What Made You Both Happy and Unhappy at the Same Time Today?

[LordKAT]

Go ahead Ladies. Refuse to eat chocolate, the food of the gods. It leaves more for me. That only makes sense since KAT is dog spelled backwards.

[Jill F]

Go ahead Ladies. Refuse to eat chocolate, the food of the gods. It leaves more for me. That only makes sense since KAT is dog spelled backwards.

Bad kitty, step away from my chocolate.  Mr. Gud Spellar, yu.

[Allyda]

Go ahead Ladies. Refuse to eat chocolate, the food of the gods. It leaves more for me. That only makes sense since KAT is dog spelled backwards.

Lmao, Kat you crack me up. Just stay away from my refrigerator door, lol!, he, he, he, he. Just cause I cut down on it doesn't mean I want it to go away.

Ally

[immortal gypsy]

Growing pains thanks to a visit from the boob fairy, grr. Growing pains thanks to a visit from the boob fairy,  yippee skippie

[Adam (birkin)]

Unhappy: referred to a therapist by my GP for anxiety. I assumed that she had read in the referral that I'm trans, but she hadn't. I outed myself to her thinking she knew, she didn't, so I outed myself for nothing and now that's going to be a thing she focusses on when I'm actually so over the transgender thing it's not even funny. I wanted to go in as a guy that needed help with his anxiety, not someone who needed help transitioning.

Happy: when I told her I was trans she went "um, ok, I'm confused...you...want to be a woman? Have you had surgeries?"

She then suggested I go to trans support groups and "get used to the idea of being outed." No thanks! I just started a new job where I am accepted 100% as male. Not "we'll use male pronouns and your male name because we respect you despite you being born a girl", I mean I was seen as a guy, period, no questions asked, no special medical conditions disclosed. Took me 2 years of HRT to get here and 5 years of torment, humiliation, and prostration. Not about to go back.

[Allyda]

I had high hope for the therapist I went to see on the 11th of this month. I was treated like a normal woman by the office staff and everything went great until I actually met the therapist I was to be seeing. First, he was a man when I specifically requested I see a woman, second, he was an ass**** of the first order. It really felt good when I told him that to his face too. When I told the lady who was checking me out I wasn't coming back and that he was an ass, she and two other women there laughed as well as she said to me: "We hear that a lot about him." Which I in turn told her as I grabbed my purse: "And you'll continue to hear it as long as he's on staff here."

What made me happy today was my Endo's office called and I was told they'd help me find a trans friendly therapist.

Ally

[Sydney_NYC]

I was excited to see a letter containing my new social security card, but then was upset when saw that they misspelled my new name!! They weird part is, in the office the woman was so nice and she read the spelling back to be correctly, plus I had type the form. I know it was an honest mistake, but still frustrating. I will have to go back on Monday or Tuesday.

[Shantel]

I was excited to see a letter containing my new social security card, but then was upset when saw that they misspelled my new name!! They weird part is, in the office the woman was so nice and she read the spelling back to be correctly, plus I had type the form. I know it was an honest mistake, but still frustrating. I will have to go back on Monday or Tuesday.

How typically government huh Sydney? Snafu comes to mind here.

[Adam (birkin)]

I have a few days this month where I will work at one job from 9 am to 4 pm, then at my second job from 9 pm - 7:30 am the next day. I'm happy because KA-CHING but I'm sad because I'm going to be eff to the ucked physically.

[Shantel]

I have a few days this month where I will work at one job from 9 am to 4 pm, then at my second job from 9 pm - 7:30 am the next day. I'm happy because KA-CHING but I'm sad because I'm going to be eff to the ucked physically.

Been good reading your posts, you'll probably have to forgo posting and squeeze in some food, sleep, shower and don't forget to brush your teeth kid! Gotta hand it to you for being aggressively proactive about your transitional plans. 

[Adam (birkin)]

Thanks Auntie Shan. Haha well we'll see how I feel after a month of this. It's only been the first week and I am exhausted, but that's because I haven't established a routine yet so I've lost sleep. I figure I can be OK as long as I get my sleeping patterns very regimented and keep them that way, and have a set schedule for things like laundry, errands, appointments, etc.

I imagine I will lose weight at this job too because there are many people there who have diabetes so I don't want to eat junk food meals in front of them.

[Shantel]

I imagine I will lose weight at this job too because there are many people there who have diabetes so I don't want to eat junk food meals in front of them.

Always a good plan, you don't want to have it either.

[Adam (birkin)]

Yeah. A lot of the guys I work with are on diets, most of them aren't big guys like me but they've been diagnosed with high cholesterol (like me). And then the clients have a lot of diabetes so...it works out.

[Allyda]

I was all set to launch my boat today and enjoy some time on the water in a very happy mood -until I heard the thunder rolling in the background which cancelled my boating plans until tomorrow.

Ally

[Umiko]

i had gotten the green light from my psychiatrist. i'm unhappy because i cant stay away from you all lol

[Eris]

I finally received a letter from the NHS informing me that I had an appointment for genetic storage.
Sadly it's two months away so I won't be able to begin HRT until September

[Lauren5]

I'm very bad with liquid eyeliner.
Or so I think, it seemed to work.

[Sheala]

on my way in to work this evening two kids where arguing next to me as to weather i was a girl or a boy...... they finaly decided to ask and i said a girl, they bought it but the little girl said i looked like a boy..... 

[Felix]

I've gotten really fixated on French lately. I like languages, but always personally found that one aesthetically distasteful in the way it flows. Plus (where I live) it is strongly associated with snobbery when talking about food or drink, and some other things.

But there's this musician who got interviewed on a radio show that focuses on the experience of racial minorities. I looked him up, and his songs are catchy and accessible pop techno, in French. I have enough english and spanish and italian to be able to understand some song titles and phrases here and there, and the more I listen the more I figure out. The links from him lead to other french speakers, and I start hearing patterns and parsing individual words better.

But gosh. I have no plans to live anywhere else, and my sporadic obsessions with other languages don't make my life better apart from the direct pleasure of it. I feel like I need to find more pro-social ways to spend my time.

[Cindy]

on my way in to work this evening two kids where arguing next to me as to weather i was a girl or a boy...... they finaly decided to ask and i said a girl, they bought it but the little girl said i looked like a boy..... 

Send them to an optician, they need their eyes tested!!