1- Nicole‘s book is out! A novel about midlife revival? By someone as awesome as Nicole? I’m here for it!! Just ordered!
2- Caroline reviewed her credit card points & miles wins in 2025. LOVED this (and all the cold, hard data she included). She is rocking the bank bonuses, an area I am too terrified to deal with (I just know I will mess it up somehow and lose $$$).
3- Why ARE Billionares? We Can Do Hard Things had a super interesting and fiery take on this and I thought it was really well done. (First link is Spotify; here’s the Apple).
4- I am reading a philosophy book. This is not a genre I am used to, but the author has made it pretty accessible!
5- Weekend plans: We are tentatively going to see Marty Supreme. I say “tentatively” because that plan was made before I swapped a call weekend and I’m a little bit leery of going to the movie theater on call. YES, I can step out and answer calls but ALSO YES, I will be distracted about the possibility of doing that the whole time. I know I will not be relaxed at all.
So, we will see. Otherwise, it’s kind of a ‘regular’ weekend around here (all the usual kids’ sports stuff, but no big meets or tournaments or anything), plus I’ll be working. AND doing a bunch of tax stuff. If we don’t do the movie, Josh and I will still do dinner out. Need to get in date night #2 for the month!
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Just ordered the book too! so excited to read it tonight!
I ordered on paperback so I won’t get it for week or so, but that’s ok!!
I ordered the book from my favorite indie! I can’t wait to read it! I still need to read yours, too! I don’t get to my physical books as fast as I’d like since I only read them at night alongside Paul when he’s doing his daily reading. We got the next book in the national parks series we’ve been reading and he said I can read it aloud to him so I am excited about that since he hasn’t been up for read alouds lately!
Your weekend plans sound great. A date night or movie sounds fun! Both boys have birthday parties tomorrow plus a sports activity. I am glad we have things to do because it’s going to be bitterly cold with feels like temps of -30F. Sigh. This is the hardest part of winter for me!
I don’t get nearly as many calls as you do when I am on call, so we often plan for that time the same way we plan for the rest of life. But there was one time when my husband and I were in the car driving to a broadway play when I got a call that patient of mine with Type 1 diabetes was going to have an emergency c-section in the next couple of hours. Of course we had great seats from and center with 20 people to climb over in either direction to get out.
I ended up speaking to the head usher who was lovely, they put a chair right by the door for me. I sat with my phone on vibrate in my lap. I wasn’t relaxed but I still enjoyed the show and as luck would have it they were ready to reset the patient’s insulin pump during intermission. I stayed in my seat by the door for the second half of the show just in case there were issues, but ultimately it worked out great.
I put my order in for Nicole’s book the second I heard it was out! Normally I’m a kindle reader but when I know the author I always buy the physical book – and Nicole is the second person that I’ve had that situation with;-) I cannot wait.
I promise that you would not “mess up” and lose money if you went after a bank bonus, but the chances are that all of these great intro offers are not going anywhere. You can continue to mine the credit card offers and if you ever feel like changing it up, there will be a long list of banks waiting to give you money.
I was so excited to order Nicole’s book (it will take a few weeks to get here, I think – delayed gratification)!!!!! So many bloggy friends are published authors and I am HERE FOR IT!
I cannot imagine my husband being able to focus on a movie while on call. I hope whatever you ended up doing, it was fun, and didn’t involve too many interruptions! Hooray for Nicole’s book!!!!!
we did not go to a movie and i was glad!!! (I would have been WAY too distracted. the hospital was busy. we just did a nice simple dinner out! and watched The Pitt together 🙂 )