Hi, I hope everyone's having a great weekend!
Last night I went to a punk show. For a lot of people it was kind of a homecoming type thing, this popular local band from the 90's did a reunion set and then there was a cover band that played songs from a very popular local band from the 80's and 90's, the bands were great, it was very fun! I'm friends with people in both of those bands and one of them moved to California, so this was his first time seeing me as a woman and when I first got there he was walking by me and then noticed me and stopped to say hi and he smiled and said how happy he was for me, it was really sweet of him. I did have a couple awkward moments though. There was this one girl there that I've known for a long time, about 14 years or so, and this was her first time seeing me as Maddie and she came over to say how good I looked and she talked to me for a couple minutes and then her husband came up and kinda paused and said "so you're maddie now?". I don't think he meant anything bad but the way he said it sounded kinda awkward. whatever, i never cared much for him anyways lol. Then there was this other guy there that I've met a couple times and he was acting like we were old friends even though I barely know him. He seems nice but I always thought he was kinda annoying so I'd try to keep my distance from him, but he made it kinda hard last night. Towards the end of the night he came up to me and asked if he could talk to me for a couple minutes and I said yes and then he said how happy he was for me and asked if I was friends with this other trans woman from our local scene (which I am, she's a good person). His intentions were good but then a couple times he told me how before I came out I was a subject of discussion at one of his band's practices, which I thought was weird of him to tell me. I feel it's odd to know that a bunch of my friends were talking about me behind my back, he could have left that part out. Whatever, I got to dance with a cute girl after that
This morning I met a friend for brunch. He's an old friend of mine that I've kinda fallen out of touch with but he's a good guy. He told me that he had a feeling something was up with me years ago but didn't know exactly how intense it was for me. we just kinda caught up a bit over some food and then after that we walked to an antique store just down the street and spent maybe an hour or so in there. Lots of cool stuff there but I didn't buy anything. I might have to hit up some other antique stores soon though, I need stuff to decorate my apartment with, but I'm being super selective now, I used to just buy a lot of random junk
