing school. 😉

I understand medical memoirs way more now

I was a voracious consumer of medical memoirs/adjacent genres before nursing school, and I enjoyed them. But I recently picked up Theresa Brown’s Critical Care and as I started re-reading it, I was amazed at how much more I understood about the diseases she was treating and also the interventions/medications. 

And that makes these types of books even more enjoyable! 

I kinda wish I’d chosen an earlier NCLEX date

When I signed up, there were some June dates available and I was like, “Oh dear, that’s awfully soon.”

So I picked July 8th. 

But I have been doing practice NCLEX tests and they are saying I have a “Very High” chance of passing right now. Which makes me wish I’d picked a sooner date so I could get this over with!

On the upside, at least I don’t need to feel very nervous about the NCLEX. And I don’t think I need to spend hours every day studying between now and my test date.

I’ll just do a small amount of consistent practice for the next month.

I don’t think I’m ever gonna need those…

The other day at the gym, while I was doing dumbbell shoulder presses (with 15-pound dumbbells, mind you), I looked at the 100-pound dumbbells and wondered what in the world it must be like to need those! 

Dumbbells are primarily used for upper body exercises, of course, and the odds of me ever needing 100 pounds for my upper body are slim to none. Ha. 

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Miscellany is just…random stuff rolling around in your brain. No pressure, no rules. 😉