Thankful Thursday | hat tip to Dolly Parton

Let’s start off with a relevant Dolly Parton quote that I read in James Clear’s newsletter.

“I make a point to appreciate all the little things in my life, because I learned early that if you don’t, you get disappointed a lot. If you do, you might be pleasantly surprised quite often.

I go out and smell the air after a good, hard rain. I re-read passages from my favorite books. I hold the little treasures that somebody special gave me. By keeping my eyes open for unexpected joys, I find the world gives back more than we sometimes think.”

(from the book Dream More)

On that note, this week I am thankful:

that we got a solid rain

I don’t normally feel super thankful about a day of rain, but we had some much mess on the roads from snow treatment and everyone’s cars were sort of a mess too. So, the rain was a welcome rinse-off for everything.

Honestly, when the roads are covered in salt/whatever else they use these days, it feels pointless to even wash your dirty car!

that I have the flexibility to make weekend clinicals work

Starting this weekend, I will be at the hospital every weekend, Saturday and Sunday, until the end of April. This is not my most favorite thing in the whole world, but I am grateful that I am in a stage of life where this schedule is not a big deal.

 

The rest of my life is flexible enough to work around it, and that is a blessing.

Plus, it’s not like nursing school life leaves a bunch of time for socializing. Sooooo it doesn’t much matter that my weekends are scooped up this semester.

for a particularly small avocado pit

You know how sometimes you cut open an avocado and face the crushing disappointment of an enormous pit?

Well, this week I had the exact opposite experience.

Behold:

Seriously perfect.

for lovely green mosses

The mosses on one of my trails were very happy about all the moisture from the melting snow. And I was happy about seeing the bright green!

Also, I love these cute little fungi:

And the lacey lichen:

the ice

I am still out here appreciating the icy beauty by the water.

for a chuckle from the trail drama

I saw this sign on one of my trails and it made me kind of chuckle because it’s like a NextDoor post, but in real life.

I don’t have the inside scoop on what’s been going on here, but someone is definitely miffed.

And part of me thinks the camera threat is possibly fake because, hello, these are the woods, and how would you manage to put enough cameras in to watch all of the trees?

for my study buddy

Honestly, Chiquita deserves an RN after all the nursing school content she’s consumed over the last two years. 😉

I do also appreciate my human study buddies from school; it helps to talk over material with other students because we all remember different points from the lectures.

We have our first big exam this coming Monday, so hopefully all the studying we did will pay off!

What are you thankful for this week?