I will get to the ironic thing shortly.. but the odds of it happening are huge...
Anyway, so I get dolled up with full makeup and some of my new clothes and go downtown in person to the courthouse.. there are several steps to getting your name changed in Oklahoma.
Anyway, you go to the law library and get the forms.. you fill them out take back into the law library get copies and have them notarized.
Then you go to the county clerk office and pay the filing fee about 155.00 bucks.
Then they send you to another window for the filing clerk.. she does her thing gets a docket number stamped all over several of the forms and sends you to the Judges office to have a court date set. Then you go back to her and she files it and lets you pick a newspaper to put it in.
Well, no one knows I used to be a dude except the employees because they see your paperwork.. everyone was very very kind to me.. no issues at all
But I am so stressed out being new at full time takes courage.
So I am stressed thinking this being a girl thing sure is a hassle and I do wish I were a guy guy. I don't regret being a chick at all because its me its who I am but those thoughts go through your head like what was I thinking.
You see, when you feel cured.. when you do not have anything to hide and you are yourself its just wonderful to be who you always were.. that does not mean its easy or fun.. a lot of hurt and pain has gone through me and my family over the last year. But now I feel normal and the reason I wanted to change in the first place is gone... I am me now.. hard to explain but its like I have to remind myself how I felt as a male.. all those years since I was young. Its a new beginning.. a new but normal reality.
Anyway here is the ironic part of the story.. I am about as stressed as you can get all those thoughts and everything and when I went to the judges office.. his office number was 205. I see it and begin laughing and thinking OMG what an omen or message from above.. 205... that number means a lot to me.
It seems to be my lucky number.. its the number I use at the company I work at been my number since 1996 when I went to work there which changed my life for the good.. and my family's life.. I am a sales rep. So that 205 number would pop up in the strangest ways over the years always with something good attached to it..
I could be a hotel room on our best vacations or other various things.
So when I saw it a calm came over me.. I was able to laugh it off and thought how funny... what are the odds of that.
Anyway, it was quite an experience...one I will never forget
Oh, and I am not Keri now.. my wife, daughter and son love the name Dodie Elizabeth... Dodie is cute and they like it so much so I went with it for them.
Keri/Dodie
One day I will figure out how to change it on the forums....
