I have just a little over 30 minutes left on the timer for the Pumpkin Nut Bread in the over right now, so I might as well use this chance to do an entry for today. Heh.

I've been so cursed this past couple weeks. I find that I occasionally get gremlins or cursed for stretches at a time. Periods where nothing seems to go right, and even if something does there's 3 other nuisances piling up behind that single ray of light. This used to depress me a bunch. Now it's kind of funny.

Well not really funny, I still get twinges of "Why even TRY?" feelings when I have a week like this past one. It's as if each day that I get myself motivated, get myself moving and working and into my groove and then I get cut out at the knees. I haven't had anything major today, just that the zipper on my fall/winter jacket broke beyond repair. It's the same thing that happened to my last jacket. So I need to go jacket shopping sometime really soon.

So my list of visits from my gremlins this past week have been:
• A soap that I've made many times, each time with a note that says "No Problems" suddenly curdles in the pot. Finally I unmold it on Monday and it's lye heavy. Its in the garbage now.
• Two days spent stressing about a party and associated drama via MSN which is stress inducing on itself.
• The phone we ordered to utilize our call display is on back-back-back order so we need to go to my favouritist place in the whole wide world! -- Fairview, to buy one.
• While making up some new stock body butters, I use the new glitter in the Jasmine Sparkle. This glitter is heavier and impossible to keep suspended so I whip air into the mix creating a soft, unusable mousse. Into the garbage they go.
• I make a batch of Sandalwood soap, using up the last of the FO I have on hand. I put it into the oven to go through gel stage, realize the light has burnt out and decide to just boost the heat a little by turning on the element to 150. 2 hours later I wonder why the oven is so hot, I mean I have a wood mold in there... and I've cooked my soap and the mold is coming apart at the seams.
• Cutting the Sandalwood Soap I realize I may have cooked out all the scent.
• My printer will not print colour anything. Nothing. The colour cartridge is half full and worked fine the night before it died.

There's more little things but it's to the point now that I don't want to make more soap simply because god only knows what will happen next. I'd probably trip while holding the lye water and burn my cats and myself. And it's always the weeks that I have insane to-do lists that the gremlins come to visit my humble abode.

So I got basically nothing done this week even though I worked my ass off. I think I may have even created more work for myself. All I can do is laugh. My life has always been either an intense drama or a farce, and I choose to see this past week as a farce. There have been good things and new toys for which I am grateful.

I received a card from Claire, the dental hygienist I freaked out. It's a lovely "thinking of you" note and she sent it the same day I sent my "Thank You for being patient" cards so it's not in response to that. I'm never ever ever going to another Dentist as long as I live. I swear.

We also got a new phone. It's such a toy. Speakerphone, Call Display, Directory, mute, hold, etc. We've been talking about getting Call Display for over a year now and we finally got it. I'm so thrilled. I'm buying the old answering machine from the boys tonight for $5 so we can get rid of Call Answer as well. $8 a month for a service we never really use is a rip. Also in the toys department I bought a new space heater. We luv it.

Gah, I really hope my Pumpkin Bread doesn't burn and kill us all.

That's so not 30-minutes but I'm done for today!

Happy Halloween!