Attempted eyeliner for the first time and I really like how it makes my eyes pop!

There is also less than a week away from my doctor's visit, so I'm really excited about that too. =)

Hi All

I had a great time out with two of my girl friends that I work with. We went out to dinner and we ate in the bar. We all got hit on a lot LOL. My girl friend do not have a clue that I'm Trans. They never will and I have known them for over 3 1/2 years.

Lyndsey

I've been retooling my wardrobe, aiming for "dyke" because I'm about to start a new job and I'm not out yet.  Basically, I want to be read as male by everybody but myself.    Since this is a significant compromise and I'm starting tomorrow, I haven't actually been dressing this way (I want my new clothes to be clean, and I've been going more femme in the last week to combat the upcoming dysphoria).

I'm a slow start in the morning, so I set out to put together an outfit for tomorrow before I went to bed. I ended up playing dress-up for about 45 minutes.  Often times, it can take me that long to dress in the morning because I'm slow and dumb tired and indecisive, distracted by making breakfast etc.  But in those 45 minutes, I came up  with an outfit for every day of the week. They look good, I'm pretty confident they'll be read as masculine enough, and my wife agrees on all fronts!  Each outfit is on a hanger in my closet and I can just rip 'em down, throw 'em on and run out the door.  My wife is like "good job, you've rediscovered the secret to dressing for office jobs."  lol

And I'm super excited about the work I'll be doing.

Oh yes! Lots of splashing and spinning X

2 hour appt. with my new electrolysis lady today & I hope all goes well. She is so strick & they worry about every little minute of the day, $65 per hour. I miss my previous electro lady that passed away 2 months ago. She was so nice & did a great job on my face with such nice facials...

FrancisAnn, Good luck and I hope all goes well for you. Sorry for the loss of the previous electro lady. Hugs
Mariah

Hi Girls

I woke up this morning and feel great my cold is gone.

Lynn

Yay! Glad your feeling better Lyndsey! X

Susan's coming out post. In the words of Stan Lee, 'nough said!

Quote from: Moomin on January 04, 2016, 04:28:54 PM
Yay! Glad your feeling better Lyndsey! X

Thank you so much Moomin

Lyndsey

Love my new electrolysis lady! Her process is great with very little pain to remove my remaining facial hairs. She has 2 good friends/clients that completed their GRS & are living happy lives. One recently got married & she attended her wedding. She wants me to meet them & join in a monthly social event at one church. I'm looking forward to getting to know these women plus others & who knows maybe a man is out there for me.   Happy Dance!

Quote from: Mariah2014 on January 04, 2016, 07:00:55 AM
FrancisAnn, Good luck and I hope all goes well for you. Sorry for the loss of the previous electro lady. Hugs
Mariah

Mariah. Life is good for me & I hope life is good for you friend. Take care, love, Francis

Today I had to go to the bank counter to draw out cash because the ATM wasn't working.

I presented my card and withdrawal form to the lady at the counter. She looks at the form, then at my card (which is in my old male name) then at me and says "Is this your card miss?"

It took me a few seconds to workout what she was implying. I told her that yes it is my card but I haven't had my name changed yet.

She said it was no problem at all and that when the name change went through they could update my card quickly.

It has made me feel like I've almost left all of my past life behind me, all except the good friends and family

Happy Today!  Got my brand new U.S. passport in the mail with my "F" for gender and my matching photo.  Made me smile.

Without my involvement, my company has updated their discrimination and harassment policy with a note that "sex" includes pregnancy and gender identity.  It's still a pretty lame policy since the "company policy" is that "provincial law prohibits..." which isn't actually a policy so much as a statement of fact.  And since neither provincial law nor case law support their statement of fact... ah... here I am, looking the gift horse in the mouth.

Also, they're putting in new single occupancy bathrooms.  I just got ahold of the blueprints, and one of them has a urinal and the other has a locking door.  Rats.  Since the construction isn't done yet (I think plumbing might be a done deal) I'm pushing to get neutral signage on the doors regardless.

Last year I had to travel to Manila to conduct training for 2 months.
To put it mildly I did not want to do it and be away from home.

Today I got asked to go to a wedding of one of the Manila team later in the year.
Things did not turn out how I expected and I had a good time and build very strong bonds with them.

I do miss them but we talk most days and see them on the video phones.

Life is full of surprises

SURPISE!

Yay!!! I finally know when I can start hrt! I need to have a few more meetings with my psychologist that have also been planned,  but at least I now know for sure I can start early June. I was just waiting and waiting, not hearing anything back from the VUmc in Amsterdam after my intake appointments, making the dysphoria worse. So today I couldn't wait anymore for them to call me and contacted them myself. When they saw i was already referred to them in August of last year, they profoundly apologized for keeping me in limbo like that. I felt relieved they said that, because I was afraid they would consider me to be the complaining type of patient, which I really try not to be.

It actually was taking too long, because something went wrong in their bureaucracy. They thanked me for my patience, could imagine my gender dysphoria getting worse and planned  everything in one go.

I'm a happy girl now 

Hi Girls

Well Last night I got to do something new with two beautiful women and really enjoyed myself!  :angel:This week I have learn so much here with all of you. We all have such different paths that we all follow in life and when we bump into each other I believe that our paths were meant to cross. Last night when I feel asleep I knew that I had made two more close friends and will alway cherish that.

Hug's Lyndsey

Even though it took me way too long to get to work today because of the incredibly lousy weather here in LA, I'm excited to be going to the West Coast premier of the new web series "Her Story."  A show about transgender women dating in Los Angeles.  There will be a large number of trans women from all across the country there, including a number of ladies from this board.  So, even though the weather is bad the company will be fantastic!!

Quote from: Jessie Ann on January 06, 2016, 02:25:07 PM
Even though it took me way too long to get to work today because of the incredibly lousy weather here in LA, I'm excited to be going to the West Coast premier of the new web series "Her Story."  A show about transgender women dating in Los Angeles.  There will be a large number of trans women from all across the country there, including a number of ladies from this board.  So, even though the weather is bad the company will be fantastic!!

Enjoy girl friend. That's sounds great. I'm envious since I never get to travel much at all.