Hi Everybody.  I wanted to talk to you about Motivation or the Lack There Of.

Try as I might I can't seem to get started.  Distractions are in the way at every turn.  Last night I was raring to go on a project that I was consigned to do (business cards) and after about 2 hours of designing the card, contacting the client with the ok, I was going to start printing

Well that was a mistake!  First the printer would not turn on, then it would not recognize my computer.  After calling my husband to take a look - he comes in turns the switch on - throws me a look like "Duh" then walks away with this smirk like "Woman!"  Don't you just hate when that happens.  I just thanked him, then pushed his smirky self out of my office.

Ok, now we are ready to print, right?  Wrong!!!!!  The printer's colors are off.  I tried cleaning the heads, changing cartridges - nothing worked.  I looked at my test page and only certain colors are printing.

I did a test page of my project and none of the colors were as they should have been.  We are now 4 hours into an evening where I thought I was pretty MOTIVATED.  So what happened.  I know, I know

It's those damn GREMLINS again.  That can be the only answer.  It is the only answer that will allow me to remain calm now that I know who is responsible.  At least I know it is not something that I have done or not done.  Otherwise, I would probably throw the machine out, holler at my husband, shout at the parrots, and then go and have a good cry, and start over again.  Since acknowledging that it was the Gremlins, I turned the computer off and decided to wait until tomorrow (meaning today) to try again and maybe see where the problem is - or heck maybe it will have mysteriously fixed itself and I can then become MOTIVATED again and finish this project.  Did I mention that this is a PAID PROJECT that has to be completed within a week or so.

Well cheerio and all that.  I'll let you know the outcome.