Thankful Thursday | wisdom + cheerfulness

To start, from James Clear’s May 15th newsletter:

Writer and philosopher Michel de Montaigne reveals what wisdom looks like: “The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.”

If de Montaigne is right, that’s good news for me. 😉 Cheerfulness is right there in my blog’s tag line!

This week, I am thankful:

that today is my official graduation

I get to wear my first-ever cap and gown! Woohoo!

As I’ve said before, until my pinning last week, I’d never been part of a big graduation ceremony, and that makes it extra fun for me.

So of course, of course I signed up to attend the pinning and the graduation. Gotta make the most of the opportunity.  😉

that Lisey and Mia are here!

Lisey flew in on Tuesday, my friend Mia arrived yesterday, and both of them came specifically for my graduation. I am very touched. And I am so delighted they are here!

I am very fortunate that there are two events to invite people to because tickets are so limited; I invited my parents and Sonia and my aunt and uncle to the pinning, and now for my graduation, Mia, Lisey, and Zoe can come. Perfect!

that graduation is indoors

It’s a chilly, rainy day today and I am feeling so thankful our graduation is indoors.

I was also grateful about having an indoor pinning ceremony last week because it was wildly hot and humid that day. Two extremes!

that I got my earring out of my sink

I dropped one of my only very nice earrings down my bathroom sink. Ugh.

However, I peeked down the drain and thought I could see it in the trap.

Unfortunately, I do not own a pipe wrench (only some pairs of pliers) so I had to unscrew the pipes with my hands and a rag, which took some doing.

I did manage to get some of the fittings unscrewed, and then I used a scrapbooking tool to fish the earring out of the trap.

(I am Very Professional.)

Thank goodness it was an earring shape that was amenable to being fished; something like a pearl stud earring would have been way worse!

And now I have learned my lesson: no taking earrings out in the bathroom. My sink has way too little flat surface and way too much sloped sink area for this to be a safe practice.

that I really do not care about working on Memorial Day

I have no holiday traditions for Memorial Day, so I don’t care at all that it’s one of my mandatory scheduled holidays at the hospital this year!

that I was able to donate some nursing lab supplies

I had some leftover unopened supplies, such as a practice Foley catheter kit. I really didn’t want to just throw them away, so I emailed the program coordinator to see if I could donate them back to the school.

And she said yes. Yay!

So I happily dropped them off the other day.

Annnnnd now I’m off for a day of graduation fun!

What are you thankful for this week? 

P.S. I may or may not be back with a blog post tomorrow; due to my company, I might just do the menu post on Saturday! 🙂 And I should have some graduation pictures because I know I can depend on Mia for that.