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17 minutes ago, Ivy said:

Strange.  I don't hear a thing when they bust.

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@Petra Jane old or not, it certainly has a following.  I must admit I never heard it before the recording provided by @Colleen Henderson so thank you for that, Colleen.  I always use my iPad and it apparently doesn’t always behave itself.

 

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3 hours ago, Mmindy said:

Happy one year anniversary Stveee, like you I find it funny that we get a kick out of breaking Christmas/Holiday light at the top of the page.

 

😂 Here I was wondering if I was the only one who did that... its like I have a compulsion to do it every time the page refreshes. 

 

I'm going to trot off now, chew on the furniture, shriek a bit, and maybe knock something off a shelf.  I don't belong in the house. 

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Good afternoon everyone, 

 

Here’s a video of my breaking of the lights. I found that I only have sound when I’ve clicked on the page first. 

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3 hours ago, Ivy said:

Strange.  I don't hear a thing when they bust.

 

I normally keep my headphones level set at 16.  At that level, I don't hear the bulbs breaking.  When I cranked the level up to 90, I heard them.

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2 hours ago, Willow said:

 I must admit I never heard it before the recording provided by @Colleen Henderson so thank you for that, Colleen.

Well, well well…

I never knew.  They're still fun to bust - just not as much.

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Once again sadness has invaded our house. 15 min before I got home from work this evening. My wife got a call from her Uncle. Law enforcement found my brother in law dead in his house today. My wife is still in shock as are me and our sons.

 

Hug your loved ones, you never know when they will be gone.

 

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@KymmieL, I'm sorry for your loss. It's sad to lose a family member; so sad that mere words aren't adequate. It's especially hard during this time of year. You and your family will be in my prayers. May you all find the comfort and healing you need during your tie of grief.

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@KymmieL oh my!  What a terrible week for your wife.  I am so sorry.  My sincere condolences for your you, your wife and sons.

 

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Good afternoon everyone, 

 

@KymmieL I’m sorry for your family loss, and hold you and yours up in prayer. 
 

Mindy🐛🏳️‍⚧️🦋

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@KymmieLSorry to read about your Brother in law Kymmie, how tragic, thoughts be with you and your family. 

 

@WillowHappy birthday young lady

 

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Kymmie I am sorry to read of your family's loss.  Hold on to your family.

 

Jani 

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Coffees for all. I wish we could really have coffee together. I would even make a coffee pot for the occasion. 

 

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I've been devoting time lately to my late-in-life hobby: an on-line radio station. I spent 13 years in the industry back in the 80s and early 90s, both out on the air and in copywriting and production. In terms of audience, I'm pretty much targeting people close to or in my age group. I think the scientific term is "fossils".

 

I'm getting positive feedback from this toy of mine. It turns out that when you do something just for fun it can impact people in a positive way. Who knew?

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Thanks to all my family here on TP. You are the best. @Mmindythat would be great for all of us to have coffee, together. we would have to warn were ever we went to make sure they had enough coffee for us.

 

@Willow Happy Birthday, my girlfriend.

 

Hugs to you all.

 

Kymmie

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On 12/1/2022 at 11:11 PM, Heather Nicole said:

So I've been feeling a little bit weird. Complicated, I guess. I can't believe I'm already just about coming up on my 1-year HRT (or GAHT as my clinic calls it) trans-iversary, on this coming 27th.

 

I just had my latest bloodtest earlier this week, and my follow-up appointment this evening. My hormone levels have technically gotten better, better than they've ever been, but they're still considerably far from the target. (At least I have breast buds now though!!). The last couple days, since my bloodtest results, I'd been pre-emptively freaking and kind of obsessing over the decision between sticking with patches (at another incremental, unlikely to make much difference, moderate dosage increase) or just saying "this isn't working" and switching to injections (and proceeding to freak out over "what if?"s about things like: side-effects of big hormone fluctuation swings, or to a lesser extent "Is the nurse's how-to instruction going to be enough for my sorry pedantic ass to sufficiently know how to poke myself properly?").

 

In the end, and with me "on the spot", we settled on another conservative bump in my E patch dosage. I still don't know how to feel about that. Part of me was hyped up to "make the leap" to injections, but another part was freaking out over potential roller-coaster effects from the bigger fluctuations in levels. So I still don't know how to feel about it, but in retrospect, I suppose it's probably for the best we went with the most conservative option since my bodyweight is still a major ongoing problem 😭

 

Hi @Heather Nicole

I too was on patches and a month ago switched to weekly injections so far, no wild swings but I have noticed that by injection day I am a little grumpy. After my injection say 20 minutes or so I am back to being happy as a clam.

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Good morning everyone 

 

thank you all for the birthday wishes.  Funny, I don’t feel any different.

 

@Billie75B yesterday was my injection day.  I forgot.  Perhaps that’s why I don’t feel any different.  I’ll have to be sure to do it today..  

 

warm with high overcast expected temperatures in the 70s.  Our weather guesser predicted January 12 for snowflakes.  Then admitted it was just a number pulled out of a hat.

 

well we have to go back to Charleston for a follow up to my wife’s appointment on Monday.  So far she is quite disappointed with the results.

 

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2 hours ago, Willow said:

 yesterday was my injection day.  I forgot.

I set alarms on my phone for my twice a week patch changes.  It's surprising how often I forget about it.  I use one that is so annoying that I can't ignore it.  LOL

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Good morning all! It's got to be morning somewhere right? Been a while since I posted. Lots of ups and downs of course. But I'm out! I came out to my work. I actually came out to Secretary Pete in front of all of my work colleagues. But that's another story. I'm out at church. Which is very important to me.

 

In fact, my church did a special service just for me coming out. I'm in minute 38, but the entire service is wonderful!

 

 

I'm also feeling more myself now than I ever have. For those of you that remember. Look back on my old posts and you'll see them. I think it's the one where I say I'm over 40 and I feel like a hitting the wall or something. I commented on it as an update just now. Well I no longer feel like I am hitting a wall. In fact, I hit the wall, smashed through it, and now I am way on the other side. There is no wall anymore.

 

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7 hours ago, JennaLSinclair said:

But I'm out! I came out to my work. I actually came out to Secretary Pete in front of all of my work colleagues.

Congratulations! 

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Good morning everyone 

 

Not too long ago on Facebook a friend posted about her father and all the wonderful things he did with her and taught her.  My reply was to say how my dad didn’t do much of anything for me.  Not even things he did for my sister or a friend of mine.  I tried and tried but unless it was solved by $, he would find someone else to do it.  He bought me a ball glove, but never once did that glove catch a ball thrown by him.  I wanted a dog, he got a friend to bring him a hamster for me.  He was a world champion shooter, but he got others to teach me to shoot.

 

But I was reminded of something more important than all of this that he did teach me.

 

to do things with my family, camping, biking, shooting, baseball and softball, hiking in the woods and teaching them about the world around them.  I’m not patting myself on the back, I’m just saying no matter how bad a parent you have, take something from it.  Don’t treat your kids the same way you were treated, treat them and everyone else with love and respect.

 

thank you to everyone for wishing me a happy birthday.  We spent the day just the two of us but it was a good day.

 

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9 hours ago, JennaLSinclair said:

I'm out! I came out to my work. I actually came out to Secretary Pete in front of all of my work colleagues. But that's another story. I'm out at church. Which is very important to me.

It's still morning where I am Jenna,

This is a great update, and you look wonderful.

 

Hugs,

 

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