This Month. Ugh.

There are two days left of the month of April. May is fast approaching, and I am not ready for all of this stuff! I have only two months left of my working life at my current job. That is wild! Meanwhile, my house is looking more and more cluttered as I bring home instruments, visuals, manipulatives, gross motor implements, and toys back to sit in my living room until I can find them another place to reside. I have accumulated lots of things in my work life, so I am faced with lots of inquiries about whether I will use specific things again.

I made progress on my organization on Sunday. I spent some time moving my music books and my music therapy textbooks into the library closet where they will reside from now on. I have a loose system happening there - nothing really formal yet, but sheet music arranged by type and textbooks arranged by subject area - sorta. I went through four large totes and convinced my brain that it is a good thing to throw things away. It really is. Once I can empty all the big totes, the library will be back to usefulness. I was also able to shelve some books that have been in totes with the space that I emptied when moving books to the closet. As always with my thoughts and attempts to organize, there is so much more to do.

I am almost finished with cleaning out my things from my office and storage area. I am down to cardstock and paper for making file folder activities and loose materials. I have to empty my bags that are currently full of things and then take the bags back to fill them up again. I have a cart that I am using to tote things from the music therapy room to my car on Fridays.

I do not intend to do much of anything except organize and clear out during the summer months. This should help me figure out whether I can be a stay at home type of person or a "must leave my house" person. I have a suspicion which one it will be, but we will see. I want to organize my music therapy materials and figure out what to do next with my career. In addition, I am going to host an online conference and think about when I will be moving. I also have to get a colonoscopy and figure out my next health insurance options. That reminds me, I need to send an email...

Before I can get to those summer months, though, I have eight and a half weeks left of this job to complete. I haven't heard if any of that time will be shared with the next music therapist (I am really hoping that it is not shared as that will be very weird, but I will do what I am asked to do). There is also a week of time off in that time ahead, so I will spend time organizing my living space to accommodate the last things that will be coming home.

Time to head to work. We are switching what we are doing. One pod will be using guitars and ukuleles. Another pod will be doing singing TMEs. The last pod will continue with Musicians of the Month as well as leisure choice time. Next week is Star Wars week, so that is already strategized! I have a meeting this afternoon, so I am going to try to arrive at work on time rather than with the dawn. Time to head out into the second to last day of April.