It's the little things

I know I don't always blog about it, but I really am doing something new every day, sometimes several times a day.  It's just that so many of these Somethings New are small, ordinary; they don't mean much, except to me.  To me they mean that I really am stretching myself, really am exploring and expanding, really paying attention to how I can break up my routines, get some new perspective, think or look or feel differently.

Today (actually yesterday, since it's after midnight) I made a frittata.  Not a big deal, but it was my first.  Even though I've made quite a few soufflés, which are famously intimidating to a lot of people, I have always sort of avoided frittatas.  I don't even know why.  So this morning I made one.  It was pretty good, perhaps a bit overcooked (Sweet Hubby truly hates undercooked eggs), but tasty and filling, made with spinach, mushrooms, and asiago cheese.

Yesterday, when I got off the train to walk to the training program I'd been hired for, I turned left out of the station instead of right, had lunch in a burger joint I'd never been to before.  Not a big deal, but it gave me a chance to walk through a neighborhood I hadn't explored since before the pandemic lockdown, to see the ways in which it has and hasn't changed.

I have no idea what new I'll try tomorrow.  I often don't plan ahead.  But I'll do something, I promise.  I will keep my word faithfully.  And that, sad to say, is sort of new as well.  I know about myself that my integrity can be flabby sometimes, so this campaign to do Something New every day is partly about strengthening my integrity, keeping myself honest.

Thanks for listening.  

The hospital and #302

Today had quite a few firsts in it.  The primary, which paved the way for the others, was going to a hospital to participate in a training simulation for nurses.  I've done quite a few of these scenarios, but this time was a bit different.  Instead of playing a role in the simulation, I'd been asked to watch from a booth.  The patient in the simulation is currently played by a mannequin, voiced by a simulation technician.  This is a new scenario, designed for nurses early in their training.  The person who creates these scenarios wanted to see if I thought the simulation could be strengthened by adding a live person to play a family member of the patient.  I was quite honored to have been asked for my opinion, which is that the trainees are already so nervous and flustered by the scenario that asking them to deal with even one more element might be more than they are ready to handle.  I am going to suggest, though, that a live person could play the patient.  That would give the trainees plenty to work with but without complicating the simulation.

Because there were lengthy breaks during the program, I used the time to walk through the hospital, exploring different corridors, looking at the artworks, becoming more familiar with the layout.  And because I was paying attention to what I was walking by, I noticed a rack of bus schedules, and found a bus that goes directly from the hospital to the transit station near where I park my car, so I took that bus when my work was done.

Not Somethings New, but other noteworthy parts of the day: I finished reading C.S. Lewis' "The Four Loves" and did what I hope is a final rewrite of the short fairy tale play I've been working on.  And I just learned I have an audition coming up for a TV show, a really nice role.  I auditioned recently for this show for a smaller role, so it's exciting to have been called back for a larger role.  All in all, today has been splendid.  And I get to finish it by spending time with Sweet Hubby and the kitties.  Ahh, life is so good.