music, therapy, and me

I'm sorry that I've been silent for the last two days - my allergies have been very challenging so far, and I decided that resting was more important than writing. At the moment, I am finally moving into the gurgly cough stage of things, so it will either be getting better or getting worse from here on out. It is no longer a dry, wheezy cough, now it is full out gurgling! This happens every spring, and it complicates my life so much! Enough of that talk, though. This morning, I had a bit of a panic when I came downstairs and my computer didn't boot up. We had a power failure two night ago, and I guess the computer didn't like that much. It took over 15 minutes before the computer booted up. I was mildly panicked about having to break my recently achieved financial goal to buy a new computer, but that's what savings accounts are for, so I would do it if I had to. Fortunately, it did FINALLY arrive at the boot sequence, so I won't have to go shopping for computers...

Yesterday was a day off for me. I had reached the end of my compassion and was stuck in compassion fatigue, so it was time for a self-care day. I was exhausted, even after a full night of sleep, so I took some of my precious time off for yesterday. It was a quiet day where I got some things done. I took out my yard waste trash can with the remains of a branch that fell during our last windstorm. I took out my trash can as well. A load of dishes is waiting to be unloaded. The sink is clean. I picked up some stuff in my craft space. I took the read books out of my To Be Read pile and brought them downstairs to the library room. It might not sound like much, but these tasks are the ones that have been nagging me - things that can be done in less than five minutes but that are no fun for me to accomplish. Today is the last day with students before our break. I have four groups to navigate and then all I have that is structure for tomorrow is a faculty meeting. After our meeting, we will us...

Thursday morning musings tend to be very different from those that happen on Tuesdays or any other day, for that matter. It may be due to the idea that the week is more than halfway over, or maybe because I never get a chance to go to sleep early on Wednesday nights due to my part-time job. For some reason, I tend towards thinking differently on these Thursday mornings. Today, I am bent on contemplation of how I do things in my work environment. I am always trying to make my environment better. I am problem-solving the current trend of breaking my boxes - I still want the boxes to happen, but now I am thinking fabric boxes instead of plastic boxes. I've found a session planning format that works well for me, so I'm not thinking too much about that right now. I am still using my bullet journal format at both work and at home. It will always be a work in progress, I think. I am mulling over ways to provide treatment to specific clients right now. There are some things that I ...

I SURVIVED YESTERDAY, and got some good news about my leg treatment - I now have a doctor in my town rather than 48 miles away. Anyway, I need to focus on what I need to do now. Today's schedule includes 4 music therapy groups and hours of time in my room confined to "limited duty." I'm going to be setting up some observations in different classrooms and am dabbling with the idea of calendar powerpoints for my students. I've got to do something with the additional five hours of the day. I am looking for a tune to be my Thursday theme. (Just so you know, I don't have a theme for any other day, but I thought that it would be good to start with Thursday.) I want something that encapsulates that it is the second-to-last day of my workweek, that the difficulty of Wednesday is past, that it's intern webinar night, and that Friday is just a sleep away. Here are some websites that I'll be looking at for my own Thursday song inspiration... http://www.ra...