Any Old Actress

I am thoroughly pleased to announce, that not only do I honest-to-goodness actually feel good, but I’ve gotten Villainess whipped into presentable shape. I actually made the switch from pointless personal domain to bonafide e-commerce site last Thursday (the 14th). But there’ve been so many loose ends and embarrassing inconsistencies that I wanted to spend the weekend cleaning things up. So, call Monday (the 18th) my official “debut”. XHTMLd and spellchecked (still have to run a few pages and my stylesheet through the validator), brand spankin’ new poll… what else? All kinds of goodies and gadgets and mostly I’m just relieved that it’s over with and online. Because there’s a limit to how many months even I can obsess over something.

So go check it out. My baby, my pride and joy, my soap…

This particular layout is a bit less… dynamic than I was looking for. Not much in the way of visual elements, extremely streamlined. But it reminds me of a boutique! In some round-about bizarro way. And those months I spent obsessing mostly oriented around the fact that I had zero concepts for a layout. Of course, now that it’s all done, I’ve got this really neat idea. And of course that’s not going to happen ‘til I shell out for a decent digicam.

Which may entail actual employment first.

So, yesterday I made a sellable batch of my solid sugar scrub. Creamy mango butter and rough turbinado sugar all done up in Gingersnapped. I’m going to mold ‘em in little kissy lip shapes, but for now they’re molded like little bon bons. Next time I make a gingersnap batch I’m going to use brown sugar instead of the chunkier turbinado. The bit I took in the tub today is plenty rough enough (not too scratchy either), but the bigger grains of sugar want to disperse more, it’s harder to keep them in the same place in order to scrub with them. Now I need to tap on the molds and see if they’ll actually fall out. Then it’s time for the financial acrobatics; see how much these suckers are gonna cost to make.

So, I feel better. No more ear/face/headaches, glands are back to normal such that I could even switch pillows without neck pain. I’ve never been so relieved to feel good. Seems like this last round of sinus trouble lasted for weeks (if not months), and the amount of stuff I’ve gotten done in the last 3 days is just amazing.

Saturday, I rearranged my closet (I’m sure everyone cares about the organisational state of my clothes) ). See, I’ve got an open closet up here in the loft. The left wall is part of the main wall of my room, and the right wall is just a small partition angled up against the roof. And then, I’ve got rods hanging between the exposed beams in the ceiling. So I’ve got less length for hanging clothes than I did in my Murfreesboro ‘burbs closet. Which means that my preferred hanging order of jackets, blue jeans, pajamas, blouses, t-shirts, men’s shirts & dresses is much too crowded. Plus, blue jeans are really too heavy for cardboard dry cleaner’s hangers (expect that anything else bends and gives in the middle). So about 2 weeks ago I got a little “shoe rack” - about 12” deep. This way I can pile the jeans and t-shirts on the rack and slide it under the short things that hang. And have all my shoes in nice neat stacks in their original boxes.

All that to say, I’d had that shoe rack for 2 weeks, after spending a good 8 months really needing it. There’s nothing so sucky as being able to fix an organisational quandary, but feeling entirely too crappy to even attempt it. So Saturday evening I finally felt good enough to excavate my closet, dust the baseboards, stack everything on my new rack and vacuum my room. Such, a relief.

Somewhere last week we PayPerViewed “The Hours”. Good movie, lots of things I liked about it. Can’t remember what they are now though, so I’ll have to read the book. Most things in life can be enhanced by “reading the book”. Any book, really.

//Comments!

Just a random reader- but I wanted to say how much I love your new soap-site! Keep up the great work!

*huff*

I hated The Hours, in fact, I think it was the first film that we walked out of this year.

Aww, thanks Lisa! Always appreciate feedback on all these new projects.

I think mostly I liked The Hours ‘cause of watching for parallels. Seeing the stories reflect and then converge - the “plot” structure was a bit more dense than most and that always entertains me. Plus, the Julianne Moore segment was all tense and riveting. That cake!! I’m not saying I actually “got” the movie, I’m still not sure what the whole point was, or Why Virginia Woolf gave her sister a big ol’ kiss.

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