AOTA conference this weekend + presenting on Saturday

(To the sound of Music)

THE FEEEEEDSSS ARREEE ALLIVEEEEEE ....wittth the sounddd of........CONFERRRENNNNCEEEEEE......

Yep. Every other Facebook and Twitter feed is about getting to San Diego for our 2013 AOTA conference. That either means I am exaggerating, or I have a lot of OT friends. 

Or more likely, a mixture of both.

I'm going to be going Friday, Saturday, and possibly Sunday morning....but after running around at work all week I think I may be pretty tired. I've decided all treatments on Wednesday and Thursday will consist of supine extension with vision occluded.....aka nap position. hahahaha just kidding. Can you imagine all my bouncy kids falling for that one? Yeah right. 

I've had several long-time blog readers email or comment saying they want to meet-up briefly...sounds great. :) I'll probably be at the School Steps Inc booth some (a great employer!) and/or wandering all over in sessions and visiting with OT friends from out of town as well as exploring the EXPO which is my favoritest thing in the world, well except for peanut butter and chocolate. And oh yeah, PRESENTING with a fabulous OT techy-crowd on Saturday on digital and social media if you want to check us out. This is where, if I wasn't so lazy, I'd copy/paste our title and stuff. But I am. :( It's late, I have to conserve my energy. Hope to see you all at conference verrrrrrry sooon.

And oh, if you're reading this, and you know of how to get an Expo hall badge for free, please let me know. I have a prospective OT student who I really want to let in to see the awesomeness. 

Loved this photo album

http://imgur.com/a/YjHXN

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/17/little-prince-matej-peljhan-photos_n_3102439.html

"In a photo series entitled "The Little Prince," Matej Peljhan, a Slovenian photographer, brings Luka's imagination to life by including the 12-year-old in a variety of lifelike scenes." (Luke has muscular dystrophy)

The best cheer me up ever, ahahahaha

A friend sent this to me via e-mail  (who knows I have been feeling down). She was trying to cheer me up. It made me smile. Just sending the applicable part. 

"Still, I feel like you have an inner strength and light that can't be held back or extinguished. I'm serious! Maybe it's your Miss Awesomeness spirit woman. She is really a superhero to the kids she comes across. And when kids see her, they never forget her. Their hearts cry in joy when she passes by their classroom. 

I can describe her for you:

On her head: A crown of 1,000 miniature party balls with multicolored glass

Around her neck: A sloth, preferably a black one

At her back: A silky pink cape that always looks like the wind is blowing through it

Around her torso: An empire waist, fitted purple sparkle corset, not revealing too many assets though

Circling her waist: A black belt with 10,000 compartments/pockets where all the necessary OT toys can be found...from the smallest writing utensil to the largest piece of lava paper you ever saw...somehow everything fits perfectly"

Happy OT Month :)

This photo was done by the University of St Augustine, in FL, for OT Month! (Always April). 

So awesome!

Consider uploading your own versions on Facebook, Twitter, blogs...with OT that you wrote in sand, with rocks, with Wikki Stix, Theraputty, bodies, silverware, anything you can think of....

Believe in Heroes

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Erik (OT Army Guy) made this. Amazing :) 

In case it doesn't work as embedded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wrzs_SGH_a0

Graduation presents?

We have OT students graduating right around now...what are good graduation presents for OT students????? I was just asked and I was stumped. For those of you about to graduate, or who have graduated, what are presents you wish you could receive, or have received???

Any suggestions appreciated.

I have ONE more day of work to get through - one more meeting, a presentation, and some odds and ends - and then two weeks to get my act together! Phew! I think I can I think I can! 

Spring break fever...

Spring break starts next weekend and I'm glad about that, because I desperately need a break. This last month or so has been rough! It's all I can do to go to work each day. I'm so tired. On the weekends I'm doing very little besides sleeping most of the day and then all night too! I just can't seem to get enough rest. Just worn out. I think I'm starting to burn out. I've been warned this would happen. I just hoped it wouldn't happen so soon, seeing as how I'm only in my third year of being an OT, and my second year in the schools. I'm behind on everything - my blog, my e-mails, cleaning, etc. Sleep (as a form of escape) wins every time. I'm keeping up with my work but at the expense of everything else. So I'm hoping with the spring break it will be rejuvenating (I have a good friend visiting) and I'll take some deep breaths and be ready to face the world again and be a little less broken down! Especially since I normally love blogging about OT and it makes me feel bereft to NOT be OT blogging!! I thought about coming here and writing some random airy note but I decided to be real. I'm struggling. But I'm trying to climb out of the hole I'm in. I love OT, I know I love OT, but I I'm currently lacking the energy to embrace it the way I normally do on this blog!! Here's hoping I find it soon. :)