Friday - A Very Long Week that Went Fast-ish

Oh, dear. It is Friday, and I feel that the week went both fast and slow. Having less than usual numbers of sessions and students makes the week seem unfinished somehow. We get to do that again on the week of 19th for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. That type of schedule is difficult to navigate, especially when you are a creature of habit like me.

So, it is now the end of my four-day work week. I have two groups and an individual on the schedule today. That's it. The rest of the time that I am at work needs to be productive, but I have not been actually productive lately. So, I will be using my 30 minutes of work with 30 minutes of something else. I am in between visual aid projects at the moment, so I really don't have anything sitting there waiting to be worked on. I guess one of my work tasks should be to print out more visual aids to work on in the next 22 weeks.

Meanwhile, back here at home, things are just piling up around here. My Christmas boxes arrived on Monday, and I had to unpack immediately because one of the packages was beeping. I could not remember anything that beeped, so all of them had to open. I found the beeper - it was a capybara toy that usually chirps like the ROUS does, but had been chirping for several days and was reduced to a series of beeps. So, all of my gifts from my recent visit are scattered around my living room. The things that I brought home from work are in my craft/office space and in the living room, so things are slowly taking over my life. I need to work on that - finding places for the things.

I have a plan.

I always have some sort of a plan, but putting that plan into motion is always where I get stuck. The first step of this plan is to empty out the very long closet in the library. I want to put some shelves in that closet to keep my instruments, my file cabinets, and various work things contained. That will open up some space for instruments in the music room. So, step one is to empty out the big closet.

I will work on that tomorrow morning before a peer supervision session at 10. The 30/30 rule will help me with that. Half hour working on the closet, and the next half hour working on the presentations that I will be giving on 1/24/2026. Then, a half hour in the library, and then back to the presentations. When I get overwhelmed, I will stop and think about what I want to accomplish. It would be nice to finish the closet project by the end of the 19th, but we will see how my body takes all the movement and carrying things around.

I have too much stuff, so I am thinking about ways I can share that stuff with others in the music therapy community. I would love to put together subscription boxes for music therapists that center around a theme. Perhaps that will be my quest for 2027. I already have my quest for 2026!!

I have to focus on quest 2026 for musictherapyworks.com to see if things will work out the way I am envisioning. The first step? The mini-symposium for therapists who work with adolescents on January 24th, of course! Check out the website for more information!

Anyway, it is time to end this fast-ish slow week and head out into a wet part of the world. Have a great day. See you soon.

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