I don't really know why it is called a fanny pack. I wear it in front, hangs a little bit, just like a Scottish purse. I mostly wore the fanny pack when I went for my walks. Most of the time I had a purse with shoulder straps. It has been too wet or too cold lately to go on my walks. Of course, if I am in a store walking up and down the aisles, then I get enough steps to get the equivalent of what I would normally walk.

I don't know if I'm eating something that I should not be eating that causes me to feel cold. I'll see if I improve when I start drinking milk from grass fed cows. I may have to get butter and cheese from grass fed cows. I kind of slipped up and started buying what was cheapest.

I got some cloth wristbands, something like for weight lifting. They keep my wrists warm, so they don't ache. There was something about the metal plates in my wrists losing heat faster than my body can warm them. Cold water seems to instantly cause my wrists to ache.

 I do have a straight weight bar that I now use for curls. It was to force the rotation of my wrists, and then I find out that not everyone can get that rotation. That is why there is a bent weight bar.
I still haven't gotten my wrists to the position for doing pushups.
Michelle

Sometimes things have a way of working out. Currently it looks like the primary medical provider that I had prior to going to the VA, will be the one to prescribe my hormones. That means it will be about a 15 minute drive to the doctor's office instead of the 2 hour drive. Plus she already has my records.
Michelle

Quote from: Michelle_K on November 07, 2024, 01:03:10 PMSometimes things have a way of working out. Currently it looks like the primary medical provider that I had prior to going to the VA, will be the one to prescribe my hormones. That means it will be about a 15 minute drive to the doctor's office instead of the 2 hour drive. Plus she already has my records.
Michelle

That is great news, Michelle.

I am happy it worked out.

Yesterday, Nov. 7,2024, I received a call from CentraCare, asking where I would like to have my appointment. She noted that one location was my primary care doctor. I decided to use my primary care doctor, and she would forward the recommendation. I happened to notice my phone battery was down to 19, and put the phone on the charger.
Later I got a text message to call the VA. The VA wanted to know if CentraCare had contacted me. I let the know that they did. While on the line, I asked to be transferred to audiology. I have a 2:15 appointment today to select what type of hearing aid I will get.
I went out on my walk, and got a call. I now have an appointment on Dec. 9, 2024, for my hormone consultation. This is one that I may be glad that I learned the hormone limits beforehand.

I have been having internet problems this morning, with the router showing fluctuating signal strength.
Michelle

I have been having trouble with intermittent internet tonight. T-Mobile internet is not working. Currently off line, I tried a hot spot with my phone and that was no better, T-Mobile carrier.

I got to the VA and my new hearing aids are ordered. When they arrive, they will get programmed and will also connect to the iPhone.
While I was in St. Cloud, Mn. I stopped at Target in the Crossroads Center mall. I finally found the thigh high stockings that I've been looking for. I'm also looking for a proper makeup mirror, that I am unable to find. I don't know what happened to the one I used to have.

I was thinking I should play some video games, but without the internet, it can't find my Xbox profile.
Something else I noticed, was that Xbox had to have my credit card on file to give me a free game update.

It got a bit interesting with one video. I could wear Viking jewelry with a Scottish Kilt.
Michelle

When it was time for my puberty, my dad gave me a book called "Towards Manhood", that he got from the church. I started reading it. I got no further than the first couple of pages, where I read "God in his wisdom gave us the proper bodies, boys do not want to be girls, and girls do not want to be boys." I was ready to throw the book across the room.
I do get tired of the rhetoric that God does not make mistakes when he gives us our genitals, and any other birth defect is caused by nature and needs to be fixed.
The church elders can berate us for making a choice of being homosexual, yet have no answer when asked when they chose to be heterosexual. This anti homosexual is pushed to the point that a father dare not hug his son like he hugs his daughter, a boy dare not hug his brother like he hugs his sister.

The mere fact that I could show love towards another boy and I get a lecture about being gay. Why do they have no concept that I can be both male and female. Being female I can love a male, being male I can love a female. They twisted it all around, it became, being male, it is forbidden to love a male, being female, it is forbidden to love a female.
I just now saw something, it is a problem with language, using the word love instead of sex.
Michelle

I watch these videos about clothing, and sometimes I come across something odd. The guy said wearing armor and a mini skirt, don't be absurd. Then a little lesson in history, male Roman solders wearing mini skirts, and they aren't the only ones.

You can quote the Bible all you want, about a male wearing female clothes. You have broken so many rules of the Bible, but you say it is ok because God has forgiven you, and then you judge me for wearing a dress.
Michelle

I have been plagued all day with intermittent internet connection. Having to check my signal strength, and even running a cable to the router. It seems the computer would disconnect from the Wi-Fi when the internet connection was lost.

I wrote something to post and then accidentally closed the browser window, deleting what I had written.

