Accomplishments, and the feeling thereof.

One feature of my life over the last several years is that there's always been _someone_ there with whom, at the end of the day, I could share what I'd gotten done, grouch about what didn't go well, and celebrate what did.

What with one thing and another, right now, that's my mom.

Who has this lovely combination of Catholic guilt and the Protestant work ethic (of the 'you haven't ever done enough' variety). So yeah, no matter what I've done, it's not enough. There's always 'I hope X that you did works' (said in that 'I bet it won't' tone) and 'It's a shame that X didn't happen, too' and all sorts of well-meaning-but-really-not-filled-with-love sort of things.

And I don't need to be resting my feeling of self-worth on that. Well, I don't need to be resting my feeling of self-worth on anyone approving of what I've gotten done, but one step at a time, yanno?

So here's what I got done yesterday.

1) Dug my toolbox out of the pile of crap it's been living in in the old garage, and used my newly-available tools to:
2) Get my favourite Ikea chair put together, complete with the new cushions my Mom got me for my birthday, and;
3) Fix the front bumper on my car, which has been hanging down. I also:
4) Bagged (and boxed) up most of the recyclage piled in the bottom of the pantry, and got it ready to go out to the curb, along with
5) the styrofoam in the garage, which is now boxed up and ready to go to the recycling place.
6) I got two _big_ orders from the website, and got them mostly put together to ship.
7) I made two batches of (badly needed) soap, and also
8) a batch of Ma Cobb's Joint Liniment, since one of the orders wants one of the _big_ bottles, yay!
9) While I was thinking of it, I went through Catherine Caine's Radiant Work mini-course (go to her blog and there'll be a signup thing on the right, if'n you want), and found out that yes, making my bath and body stuff _is_ what I want to be doing right now, and yes, it pays me enough for how long it takes me to make. Clarity is GOOD. Just need to get sales up.
10) I also spent some time noting down ideas for making my newsletter far more AWESOME. Plus!
11) I printed soap labels (always necessary) on my awesome new laser printer.
12) Dug out a bunch of my kitchen stuff that had been languishing in the old garage and _washed_ it, so I can store it properly in here. And!
13) Made dinner.

...I got a lot done!

I might keep this up. I might not. Who knows?

This is more for me than for you. So if you don't care, that's cool. But hey, if it's fascinating, who am I to say 'don't read it'?

Accomplishments

Not as many as yesterday...but yanno? I'm cool with that.

1) I did make soap.
2) And advised someone on the best soap for her situation, which
3) led to a sale, which is
4) already packed up.
5) Plus, I poured some body wash, since I was short a bottle or two for the show this weekend, and
6) Put new labels on all of them, including relabeling some of them -- the old labels had gotten dampish on the trip north, and wrinkled. Which led to...
7) ...more printing of labels I'll be needing soon
8) and spraying them with hairspray (cos otherwise the ink will smear) and setting them under something heavy-but-pourous for a couple of days to dry.
9) And then wrapping up a bunch of soap, because holy crap, the soap. THE SOAP.
10 Oh, and I bought and listened to SARK's 'SARK in your pocket' mp3 (as background for some of the rest), which was AWESOME and thought-provoking and also AWESOME.

...listed out, I guess it's more than I thought. Which is kinda the point of this, isn't it?

I've been having trouble keeping up with soap production (I haven't had it fully stocked up since before Christmas, even though I missed Kingdom 12th Night), and I think the solution is gonna involve bigger batches, which in turn involves more equipment. Which, given how well the soap is selling, it's probably time for.

So yay! That's a goodness.