There are two more weeks of the Hands Down A Thon to raise money for the Trichotillomania learning center. I’ve been doing a whole lot better this week with a few slips here & there. Overall my pulling is way down from even a couple of weeks ago. Afternoons while driving home are still the worst for me, but with the discovery of pen caps to keep my mouth occupied, along with beads for whichever hand isn’t steering, I’m doing a lot better. If you read this blog regularly and haven’t yet donated to TLC, please click on the “firstgiving” link to the right and sponsor me in my efforts to raise money for TLC.
I have 3.5 weeks left to work on my presentation about BFRBs and music therapy, so I’m tying up loose ends, making sure I have everything in the presentation that I want, and then I need to start timing myself to see if there’s anything else to cut out.
In addition I’m submitting two more proposals for other conferences on similar topics. Everything is due during the next couple of weeks so I’m starting to feel a little overwhelmed. Part of me wonders whether all of this presenting is a good idea since going to these conferences is expensive, and I don’t even know how this first presentation will go. But I figure it will get easier the more I do it. It’s good exposure both for music therapy and for BFRBs, so even if I don’t meet my own goals of success, the world as a whole will be better off.
Speaking of, I’d better get back to work. I have my squeezy hat on today so temptations are very low so far. Too bad I can’t just wear one of these all the time!
