Pesach: going well so far

I left all the Pesach cleaning until the week before the festival, which was not necessarily the greatest plan. ( mostly domestic details, some religion )

After that I really really enjoyed a couple of days' break with jack. I'm slightly disappointed that Passover coincided exactly with Easter this year, making it impossible for me to go to Eastercon (I was getting pangs of envy reading tweets about the con), but on the other hand a wet, miserable bank holiday was just perfect for staying in with my betrothed and recuperating from the prep and the festival. And jack helped me rearrange furniture in preparation for our Bed which is arriving this weekend, including stopping pretending that a rather rickety pasteboard chest of draws can double as a filing cabinet. So in general my "habitat" (as the cool kids are calling it) is gradually improving.

I also took yesterday off work, allowing me to go to London and fetch my actual finished wedding dress. I really can not get over how amazing it is! Train ticket restrictions meant I didn't have a lot of time in town, but I did manage to return some of my makeup to the big Oxford Street Selfridges. Thank you all for the extensive and supportive discussions on my makeup panic post; I will try to get back to everybody now that the immediate panic of Passover is over. I think commenters on DW posts have a tendency to tell you what they think you want to hear, which is completely lovely and I do feel really supported, but in this case I am genuinely really conflicted, so it's not surprising that I got conflicted advice. But talking it through did help me to sort out in my mind what I really want, and separate some of the issues that had got tangled. So I think the best compromise was to return all the primer, foundation, blusher etc, but keep the good quality eyeshadow and lipstick. I think it was mainly having completely a smooth, perfect mask that smelled like makeup which was really freaking me out, rather than wearing makeup at all. And I realized I care a lot more about having my face match the awesomeness of the dress than I do about looking good in photos, and you've all reassured me I can choose to do one without the other. A smaller but significant thing is that I feel a lot less trapped by £30 worth of good quality eyeshadow and lipstick, than I did by £115 worth of assorted makeup I don't really know how to use. I haven't completely committed myself to wearing this stuff on the day, but I now feel like I either can or not and it's not going to be this huge drama. So, yay.