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12 hours ago, Elizabeth Star said:

I never tried pole dancing but I did make my first quiche tonight. Used fresh eggs from my backyard chickens. 
 

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Looks yummy. I haven't had this for over 35 years when I lived out in Tacoma. It was at a health food resturaunt. I still remember how good it was. I may have to try making some myself since you showed this. ?

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Liz that looks delicious!  I don’t think I’ve ever made a quiche. Now I will have to look into that. I just harvested a huge amount of Mitaké mushrooms so I think maybe throwing that into a quiche sounds great. This one was 10lbs and I have another 4 just waiting to be harvested!

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2 hours ago, Bri2020 said:

Liz that looks delicious!  I don’t think I’ve ever made a quiche. Now I will have to look into that. I just harvested a huge amount of Mitaké mushrooms so I think maybe throwing that into a quiche sounds great. This one was 10lbs and I have another 4 just waiting to be harvested!

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Wow! Nice 'shrooms!

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Oh dear, I remember cooking down "shrooms", mixing the broth with ice and Hawian Punch, gosh,

back in the day...?

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Okay, moving along. While I was away from here something really wonderful happened, My grand daughter.

I have not seen her in almost 6 years. (Son and girlfriend broke up)

So a surprise visit and my wife is telling her grand daughter this is your your grandfather, she wants to be a girl, My grand daughter is only 7.

 

My dear new friends this was her reply, political correctness at its best from a 7 year old, Then why does she sound like a man?

 

Yep. I got schooled by a 7 year old....Grand daughter at that!!?

 

Loving life,

LM❤️

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Okay, my new vid. No guitars, just me sitting in the hot seat.

I want every one here to know who I am, well, at the moment, giggles....gosh I feel good....oops...get back on track.

 

Oh, did I say I made this vid just for this site?, I forgot, oops again....the vid... This is me.

LM❤️

 

 

 

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7 hours ago, Bri2020 said:

Liz that looks delicious!  I don’t think I’ve ever made a quiche. Now I will have to look into that. I just harvested a huge amount of Mitaké mushrooms so I think maybe throwing that into a quiche sounds great. This one was 10lbs and I have another 4 just waiting to be harvested!

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Those would’ve been perfect.  Mine was based off a mushroom quiche recipe. I didn’t have enough so I added other random things. 

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So……

We have a former employee that is working with us as a consultant for the next week. He was very interested in my changes and ask if he could ask me a few questions. I was like sure, I’m pretty open ask away. Behind closed, he asks me about my voice and I got it so fem.  I explained it was always that way and that I had spent years practicing to sound more masculine so I would fit in and just reverted to my default voice. It was followed with him telling me his voice was one of the reasons he stopped his transition after 2 years of HRT. ??, for real??  He doesn’t regret his decision and was happy to if had the experience. 

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1 hour ago, Elizabeth Star said:

So……

We have a former employee that is working with us as a consultant for the next week. He was very interested in my changes and ask if he could ask me a few questions. I was like sure, I’m pretty open ask away. Behind closed, he asks me about my voice and I got it so fem.  I explained it was always that way and that I had spent years practicing to sound more masculine so I would fit in and just reverted to my default voice. It was followed with him telling me his voice was one of the reasons he stopped his transition after 2 years of HRT. ??, for real??  He doesn’t regret his decision and was happy to if had the experience. 

 

Things that make you go, "Huh." So long as he's happy, it was probably the right decision. I can't imagine, but my journey isn't his.

 

Hugs!

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Sorry to un load here but I must confess.

What they say about me just might be true.

I, sniffles...have an addiction problem. Well that is what they tell me.

I refuse to stop, I just can't see past the red or white.

I feel nothing is wrong, yet others frown,

I was born and came from Los Angeles, what else do you expect?

We were addicted at a very young age.

I think I was around 10 or 11, we lived fast back then....and we got hooked....

I'm still hooked, cant shake it, I must know the answer.

Which one is better, the red, or the white?

LM❤️

 

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5 hours ago, Elizabeth Star said:

t was followed with him telling me his voice was one of the reasons he stopped his transition after 2 years of HRT. ??, for real??  He doesn’t regret his decision and was happy to if had the experience. 

