Tammy's Crazy Ambitions (Sponsored by Self-Doubt)

[Lori Dee ✅]

Tammy,

I love your sense of humor. If you are not familiar with Dave Barry's Colonoscopy Journal, it is hilarious. I think you might enjoy it.

https://homeports.org/my-colonoscopy-journal-by-dave-barry/ 🔗

[tammy753]

Tammy,

I love your sense of humor. If you are not familiar with Dave Barry's Colonoscopy Journal, it is hilarious. I think you might enjoy it.

https://homeports.org/my-colonoscopy-journal-by-dave-barry/ 🔗

That is hilarious now I have to read all of them from that link!

60 fahrenheit? That's 15.6 celcius?? Pansy! That's a mild pleasant day where I am! It was 14C today.

Get them wipers installed, no excuses! The heater can wait as it's still barmy weather where you are!

It suppose to be in the 40's at night by the end of next week. Does this count?

[Stottie Girl]

That is hilarious now I have to read all of them from that link!

It suppose to be in the 40's at night by the end of next week. Does this count?

Well ok if it creeps into the 40's I will allow you to put on a jumper! All the more reason to do your wipers NOW!

[Finally Anna]

Getting down into the 30's F here, some nights. Currently midday, and at 48 F.
Time to put the shorts away.
Winter is coming!

[tammy753]

My paranoia is checked in for duty today. That part of me is the most efficient.

Today, I lost the 4-pack of tear and snot absorption tissue right before my therapy session. This somehow convinced that part of my brain that someone broke into my house strictly to steal my crying tissues, intentionally leaving the guitars and signed albums sitting right by the door.

I had a brief thought someone took them so when I do cry, I can't sop it up. My brain sweats out my nose when I cry; they knew exactly what they were doing.

I also believe the world knows when I don't plan for lunch and need to run out to get food, so it rains. To maximize the efficiency of the torment, there is also a lunch meeting, leaving me exactly 10 minutes to eat.

Paranoia might be a thing to watch out for when I get old, but based on family history, I'm ahead of schedule. My Teleporting grandmother was convinced we were conspiring to take away her ability to drive. She couldn't walk to the car without falling.

Now, at that time I didn't realize she could teleport, so she probably knew she could teleport to the car. I would ask her if she can teleport why does she need a car, but she'd probably just tell me the highway infrastructure in the ether is a nightmare.

Speaking of institutional displacement: I am looking for a new home for this blog. It turns out my unfiltered brain health updates are distracting from the actual mission of Susan's Place, and I would never want to do that.

I will still post here once a week or so, but having a standalone blog under SocketSeekers will be better than causing issues in the forum. Would people be interested in reading a more unfiltered version of my blog?

Useless Recap:

• Probably Paranoid
• Dementia is probable
• Teleporting grandmother didn't need a car
• SocketSeekers relocation possible.

Disclaimer: I avoiding saying Kleenix...Dang it! Please don't sure me Kleenix. WOOHOO! Typo saved the day!

[davina61]

The rain gods know when I wash my car so its not been washed for ages, its my fault we had a heatwave this summer!

[Stottie Girl]

Tammy, I love your blog just the way it is. Please don't go changing ANYTHING.

I love your humour and your looney mental downloads, It puts a smile on my face most nights. Don't you change a thing!

[tammy753]

Let me explain what I am thinking: I found a hosting site called Ghost Pro. It would let me host my blog external to Susan's but you could sign up for a newsletter that would be my blog posts. I would still post here but I think that this site should be for support trans people not posting my crazy ramblings. So that is my thinking. I remember finding this way back when was considering transitioning and it really helped me feel less alone. ANd today I was so happy it was still around. I will not disappear from here I guess I am asking if I do move it would people still read it or would it be a waste of money?

[Lori Dee ✅]

I have blogs on various sites in the past. In fact, my current website started as a blog post. Then it expanded to include tutorials and my spiritual philosophies. I took down the spiritual stuff because nobody was reading it. Then converted the tutorials into my Gold Prospecting Field Guide. Now it has information about my writing projects and a place to display my gold photo album. Still not much traffic. I never ran ads, never asked for sign-ups or registration, and had no newsletters or even a comments section.  I didn't want people turned off about visiting.

