Thankful Thursday | a furnace is on the way

In case you’re new here: Thankful Thursdays are a practice we started in 2020, at the height of the Covid pandemic, mainly because we all desperately needed to find the good things in our lives in a time that was so unsettling. And since we all found our list-making so helpful, we’ve just been carrying on ever since. 🙂 

This week, I am thankful:

that we’re getting a new furnace, for sure!

My landlords let me know that they are definitely moving forward with getting a new furnace for this house, sometime in the next few weeks.

YAY!!!!

This furnace has had a lot of problems since we’ve lived here, and I am so grateful my landlords are replacing it. 

I’m also grateful that the install will be done before heat is even a faint whisper of a necessity. 

that Brittany and I both got to donate blood

We were both so pleased when our hemoglobin results came back high enough! 

And it is nice to know that our donation is filling a serious need (an A-blood shortage, which is what we both have).

that I am not claustrophobic

I had to have an MRI on my shoulder (it’s been bothering me for a bit), and this was my very first time in an MRI machine.

It is a little bit of an odd feeling to be scooted into a small tube, but it didn’t freak me out. I can imagine how it makes some people panicked, though!

that nothing is seriously wrong with my shoulder

It’s basically just some tendinitis, soooo….off to PT I will go. 

But this experience did make me think of the people who have to have scans and then wait to find out if something scary is happening (like cancer). I know that has to be terribly nerve-wracking.

that I do not have to eat chickpea pasta

I picked up a box of protein pasta from Aldi, made from chickpeas and….I will not be doing that again. Yikes.

It is made from 100% chickpea flour and let’s just say, you can tell.

In fact, if I had to choose between:

1)never eating pasta

2) eating this pasta

…then I would just live a pasta-free life. Ha. 

Sooo, if I want pasta in the future, I will just cook regular pasta and eat some extra chicken to add the 12 grams of protein (which is what this pasta has per serving). Or I will add an ounce of Parmesan cheese, which has 10 grams of protein. 

What I’m saying is: there are much more pleasant ways to get protein, and since I can eat gluten, I will stick with gluten-full pasta, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 

that summer is not forever

I struggle with summer weather in the same way that a lot of people struggle with winter weather.

So, I choose to focus on the happy news that summer does not last forever. We are already done with June. July and August will be more of the same, but things will improve some in September.

That means I have gotten through 1/3 of the hottest months.

And I am grateful not to live somewhere far south of here (such as south Florida), where relief does not come in September! 

for air conditioning

Will this be on my list all summer? POSSIBLY. 

I cannot imagine navigating mid-Atlantic summers without air-conditioning. The weather outside might be terrible, but at least I can hide in my house and get some relief. 🙂 

that the gym is cooler than outside

Not gonna lie, sometimes the big track area is only marginally less humid than outdoors, but even at its worst, it is still not as bad as outside. 

that by next week at this time, I will have my NCLEX results

I take my NCLEX this coming Tuesday, and most of my classmates have been getting their results within 24 hours. So definitely by next Thursday, I will know how mine came out.

(Have I mentioned how happy I will be to have this behind me??)

that better health insurance is coming

This week, I did the sign-up part for the health insurance that comes with my new nurse job. The coverage is better with this plan and it costs less out of pocket than my current plan does, so yay! Double savings. 

I will cancel my other insurance the minute my new plan goes into effect. 

for cute kitties

Miss Shelley, Zoe’s constant companion:

And my constant companion:

Doesn’t she look like she’s counting while people hide in a game of hide and seek?? 

 

 What are you thankful for this week? 

P.S. I will be here tomorrow with a post, even though it’s a holiday (the 4th of July) here in the U.S. 🙂