Voice is a big issue for me. I have an appointment through Kaiser with a voice therapist on Wednesday. Not sure what to expect. One thing I  am sure of is I don’t want to go backwards. I’m not even sure if my engine has a reverse gear in it any more? I don’t want to stop applying the E patches… have I developed an addiction after 7 months, or is this my brain craving the right fuel, like it would if I needed to eat or exercise. If I stopped HRT I’m convinced that my brain would crave it so this helps allay some of my doubts. 
 

I was in a bit of a funk today as you can probably tell. I decided not to take the CDL training for bus driver that I was offered by the local school district. I also signed up for social security now rather than wait till 70. Could be subconsciously that I want to avoid any possible confrontations that come up as I progress? I don’t want to believe that but it might be true. Maybe my feelings are becoming more sensitive? I don’t know. There’s a sense of sadness attached to these decisions.
 

I’ll tell you what though. It helps to be able to bounce these crazy thoughts off more than just my own skull.

 

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1 hour ago, AgnesBardsie said:

One thing I  am sure of is I don’t want to go backwards.

It took everything I had to come out. I'm never going back.?

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Had a different route at work today, so I got to see some of my old customers that I hadn’t seen for a couple months. It was actually really nice, I got several positive comments on how much my hair has grown and how it looks. Apparently I’m naturally quite curly. 
 

One of them was rather funny, I mentioned to her last time I saw her that I was transitioning, today after the hair comments she asked how my transgendering was going. Well never heard it quite called that before, but going good ?

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7 hours ago, JustineM said:

Had a different route at work today, so I got to see some of my old customers that I hadn’t seen for a couple months. It was actually really nice, I got several positive comments on how much my hair has grown and how it looks. Apparently I’m naturally quite curly. 
 

One of them was rather funny, I mentioned to her last time I saw her that I was transitioning, today after the hair comments she asked how my transgendering was going. Well never heard it quite called that before, but going good ?

It's nice to get positive responses from friends. You're lucky to have a full head of hair. I'm just getting ready to buy my first wig. It will be interesting to see how my friends and family respond to this.

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Welcome, @christinakristy2021 to our coffee clutch.

 

I had voice therapy. it is hard trying to remember to use my feminine voice. doubly hard since I am living two lives.

 

I stopped E for about 2 weeks. Then went back to hiding it.

 

 

Kymmie

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2 hours ago, christinakristy2021 said:

Good Morning. How are y'all today?

Good morning ☀️
I haven’t yet heard back for scheduling  from a new therapy place I signed up with so I’m in a bit of a downward spiral today. 

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4 hours ago, Jamie68 said:

I'm just getting ready to buy my first wig. It will be interesting to see how my friends and family respond to this.

I need to do this myself.

 I keep thinking it would be weird to just suddenly show up with a bunch of hair.

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Considering myself as gender fluid I'm not that worried about my voice.  When I present as male my voice is louder and with more resonance.  When I present as female I speak in a softer town of voice without any change in pitch.  Since I'm not picky about pronouns that much it works for me.  I usually tell people that if I look male use my male name and pronouns and if I look female to them then use the female name and pronouns.  About the only confusion that's caused is with people in the medical industry who want to use my female name and pronouns all the time and apologize whenever they think they got it wrong.  I always tell them there is no problem and tell them how I would like it handled.

 

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2 hours ago, Jandi said:

I keep thinking it would be weird to just suddenly show up with a bunch of hair.

 

My advice? Own it. Show up with a bunch of hair and make sure it's a complimentary color not normally found in nature. If anybody asks, tell them that you just could NOT go without glamming it up one more day. There's this GORGEOUS peacock wig at the place I frequent. The only reason I'm not wearing it is that it's too long for school and would be too hot for workouts. It's still a struggle not to go rescue it and bring it home.

 

Hugs!

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1 hour ago, Jackie C. said:

Own it. Show up with a bunch of hair and make sure it's a complimentary color not normally found in nature

Hmmm……

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23 hours ago, LindaMarie said:

Oh dear, I remember cooking down "shrooms", mixing the broth with ice and Hawian Punch, gosh,

back in the day...?

 

Haha, this took me entirely too long to get. I was thinking "Mushrooms with Hawian Punch? Seems like an odd pairing, but I suppose if you happen to really like super sugary things maybe..." Then it hit me, "Oooh! That kind of shroom."

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I had to wear a short hair boys wig in high school. They had a dress code, and I had long hair back then.

My mom actually picked the wig out for me.

3 years of that only to enlist and have it shaved off. 

It was funny, I wasn't the only long haired one there. 

LM❤️

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