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Title: Celebrating full time anniversaries?
Post by: alisontaylor on February 02, 2008, 03:28:34 PM
Post by: alisontaylor on February 02, 2008, 03:28:34 PM
Does anyone celebrate their anniversaries of being full time? I just reached 6 month mark and it has been so enjoyable and fulfilling that I feel like throwing a party. I definitely will next summer for the anniversary.
Title: Re: Celebrating full time anniversaries?
Post by: tinkerbell on February 02, 2008, 04:07:18 PM
Post by: tinkerbell on February 02, 2008, 04:07:18 PM
No I don't celebrate when I went fulltime, but I have started to celebrate the day I had SRS, January 8, 2007, so I am now one year old. Yay, the younger the better!
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Title: Re: Celebrating full time anniversaries?
Post by: Natasha on February 02, 2008, 08:10:10 PM
Post by: Natasha on February 02, 2008, 08:10:10 PM
i can't even remember my full time annivesary. i haven't been post-op for one year either
Title: Re: Celebrating full time anniversaries?
Post by: Cortana on February 02, 2008, 08:54:07 PM
Post by: Cortana on February 02, 2008, 08:54:07 PM
I will when a year has passed. I will more then likely treat myself to something on that day. ;)
The only problem is that I don't really know which day to celebrate. I got my first bottle of Anti-A's on Dec. 4 and my E's along wih my P's on Dec. 7 so I'm really not sure which day I should celebrate.. I will probably go with the 7th of Dec. but I don't know. I'll just have to wait and see next year. :D
The only problem is that I don't really know which day to celebrate. I got my first bottle of Anti-A's on Dec. 4 and my E's along wih my P's on Dec. 7 so I'm really not sure which day I should celebrate.. I will probably go with the 7th of Dec. but I don't know. I'll just have to wait and see next year. :D
Title: Re: Celebrating full time anniversaries?
Post by: NicholeW. on February 02, 2008, 09:29:18 PM
Post by: NicholeW. on February 02, 2008, 09:29:18 PM
After awhile I think those anniversaries become less noticeable. Regular birthdays always have been that way as well, at least for me.
I find I just get up and go through my day anymore. Nothing special about how I look and am when I do it.
Although, yes, the first couple of years were big enough to note with an anniversary. So were birthdays at one time. :laugh: :laugh:
I find I just get up and go through my day anymore. Nothing special about how I look and am when I do it.
Although, yes, the first couple of years were big enough to note with an anniversary. So were birthdays at one time. :laugh: :laugh:
Title: Re: Celebrating full time anniversaries?
Post by: Berliegh on March 11, 2008, 03:00:22 AM
Post by: Berliegh on March 11, 2008, 03:00:22 AM
Quote from: alisontaylor on February 02, 2008, 03:28:34 PM
Does anyone celebrate their anniversaries of being full time? I just reached 6 month mark and it has been so enjoyable and fulfilling that I feel like throwing a party. I definitely will next summer for the anniversary.
No...because I didn't have any drastic change in my life or a 'before and after' sinario. I've more or less been on the same path for most of my life...
Title: Re: Celebrating full time anniversaries?
Post by: Laura Eva B on March 28, 2008, 06:42:50 PM
Post by: Laura Eva B on March 28, 2008, 06:42:50 PM
Well. I guess I do have a definite date which I can count as my going "full time", 30th March 2005.
29th March 2005 was the very last time I kept up the pretence and presented myself as "male" .... three years this weekend !
No its not a big anniversary but guess I shall have a small private celebration, maybe a meal out in one of my favourite London restaurants as I'm planning a day in "town" to catch up with an exhibition of Russian impressionist / expressionist art on the day ....
I don't burden friends and family with multiple anniversaries, my birthday yes - big celebration, still my most important anniversary by far .... SRS anniversary on a lesser note with a few friends who really "understand", and I guess as time passes the whole episode of my transition will be something I want to just put behind me ?
