My Secret Pal for the Spring Round at Crochetville is Ada (jadyn05)! Ada spoiled me with a crocheted sock monkey! I've decided to call my new girly monkey Lily. She is a deep purple color and will certainly keep the boy monkeys well-behaved!
Included in the goodies was some lovely balls of Valdani thread in the most wonderful, exquisite purple shades! I totally love it and will be deciding which PK doily pattern will be brought to life by the divine colors!
Ada included a ton of beads and beading supplies to get me started on making another lanyard! Two skeins of purple cotton yarn—I can probably make a halter top, and a skein of DMC baroque were the crochet goodies in addition to the Valdani thread. She crocheted two cat toys obviously filled with some catnip because the cats attacked them immediately! And yes, there are 6 cans of tuna in the picture! Ada sent a can of tuna to each of the babies! They are most pleased with being sent tuna! I have a new tote bag in which I can put pictures of the babies to proudly display my dedication to feline maintenance, and two note pads round out the additional items. Ada also included some coasters and dishcloths that she made in vibrant colors.
I couldn't resist taking some pictures of the beasties going nuts over the cat toys! Ming decided to be the first one to attack the tuna cans and catnip toy. Then she was joined by Teddy and Smee. Smee took the toy for himself and played with it. Mr. Doo decided he didn't care about the toys or cans of tuna, he wanted to play with the box that the tuna and toys came in!
Thank you so much Ada, for being my Secret Pal this round! It's been my pleasure to get to know you! I look forward to continuing our friendship, too!
Here's the lanyard I made for my ID badge and office key. The charms include a yin-yang symbol which serves to remind me of the duality of life and to remember that both sides need each other and to know that not everything is either/or but really both/and. Opposite of the yin-yang is a cupid with a blue piece of glass. This represents my passion for my work and to inspire and incite love within myself and others.
Next is a spring/nature goddess charm and opposite to her is a marriage license. The marriage license is obvious since I perform wedding ceremonies. The goddess charm symbolizes my love of nature, flowers, earth, and all things pagan.
The next pair is a recipe and oven mitt and then the word love with a heart. I love baking for people and sharing food and goodies. My expression of love and friendship most often is expressed by a container full of cookies or a cheesecake. I connect with people through food. Love almost need not be explained.
The last two charms are a pair of hands and a sun/moon. The sun & moon together remind me of the masculine and feminine, the night and day. The pair of hands struck me as interesting in that in the western world people would interpret them to be praying hands, but in the eastern world they could be seen as part of the namaste salutation.
The beads are blue goldstone, a man-made gemstone that sparkles brilliantly when in sunlight.
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Here are 13 more favorite Tim-isms that I've gleaned from my notes! I've yet to go back to my first year notes and review for pearls of wisdom, so when I get around to that I'll have even more to share!
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Over the past year of being a grad student at LIOS, I've been unknowingly collecting ayings that have been uttered from the mouth of one of my faculty, Dr. Timothy Weber. Dr. Tim's wisdom is shared with us freely and openly. He studied under Carl Whitaker in the 1980s, and his style reflects Whitaker's influence. I've been extracting from my notes the pearls of wisdom that can only be called "Tim-isms".
More Tim-isms have been posted in the entry below this one. Eventually I'll post all of the Tim-isms I find in my notes! |
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I'm working on creating a list of "Tim-isms", or sayings that have been uttered from the mouth of one of my faculty, Dr. Timothy Weber. Dr. Tim's wisdom is shared with us freely and openly. He studied under Carl Whitaker in the 1980s, and his style reflects Whitaker's influence. I've been extracting from my notes the pearls of wisdom that can only be called "Tim-isms".
- Conversation is sex of the soul.
- Ride the saddle of chaos, ambiguity, and uncertainty.
- Homogenity is what keeps the sadness from a broken heart at bay.
- Who has to die in order for you to live?
- All suicide is repressed homicide. Whom do you really want to kill?
- Be a seeker: hear people into speech.
I have more Tim-isms to share, but these are the ones that I was able to extract today from my notes. I have many more modules to review and as I get a chance to review them, I'll share more of them. This looks like it could become a Thursday 13 list!
I recently broke 50 client contact hours, which means I'm one-third of the way through my internship (for all intent and purposes). I've come to a very important realization: that I need to take some time out and recover and get refreshed so I can write my 20 page Theory of Counseling Paper (complete with APA formatting) and study for my orals exam on May 18th. Plus I have my third and final assessment to write, and two more modules of classes to attend and an end of the year party and then graduation for those forunate enough to have all of their internship hours complete.
If I am writing in run-on sentences, bear with me. My level of mental lint is so huge that my lint trap is gorged with fluff. I come home at the end of the day and find myself wanting to cry from exhaustion and frustration.
What I need is two solid weeks of nothing but Smee-love and a nice soft bed in a cave somewhere that will be filled with friendly little elves who will tend to my food needs and who will play with me when my strength returns. Smee will be there to lay upon my head and purr with love and that will send me into blissful dreams about being by a river where the sun is always shining just at the right angle and the trees give just the right amount of shade, and the air is filled with that heady pollen smell of spring.
Life as an intern will get better once I'm passed this crazy, mad rush of everything being due with my coursework. It's all coming down to the end and so much is at the end that can't be ignored. I suppose I should have planned better about having the time to work on my Theory Paper, but my hope has been to finally get enough client contact hours so that I'm not there until next April, but right now if that is what has to happen, I'm not going to fight it because I sure to miss feeling rested and relaxed.
I'm so fatigued that I'm starting to feel like I'm having a dissociative split, like everything is disconnected and groggy as if I took too much cold medicine. I live so much on caffeine that my body vibrates and then it whines if I don't keep filling it with more. I dread going into de-tox from all of the caffeine.
When I get fatigued I get cranky and it's been all I can do not to scream at certain parental clients, but then I remember to breathe and realize that screaming isn't going to solve anything, so I stare blankly at them with a deer in headlights kind of look. If this causes them to think I am incompetent so be it. Most of the time I do feel extremely incompetent and that all I do is project myself as being competent. I have this theory that if I think I'm competent then eventually I will become competent, only right now I'm not really that way. It's a paradox or something. Don't try to figure it out.
So yesterday, as part of my tremendous need for self-care, and because the cave and the forest where the elves live still eludes me, I opted instead for a little shopping therapy. I went to Shipwreck Beads and bought $60 worth of beading materials to make myself a lanyard for my name badge and office key. I bought an assortment of charms that reflect me and what I do. There aren't any "therapist" charms so I came up with other alternatives. When I get the lanyard strung up I'll post a picture of it.