What made you happy today? 2.0

[V M]

Congrats Brooke 

[Devlyn]

I GOT A JOB!!

Wow, I will only be out of work for one day!! Yay! I am so happy. Plus, they will only know me as Brooke, which is an extra bonus.

Sweet! Hugs, Devlyn

[Adam (birkin)]

I passed today (as I always do lately), but this one was funny. I was with my brother because he needed an adult to buy him a tree frog. So we go up to the lady and as we're filling out the forms the conversation goes something like this:

Her: You guys over 18?
Me: I am, he isn't.
Her: *eyes us suspiciously* You live in the same house?
Me: Yes. He's my brother. (he's very dark skinned, I am white as a ghost - no idea how that happened but anyway).

And then I snickered (!), because I know how bad it looks. He looks like a different race from me, I look like a younger guy who couldn't pass a day over 18, lol.

Me: I have ID, and his school ID can show you we have the same last name.
Her: ..........Normally under these circumstances, I wouldn't sell the frog to minors. I won't be anal this time though, I'll let it slide. This better not get back to me, because I will be really pissed if I get a phone call from an angry parent. And I will tell them that you lied!

She looked SO angry, haha. Honestly, all she had to do was see my ID...which is legit and shows that indeed, I am a 24 year old man. And indeed, we are related. But she didn't even want to see it. I've always looked older than I really am too (as a girl), so I've never had anyone talk to me and reprimand me like a teenager. I kept laughing to myself thinking about it on the bus too.

Edit: oh, I am also happy because people were so nice today. The lady at the floral shop gave me tissue paper for a present I was wrapping for free, and someone else gave me free napkins for the cupcakes I wanted to hand out for a birthday. 

[Shantel]

I passed today (as I always do lately), but this one was funny. I was with my brother because he needed an adult to buy him a tree frog.

Edit: oh, I am also happy because people were so nice today. The lady at the floral shop gave me tissue paper for a present I was wrapping for free, and someone else gave me free napkins for the cupcakes I wanted to hand out for a birthday.

Looks like your presentation, body language, and general good guy attitude is working for you. You pass A+++++

[Jennygirl]

A trans girl from the south came back to LA with my friends after SXSW, and last night I finally had the pleasure of meeting her.

She is quite a bit younger and cannot afford transition yet, but she already passes easily in her own way and is very cute and incredibly positive/happy/creative. I will try to get her on here, maybe she would like it Anyway after spending 7-8 inseparable hours together, I realized I was kind of crushing on this girl. Ok really really crushing on her... At the end of the night, I ended up asking if I could kiss her because we kept batting eyes at each other. She said yes, and we ended up exchanging kisses & fell asleep in each others arms. By the way, I'm smiling ear to ear right now as I write this!!

I realized this morning it is the first time I've ever had a physical attraction for someone that falls into the "queer" umbrella. A rather eye opening thing for me, because I have really only felt physical attraction for ciswomen until now.

Today has been a revelation to me on how my sexuality is changing as I open my mind to new things. Today is one of those days where I am very excited about the universe, to say the least

We are going to hang out again tomorrow! So excited!!

[Brooke777]

Thank you Shantel, VM, and Devlyn!!

It also goes to show that some people don't care if you are trans or not.

[Padma]

I've just found out that a college in Exeter has a beauticians' department, and that I can get electrolysis there for like £2 per hour from supervised trainees .

[Shantel]

A trans girl from the south came back to LA with my friends after SXSW, and last night I finally had the pleasure of meeting her.

She is quite a bit younger and cannot afford transition yet, but she already passes easily in her own way and is very cute and incredibly positive/happy/creative. I will try to get her on here, maybe she would like it Anyway after spending 7-8 inseparable hours together, I realized I was kind of crushing on this girl. Ok really really crushing on her... At the end of the night, I ended up asking if I could kiss her because we kept batting eyes at each other. She said yes, and we ended up exchanging kisses & fell asleep in each others arms. By the way, I'm smiling ear to ear right now as I write this!!

I realized this morning it is the first time I've ever had a physical attraction for someone that falls into the "queer" umbrella. A rather eye opening thing for me, because I have really only felt physical attraction for ciswomen until now.

Today has been a revelation to me on how my sexuality is changing as I open my mind to new things. Today is one of those days where I am very excited about the universe, to say the least

We are going to hang out again tomorrow! So excited!!

That is an exciting revelation glad you had the opportunity and the connection. I was light years out from anything like that too once, funny the things we learn about ourselves huh sis? The universe is definitely larger than we once thought!

[Jamiep]

@michelle666, sounds like you are having a wonderful & fun vacation. Shan said

My bet is that she knows full well and is just being patient with you and waiting for you to tell her yourself. Go for it!

I agree with Shan.

@Brooke. Destiny. Good luck & congratulations!

@Caleb, always wonderful hearing funny, happy events & positive results. Love them. Can't get enough of them. Makes you smile & your heart sing.

@Padma, when I was a child my Dad used to take me to the orthodontist dept. at the University of Toronto work done by student trainees at a low rate, don't think I was told how much they charged.

Jamie

[ZoeM]

Google just sent me an invite-tweet to the Glass Explorers program.

