We arrived home on Monday and I am glad to be back. In the large accumulation of mail were three soapy packages. One I sent myself to lighten my travel load (22 pounds of soap). I just unpacked the box today. Another was my order from Steph's Micas & More. Oh, now I really want to use those micas and the funnel spout containers! The third was from
Teresa. Thank you,
Teresa! When we met up at SoapCon, she said she'd send me a bar of pine tar soap so I could see what it was like. The bars (3 different soaps) are wrapped so nicely. I really like your wrapping. And thank you for the EDTA.
Besides opening 3 items of mail that I knew ahead of time was soap/soapy stuff, I put some away for further curing. Now I have loads to shrink wrap and label again. Good, as I have told MIL that for Christmas we are giving all the staff soap at her Nursing Home. She was thrilled by the idea. I had Thanksgiving dinner with her at the NH yesterday. If you think Nursing Home food leaves something to be desired, you are correct!
And, although not strictly soap related, it is necessary to be able to comfortably write on this forum, use my
soap calculator, save my recipes, etc..... I did a bit of transferring of data from old laptop to new laptop today. My 7-year-old laptop was getting so bad, that I decided I needed to buy a new one before I lost everything. So while in San Antonio I bought a new one. In Las Vegas, I visited Frye's Electronics, my favorite computer store, and lusted after a $3,000 machine I really really really wanted. But the cost, the size, the weight, the cost, well I decided to sleep on it and chose to wait a bit longer to decide. It had almost everything I wanted, but I chose another one when in SA that cost me far less. Then came the process of transferring information. I hate that part. But using my tablet or phone was so cumbersome for posting online, or for soaping purposes, that today I forced myself to get enough done that I can now write a post without the difficulties I had with my tablet. Hooray!
Tomorrow I plan to transfer more files, particularly my photos and my documents. I doubt I'll have time to re-install all of my software tomorrow, but I will be happy to have my soap recipes on this laptop.