It's Been Another Long Gap, Hasn't It??

Here we are, again, at the end of another writing/blogging hiatus at musictxandme.blogspot.com. I just have not felt much like writing lately, so I haven't. I have spent more time in my bed, stretching my body, and getting bogged down in the happenings of the world to focus on writing much about music, therapy, and me.

Today, though, I am sitting at home on our first snow day, and I am feeling the need to write something today. I am not exactly sure what I will end up writing, but something will show up in my brain, I am sure.

First, let's catch up.

I am currently sitting in my living room, waiting for a dump cake to finish baking, and enjoying the prospect of spaghetti casserole. There are morning rainbows scattered all over my living room from the crystal capybara and crystal Cinderella coach that I received as gifts for my last birthday. They reside on the window sill in my living room and offer these rainbows that move across the gray walls. I have a prism downstairs in my music room/current bedroom that picks up the afternoon light. I have slews of prisms to hang in the remaining windows of my house so I can have rainbows all over the place at different times of the day. Rainbows bring me lots of joy, so I enjoy having them in my home. My mother's kitchen always had prisms, so I associate them with feelings of love and joy.

My last post was last Wednesday morning. At that point, I was facing my first ever solo symposium (all finished now!) and was getting over a bout with the flu. Since then, I have recorded the symposium, found out that the file did not convert correctly (my computer crashed at the end of the conversion process), and have since re-recorded the presentations. There is always something that goes wrong when I host things, so I am not really surprised. I will make sure not to record on my local computer again. At least the power lasted during the presentation itself. We had a good conversation, and I am hoping that it is the first of many.

Since it is so cold outside that we cannot guarantee that children will be safe on the bus, I get a day at home. That was a wonderful thing when I woke up to find that the recording was unplayable. Now, it is a good thing from the perspective of being able to make cake and casserole. I am also watching some K-dramas (with English dubbing). That has been my latest attempt at broadening my horizons when it comes to entertainment. I use television shows to fill my environment when I am driving, working on documentation, and fill the quiet hours with something other than music. At the moment, I am enjoying Vincenzo on Netflix. I have also enjoyed Veronica Mars again.

Alright - that's what has been happening around here. Now, let's focus on the future...

The symposium went well on Saturday, and I am hoping to turn this into an annual event. I am also hoping to add more topics to my symposium line-up.

I made the mistake of getting onto the Music Therapists Unite page over on Facebook and stumbled upon a thread that reminded me why I no longer want to be part of that page, but feel like I have to because of finding an audience for my products. I will no longer be reading commentary on that page because it just reinforces that we are not united and are becoming more and more mean to each other. An expression of an opinion tends to lead the masses into full out rude interactions and doxxing of commentors. So, why bother attempting to interact?

My casserole and cake are finished baking, so it is time to continue with this snow day. I hope that you are safe and doing well on this day. See you tomorrow? We will see.