Thankful Thursday | the feeling-better edition
This week, I am thankful:
that my digestive system is feeling better
Whatever bug I had (I don't think it was cyclosporiasis) was slow-moving, and it's taken a while to get back to anything resembling normal.
I still don't feel like my appetite is quite back to the usual, actually. But I am heading in the correct direction, albeit at a snail's pace.
that my sickness hit on some days off
I started to feel really terrible right at the end of my third shift, which was actually good timing because then I was able to get through the sickness on my days off.
No need to use my sick hours and no need to call out.
that it is easier to be sick at this stage of my life
When my kids were all little and needed me more, I could not exactly spend two days on the couch.
But since Zoe is the only one left here, and she's self-sufficient, I actually did spend two sick days on the couch! And nothing terrible happened.
that I felt good enough to exercise the last few days
I went for a three-mile walk in the woods this week, and I got in two gym workouts, so that's better than last week!
that this class is halfway done
This is week 4/8, and I finished my homework for this week. Which means week four is over in my book. 😉
Four more weeks left in this class, and four more weeks until I go part-time at work! Yay!
that there are only about five weeks left until September
Weather here does not magically get better in September, but it does start to improve a little. So, I'm looking forward to September with hope.
(To those of you who adore sweltering weather: I wish you so much joy and delight these next five weeks, but I will not be remotely sad to wave goodbye to summer!)
that I have nearly made it through my first year of nursing
I have repeatedly heard that the first year is the toughest and that you start to feel more competent after that, so yay me for making it through my most incompetent year. 😉
It's weird...I have learned so, so much over the past year, but I still routinely feel like there is so much I do not know.
Maybe by year two I will feel less like that. Or maybe that's just always how you feel as a nurse!
I'm SO glad you're feeling better. And this post brought back memories of literally crawling across the floor to prep my little kids breakfast one time when I was violently ill. It is hard to be sick when you have small kids because their needs do not stop.
I'll admit I am very thankful I'm at the place in life where if I get sick, my kids can mostly fend for themselves!
And yay for walks. I have been terrible about organizing walk-and-talks lately, but we need to fit one in soon!!!
Yes, summer is slowly taking a turn toward fall. It has been so dry in the past weeks that we have few flowers blossoming at the moment, a real shame. But I enjoy longer evenings and the better sleep that they bring. And the day before yesterday I heard the first gaggle of migrating geese, the sound made me wistful. The swimming pond is beautiful this time of year, because of the mist hovering above the water.
My thankfuls this week
For the abundance of fruit and vegetables this time of year
For lower temperatures
For financial stability in our life
For cafeine-free tea and coffee - no more lying awake!
For homemade yoghurt. I really like the taste and thickness of the yoghurt I make
For the birds drinking from my water basin and the frogs hiding in my water basin.
For comfortable clothes with a percentage of stretch!