Laura
29th March 2005 was the very last time I kept up the pretence and presented myself as "male" .... three years this weekend !
No its not a big anniversary but guess I shall have a small private celebration, maybe a meal out in one of my favourite London restaurants as I'm planning a day in "town" to catch up with an exhibition of Russian impressionist / expressionist art on the day ....
I don't burden friends and family with multiple anniversaries, my birthday yes - big celebration, still my most important anniversary by far .... SRS anniversary on a lesser note with a few friends who really "understand", and I guess as time passes the whole episode of my transition will be something I want to just put behind me ?
Laura
Title: Re: Celebrating full time anniversaries?
Post by: Kt on March 28, 2008, 10:03:19 PM
Post by: Kt on March 28, 2008, 10:03:19 PM
I don't remember when I went fulltime, and I presented as male only at work for an extended period of time before that, so there was no real drastic *change*.
I think as time goes on, such a landmark becomes less important.
I do plan on celebrating SRS day Oct23, probably like a second birthday, minus the gift-giving, maybe with more intoxication and personal time with the SO.
I think as time goes on, such a landmark becomes less important.
I do plan on celebrating SRS day Oct23, probably like a second birthday, minus the gift-giving, maybe with more intoxication and personal time with the SO.
Title: Re: Celebrating full time anniversaries?
Post by: Berliegh on April 14, 2008, 04:58:26 AM
Post by: Berliegh on April 14, 2008, 04:58:26 AM
I've been full time for quite a few years and first started transition in the 1990's but unfortunitely I still haven't had SRS...but have I been full time for quite a few years..
I wouldn't celebrate this process as my life has run an even parellel and long before transitioning I was feminine in appearance and presentation. So it's all been very seamless..
I wouldn't celebrate this process as my life has run an even parellel and long before transitioning I was feminine in appearance and presentation. So it's all been very seamless..
Title: Re: Celebrating full time anniversaries?
Post by: Sandy on April 14, 2008, 12:40:10 PM
Post by: Sandy on April 14, 2008, 12:40:10 PM
I just past my one month anniversary of my SRS March 13,2008.
And on April 16th I'll celebrate my first full year of full time.
For now, yes, they are big things to me. And I will continue to celebrate them at least to myself for the foreseeable future.
-Sandy
And on April 16th I'll celebrate my first full year of full time.
For now, yes, they are big things to me. And I will continue to celebrate them at least to myself for the foreseeable future.
-Sandy
Title: Re: Celebrating full time anniversaries?
Post by: joannatsf on April 26, 2008, 05:28:21 PM
Post by: joannatsf on April 26, 2008, 05:28:21 PM
I consider the day in late October 2005 that I decided to transition an anniversery. The actual process of doing it took a few months, but by April I was out everywhere including work. My natal birthday and sobriety date are also in October so I've combined them in a celebration of birth and re-biirth. It's kind of somber for me though. The day of my birth was nearly the day of my death 6 years ago.
Title: Re: Celebrating full time anniversaries?
Post by: lacitychick21 on May 12, 2008, 03:35:37 PM
Post by: lacitychick21 on May 12, 2008, 03:35:37 PM
Quote from: Berliegh on March 11, 2008, 03:00:22 AM
No...because I didn't have any drastic change in my life or a 'before and after' sinario. I've more or less been on the same path for most of my life...
I'd have to agree in that, that's the only way I see it as being able to define an actualy FT day.
For me, I went FT suddenly (unexpectedly) one day. Prior to that, I didn't dress or go out (purposely presenting female) at all. I came to the point where I couldn't go anywhere and not get ma'amed so a friend (who 'passed' very well) convinced me to go out "dressed" for the first time. I don't THINK we were 'clocked' all day so to celebrate we went out that night to hang out at a club/bar with friends. There I met my BF and never went back.
March 10, 2006 :) I've celebrated twice.