Sunday Song: Halloween Anthems for the Win This Week

Ah. The week after Halloween. It is but a brief respite of the angst and anxiety that is brought up by the simple fact that all of our holidays in October, November, and December are family-oriented and most of my clients are far away from their families. The next two months will be hectic as some clients will have planned visits and others will not. The first hurdle, Halloween, is now over.

This week, Halloween songs were played the most in my music therapy clinic. Well, that's not entirely true. They were sung the most during the past week. I sang several song books during sessions. We sang about old ladies who swallowed bats (I don't like the ending of that one - I think I will change it up next time I sing it) and about pumpkins rolling around as well as about spiders, ghosts, and witches. So many holiday songs that are now over.

It is now time to shift gears a bit. I will have two four day workweeks in a row followed by a five day workweek and then a two day workweek this month. I have to figure out a date for the Holiday Sing and get those songs decided upon. That's my only performance thing this season. My life has become so much more simple since I left my church job.

This next week, our focus will be on music from Spain. 

Later today, I am going to see Back to the Future on the big screen. It is the 40th anniversary of the original movie release, and I am going to see it again in the theater! I have done two other nostalgia movies in the past 12 months - Star Wars I and Toy Story. It's fun to revisit familiar movies, and I am glad that my theater is releasing these movies for us to see. I missed Tron: Ares in the theater. That's a bit disappointing, but it's okay to miss things. It will be released on the television pretty soon.

It is just now 4:09am on this Fall Back Sunday. I've been up since before the time change due to some health issues, and I did a bit of snoozing on my couch after it all. I am looking forward to seeing the dawn through my upstairs windows and the rainbows that sneak through the same windows a bit later in the morning. I am going to get some breakfast started and then watch the sun outside. 

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