Thankful Thursday | a sweatshirt in August!

This week I am thankful:

for the gorgeous weather that is here

We had a record low the other night, and it was chilly enough for me to want to wear a sweatshirt over my tank top and shorts. Yay!

I opened the windows to let the lovely air in, and Chiquita was massively gratified. She loves to sit in the windows.

(Shelley is rather scared of the outdoors, so open windows hold less appeal for her. I’m sure she’s thinking things like, “What if I accidentally fall outside??” 😉 These types of things never occur to Chiquita because she would be pleased if she “fell” outdoors.)

for a fresh set of dishcloths from Sonia

When she stopped by to pick up her purple frames, she gifted me with a set of knitted purple dishcloths. It was a very purple exchange! Heh.

Since I’d just gotten my box of peaches, I gave her some and I also gave her the sour cream and onion Pringles from the Sam’s Club multi-pack I’d bought (Zoe doesn’t like the sour cream and onion ones, as it turns out. And I don’t really like potato chips! So no one here was going to eat them.)

that I feel a little better about school starting

I was feeling a little nervous about going back to school, so I sat down with the class calendar and figured out what my life will look like for the first few weeks. It’s gonna be busy, yes, but I feel a little better now that I mapped it out.

And I will feel MUCH better after the first week is done because day two of the semester is our math test (where you need to get 18/20 right or you’re out for the semester) and day three is our clinical competency testing in the sim lab (which we also have to pass to stay in the semester).

I’m pretty sure I will be ok on both fronts, but still, the high stakes are anxiety-provoking.

for my little house

I know I put this on my lists all the time, but it is true: every week I feel thankful for this little house. I am so grateful to have landed here!

And I am SO HAPPY to not be living in a split-foyer house anymore.

(Otherwise known as a bi-level house.)

I vastly prefer my rancher. 🙂

for summer peaches

Oh, so good.

that I figured out free downtown parking

In the very nice parts of downtown, you have to pay even for street parking. But I realized that if I park outside of the downtown area, it’s not that long of a walk to the nice historic parts.

So, I’ve been mixing up my trail walks with some historic downtown area walks.

I like how this tree is winning the fight against the brick sidewalk. 😉

It always makes me chuckle a little when nature pushes back against human development.

And I enjoy seeing the various flowers people have planted in their tiny plots of city ground.

for water views

I am always grateful to live in a place where water views are so plentiful.

I will feel so weird if I ever lived in a landlocked area in the future.

that I can get out of jury duty (hopefully!)

I got a summons for six months of being on call for jury duty, starting in October.

I seriously cannot do that while in nursing school (way too many mandatory lectures and clinical hours!), so I looked it up, and it sounds like you can get excused if you are a full-time student.

I sent in all the paperwork, so hopefully they will approve my exemption.

I’m happy to do my civic duty after nursing school is over. 😉

What are you thankful for this week?