March 5: Three Wins

Today was a delightful day for a lot of reasons, including three pretty cool wins:

1. I got an email that I have been chosen for a phone interview for a temporary summer job I applied for. (I'll share details once the interviewing and selection is complete). I'm super excited about this opportunity though because it is just a Mon-Fri 8:30-4:30 job (which I haven't had in a LONG time. It will be nice not to work nights and weekends or be on call) and it is for just 9 weeks, a nice temporary commitment, so I can continue to figure out what to do with my life while also making a little bit of money. 

2. We got approved for a second refinance our mortgage at 2.375% interest (down from 3.75%, down from our original 4.375% when we bought the house.) I did some rough math and we'll save at least $30,000 over the life of the loan with this interest rate reduction, and we'll be paying off the house in just 15 years, a full 10 years earlier than originally anticipated. Throughout the day, I just kept exclaiming "2.375!" to my husband because I was still in shock and awe that interest rates are that low. 

3. I got a vaccine appointment for Tuesday March 30! After discovering two weeks ago that because I am volunteering with Meals on Wheels I am eligible to get the Covid vaccine, I have occasionally glanced at the ridiculousness that is the state's vaccine website. It is a mess, and makes it totally impossible to find and to book an appointment, with these crazy online waiting rooms, where you wait in line to look at appointments available, and there are never any appointments available by the time it is your turn to look. But every few weeks, I've also been getting emails from the hospital system (Lahey) connected to my primary care physician requesting any additional information about me that would make me eligible for a vaccine. Once I started with Meals on Wheels, I sent Lahey my updated information and got an email that I would be informed when appointments were available. Last night, I got a text from Lahey saying appointments were available, I followed the links and prompts and easily in just a few minutes found an appointment in Gloucester in a few weeks. Easy Peasy. It's too bad the state system sucks so bad, but I'm glad Lahey has their shit together. Now let's just hope I don't have any terrible reactions to the vaccine!

I'll end on a story that had me laughing so hard my stomach hurt. I'm still playing the Zelda game Breath of the Wild, and yesterday I had my husband complete one of the challenges that I was having a hard time with. While he was playing, he took a picture of a weapon to see if it needed to be added to my compendium (it's a cool little feature where you can take pictures of pretty much everything in the game: animals, enemies, weapons, shields, plants, etc and they get collected into my very own compendium. It's fun to try to complete the collection while playing the game.) As he was taking the picture, the system told him that I already had a picture of it but asked if he wanted to replace it. He said to me, let's see how crappy your picture is (because he knows I do not care what the pictures actually look like, I just take the pictures to add to the collection. He takes pictures that are pretty and artsy and correctly proportioned with good lighting, etc etc). As perfect proof that I do not care about these pictures, the picture that I had already taken of the weapon that shows up was just a picture of grass. You couldn't even see the weapon (obviously the weapon had to be in that grass somewhere because the game allowed me to take that picture "of" the weapon, but it really was nowhere to be seen). It was HILARIOUS because it was even more crappy than either of us were anticipating. (He chose not to replace it because my grass picture is so funny). It was yet another delightful exchange between my husband and I, and a delightful end to a delightful day.

With delight,

♥Jamie