Saturday, Saturday, Saturday Morning, Afternoon, and Evening

My favorite day of the week is here, but it includes things to do with other people, so this particular Saturday is not entirely my own, but that is the function of choices that I have made for myself, so I am not upset about that at all. (What a run-on sentence!)

I am going to spend some time talking to music therapists from around the world this morning, including a new colleague that I have not interacted with much yet. This has been a week full of music therapy interactions outside my typical routine, and I am enjoying these opportunities to talk to other music therapists because I often feel very alone in my profession. I am not alone out here - there are TONS of music therapists in the greater Kansas City area, but I am not much of a joiner, so I don't participate in the Kansas City Metro group or go to alumni events or even continue to be in my various educational organizations that I joined at one point or another in my educational process. Even with all sorts of interaction possibilities, I still feel alone in my profession of music therapy.

As I was writing this, I came across a post that included the following: JOMO - the Joy of Missing Out - and it reminded me that I actually am (usually) quite content with my quiet life - there are just times when I want to reach out farther than I have reached before. I am in that season right now.

Pretty soon, I will be ready to hibernate again. I rarely feel like I have to head out to be social events with other music therapists - or with other people, to be honest. It takes a big thing to get me to leave my house after I arrive home after working. I have to really love every little thing about the event or the people I will be around if I have to leave my house. Usually, I will not even go to my house first because the lure of the bed is just too strong for me to resist.

Today, though, is my day to do my own things. I am hoping to go out to a movie tomorrow after church, so I need to run an errand outside my house today, keep working on my upstairs organization, and do this meeting in about 40 minutes. After I finish the meeting and head out to do my errand, I will be finished with outside obligations for the day. I have two bills to pay to be completely out from under my medical bills from earlier this year, and then I am finished with all of those payments. Thank goodness. I am hoping to be able to increase my bank account a bit more in the next several months. I have already paid for my trip at Christmas, so I do not have any outstanding bills...that I know of.

I want to work on some Teachers Pay Teachers files today. I have some ideas to flesh out and finish up, but for now, I am going to finish this up and head into my online meeting and then go run my errand. See you tomorrow to synthesize something or another...How about the therapeutic function of music? I've been talking about that all week as well (at least, it seems like it!).

Happy Saturday. 

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