Lights out.

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I thought I'd get to more.  I had dishes, mostly new items, ready to go.  I hadn't collected more boxes but expected to find and finish those.  I also didn't make it to the post.  I did take down the boxes already collected, took care of cat litter which is usually a twice a day thing or more anymore, I did a few odds and ends beyond.  I fed the girls what we called midrations around midnight... only it wasn't leftovers as it would be in the service.  Just because, every week or other, as I get treats.

After those things, I sat for a rest.  I didn't fall asleep.  I did time out.  I simply, after a bit, fell nearly to blankness.  I did some reading.  A bit on einkorn, some on liquid soap making.  There are a few things I need, according to this author.  Need?  Would prefer?  If I take her at her word, and from what I read and what I already know I accept belief as wisdom, then one product is more on the need side.  The other item is a bit of both, more because of my limits and facilitating faster processing.  They add more expense, however, that I am making soap just for myself, in small batches, this isn't an issue.

Eventually, given the price of soaps I currently use, the equipment and tools being one time costs, along with the ongoing expenses of expendables, I suspect, even using pricier expendables for replacement products of what I am currently using, two years will get me to a break even... replacing dish soap, laundry soap, shampoo, hand soap, and body soap.  I won't be using the most expensive, if I can avoid.  You can keep your organic, save for coconut oil... if that is for food stocks and this simply helps keep that in rotation.  I won't look for the cheapest either, as usual a middle way of prices, unless I make something special for gifting.

Something I am coming to realize, however, is that soap making isn't going to be quite as easy as thought.  Fine, I'll work through that.  The goal is to develop, if possible, a single, or small selection of, base recipe(s).  The only reason for several would be ingredient price fluctuations.  From that 'mother soap' it is hoped, all other soaps might be derived.  See, still using calculus!  Oh, I also want to work up a supply cost tracking system.  I want to be able to know, just by expendables, how much a cup, quart, gram, ounce, etc., costs to make, down to tenths of cents.  Not that I absolutely care, merely another part of the hobby.

Oh, just for grins... have you ever seen a cat stub her toe and trip?  With three legs to pick up the slack she didn't fall, but she did stumble.  My burst of laughter gave her further pause.  She almost turned around to glare, but chose not to.  Moving on a bit peeved, if too, I sensed that she caught a sense of my mirth as well.  It's just that animals have an even greater lack of self-deprecation than most humans.  She is learning.  I could almost taste her strange smile.  Strange to her, well known to me.

I ended sleeping hard and long.  I woke often, then crashed back quickly to sleep.  Dreams.  When dreaming of God the world is good.  I feel I understand the walking on water thing.  If only He would stay!  Then to realize He is always here.  Devastating to initially think God is leaving after such joy in His presence.  Such calm when I realize, just because I can't sense Him so closely anymore, doesn't mean He is gone.  He went the other way.

I'll get to dishes, boxes, a shower, and the post tonight.  Ugh but things are roiling.  I won't say it is all the massage and pedicure.  Winter is heading into spring as the titans falling on the Olympians.  It is a wonderful, terrible, beautiful, thing.  It is messing with my systems.  The spa work just doubled and complicated that.  Wonderful!  It's been a bit since I've gotten a full bite of creation in progress.  Chaos is another name for it.  Also known as life.  Tasty.

Later.