It's been with sporadic entries that my blog continues. Today I am home doped up on Ny-Quil and cough syrup with Codeine battling an ear infection. I've neglected self-care these past few months so it takes an illness to bring me down to earth to take some needed R&R to recharge my soul. I'm indulging in the therapies of watching Jim Henson movies, snuggling with cats, and couch sitting with assorted felines as my companions.

I'm in the final steps to completing my graduate degree! On Friday (before the ear infection hit with full force) I took my oral exams and I am happy to announce I passed! I was coughing during the exam but not yet in need of medications so my brain was alert and mostly functioning at full capacity. I was fortunate to be given Solution-Focused Therapy as the theory to view a specific case study through. I've used SFT in my own attempts at therapy and it's one of the easiest theories to comprehend and implement.

Now all I need to do is get over this ear infection, write a 3-4 page synthesis paper on the 5 theories of counseling we studied, and attend Module 7 to complete the course work portion of my degree. I still have all of my internship hours to complete, which just got set back by two weeks thanks to this infection.

I asked the doctor if I'm contagious and he said yes, that I should not be going in while I'm this way, because I'd pass it on. I probably got this from a client or being in the germ field of the agency. Kids have the unfortunate role of being germ carriers and transmitters. I can recall in my childhood while my immune system was developing that I spent one year in school having cold after cold after cold. Communicable diseases happen.

My third self-assessment is written and I got feedback from my peers. They are all thinking I've Achieved Competency. I think that I have, but have this little bit of feeling inside of me that I'm not quite there yet, and that's because of my internship not quite being at the half-way point.

The Codeine in the cough syrup is now making me forget why I am writing this entry. Could it be to simply say that I am here?