Wedding voes

I recently became a wedding DJ and have had 3 really successful gigs so far. All I've done for my whole life during my free time is listen to music so I have a pretty good mental library to pull from when deciding what song to play next, but I want to get better since this is my job now.
One area I'm lacking in is 90's popular music, despite growing up during that decade. I'm looking for upbeat danceable songs, but welcome slow-dance songs too. I service mostly rural areas so feel free to enlighten me with more country songs as well but ANY genre is welcome.
Here is a list of my obvious go-to's but would love more recommendations

• Another Night - Real McCoy
• Around the World - Daft Punk
• As Long As You Love Me - Backstreet Boys
• Baby Got Back - Sir Mix-A-Lot
• Baby One More Time - Britney Spears
• Barbie Girl - Aqua
• Believe - Cher
• Better Off Alone - Alice Deejay
• Big Poppa - Notorious B.I.G.
• Boot Scootin’ Boogie - Brooks & Dunn
• Black or White - Michael Jackson
• California Love - 2Pac
• Canned Heat - Jamiroquai
• Chattahoochee - Alan Jackson
• Cosmic Girl - Jamiroquai
• Dance the Night Away - The Mavericks
• Everybody (Backstreet’s Back) - Backstreet Boys
• Everybody Dance Now - C&C Music Factory
• Everything I Do (I Do It For You) - Bryan Adams
• Fantasy - Mariah Carey
• Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - DJ Jazzy Jeff & Will Smith
• Friday I’m In Love - The Cure
• Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It - Will Smith
• Good Vibrations - Marky Mark & the Funky Bunch
• Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
• Informer - Snow
• Insane in the Brain - Cypress Hill
• I Cross My Heart - George Strait
• I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing - Aerosmith
• I Like It, I Love It - Tim McGraw
• I Like to Move It - Reel 2 Real
• I Swear - All-4-One
• I Wish - Skee-Lo
• I’m Too Sexy - Right Said Fred
• Iris - Goo Goo Dolls
• I Want It That Way - Backstreet Boys
• I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston
• Jump - Kris Kross
• Jump Around - House of Pain
• Larger Than Life - Backstreet Boys
• Livin’ la Vida Loca - Ricky Martin
• Macarena - Los Del Rio
• Mambo #5 - Lou Bega
• Man I Feel Like a Woman - Shania Twain
• MMMBop - Hanson
• Mo Money Mo Problems - Notorious B.I.G.
• Motownphilly - Boyz II Men
• My Boo - Ghost Town DJs
• Next Episode - Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg
• No Scrubs - TLC
• Only Love Can Break Your Heart - Saint Etienne
• Party Up (In Here) - DMX
• Poison - Bel Biv DeVoe
• Return of the Mack - Mark Morrison
• Rhythm of the Night - Corona
• Say My Name - Destiny’s Child
• Say You’ll Be There - Spice Girls
• Show Me Love - Robin S.
• Smooth - Santana
• Step by Step - New Kids on the Block
• Strawberry Wine - Deana Carter
• Tearin’ Up My Heart - NSYNC
• The Sign - Ace of Base
• This is How We Do It - Montell Jordan
• Thong Song - Sisqo
• Together Again - Janet Jackson
• Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden
• Tubthunping - Chumbawumba
• U Can’t Touch This - MC Hammer
• Wannabe - Spice Girls
• Watermelon Crawl - Tracy Byrd
• What a Girl Wants - Christina Aguilera
• What is Love - Haddaway
• Whoomp! There It Is! - Tag Team
• Your Woman - White Town
• You’re Still the One - Shania Twain

I didn't really understand personal finance until about this year or so and I basically just took random advice up until now. I wish I could go back and change some items I did but I'd like to look forward instead to see what updates/changes I can make in to make up for those decisions. Currently I have a 160k net worth with no house and just renting as I do not know where I'd like to settle down so I'd like to buy a house/place within the next 3-5 years but in no big rush to do so and don't plan on having kids until then as well. Additionally, heres my following finances:

• 72k in Vanguard62k in a Brokerage account
  • I previously started with around 50k of this in a betterment account in 2021 not knowing about other options and you can link accounts together until recently. So this was a robo advisor that I've recently transferred with the following holdings: AGG, BNDX, EMB, MUB, VBR, VEA, VOE, VOO, VTI,VTIP, VTV, VWO. I think this is way too much for me to try to manage without a robo advisor so I may want to cut his down to VTI/VOO and some bonds.
  • 3.8k in Rollover IRA in VFIAX
    • Didn't roll this Roth 401k to my new employer so I messed up and have to get a rollover IRA
  • 6.3 in Roth IRA in VFIAX
• 59k in Savings
  • For emergency fund, getting a down payment on a home, travel, and wedding.I feel I could invest this money though as I'm not thinking about buying a home yet but would like to in the next couple of years so I'm a little worried about investing it too.
• 32k in my 401k
  • using a target date fund - though I've recently moved companies that I cannot contribute into for another 2 months
  • I usually put 15% of my pretax income into this

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Overall, I think I'm doing well for my age and how much I make so I'm extremely grateful but I think I could be taking more advantage especially since I'm young and time in the market>timing the market. I want to make sure I'm not missing any opportunities here. I would say I'm a relatively safe investor and would like to keep things simple and only invest in what I can know or can learn pretty easily. Thank you so much!