Today I am doing laundry. I set the timer on the dryer and then set a kitchen timer next to my computer. The problem is if I am in the kitchen or bathroom, I don't hear the timer ring.
My new hearing aids will connect to my iPhone and I can answer the phone through the hearing aids. I should be able to answer the phone when it is on the charger and I am 20+ feet away. I think the phone will need to hear me, but the hearing aids should have a microphone.
 I was wondering if I could get a text to speech program, and the phone could read me the text messages as I get them. Most importantly the reminder messages to take my pills. I guess I could tell Siri to remind me.

I need to do some figuring. I'm now thinking the computer can connect through Wi-Fi to the iPhone and send me notifications. At the very least update the calendar in the phone.
Michelle

A long time ago, possibly 1995, when I was running windows 95, I had a small automation setup. I had the computer controlling a couple of lights. Using the scheduler in windows, it was programed to turn on a lamp. The lamp was to inform me it was time for bed. At the designated time, the computer shut off the lights, or started dimming the lights (I don't recall which). Finally the computer turned itself off.
I even used the scheduler to pop up text files to remind me when a tv show was about to come on.

On the newer version of windows, I have been unable to do any of that. I don't know how many appointments and other stuff I have put into the calendar, and I don't think I have ever heard any reminder. Must be another windows program that you need to go on the internet to figure out how to get it to work properly. And when you do get it working, an update breaks it again.

What happened was I got up yesterday, and my bottle of vitamins and glass of water were still on the table from the day before. I must have gotten the glass of water, and then had to go to the bathroom, and totally forgot about my vitamins. I think I need a new routine where my pills get put into an empty glass and placed by the computer.

It was not my intent to write this stuff. What I intended to write was that I may have made a mistake in my shoe size. I realized I had been wearing athletic socks with a women's shoe size 12, which I can't find in the stores. Without the athletic socks, I may wear a women's shoe size 11, which I can find in Target or any shoe store.
Michelle

I got up this morning, my computer showed 11/11/2024. I thought to myself, today is Monday, as I wrote down my weight. This morning I remembered to put my pills in a glass and put them by my computer. I needed to mail a check today. After watching a few videos, I checked my email. One said VA News, Happy Veteran's Day.
Veteran's day means post office is closed. Today they dedicate the new Veteran's park in my town. I go to Facebook and read about the armistice, on the 11th hour, on the 11th day, in the 11th month. The hour might depend on where you were in the world.

I knew it by another name, it is called Armistice Day.
Michelle

 So much going through my mind. From romance novels to Barbie movies. I don't know how many Barbie movies I have, but I have watched them. I think I have one Bratz movie, and a lot of Monster High movies. I have even seen a lot of home made Barbie and Monster High videos on You Tube.
For some reason I missed the Disney Descendants movies. Maybe small town store not having the movies.
It was a little surprise to me that there was narration of a romance story on You Tube. Now that I watched/listened to it, You Tube is recommending more.  I have also watched a bunch of Vchat videos.

I guess what I am trying to say is that I like romance novels and romance movies. I just recently re-watched a couple of Monster High movies.

Way back in the 1990s, I got a few instructional videos. Things like Texas line dancing, and belly dancing.
I even got a video of male models.
Michelle 

Somewhere somebody has said that transgender people know how to program computers. I thought to myself that can't be right since I don't know how to program computers. Knowing how to program computers has nothing to do with being transgender.

I thought about it for a while and realized I had forgotten a few things. My first computer was a Radio Shack Tandy Color Computer. I followed the instructions in the book and did some programing. I even put a tv schedule into the computer. The program was saved on a regular audio cassette using a portable cassette recorder. I had magazines for the color computer and would hand type the programs into the computer.

Next was an IBM computer running DOS. Bill Gates had not stolen Windows yet, so this was pre-windows. There was a program called basic, that could be used to write other programs. The programs written in basic could only be run in basic.

In DOS we had .BAT files. They were mainly text files. They could be used to list program names on screen and then tell what the shortcut name was.

Somewhere I have the instructions for taking objects out of video games and converting them for Sims 2. I actually took a statue of Lara Croft and put it into the Sims 2 game. Being interested, I learned how to make the meshes for the Furry Sims. These sims had tails and properly placed ears.

I guess I am a programmer after all.
Michelle

Not all of us dear, I have enough trouble just working this lap top!!!

In the early years of the internet, Somebody suggested that it would be nice if there was some physical characteristic that would show that we were transgender. There was discussion on finger length might give a clue. What I doing is comparing the pointer finger length with the ring finger length.
The latest I heard was that it can determine if you are gay. In my case that is false, unless I am a female, then my fingers show I am heterosexual.  A quick check now shows it may be a measure of intelligence.

There is a chair lift that women can do and men can't. Basically your head is against the wall and holding the chair up, you stand up straight. I must be different as I can do it.
Just today I saw a new one, being on elbows and knees, put your arms behind your back without falling over. If you can do it, it proves you are female.
Being 5'9" tall and weighing about 160 pounds, my center of gravity may be such that I can do both.

