Cake For Breakfast
Today, I am going to have cake for breakfast.
My mother used to allow this every so often and would justify it with pairing the cake with a bit of cheese to make it a "whole protein!" I have lots of doubts about that reasoning, but, I mean... Cake for BREAKFAST! We never argued that it would be better to have something more nutritionally substantial because CAKE FOR BREAKFAST.
I admit that these days, I am the one who decides what to eat for breakfast, and I use the same rationale when I choose to have cake for breakfast. (Thanks, Mom!)
It is time to start my breakfast and my three-day weekend.
Yesterday was fine until the end of the therapy day when my last group of clients came to me from art therapy in a full-on riot! I was able to calm them down using a combination of firm expectations and rhythmic patterning with a chant as well as with repetitive movements coupled with breathing, but it was not a good situation to be in. I got home and went straight to sleep where I had nightmares all night! I remember some of the nightmares, and I'm not happy about it.
The cat insisted on being up at 4:19 am this morning, so I am now up, at the computer, listening to The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (love that show!), and writing about self-care, because I feel that I need lots of it right now!!
Someone asked about how we all know when self-care is needed. For me, the biggest warning sign that I need to focus on self-care is when I start to lose focus on things. I find myself flitting from task to task, not getting anything finished, and not making much sense to me, not to mention not making sense to others. I try really hard not to get into that state of unfocus, but it happens.
I'm not there yet, but I am going to do some proactive self-care today so I don't get to that point.
Hence, the cake for breakfast thing.
Cake may not be the best idea for eating right, but it sure does help with my attitude toward the day - a bit forbidden. Oooh. That's about as exciting as my life gets these days - dessert for breakfast!
I finally finished a project and am about ready to launch it into the music therapy world. I have another project going and will work on that project in bits and pieces today. I will do my laundry and start to organize my bedroom area while also dropping everything every so often to work on one of my projects.
Last weekend's project was a poured paint project for my dear friends who moved away last Sunday. The husband is a pastor and the wife is a pastor's wife, so putting my mini canvases into a cross seemed really appropriate. I enjoyed the process of pouring the paint and seeing what happened. It was a way to relax and give some control over to gravity and fate and paint. I have some more canvases and some star boxes that I want to paint in the same manner - different colors this time around, but the same type of process.
With the expanse of this three-day weekend ahead of me, I have the opportunity to use time any way that feels right to me.
First, though, it is time for breakfast.
My mother used to allow this every so often and would justify it with pairing the cake with a bit of cheese to make it a "whole protein!" I have lots of doubts about that reasoning, but, I mean... Cake for BREAKFAST! We never argued that it would be better to have something more nutritionally substantial because CAKE FOR BREAKFAST.
I admit that these days, I am the one who decides what to eat for breakfast, and I use the same rationale when I choose to have cake for breakfast. (Thanks, Mom!)
It is time to start my breakfast and my three-day weekend.
Yesterday was fine until the end of the therapy day when my last group of clients came to me from art therapy in a full-on riot! I was able to calm them down using a combination of firm expectations and rhythmic patterning with a chant as well as with repetitive movements coupled with breathing, but it was not a good situation to be in. I got home and went straight to sleep where I had nightmares all night! I remember some of the nightmares, and I'm not happy about it.
The cat insisted on being up at 4:19 am this morning, so I am now up, at the computer, listening to The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (love that show!), and writing about self-care, because I feel that I need lots of it right now!!
Someone asked about how we all know when self-care is needed. For me, the biggest warning sign that I need to focus on self-care is when I start to lose focus on things. I find myself flitting from task to task, not getting anything finished, and not making much sense to me, not to mention not making sense to others. I try really hard not to get into that state of unfocus, but it happens.
I'm not there yet, but I am going to do some proactive self-care today so I don't get to that point.
Hence, the cake for breakfast thing.
Cake may not be the best idea for eating right, but it sure does help with my attitude toward the day - a bit forbidden. Oooh. That's about as exciting as my life gets these days - dessert for breakfast!
I finally finished a project and am about ready to launch it into the music therapy world. I have another project going and will work on that project in bits and pieces today. I will do my laundry and start to organize my bedroom area while also dropping everything every so often to work on one of my projects.
Last weekend's project was a poured paint project for my dear friends who moved away last Sunday. The husband is a pastor and the wife is a pastor's wife, so putting my mini canvases into a cross seemed really appropriate. I enjoyed the process of pouring the paint and seeing what happened. It was a way to relax and give some control over to gravity and fate and paint. I have some more canvases and some star boxes that I want to paint in the same manner - different colors this time around, but the same type of process.With the expanse of this three-day weekend ahead of me, I have the opportunity to use time any way that feels right to me.
First, though, it is time for breakfast.
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