one of those days

Do you ever just have one of those days where you wake up on the wrong side of the bed? I stumbled out of the wrong side of mine this morning and despite an earnest attempt at a productive start, my day comprised of buying things I didn’t want online, getting a cramp in my fingers after spending an hour bottling and sticking mini labels on samples vials of my latest perfume oils, burning myself while making shepherd’s pie, and just in general feeling absent-minded, confused and despondent.

Even carrot cake only brought temporary relief. I’m hoping that my tutoring day tomorrow will be a nice refresh button to get me out of the house and things into perspective. Sometimes a little dose of busyness is all I need to remind myself how to relax. I’ll come back and write something more substantial when I’m feeling better.

On the perfume oils front, I’m still waiting on an order of 5ml amber glass bottles, but my scents are more or less completed and the samples are ready to enter my shop. Before I list something new in my Etsy store, I always get a sudden sense of stage fright and try to put it off until ‘a better time’ (which of course, there always is and it’s called ‘later’). However, I don’t believe in starting something when my spirit’s awry, and pouring anything but love and positive intent into it, so I’ll be listing them later in the week when I’m (hopefully) feeling much, much sunnier.