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Thankful Thursday | 57? Yes, please.

This week, I am thankful:

for how beautiful the weather has been

It has been delightfully cool and not-humid here. SO LOVELY.

picture of car dashboard.

I know next week’s forecast is full of humidity (boo!), but this week has just been perfectly wonderful.

In fact, I have not driven to class once this week; it’s been nice enough for me to walk and not show up at class dripping with sweat. 😉

that I got an A on my first exam

Last semester, my grade on the first exam in med-surg was the lowest I’ve ever gotten in college.

Soooo, I was a little skeered for the first one this semester (mental health/med-surg 2). But it wasn’t as hard as I expected, so I got just a few wrong. Yay!

It’s verrrry nice to not start the semester out in the hole this time.

for my clinical group friends

little white flowers.

We get put into different groupings for clinical each semester, and I like the way it helps me get to know a new group of people really well.

And it’s nice to have a little group chat so we can text each other if we have questions or we want to commiserate about things like the nursing school workload.

that we have more time to prep for exam #2

Our exams are every two weeks like clockwork, so we don’t technically have more time to study for exam #2.

But it feels like we have more time because during the first two weeks we had orientation, the math exam, and competency testing, and three labs, plus all the lectures.

This time around, there’s less of all that extra stuff going on, and I think that’s gonna make it easier to keep up with studying!

for a solid anatomy and physiology background

A blood-tracing worksheet.

Blood-tracing assignments from anatomy

I know I have said this over and over, but I am so grateful for my two great anatomy and physiology classes. I worked hard in those classes, yes, but I also had two very good professors, and so a lot of my A&P knowledge has stuck in my head even three years later.

I use the info from those classes all the time in nursing school as I’m trying to think through disease processes and treatments.

I will never, ever understand why people think those classes are a waste of time as a prereq!

that it’s easy for me to chat with new people

My mental health rotation has made me especially thankful that I have a chatty personality because a lot of what we do involves just having conversations with people.

I really enjoy sitting with patients, asking them questions, and getting to learn about them!

for the way my Hungry Harvest boxes make me eat more produce

Since these boxes arrive every two weeks without fail, my fridge is always stocked with some kind of produce, even on weeks when I don’t get to the grocery store.

asparagus soup.

asparagus soup, which I made to use up Hungry Harvest asparagus

This means I eat a lot more produce than I would otherwise, and as we’ve already talked about, eating more produce is an almost universally-agreed-upon way to improve your diet.

(I know the carnivore diet people would disagree, but they are a minority.)

Someone asked in the comments recently if I track things like vitamins and minerals and the answer is…nope! I just eat produce with every meal and often in between meals too, and I figure that has me properly covered.

for the beauty in each season

Fall colors haven’t really started to show up yet, but they’re coming! And in the meantime, there are beautiful late-summer things to see.

purple flower.

What are you thankful for this week?

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AW

Friday 13th of September 2024

I'm so happy that you're doing well with your classes and the friends you have in them.

My Thankful's 1) My sweet friend from church. She's such a sweet, kind and generous lady. 2) My 3 beautiful girls. They're always telling me how much they love me or how I'm a wonderful mom even though I don't feel like it. 3) For my artistic talent that God has gifted me which reminds me that I need to use it more. 4) For the nice walks I get to take around the neighborhood. 5) For the rain since it's been really hot and we've needed it.

Mar

Friday 13th of September 2024

Thankful for 2 weeks of 80 degree weather. It is not humid and so very nice out. Thankful this week has not been money bleeding week. That a friend lent us a trail cam. Fun to see the bucks at night. We have a lot of deer but hardly ever see any bucks. Apparently they only come out at night lol. For a fun trip to the Columbus Zoo. We went when they opened and got to see many being fed. Plus they give the history of the one being fed. The grands loved it. For a weekend with the grands. How the world looks so different though the eyes of a 2 and 4 year old.

Kristina

Thursday 12th of September 2024

Congratulations, Kirsten! May the year fly enjoyably by! I enjoy the thankful posts tho I can't read them all. I like how our shared thanks kind of multiply for all of us. My 5: 1) DH is feeling better after a nasty bout with Covid. He has been very sick. 2) Thankful that I did not contract Covid. The jury's out, of course, but for now we were able to stick with our friendly joke that only one of us can get sick at a time. 3) The cat who adopted us loves to purr on DH's lap, a comfort this week and a quiet companion when he needed one, and I had to be elsewhere. 4) That my sewing skills are good. I made a sample dress to check the pattern, and as I suspected, it is wrong for me, but I finished the dress nicely and hope a friend will be able to use it. Her bosom is different from mine and I think it will fit her nicely. And I will use my nicer fabric with a different pattern. Thankful I made a sample. 5) Thankful my car is reliable and seems to be working well. It is ten years old.

Anita Isaac

Thursday 12th of September 2024

today is my birthday. hard to believe i have outlived my mother by 20 years. hubby and kids gave me a great day. the kids had music school after regular school so it was just us. but it was nice. and i got my usual lobster tail pastry from a bakery called veneiros.

am so glad kristen has time to continue this blog. happy for the chiquita photos but would love to see more of shelley.

Anita Isaac

Friday 13th of September 2024

@JNL, thanks so much

JNL

Friday 13th of September 2024

@Anita Isaac, Happy birthday! Glad you got spoiled.

Tiffany

Thursday 12th of September 2024

I’m a Dietitian and it irks me when people dismiss any fruit or vegetable!!

Central Calif. Artist Jana

Friday 13th of September 2024

@Tiffany, I HATE it that fruits often have too much sugar for people trying to get their glucose under control. I could happily live on fruit and bread. . . sigh. So when I eat fruit now, I drink water with vinegar in it to slow the glucose situation. This is something I learned from The Glucose Revolution, by Jessie Inchauspé, AKA The Glucose Goddess. And it works for me (as I learned from wearing a continuous glucose monitor).

I don't trust any diet that eliminates a specific food group. (not talking about hyper-processed or "junk" food) Yes, I KNOW lots of people have various specific allergies and restrictions. What I don't trust is the sorts of diets such as "no fat" or "dairy is bad for you" or wheat will kill us" or "the only good diet is vegan"... on and on it goes. One size NEVER fits all.

Selena

Thursday 12th of September 2024

@Tiffany, we carnivores don't dismiss them, we just don't think they are the end to all end. There is no perfect diet. And genetics play a big role - known of couple of barely meat/got exercise folks who had the "big one". One was out jogging when his hit.

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