Taking a Break

I wrote on both Thursday and Friday last week, but I didn't post on the blog. I do that sometimes, especially when what I am writing about is either too personal or too negative for my tastes. So, the past four days have just been time for resting and getting sick AGAIN! This time around, I have to get antibiotics early so I don't end up losing more money due to illness.

This is Star Wars week, and I am ready to share my love of these movies with my students for the last time at my current job! I have new R2D2 Crocs to wear with my various Star Wars shirts. To say that I am a Star Wars fan is a pablum type way to describe my love of this franchise. I have a Star Wars bathroom that is accessed via a Star Wars hallway. I have posters and toys and Doorables and puzzle pictures and all sorts of things that I have collected over the years. What is in the hallway is just a small bit of my collection. It is finally time to share this with students again.

I am exhausted and not really ready to do much in sessions, but that's what I need to do today. I need to get things going in my storage areas as well. I had an emotional breakdown last week that was probably halfway due to getting sick, but it ruined my week. The situation that spurred this breakdown on was resolved in a good way, but it still just ruined all sorts of things for me.

During my constant quest to organize things around my home, I have found some good things. I have a quotation box that I used for many years to grab some inspiration. I have another one someplace, but it hasn't been found yet. This little box has cards that includes all sorts of thoughts. Today's is "Delight in the little things" by Rudyard Kipling. So, that's what I am going to do. I am going to "delight in the little things."

I have to get going. It is going to be a long week with my sickness progressing and the countdown to the end of the school year, then the end of my time at my job. I am making progress on my goals of organizing and leaving a clean environment for my successor, but there is still work to do. I will keep plugging away.

Let's see if I can write more this week than last. I don't know that I will. I have a night crop at my local craft company this Friday evening that I am looking forward to attending. I am also planning on seeing movies every Sunday this month and another movie on my birthday!! That will make up for a couple of months where I did not use my movie pass. Fridays are my movie days during the summer sessions at work, but starting in July, I will be able to see movies whenever I want. 

What a strange thought. No work for a couple of months. Going to the movies whenever. Sleeping when I want to. Going to the afternoon choir that I want to join. Taking walks. I am hoping that I get things organized and put away in my home so I can get bored with my own company. Once I am bored, I will end up finding a job to do somewhere, but I want to get bored first. I haven't been bored with being myself for a very long time. I have been bored by work, sure, but not feeling like I have done everything that is keeping me at home.

Two months to go.

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