Miscellany | with one week left

A week from today, I have my final exam for this semester. Woohoo!

 

So, here are some random things from my life/brain.

I dropped the peanut butter into the pudding

I had some extra milk, so I made a double batch of chocolate pudding last week. I poured it into glass bowls and set them to cool on the counter.

Then I decided to have a snack of a banana + peanut butter. And when I went to put the Sam’s Club size jar of peanut butter away, I dropped it.

Right into the pudding.

I had pudding in my hair, on my hoodie, and all over my kitchen.

Thank goodness it was already fairly cool; it had solidified enough so as not to spray everywhere (and it also was cool enough to not burn me!)

Also, I was grateful I hadn’t showered yet; the pudding in my hair was no big deal. 😉

Scrambled Egg Auto-Pilot

I went to make French toast the other day, and before I knew it, I was grinding pepper into the eggs.

 

Ugh.

Because I eat scrambled eggs for breakfast so often, I went into auto-pilot mode after cracking the eggs!

I saved the peppered eggs in a container for the following morning, and I started over with some fresh eggs.

I do love me some black pepper, but in French toast, it would be a most unwelcome addition.

This leaf looks familiar

I spied this leaf out of the corner of my eye when I was walking.

And I thought it looked a little like Calcifer, from Howl’s Moving Castle!

Also, don’t these logs kind of look like they are sprouting fresh-popped popcorn?

I wonder what it’s like to live in a huge house

Now that the leaves have fallen off the trees, I am seeing some houses across the creek that I don’t usually see on one of my trails.

This one caught my eye the other day:

And I stopped to wonder what it must be like to live in such a house. It’s HUGE.

I know I don’t personally want that much house, but it might be fun to live there for a week, just to see what it’s like. I would feel so fancy!

Thanks, Chiquita

She knocked over a pot of succulents the other day.

I repotted two of them, which is honestly probably something I should have already done because they were quite leggy.

So, I guess I appreciate the push from Chiquita. 😉

(She did not break the pot, thankfully!)

650 days of Spanish

I hit a 650-day streak of doing at least one Spanish lesson a day on Duolingo.

Am I fluent? No.

But do I know more than I would otherwise? Yes!

(Enough that I have been able to speak a little Spanish to my patients.)

I might hit the Spanish a little harder once I am done with nursing school. 🙂

I handled night shift slightly better this time

The only other time I’ve worked an overnight shift is when I was doing training back in June.

(If I am not forced, I will never work overnight. The only place I want to be at 2 am is IN MY BED, SLEEPING.)

At that time, I was still dealing with some post-Covid exhaustion, and also, I was not used to working 12-hour shifts.

But this time, I went in well-rested, and I am also very accustomed to spending 12 hours in a row at the hospital.

So, I was less miserable than before.

Also: I did three blood draws in a row and got all of them on my first try. Yay me!

Anyway, despite the fact that my shift went all right, I still will maintain my habit of choosing day shifts whenever humanly possible.

I know you get paid more overnight, but as I always say: I am too old and too financially stable to be tempted by the pay. Ha.

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