Sad thing is, it costs $1500 to actually get the damn thing. And I have prescription glasses already.

[Jamiep]

@Jenny,

The trans girl & you, that is a precious and beautiful connection you both have, especially the sensitive way you articulated your happening & awakening to the experience. Emotionally touching and brought Happy tears to my eyes for you, I understand that big smile. I have one cd friend, that had to move to a city a five hour drive away from were I live. Known her for 10 years We are really good friends. She believes she is a girl, I am, she has inquired about hrt but didn't live in the area of a trans health center in Toronto. I found one in my suburban area west of Toronto & hope she will when she gets back in our area in a few years, I am going on hrt in May. Family may be the hold back for her. My friend does beautiful work on her make up, with the hair and clothes, she is irresistibly gorgeous. When we are dressed girly with my sisterhood I sometimes find my eyes lock on her & feel like I would like to snuggle in her arms (nothing has every happened that way with us). But my guy mode kicks in and says hey under the female illusion we are both guys, I'm not attracted to men only girls. When I get on hrt that could change. If we both got on hrt, I could still like girls & I think that could make me attracted to lesbians. I don't think that will happen as I am happily married to my wife for almost 25 years.

I know you are taller than me, but we could be sisters with our slim frames, very femme.

Tessa may know who I am taking about as she met my friend,,,Tessa, no names, shh.

Shan, now I know she is going to say I have a temptation like she did...be nice.

My amazingly supportive wife, actually I have mentioned my thoughts to her about this.

I love Astronomy, the Universe does work in mysterious ways.
Keep us updated.
Jamie

[michelle666]

Last night another drag queen saw me as a woman(in boy mode). We were hanging out for a while and she asked my name and have her the boy name. She looked at me and said "youre a boy???" She leaned over and whispered in my ear "honey, I don't think so" and grabbed my boob, then both of us started laughing hysterically.
This vacation has been going amazing. I'm already making plans to come back here ASAP!

[Imreallyconfused]

The internet is back on YAY!!

[Blaine]

Destroyed everyone in a game of Monopoly today. I never win at Monopoly. Plus I got to spend a couple hours with my crazy dogs this afternoon. Didn't get much done, but it was fun.

[Rowan Rue]

A trans girl from the south came back to LA with my friends after SXSW, and last night I finally had the pleasure of meeting her.

She is quite a bit younger and cannot afford transition yet, but she already passes easily in her own way and is very cute and incredibly positive/happy/creative. I will try to get her on here, maybe she would like it Anyway after spending 7-8 inseparable hours together, I realized I was kind of crushing on this girl. Ok really really crushing on her... At the end of the night, I ended up asking if I could kiss her because we kept batting eyes at each other. She said yes, and we ended up exchanging kisses & fell asleep in each others arms. By the way, I'm smiling ear to ear right now as I write this!!

I realized this morning it is the first time I've ever had a physical attraction for someone that falls into the "queer" umbrella. A rather eye opening thing for me, because I have really only felt physical attraction for ciswomen until now.

Today has been a revelation to me on how my sexuality is changing as I open my mind to new things. Today is one of those days where I am very excited about the universe, to say the least

We are going to hang out again tomorrow! So excited!!

I can sooooo relate to that.  I've always considered myself to be "technically" Bi but since I started hormones that has changed a lot.  I have found myself with waaaaaay more of a crush than I would like to admit on a certain boy recently.  <.<  >.>  >.<

My happy for the day - getting up to late to finish getting ready before heading off to run my booth at a scifi convention resulting in...
drumroll
My having to do my makeup in the women's bathroom at the hotel.
No one noticed, all was fine, I was very proud of myself because damn, it was just a little nerve-wracking!

[Rowan Rue]

Oooh!  I forgot!  I got my labs back from the doctor the other day and everything was good except E which was a little low.  I was really surprised because I've already been seeing such good results but apparently there's room for improvement so my doc is bumping my dosage up a bit

[natastic]

Five days, no nicotine.   Five months since I got off of real bad drugs. One year since I tried (and thankfully failed) to kill myself. Aaaalmost six months since starting HRT.  All these spans of time add up to a happy me who feels (gasp) in control of herself and her destiny.

[Rowan Rue]

Five days, no nicotine.   Five months since I got off of real bad drugs. One year since I tried (and thankfully failed) to kill myself. Aaaalmost six months since starting HRT.  All these spans of time add up to a happy me who feels (gasp) in control of herself and her destiny.

It makes me so, so, sooo happy to see you doing this well.  I'm super proud of you

[Jamie D]

Five days, no nicotine.   Five months since I got off of real bad drugs. One year since I tried (and thankfully failed) to kill myself. Aaaalmost six months since starting HRT.  All these spans of time add up to a happy me who feels (gasp) in control of herself and her destiny.

That's super!  Keep it up.

[Cindy]

Five days, no nicotine.   Five months since I got off of real bad drugs. One year since I tried (and thankfully failed) to kill myself. Aaaalmost six months since starting HRT.  All these spans of time add up to a happy me who feels (gasp) in control of herself and her destiny.

Well done Honey!!!

Very proud of you.

One hell of a woman in the making!!!

C