Feeling Good About the Progress That I Have Made This Week

It is the last day that I can sleep in for about two months. Spring Break is over as of this evening, so I will be returning to my work routine for three months and a week more before I will retire from this job and start my next music therapy iteration. I have had a busy week of appointments and spending money like I have it. My car is aligned and the brake fluid has been replaced. I have my taxes submitted and refunds on the way. I am feeling confident in my financial situation, and I have plans swirling around in my head for what comes next. I took some time to play with paper and made a small book. It has been a pretty good break. I also missed a meeting that I was supposed to run, so there is that. 

Yesterday, I had a peer supervision meeting, constructed some shelves for the library room, and finished a book by Mercedes Lackey. I made a big breakfast and had a pizza bowl for dinner. I also ordered new shoes, new shopping bags, and some more shelves. I will be going grocery shopping pretty soon and still need to make something out of the hamburger that is thawing in the fridge. I have some brainstorming to do before the end of today, and I hope that I will be able to sleep tonight better than I did last night. We'll see.

The end of anything is always interesting to me. I have already started to get back into work mode of thinking and doing, but I still have today to relax. We have the rest of March, all of April, and most of May to go before our next days off. It will be a series of people asking me about my retirement plans in the hallways. I will be asked, over and over again, if I am counting down the days (I'm not), and me trying to avoid such conversations in the hallways. I will probably spend more time in my storage office space than in said hallways because I do not want to be talking about leaving all the time. I just don't.

At the same time, I am having to focus on the future and what will be happening on July 1.

I always am looking at the future. I have things that I want to do when I have more time to focus on my small business. This is something that I want to devote time to in ways that I have not done before. It is time.

Speaking of time, I am going to head upstairs for hygiene and grocery shopping purposes.

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