Friday Feelings

I am happy that it is finally Friday. This has been a week in the music therapy room, and I think I am getting to some solutions for "that" student who I do not have to see until Monday and then not for two weeks after that. Knowing that I have some things to try is a good feeling.

I spent this morning stressing about making sure to get the payment for the gardener on the back window - thinking it was Saturday instead of Friday. I was disappointed when I realized it was Friday. That's nothing new, but it disappoints me every time.

Today is my preparation day. I have decided that I will be working on my treasure hunt today while moving things from one storage room to my office space. I have to give that up - of course, my supervisor has not told me this yet - despite many different opportunities to do so - but it is better to move my own things than it is to find that someone else has done it. They never put things where I want them to go.

Yesterday, I put things away in my office so I can start moving things across the room. I want to move the tall, metal cabinets to the west side of the office so I can put the instruments that have to go back in that space on the east side of the office. I am not looking forward to the process or the wear on my body but it is something that happens to me on a regular basis. I've had about two years with my storage since the last sharing situation. I have to change how I do things in the space that is allotted to me about every two years around my facility. I am waiting to hear when I will have to move out of my big room in favor of a classroom that has to be renovated. That has happened before. I don't want to be an itinerant therapist for my last year, but I will do what I have to do - because I am told to. I don't have to be happy to be effective - it just helps.

So, I am heading off to work feeling disappointed that it is only Friday, planning on getting together a treasure hunt, and preparing to move my stuff across the room. I have one of my knee braces to help with the moving process.

I am already tired, but that's life. 

I will wander around the building, taking pictures for my treasure hunt, and enjoying the air conditioning that other people have in their rooms (mine has been returned to swampy conditions at well above my comfortable temperature). I have my camera and all the cords I need to print things out. I will use the same camera and printer cords next Wednesday for the school carnival. Time to get going on my Friday. 

Have a great day. 

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