The Perils of Journal Writing

I've decided that my journal is possessed. Possibly not by a malevolent spirit, but something definitely mischievous. It might be my fault, though, since I bought the journal for my husband after he expressed a mild interest in writing in a journal. When he didn't write anything in it for several months, I stole it.

And now I'm being punished for it.

See, it all started about six months ago when I wrote my first journal entry on Friday the 13th. I made the passing comment that I hoped it wasn't going to be bad luck starting it on that date. Now, I'm not a very superstitious person--it was merely an idle, passing thought and I didn't think anything would come of it. After all, my husband had just had his appendix removed, so what else could go majorly wrong?

Two weeks later, my husband's boss shut down his branch of the company. And on it has gone.

But this isn't going to be a list of what's wrong in my life. This is what is wrong with my journal.

I've been noticing a trend lately. After we accepted the offer on our house, I started panicking about all we had to do and, to calm myself down, I wrote in my journal that it would be okay because we were moving nearby and, if we needed to, we could get everything moved out in two days. This turned out to be overly optimistic, of course, but a few days later, our closing date was moved up until two days away. Not only that, but I found another entry where I'd expressed my frustration that we still had a couple weeks to wait before we closed and I just wanted to get it over with.

So, yes, my journal is being devious and playing games with me. I don't know what to do about it. The journal isn't being purely evil (like Tom Riddle's), so I can't just stab it with a basilisk fang. Assuming, of course, that I had one. Which I don't. Strangely, even with all our junk, we don't have a basilisk fang. Weird, that.

It would be cool if I could convince my strangely influential journal to, say, get me an agent and a 7-figure book deal and a house completely impervious to zombie attacks, but I'm not sure how to manipulate it and if I tried, I'd likely end up with something I didn't really want. Like a million zombie-agents attacking me in a house.

So, does anyone have any suggestions for dealing with a possessed journal? Before I try something silly and end up triggering the zombie apocalypse?