Any Old Actress

Right, so the site was down for a while. I’m sure everyone’s read the tragedy of the Decline and Fall of the Endorian Empire. It was pathetic, I feel like a chump, spent $45 on month of (crappy) webhosting, and am now securely situated at Netrillium. Web hosts go belly up all the time. You expect it.

The parts that irk me most are the $45 (since cash is tight w/ the whole new soap business deal), and the fact that I had just barely gotten everything installed and tied up at Endore. A month’s worth of tedious, annoying technical difficulties, only to turn around and do it alllllll over again. I SO don’t have that kind of time.

One nice thing came of this - no more middle man registrar. Turns out Endore was a puny reseller, and Key-Systems GMBH was my actual registrar. Now those people have customer service. They had me back in control of my domain in a matter of days, and hooked me up w/ a free account to manage the domain. I highly recommend them, if only because they cleaned up Endore’s mess with minimal fuss and red tape.

Plus, so far I’m really enjoying my space at Netrillium. Tentatively enjoying. I’m finding it hard to really relax and get comfortable. I only bought 3 months from ‘em, so maybe at the end of that I’ll live dangerously and go for 6.

Enough of that mess! In between getting all that squared away, I’ve been getting serious about soap. Err, more serious. Sunday I got 1.5 pounds of Killer Beez made, 3 pounds of Absinthe. That’s not a huge amount, big time soapers are doing 12 pounds a day, not 4.5 a week, but it’s bigger than I’ve been doing so I’m pleased with this slow rate of growth. I ordered in my tubes for the sugar scrubs I want to debut, have 1/4 of them made, and am just waiting on a laser printer to get here so I can label the suckers (they’ve gotta be waterproof). And I am finally absolutely satisfied with a “logo” for Villainess, a real distinct recognisable symbol, so it’s going to be like “arriving” to print this on labels.

Plus, I’m consulting with Taryn over at OneInchButtons and hope to soon have some slick promo buttons. You know, like “real” businesses have promotional loot, t-shirts and junk. I want to have these printed on transparencies, so it’ll be the black silouhuette and deep red on a shiny aluminum surface.

It’s all terribly exciting.

And I finally feel good enough to enjoy it. I buckled and started taking the Clarinex the doctor gave me last August - teeny blue pill every day. I really hate being medicated that thoroughly, but this is the first February since 1998 that I haven’t had a sinus infection. So, “Yay!” for the little blue pills with minimal side effects.

note to self: add clarinex comments to a-h log