Wednesday Woes - Trying Something

It is day 13 of my retirement journey, and I looked at job opportunities this morning. I didn't do anything other than look, but I was feeling the itch of "you're not doing anything." I am trying my best to not do much as far as employment goes for the next six weeks before looking seriously. The root of this itch is having to pay for tires yesterday (my car needs EXPENSIVE tires). 

I didn't think about my former job until 3pm yesterday, but I woke up thinking about it all. I am curious about who is there now, but I don't want to be creepy about it all. I also am happy to be at home at the moment, but I want to also be around people doing something useful. It is strange being able to do what I want when I want. It is also strange to not be making music in the company of other humans right now. I have found that I am enjoying listening to music a bit more than I did before. I have put my stereo on CD rather than on my Kindle because trips do not take as much time since I am not leaving my town much right now. I might go to a specialty store later today which is significantly away from here, but who knows??

For the moment, I am working on putting the finishing touches on the Creativity Camp information that I will be sending to campers later this week. I am excited about this CMTE opportunity. I love making things, and I am going to enjoy making things in the company of other people! I hope that this will turn out to be an annual event.

In addition to Creativity Camp, I am also working on Rhythm to Results - a conference for those of us who work with adolescents and want more resources, community, and concepts to use in our sessions. This is also something that I want to be a recurring event, so I am trying my best to make this conference something that people will attend.

One of the things that I am working on is making my offerings affordable for new music therapists (and vintage ones as well). CMTEs are $10.00 for each course hour. I will try to keep the price point there for as long as possible. I strive to make my TPT files affordable as well, but there is a bit more variation in those files than for CMTEs.

I have ideas for what I want to do with this retirement life. We will see if I can accomplish these ideas. I have accomplished many of the quests that I established for myself in the past year, but there is always more to do and more to figure out. I end up spiraling when I try to wrap my mind around it all. So, I just stuff it away in the back of my mind until it bubbles over and becomes a panic and anxiety situation.

I am taking a late start today. It is almost 8am, and I am just now working on this post. I was up at 2 but went back to sleep until 5 this morning. I have some things on my to-do list already, but it is time to work on my library room. I want to put books on the shelving that I made back in March. I also need to go through a couple of boxes before I put the trash cans out for tomorrow's pickup. I am hoping there will be some bags of trash to put into those cans.

Okay. I have a plan, and I know what I can get done. I just have to do it. 

So, I am going to use my trusty penguin timer to set my day into 30 minute chunks. 30 minutes on the to-do list and 30 minutes in the library. Let's hope there will be some progress made. Time to get going.

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