Ok, so after the stressful last few days we both wanted to get out and reconnect with nature.  We drove over to a local park that has nice walking trails and wandered around a bit.  Unfortunately it had been a while since we'd been to this park because it is a bit further.  So after managing to walk twice as much as we wanted, we were all hungry and my wife wanted to go to a Japanese place nearby as a sort of pick me up.  Unfortunately it was closed so we ended up at a Chinese buffet.  After we were done of course they brought fortune cookies.  Our daughter handed them out and this is the one I got.

"You will make a change for the better."

My FFS/BA is schedule for just a few days from now so I couldn't have asked for a better fortune.

I love fortune cookies. Mine are usually stupid, but that one you got seems pretty fortuitous.

Mine tend to be a bit useless too. Like " The hotel of your mind has many vacancies."

That's a good one, Jeneva! There are some nice ones in the fortune cookie thread over in the food section, too, check them out. Hugs, Devlyn

Btw, off topic but Jeneva is a great name.

Quote from: Felix on December 28, 2011, 06:32:01 PM
Btw, off topic but Jeneva is a great name.

Thanks!

It is based in part on the fact that I was so sheltered in high school that I thought Switzerland was the only place in the world that did GCS surgery. Not sure why but that is what I heard from my grandparents once about someone that transitioned. Of course it was also filled with expletives.

I got even more attached to it when I found role playing games and realized that TSR and DragonCon was originally based in Lake Geneva, WI. That was my only coping mechanism for a long time, and unfortunately I couldn't always play females because one of our game masters was the preacher at our church and he had a serious talk with me about how that was a bad idea when I first mentioned it.

After using Geneva for a long time I realized that J was a better choice since my birth name started with J.

Quote from: Jeneva on December 28, 2011, 08:57:57 PM
Thanks!

It is based in part on the fact that I was so sheltered in high school that I thought Switzerland was the only place in the world that did GCS surgery. Not sure why but that is what I heard from my grandparents once about someone that transitioned. Of course it was also filled with expletives.

I got even more attached to it when I found role playing games and realized that TSR and DragonCon was originally based in Lake Geneva, WI. That was my only coping mechanism for a long time, and unfortunately I couldn't always play females because one of our game masters was the preacher at our church and he had a serious talk with me about how that was a bad idea when I first mentioned it.

After using Geneva for a long time I realized that J was a better choice since my birth name started with J.

It has good connotations for me too, mostly because I think the Geneva conventions are so important, and also because it just sounds pretty.

Your reasons are pretty neat, though. I wasn't allowed to play Dungeons and Dragons growing up, but I went to DragonCon a couple times.

Once one mentions dragoncon, I no longer read the thread.

Quote from: Mahsa the disco shark on December 29, 2011, 01:26:35 AM
Once one mentions dragoncon, I no longer read the thread.

Good for you, Mahsa. *pats you on the head*

I was so proud. I went as an employee of a comic vendor, even though it was times between age 9 and elevenish. It certainly was a bunch of dorks, and a lot of people took it all too seriously, but I loved it.

Mahsa, would this thread be any cooler if I mentioned that I've done a lot of coke and ecstasy and such, and had a lot of random sex with beautiful people, and I still like fortune cookies and the name Jeneva? 

Quote from: Felix on December 29, 2011, 01:40:11 AM

Mahsa, would this thread be any cooler if I mentioned that I've done a lot of coke and ecstasy and such, and had a lot of random sex with beautiful people

Drugs are bad...mmmkay.

Quote from: Mahsa the disco shark on December 29, 2011, 01:41:57 AM
Drugs are bad...mmmkay.

Right!

You can get some really great sayings on those pieces of paper. Some are timely, also.

Quote from: Felix on December 29, 2011, 06:37:08 AM
Right!

Yeah, everyone laughs when I say that.