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[Guest Orva26]

Soooooooo this crazy CT weather has allowed me to work from home today! I could have gone in but I have a bunch of reports to write and that can be done, ANYWHERE! Plus roads coated in ice are not fun.

So I am working from home and in full girl-mode! Took me about an hour to get ready between dressing and putting on makeup. Makeup was about 30 minutes which isn't too bad. I have more photos up in the gallery. So far I spent my day working and listening to a bunch of Frank Zappa albums and being in girl-mode. Curious observation is that when alone and dressed I'm usually in high spirits, but when I change clothing to male ones and go out then stuff comes back, and when I'm alone and not dressed I am also prone to bad/annoying/crazy thoughts. I think the next experiment should be, going out while dressed but that will be a big step... don't think I have the guts yet.

Tomorrow evening I'm going to get to meet up with a GT. Unfortunately I'll probably be going straight from work, which means that I won't have the opportunity to be dressed or anything. But at this point I'm willing to take what I can get. I'm not too worried about it getting canceled again because the weather is supposed to be nice albeit cold tomorrow. I'm just hoping I don't freeze up when I get there, 'cause honestly where will I begin?

Now I must be diligent and get back to work,

<3

Orva

[Carolyn Marie]

Thanks for the update, Orva. I'm glad you're safe and snug at home.

I think its natural to feel good when you can dress, and not so good when you can't. I've come to accept that I can't always be dressed, and while it's a bit depressing, I just look forward to when I go full time, and that keeps me going.

Good luck with the G.T., hon. Don't worry a bit about being in guy mode - they're used to that. How many new clients would they see who was already full time and could come from work dressed en femme? Not many, I would think.

HUGS

Carolyn Marie

[Guest Audrey Elizabeth]

I feel the same way. But at least for today you get to work from home in full girl mode. I am here in the office dress like a boy.

Enjoy the rest of your day!!

Audrey

[Guest Emily Ray]

I am so happy for your good spirits! I love to dress up! I am quite the girly girl! A snow day, I bet this one will be long remembered! I am excited to hear your report from tomorrow! It will still be a few weeks before I can get to mine again and I miss her.

Huggs

Em

[Guest Roxanna L]

You, Orva, have more guts than I do...

Anna

[Guest sienna]

Orva,

I'm happy for you! I too am working from home in full woman-mode today. I try to do this 2 to 3 times a week when I can. I am loving it. It takes me about an hour to get ready too -- makeup/dressed. My wife works at home with me too most of these days and is ok with it. She helps style my hair (wig) which is awesome! Around 3:00 when I have to change back to male on these days I get really depressed about it and wish it didn't have to happen. My wife says I mope. I have 2 daughters... the little one has seen me and acts like nothing. My older one (still young too but in school) doesn't know. I haven't ventured out of my house yet either. I really want to but I don't have the courage. My voice isn't ready for one thing. Still working on the passable all-around (I just read the post about passing in the transsexual forum). It's important to me. I want to be without question identified as a woman. I find myself planning or thinking in advance what I'm going to wear the next time I get to dress. Sometimes it's really hard to decide. And sometimes I change clothes a few times during the day! So indecisive. lol!

Enjoy your day!!

Sienna

[Guest Orva26]

I did enjoy yesterday quite a lot. To an extent I didn't want to take the cloths off so I didn't end up getting out to de-ice my car until nightfall. Now, THAT WAS FUN! I think fully dressing like this is a good thing for me, one I should do when I can. Unfortunately during the week it isn't practical because I don't have a whole lot of time between cooking diner and other various housework before I go to sleep. I might try to set aside one day of the weekend to do it though.

Doubly unfortunately therapy has been moved to Monday. Although the weather wasn't bad today the GT's town did not do a swift job on snow removal and as a result there was no parking. Now I've reached the point where this is happening, I will park in someone's yard if I have to! Talking with her on the phone for a bit helped but driving didn't. Seemed more particularly bothered at the ridiculous actions some people call driving tonight. I didn't want to just go back to my place so I made the most excellent call of going food shopping and indulging in my want to by new foods. A few times in the store I became envious of others but for the most part I was too busy buying cool things:

I bought a whole duck because they're a bird full of dark meaty goodness! Going to try and make Thai duck noodle soup (or at least as close as I can without going to an Asian market for real ingredients). I also got me some ox-tails! Pretty pumped about that, Jamaican ox-tails are delicious, I even found a spice pack for it in the store. I also had the foresight to get plantains so I can fry them up! I also got a Jicama which I am enjoying right now with lime juice and red pepper. It is a pretty crazy fruit but will it be as crazy as the cactus pear I also got? Also my local grocery store stocks one of my favorite beers, Hoegaarden! Its a DELICIOUS Belgian white spiced wheat beer and I loooooooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeee it!

I had an interesting thought when I was carrying this all in to my apartment and that was that I will probably miss the ability to carry so much stuff at once. I also had the thought that maybe I should hulk out and be a guy b/c I don't make a half bad fella, but I don't think I can do that... like I know that when I would be working out that I would be viewing it as more of a test of alleviation than an actual goal.

I'm going to be hanging out with friends on Saturday so I think I'll be able to stay cool until Monday.

There will be another update when I do finally get to see the GT!

-Orva

[Guest Elizabeth K]

PHOTO OPPORTUNITY!!!

We wanna see!

Lizzy