The post-move unpackathon continues, slowly. I'm getting settled in here. "Laurie's room" is still a mess of stacked boxes, I'm afraid. The condo does come with extra locked storage space down in the garage, about 40 square feet, and I will definitely be using that.
The cable internet & TV stuff is working, mostly. Good ole Comcast. I returned the old gear and closed the old account which was from prior to my name change, and opened a new account in my name. One more little bit of affirmation done...
Thursday I was at our church's Open Womens Group meeting, where we had a presentation from our Director of Religious Education.
This is a Unitarian Universalist congregation, so that label definitely doesn't mean what most folks think it means. They teach real-life coping skills, conflict resolution, and sex ed (far better than public schools with their abstinence-only nonsense), among other things. Questions on trans support came up, including pronouns.
At the luncheon afterwards I put on my badges I wear as part of our "Pronouns" campaign, a little educational program by our LGBTQ committee to teach folks to be more accepting of different pronouns, as part of being more welcoming to LGBTQ visitors. I was explaining the program to some of our older members.
"So, you see that the pronouns that someone feels are correct for them might not match what you might think in just looking at them..."
"Oh, like if one of those transgenders was to come here..."
"Yes, just so. If a transgender person came here, we'd want to be respectful and use the pronouns they would feel are right for them." I had to suppress the grin. "... ifone of those transgenders was to come here..." I could hug you, dear. More affirmation...
Friday was a bit of a bummer. I had a visit with the dermatologist to take car of yet another basal cell cancer, an excision on my right forearm near the melanoma surgery scar. Another dozen stitches, no exercise, no lifting for several weeks... At least it's gone now.
During the procedure I asked the dermatologist for info on a couple of things the FFS surgeon had mentioned, phenol peel or CO2 laser skin resurfacing. OK, ow! I suppose they will de-wrinkle me a bit. And as electrolysis winds up this year, I may need to find a new source of pain. Or not! Good grief...
I've got a bunch of stuff this afternoon and evening, including a neat musical performance and dinner with friends. That'll keep me occupied. There are a bunch of other tasks I need to get done, without any lifting, so we will see how that goes.
So, is this still part of the Real Life Test, or is it part of Real Life? Is Real Life a test? Pass/fail? I prefer multiple choice, myself...