I got this laminated so I can use a dry erase marker to fill in the month and the days, & chores can be checked off. The colors represent whose chore it is.
This is not ALL of the cleaning done in our house, but it keeps a lot of the main things done on a regular schedule! For instance, we are all caught up on laundry!! And really our house is becoming much cleaner. I still end up busting out the vacuum or sweeping more often than what is on there if needed.
I tried to keep it simple and not add too much so we wouldn’t get overwhelmed and not do it. As a mom, I’m also really excited about not having to ask everyone for help or to do things! They (husband and daughter), are learning to look at the calendar and just do the chore there! 😱
I hope this helps someone 💖

Disclaimer: No, obviously Nintendo has no idea who I am, and though my pain is genuine, my attitude in this post should be taken as a joke. But the coincidence is really funny. Also I haven't explored beneath the castle yet so no spoilers in the comments please.
Background: When I played Breath of the Wild, I did the Tarrey Town quest like everyone else. My boyfriend told me to look forward to it because I'm a huge romance fan. I was... underwhelmed? So he gives her his stinky laundry to fix every single day and gets defensive when she tries to tell him how that's kinda yikes? Gets nearly the ENTIRE town to practically gaslight her into agreeing to a wedding vow based on his company that he apparently didn't even address with her before the ceremony? And this is everyone's favorite canon couple in Breath of the Wild? I wasn't hyped. Especially because Rhondson has a line saying "I wonder if he's the only kind of voe I'll find." Honey... look up. Literally. Granté is sitting RIGHT THERE. He's cute, friendly, polite, sells armor just like her so they have a common interest and he can mend his OWN clothing - now there's a match made in heaven! I even wanted to write a fanfiction where Rhondson has an affair with Granté and got a couple chapters in before I got distracted with another project.
Cue Tears of the Kingdom.
Obviously I was extremely curious about what happened to Rhondson. My highest hope was that she had divorced Hudson - I felt it was reasonably within the realm of possibility. But of course I'm sure you all know about that freak of nature running around - Mattison. God. I made my boyfriend do that quest, I was so annoyed. It also occurs to me while writing this post that it looks like Rhondson has completely given up her passion for tailoring and crafting armor to help out with Hudson's business. Like, okay, support your hubby I guess but what about YOUR dreams, girl?
Running around Tarrey Town, I've got one thought - where's Granté?
You guys. How could this NOT be a personal attack.
GRANTÉSSON?
So not only does he NOT hook up with the woman of his dreams (according to me), he CHANGES HIS NAME so he can work for her PIG of a husband and is banished by the game onto a lonely cliffside and doesn't even spawn until you do that quest for Mattison? On TOP of that, it seems the fanbase is using him as a hatesink because he follows Link around while he's constructing his house and gets in the way. He's barely an NPC - he's been demoted to Korok status. It feels like someone at Nintendo read all two chapters of my fanfiction and gave Granté the WORST possible fate JUST to spite me. Just... how is this even possible. It is INSANE.
So that's the story of Nintendo's totally real vendetta against me personally. You cut deep, Nintendo. Real deep. Hope you're proud.

ANCC Testing Experience (FNP)
Hey all, I just passed my ANCC boards and there was a super helpful Reddit post from an AGPCNP who had shared about the board prep and testing experience which I found SO helpful. There have been some updates since then and I wanted to share a bit of my personal experience, in hopes it might help some of you!
Why ANCC:
In deciding between AANP and ANCC, I was so close to taking both but I decided on ANCC because I wanted to test at a Prometric site for the better interface (which now both AANP and ANCC use Prometric so that doesn’t matter). I also thought ANCC had more options for license renewal, but AANP recently updated/expanded their options for certification renewal. The pass rates for both are really similar, and actually ANCC FNP had a slightly higher pass rate than AANP FNP most recently.
Many people choose to take AANP because it has multiple choice questions only, whereas ANCC has select all that apply and picture questions. ANCC also tests more on professional role/nonclinical content; approximately 20 to 30% of the exam, whereas AANP has ~5 of those questions. I’ll be honest, I felt the least confident in professional role/non-clinical content straight out of school, but much of it is very straightforward and easy to pick up, especially with Sarah Michelle NP Reviews. I personally had zero select all that apply and zero picture questions on my board exam.
For a more detailed breakdown in the current difference between the two, the Sarah Michelle NP YouTube page has a great video that talks about the up to date differences on the two tests.
Test prep:
I graduated with my MSN-FNP on 5/5 and studied 5 weeks before testing the ANCC FNP certification on 6/3. I started studying my last week of school, because I had most of my school work and exams out of the way by then and I was eager to get started with test prep.