Out of curiosity, I decided to measure my wing span, that is finger tip of one hand to finger tip of the other. My height is 5'9", and my wing span is 6'2". That gives me a wing span of +5. Doing exercises of touching my toes, I can actually touch the floor. The other day I realized I forgot to do my toe touches. When I tried, I was surprised that I could not touch my toes. I then realized I was wearing high heels.
Michelle

I have long legs for my height so that makes it harder to touch my toes and when I have the car seat set for my legs the steering wheel can be a bit farther than I would like. Sorted on my Hot Rod as I built it to fit me!!

When I lived back on the farm, I used to daydream about having my own place. I could wear my dresses while inside the house, and change to jeans when I went outside. For some reason it never worked out. The first couple of years I wore jeans around the house.
One day I stepped outside to walk to the post office, and I felt my breasts bounce as I went down the steps. It was later that I picked up my earrings from beside my computer. For some reason when I moved, my earrings ended up beside my computer. It had been a long time since I had taken them off. I started to take the men's clothes to the thrift shop, and pick up women's clothes. Then came the fall, breaking both wrists. With that was an experience of having female nurses wipe my rear after using the bathroom. A forced reality of being in a rest room the same time as women. It makes it easier to take that step into the women's rest room at the store.
After getting out of the hospital, I did start wearing skirts around the house. during this time I would step outside and make a couple of trips around the outside of the house. I went outside while wearing the skirt. I even tried on my bikini tops, and wore them outside.
The real test was when I stepped outside, went to the sidewalk, and walked to the post office while wearing a skirt. Within a month of getting out of the hospital, I was at the corn carnival, wearing my leather skirt.
Michelle

For 30 years I worked at the letter shop. I worked the night shift, starting work at 4:00 PM. Our shift did 4 ten hour days per week, getting done at 2:00 AM. Except overtime would push it to 5 ten hour days per week. And occasionally Saturdays and Sundays. I think the first 10 years I ran an inserting machine, Then got put as a stock person, finally running a fork lift. One Halloween, I was Dorthy on a forklift.
It gets a bit rough trying to change my sleep patterns from getting to bed at 4:00 AM. and getting up at noon. I keep trying to get to bed before midnight, but then I might look at the clock and realize it is after 1:00 AM. For some reason I seem to sleep for 9 hours, before getting up. Then in the morning everything is behind schedule.
Michelle

I see by the videos that somebody in congress is trying to prevent a newly elected transgender person from using the restroom of her choice. I understand that the individual offices have their own restrooms, so the likelihood of finding her in the public restroom is slim.
Unisex or single person restrooms would seem ok, except that I don't know if I could get used to knocking on the door before entering, and walk in on someone who forgot to lock the door. Then there is the store where they have the so called family restroom along with the men's restroom and women's restroom. Any guesses that the single person going into the family restroom is transgender? A guy followed me in, saying he was looking for his backpack.
For my safety, I decided I would be better off using the women's rest room. I will never know if the janitor in the one men's restroom decided I was a female and should not be in there, and suggested the use of the family restroom. Or if it was because the toilet stall was in use.

At any rate, there are already self proclaimed restroom police. One incident being real police called on a cis woman who was thought to be a trans-woman using the restroom.
Michelle

Forgot to add: some trans people limit their travel to as long as the time needed to return home and not use a public restroom.

In the gas station on the west edge of Cokato, MN. there are 2 unisex restrooms. I don't know if the original intent may have been ...
There used to be a Shopko near the traffic light, but now there is a Kwik Trip gas station. It has a men's restroom, a women's restroom, and a unisex (Family) restroom.
I have been playing sims 4, and today I noticed that the public restrooms have the unisex signs.

Just thinking about while I was still living on the farm. I don't know how many people were living there as it had turned into a flop house. Somebody had put a women's sign on the bathroom door. So technically I had been using the women's bathroom for a couple of years.
One day I had gone downstairs and a girl was washing her hair, and left the bathroom door open. She stated that she wouldn't mind me using the toilet.

Just a reminder that I am assigned male at birth. In one store, the restrooms are within sight of the cashier. The question is, If the cashier yells that I am entering the wrong restroom when I am entering the men's restroom, is that the same as telling me to use the women's restroom.

It is interesting that Nancy Mace feels threatened by having a biological male in the women's restroom due to the fact that she had been raped. But she would have no problem forcing a feminine looking male that had been raped to use the men's restroom.
Michelle

I was playing sims 4 again and noticed that one of the gyms had separate men's and women's bathrooms. One sim is transgendered, and I saw her enter the men's and take a shower and then later entered the women's. Its just a game, the markings on the doors don't mean anything to the sims.

I think my dad said it way back in the 1970s, if a boy has long hair, you can't tell that he is a boy. I sometimes wonder if during his hunting trips he found a woman to sleep with. Imagine waiting at the door of the rest room for a pretty woman to come out, only to find out it is a very feminine male.
I believe my dad was homophobic, and would have had a fit if the woman he picked up at the bar turned out to be in his eyes, a man in a dress. To avoid such embarrassment,  he would support anti cross dressing laws. And support laws to keep men out of the women's restroom.
I was just wondering if the regulation was worded such that a male repairman can't enter the women's restroom to do any repair work.
Michelle