Positivity...

[sam79]

There's nothing like some good news and positivity sometimes...

According to my countdown timer, there's roughly 1750 hours to go until the end of the year. And I kinda can't wait!!!. Mostly due to work, I will be going full-time come 1st Jan, although will try to sneak it in a bit earlier after considering how quiet work is/isn't in the Xmas period. Either way, I'm looking forward to starting the new year without ever having the use the old identity ever again.

On top of this, there's a bunch of things that just keep me smiling:

• Legally changing my name before the end of the year
• Getting a female photo and my chosen name on my drivers license
• My beautiful and loving friends and family who support me through all of this
• My body in changing all it has, and continues to, to be the woman I've always been inside
• Feeling free to be myself in public, and a fair inability to pass for male any more
• Support and help from the many men and women at Susans, as well as my therapists

What keeps you smiling?

[Tessa James]

As in never feeling so good?  No matter the mean and bullying around us, we keep on feeling so much love for our real selves and one another

[Lesley_Roberta]

What keeps me smiling?

Well Susan's has a lot of people that in addition to being very good people are also a wealth of experience and good information.

My life has been defined by 'information' and thus, I do get a lot of worth out of the input.

Plus, and I have mentioned her before, my friend Sierra, well damn it she looks good. I can see all of my cis female friends envying here even. So new to her journey, and yet, damn she looks good. I mean GOOD, not the sort of good we offer as pats on the back, but seriously attractive.

She's someone I really enjoy gracing my Facebook, as she is a beacon of hope. I have seen her journey, and I know what she had to work with in the beginning.

There's a lot to be said for good solid evidence.