• Sarah Michelle Nurse Practitioner (SMNP) comprehensive bundle: I split this up into 4 weeks, worked part-time, and even fit in a celebratory trip to LA to hang out friends/family, attend a wedding, and go to Disneyland! (For the record, I also don't have any kids; I understand everyone's schedule & time management will look very different.)
• SMNP Q bank: In my opinion, this Qbank is the closest to the real exam, in regards to the level of difficulty and the content. I would say many questions on the ANCC exam were even a little easier than the SMNP Qbank questions.
• FNP Mastery Qbank (3 month subscription): I liked the FNP Mastery Q bank and was scoring in the high 70% range before I tested. Sarah Michelle recommends you scoring above 65% on this Qbank before testing. I used this a lot for exam prep for my courses as well. I wish I had invested in this when I started my clinical courses.
• Board Vitals ANCC-FNP Bank (6 month subscription + practice test): I do not recommend Board Vitals overall. They do have a pass guarantee, but the test questions were too difficult to the point they weren’t relevant to the board exam (ANCC or AANP). *One positive note is that the difficult questions helped mentally prepare me for zebra questions and practice my anxiety plan.
• Fitzgerald review: My school required us to purchase this, which was way too in-depth and lengthy for FNP exam prep. Also, the speaker’s voice is SO SLOW; it was really tedious and difficult to get through the videos. The interface is also terrible to use and doesn’t let you adjust the playback speed. I used this review for the practice questions/practice exams mostly, but I do not recommend.

I ended up doing about 3600 practice questions total (including my practice tests).
These are the scores I got on my practice tests. I took about one a week and three in the last 2 weeks before my exam:

• FNP Mastery (175 Qs): 73%
• Fitzgerald Exit Exam (155 Qs): 79%
• Fitzgerald Pre-Test (150 Qs): 77%
• Fitzgerald Post-Test (150 Qs): 81%
• Board Vitals 175 Qs (175 Qs): 71%
• Board Vitals Practice Test (175 Qs): 72%
• SMNP Practice Test #1 (175 Qs): 78%
• SMNP Practice Test #2 (175 Qs): 81%
• SMNP Practice Test #3 (175 Qs): 82%

Overall, I’d recommend SMNP comprehensive bundle, SMNP Qbank, and FNP mastery. If you feel like you need a little more guidance or structure, they have a Sarah Michelle live review course that plans out each day for you and includes a little a few more resources to help you study and prepare. I had some reservations about Sarah Michelle, mostly because it was a relatively new course compared to other existing exam prep courses, but it did a great job of focusing on the need-to-know for the exam, and I felt well-prepared on exam day.
Signing up for the test:
AANP: You’ll get your eligibility to test (ETT) way sooner than ANCC, and may even be able to test before you graduate! I did not end up taking this exam. I know people who have a pending job offer choose to take AANP because you get your ETT a lot sooner than with ANCC.
ANCC:
I graduated 5/5
Final transcript was sent to ANCC 5/11
University sent my VOE to ANCC 5/16
ANCC received my VOE 5/22
I received my eligibility to test 5/26
I stayed in touch with the ANCC nurse registrar in charge of my application and she was fairly responsive by the next business day and told me an estimated time frame for my ETT.
I scheduled my test for 6/3. I tested in Portland, OR.
*You must make an online ANCC account and PAY for your ANCC initial certification exam before they process your application and send you an ATT!
*There is a discount code you can use that supposedly never expires for ANA members and nonmembers. You can find it easily on their website.
*There is also an option to pay a $200 fee to expedite your ANCC application process, just FYI.
Test logistics:
As of now, ANCC and AANP both use Prometric testing centers now. You have the option to highlight, strikethrough, and flag questions. I had no IT issues or complaints.
They gave me two dry-erase sheets and 2 dry-erase markers.
Test day misc.
I also spent some time preparing to manage any anxiety that I might have on test day. I would say I have mild test anxiety (dry mouth, palpitations). So I made a point to exercise regularly and practiced some breathing meditation for the weeks leading up to the test. By about question 10, I found my groove and was able to focus without feeling anxious. I also made a checklist for myself on my scratch paper, so I can check off every 25 questions as I go and take “mini-breaks” every 25 questions (or more often as needed). This usually meant some arm stretches, closing my eyes, taking a few deep breaths, or doing some neck rolls. After the hundred question-mark, I took a restroom break, stretched, and walk around for a few minutes. I also brought my own foam earplugs because those noise canceling headphones can feel pretty tight around your head (some of you may remember from NCLEX days).
I did NOT go back and review each question or change any answers! I only went back to a few flagged questions I had no clue about and had left unanswered.
After the test:
At the end of the exam, the screen said I would have my results via email within the hour. My passing email was in my inbox by the time I walked to my car.
I took ANCC 6/3 and they processed my certification by the next day (Sunday). Hope this helps!