What I Spent
If you get the “flying to pieces” reference, then you’ve probably read the Laura Ingalls Wilder books as many times as I have. 😉
I spent:
- $26 at Sam’s Club
- $29 at Lidl
- $20 on pizza
- $10 at Chick-fil-A
Sooo, $85, which is not too shabby for an end-of-semester week when I pressed the easy button a few times. 🙂
my brain feels about as organized as my office floor 😉
What We Ate
Saturday
Zoe and I shared some pizza. 🙂
Sunday
French toast with berries and whipped cream.
Monday
This was my last 12-hour clinical shift for the semester, and I remember that Zoe got home from her work shift at work at the same time as me.
I have no idea what we ate for dinner, though; it has completely slipped my mind!
Tuesday
I made some Aussie chicken, and we ate that with sauteed broccoli, plus some pretzel rolls from Lidl.
Wednesday
Zoe had leftovers from Tuesday, and I’d had a late lunch and wasn’t super hungry so…I ate some cottage cheese and crackers. 🙂
Thursday
I had an ATI exam in the morning, and this is the type of exam where afterward, we have to go home and write three bullet points of information for each item that we got wrong.
People don’t typically do super well on these exams (me included!) because they’re basically assessing whether you’d pass the NCLEX. So, these tests cover stuff we’ve never heard of before.
I got a 77%, which is actually pretty good for an ATI exam, but that still meant I had to do 81 bullet points.
I decided to tackle them right away because I have another ATI exam Monday and that will come with yet more bullet points to do. Plus I had a zoom meeting with my group (we’re presenting in front of the whole class tomorrow), and I had to finish the PowerPoint for the group.
Anyway. I skipped cooking dinner! I had a free birthday offer in my Chick-fil-A app so I only had to buy one meal.
And after dinner, I did get the last of my bullet points alllll done. But I was starting to feel like I was losing my mind, so I took a small break to walk around the block.
I always think Laura Ingalls Wilder said it best, as she described the tedium of hand-sewing buttonholes on shirts all day: “Laura felt as if she would fly to pieces.”
That’s how I feel when I do bullet points!
But at least I’m all done with them now, at least until after Monday’s exam. 😉
Friday
I’m not sure yet because I know Zoe has some plans but I am not clear yet on whether or not they include dinner!
