June 8th - Meeting with a view and updatesMy dear readers, many of you may have noticed a bit of a break I took from posting here and I appreciate some of your reaching out to check in. Things are mostly fine, I just had to become better about time slicing my day. Between family, work, transition, and fitness there was very little time left and looking at my sleep tracker made me realize I need to change a few things. Looking at my day, I all the sudden realized how much time I spend on social media. While I love being on Susan's I am planning to be much more mindful of my time spent here. I caught myself writing the same message for over two hours. I am not leaving, just reducing my activity a little bit.
Last time I posted was on Sunday while folding laundry. Wow. Finished at 3:30 AM. Wow. I think this was really the trigger for me to tip back a bit.
Right now I am on a train from New York home. Meetings ended a bit early and I could re-book to get home a bit earlier. Some of the saved hours will go down the drain in rush hour traffic, but I am still home significantly earlier than planned.
Pretty nice having meetings on the 27th floor in New York :-)
The morning started pretty wild... I just typed the hotel name into Google Maps and started walking, happy that it was only a few blocks. Arrived, was greeted by a lovely concierge (female) and tried to check in... Wrong hotel
;D;D... Concierge intercepted me on my way out and started hitting on me in a very, very sweet way... hahaha... Not even 30 minutes in town and this happens. Asked my plans for the day and the evening, go a bit touchy-feely.... and to be clear, not in the usual concierge way, this was hitting on me. Made me smile a lot.
Last night I had a nice Dinner with a coworker at Havana Central at Times Square. A really awesome "Girls Night Out". Little bit of work chat and then the "girl" stuff started: Her crushes, my crushes, puberty, One Direction. Fashion choices, fitness... Sometimes having teeny emotions in my age is fun... I can legally drink too!!! (And yes, there where fruity drinks with little umbrellas involved - sorry
@Jayne01 And a lot about my transition. I told her about my quest to find a cis-female mentor. She offered to help as much as she can (so sweet of her) and then went on to giving me a bunch of tips. Telling me that I pass so well that there is no need to overdo it by being too girly - guess I was lucky having decided not to wear the hot pants I had just bought
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Since it was a workday, we called it pretty early, I got back into my hotel and had to deal with a bit of work crisis. Part of my job is to step in in cases of a customer in crisis mode. Something I am usually pretty good at, and now having a team allows me to delegate a few things too. Also had to catch up with some of my other girlfriends... (Yeah, girls chat a LOT more)
Besides that, the week was one I rather forget. Between a fight at home, a fight at work and one of our cats being in the ER for two nights, a fairly expensive car service, a sinus infection and a few other things, I am really looking forward to the weekend. One thing did get me through the week:
@Alaskan Danielle's approach to happiness. Being busy also takes my mind off the constant thinking about transition. AT the moment there is nothing else I can do besides living, so that is what I need to focus on these days.
The 10,000 step challenge at work ended June 4th as well. Overall I did pretty well, on average above 10k steps for a total of 315,419 logged steps. Given that my usual average is around 4k, this is. great improvement. Unfortunately so far no effect on my body weight. Sinus infection did not allow for swimming and even gym visits were skipped or reduced to a light workout. I am still at it, which makes me happy. During my Germany trip, I just have to compensate with more walking. Much easier in the big city
The weekend will be mostly preparations for our trip to Germany.
So much for now, got to catch up on work e-mails for a bit.
Stay classy Internet.
Hugs - Sarah