What I discovered (in VERY general terms) is that it takes extra effort to go to another website for information or entertainment. Sometimes people bookmark it to make it easier to find. A lot of people won't.

So, the options are to advertise your site, use SEO techniques to keep it high in search results, or put your blog where thousands of people go every day for information and entertainment. It can be a lot of work if you want to keep traffic coming in.

If you want more control over what you can say, how you can say it, and the images you can display, your own site gives you that control. If you don't feel your content needs that, maybe just stay where the traffic is.

For reference, our online status right now shows we have
Online: 7,752 Guests, 8 Users (3 Buddies, 1 Spider)  - Most Online Today: 14,358 -  Most Online Ever: 30,996 (May 11, 2026, 12:21:30 PM)

Just something to consider.

[Stottie Girl]

It upsets me greatly that you are now feeling that you aren't free to post what's on your mind. I will be very cross if this is because of the censorship that has been the recent topic of discussion. This is exactly what I feared would happen and it isn't the first time I have seen this.😡

I post lot's of random ramblings on my blog and an awful lot of it has nothing to do with being trans. I am far from the only one. Yes, Susans is a trans support site but it helps so much with all aspects of life, not just trans issues. I believed Susans place was an open place where you could feel comfortable enough to share anything among friends, maybe I have been wrong about this.

[tammy753]

The change is not about the filter. the other day I saw all the latest posts were to my blog. and it was a silly post about people self electrocuting them selves. I think its drawing attention from peoples request for help. And i would never want that. That is the main reason I am considering the change.

[Lori Dee ✅]

@Stottie Girl

Very few topics are not permitted on the site because they involve misinformation used against us as a community. All of these topics have been debunked as weaponized commentary.

You're referring to the censoring of specific words that aren't suitable for an all-ages public forum. Most of us are adults; however, there are many young people who come here with questions about their own identity. We need to make sure they can access those answers without institutions blocking them for reasons entirely within our control.

As adults, we need to set a good example. Surely our vocabulary isn't so limited that we cannot express ourselves adequately without profanity. The discussion you mentioned was specifically about one particular word that many different users were posting in different forums. We needed to step in.

If that is the reason for moving a blog to another site, that is fine. Our standards remain in place. But I don't think that's why Tammy is considering this.

@tammy753

As I understood what you said, the reason was to have this blog here  to support the transgender community and a different blog to just write about everything else. If you look at posts from Davina, Chrissy, and others who have been here a long time, you will see they discuss just ordinary things we all experience. That is important to show people who are struggling what "post-op normal" life looks like. It gives them hope.

More so when people write about their fears, anxieties, and obstacles they need to overcome to reach that point. This tells them they are not alone in their struggles. It is your blog and you can write about what you want to express. All we ask is that you keep it clean. If that is not the direction you want to go, then this is not the place for it. But I have seen nothing from you that would indicate that was your plan.

I hope you keep it here because I enjoy your blog very much, and I am too lazy and too busy to go somewhere else.

[Stottie Girl]

It was a wider discussion about censorship and disciplinary procedures and how the wrong approach can drive new people away that ended up about the one word Lori.

This is Tammy's blog (at least for now) and I don't want to spoil it by having a "discussion" on here.

[tammy753]

Please understand this isn't about the Filter. I enjoy writing more than I ever dreamed. If you told 18 year old me that I would write a blog. I would have said what is a blog, I am that old. I think moving it would be good and I could do other thing with the site if I wanted to. I could write music reviews in my messed up style or other things like my crazy recipes. As for the effort to go to another site. you could sign up for the newsletter that would send it directly to your email. If no one is interested that is fine I just thought it might be a fun adventure for me. I even though about actually making funny shirts. Here is the funniest idea I have:

Useless Recap:

• I bought a shirt
• This is it
• I probably over paid
• I regret this purchase

Please know the content filter is not why I am considering this. This is about Susan's site and this is causing distraction from the purpose of the site.

Please see this post to see what started this discussion:
https://www.susans.org/index.php?msg=2354660