Quote from: Emma1017 on April 30, 2025, 04:49:35 PMThank you, Lori, Lilis, Davina, and Ellen.  The opinion of friends is far more valuable than my own opinion of myself.   

Of course, I notice my waist in the photo, but I have given up on my girlish figure.  No bikinis for me! 

All in all, it was a fun day and much needed!

I think I gave up on bikinis when I turned 40. 

Quote from: Lori Dee on April 30, 2025, 04:53:00 PMI think I gave up on bikinis when I turned 40. 

I also gave up bikinis decades ago

Ellen

I have never given bikinis even a thought.  I am a swim shorts and rash guard kinda girl.

Rash Guard - That's what I wear in the creek, aka jeans. Too many leeches hide under the rocks I move. 

Quote from: Lori Dee on April 29, 2025, 07:33:48 PMJust gotta love that smile!
Do it often. 

Right? Emma has the smile that can stop traffic.

Girl, we all need to unplug from the world a lot of the time. I am thankful because stuff makes me so out of it that I can't be in touch with this more than a day or two a week. I mean not thankful, obviously, but you know what I mean. Now more than ever you can get massively overloaded if you allow it.

But sometimes you just need to live in the world where global communications doesn't exist. You need to switch off. And just be in your own world. Forget everyone else's.

Quote from: Sephirah on May 01, 2025, 04:52:31 PMBut sometimes you just need to live in the world where global communications doesn't exist. You need to switch off. And just be in your own world. Forget everyone else's.

That is why I try to spend as much time as possible in the forest.

Quote from: Lori Dee on May 01, 2025, 05:58:49 PMThat is why I try to spend as much time as possible in the forest.

Lori... part squirrel. She's nuts, but in the best possible way. <3

Sephirah if I tried to stop traffic in NYC with my smile, I'd be toothless...🤪

Now you all know why I scuba dive. There is no internet under water.

But hey, according to the world, we are all nuts and I couldn't think of a classier group of people to be associated with.
Now pass me some walnuts.

Quote from: Emma1017 on May 01, 2025, 09:18:18 PMSephirah if I tried to stop traffic in NYC with my smile, I'd be toothless...🤪

Now you all know why I scuba dive. There is no internet under water.

But hey, according to the world, we are all nuts and I couldn't think of a classier group of people to be associated with.
Now pass me some walnuts.

See... I knew I loved you for a reason. Walnuts are my favourites. Followed closely by Brazil Nuts.

Also.. a girl who is down with the beauty of the underwater world is a girl after my own heart.

We aren't who we are because of what's outside. We are who we are because of what's inside.

I've been watching some more stuff by that couple you linked, Emma. Amanda and Shaye? Shaye is so gorgeous. And her wife is equally as gorgeous. Because they just love each other. I used to know a girl when I first came here back in 2008, called Shay. She reminded me of you... quite a lot, honestly. Must be the name. She was around your age, and just as thoughtful... and sassy.

So thats why there are walnuts in the carrot cake!!

I guess we have to be nuts to be transgender...

Talking about changing worlds, I tried the Meta Quest 3 virtual reality headset.  It is amazing!  There are apps for so many different experiences. You can enter mediative world, go underwater, travel the world, watch a movie on a big screen or play as Indian Jones without connection to a computer. 

It is ridiculously expensive at $399 but it was fun to play in the store.

Quote from: Emma1017 on May 03, 2025, 08:26:51 AMI guess we have to be nuts to be transgender...

Talking about changing worlds, I tried the Meta Quest 3 virtual reality headset.  It is amazing!  There are apps for so many different experiences. You can enter mediative world, go underwater, travel the world, watch a movie on a big screen or play as Indian Jones without connection to a computer. 

It is ridiculously expensive at $399 but it was fun to play in the store.

Omg, Emma, that's kind of cheap... relatively. I had one of the original Occulus Rift VR headsets back in 2017, and the thing cost over £700 ($928 in today's money). And you needed to plug it into a powerful gaming PC just to get the thing to run.

It's amazing how the tech has moved on... but there really is nothing like it. Your brain fills in the gaps. One of the first experiences I had was "standing" on top of a skyscraper as this giant UFO flew overhead, doing the whole Mars Attacks thing... and as someone who has really bad vertigo, I almost threw up. Your brain makes it real. It's quite freaky. And with the right experience, really quite wonderful.

People have done stuff with VR that... well...

https://beanotherlab.org/home/work/tmtba/

Hmmm, swapping bodies by virtual reality. 

I always thought that someday trans fem and trans masc individuals could have a swap meet of body parts.

I did two more days teaching, and it was a lot of fun.  The students now recognize me and like to chat.   It felt really special when the principal said I was invited to the graduation because I was "part of the family now".  That was really special.

The senior class is trying to do a prom, but most have no money, and some live in shelters, so I suggested that they start a go-fund-me page. 

There is such a large LGBTQ community in NYC, I know that they could raise the funds.

Quote from: Emma1017 on May 07, 2025, 03:12:42 PMI did two more days teaching, and it was a lot of fun.  The students now recognize me and like to chat.   It felt really special when the principal said I was invited to the graduation because I was "part of the family now".  That was really special.

The senior class is trying to do a prom, but most have no money, and some live in shelters, so I suggested that they start a go-fund-me page. 

There is such a large LGBTQ community in NYC, I know that they could raise the funds.

No wonder the kids like you!

Quote from: Emma1017 on May 07, 2025, 03:12:42 PMI did two more days teaching, and it was a lot of fun.  The students now recognize me and like to chat.   It felt really special when the principal said I was invited to the graduation because I was "part of the family now".  That was really special.

The senior class is trying to do a prom, but most have no money, and some live in shelters, so I suggested that they start a go-fund-me page. 

There is such a large LGBTQ community in NYC, I know that they could raise the funds.

It is good to help out the kids.

Chrissy

Well we all knew you would fit in!!!

It's funny, some people in the school think I am gay, some know I am transgender but not sure whether I am mtf or ftm, and only a few think I am cisgender. 

You may be the target market for the 'Guess' line of clothing and fashion accessories.

Love always -- Jess

Quote from: Emma1017 on May 08, 2025, 01:19:25 PMIt's funny, some people in the school think I am gay, some know I am transgender but not sure whether I am mtf or ftm, and only a few think I am cisgender. 

As long as they all know you as Emma, it's all good.