Website Woes
I hate the feeling of having decided to change services, but having to wait until the previous thing has expired so you don’t waste money paying two companies for the same thing. I want to redo my website, but my annual subscription isn’t up until August, so I’m kind of stuck waiting around.
I do need to redesign the website anyway, in order to accommodate The Fiercest Chicken in the Bookstore, which will be launching officially one week from Friday, May 19th! I’m sure you’re excited. I’m pretty excited, too.
I’m finalizing the launch plan and getting all of the final details into place. After it’s all done, I’ll just have to wait and see if anyone reads it! (Please read it. My mom says it’s good…)
I’m starting to consider trying out a new color scheme for the website. I suppose my social media/marketing advisor would advise against this, as the color scheme is supposed to help make your brand more easily recognizable and all that. And it does. It’s just that there are so many interesting colors in the world. I hate to just stick with the same five forever.
It’s been an exciting week over here since our Brandon Sanderson Mistborn merch box arrived. I’ve actually been wanting a pair of themey bookends, so I was delighted with that. And of course—that Soonie Dog! How adorable. TenSoon would hate it.
It’s only Tuesday, but it keeps feeling like a Wednesday. You see, that’s the kind of high-quality content and observations you can expect here at katelexie.com.
We’re in the home stretch of school getting out. Forever! Or for the summer at least. I don’t know what it is about summer that makes you feel so longingful and makes all of your work so much harder to complete. It feels sort of like the end of Return of the King, where Sam is like, then let us be rid of it! Once and for all!
Lord of the Rings Day is coming, you know. 9/4/23. Why Labor Day, you might ask? It’s because it’s a lot of work to get the ring to Mount Doom. Obviously.
Sometimes I’ve considered that it could be fun to have some other sort of annual movie marathon day tradition, but I always get stymied on which movies. Lord of the Rings is perfect because it’s highly rewatchable, an excellent length (12 hours, if you watch the extended editions, which we do), and the menu practically writes itself, what with First Breakfast, Second Breakfast, Elevensies, Luncheon, Afternoon Tea, Dinner, Supper, etc.
I’d be interested in doing a Harry Potter marathon, too, but since there are eight of them, that’s a lot less manageable, plus, no matter how good a Butterbeer recipe I may find, it’ll never be as good as the Butterbeer at Universal.
I do miss Universal. As of last month, we officially have no theme park annual passes. It’s a little unsettling, the knowledge that I cannot just go into a theme park if I happened to want to. And at the moment, I don’t want to, except that also, in a perhaps more real kind of way, I sort of do.