Good morning All. Coffees on.

[April Marie]

Good morning, everyone!! Finishing up my 3rd cup and planning out today's projects. Looks like a good day to get some outside projects done before relaxing this afternoon reading Leviathan Wakes, the book that generated the series The Expanse.

 

Safe travels on the way home @KymmieL!!

 

Be safe and enjoy this day.

[Willow]

Good morning

 

working on cup 1.  Landscapers woke me up.

 

good thought for today.

 

@KymmieL  drive safe.  Enjoy some time with your son.

 

Willow

 

 

[Dillon]

Finished my first and probably only cup for today. I have a doctors appointment later this morning. Routine annual, so easy, but I'd rather stay home and get more sleep. 

Thank you for all the helpful posts about my transition question. Hearing your perspectives makes a difference. Now I don't feel everyone thinks there must be a specific event called transition--that helps me a lot.

 

@RianonI'm so sorry you were hurt by your community.

@ShawnaBThat's wonderful about the pageant. I hope you'll have lots of fun. 

[happyinvermont]

Had second cup of coffee still in deed thoughts of yesterday

 

Had my ba consult on the 29th. I was in pure heaven. Told me didn't see any reason I couldn't get a BA. Looked at me and had breast tissue. Lol told me A cup that was news to me. Took measurements and wrote things down. He asked me if I knew what I wanted. Told him yes. Silicone and under muscle. He told me he does usual do it under muscle. But after looking at my girly chest told it would be ok to do it under muscle. That was end of visit. Part my fault due to excitement. But never asked to look at before and after pictures. He did tell me between 400-500cc. Never talked about profile.

 

   I went back today and looked at pictures. Only had 4 to look at. The nurse asked if I wanted anything else. I said I would like to see what a 450cc implant is like. She went out and came back with a pair. But these were gummy bear ones. Not the round silicone ones I saw before. When she came back I asked when would the Dr talk to me about size and profile. Told me day of surgery. Am I right to be nervous 

[awkward-yet-sweet]

We're focused on storm preparedness today.  Forecasts are saying a high chance of hail and tornadoes. 😪.  It was windy yesterday, and the air is so sticky and still this morning.  Not a good sign.

 

We get jumpy because we've been hit before, and a neighbor's house was totally destroyed a few years back.  What the tornado didn't take, the fire that followed did.  They lived with us for a while after as they rebuilt.  

 

So, we're tying down and putting away anything loose.  Farm animals are being moved to cover, and windows shuttered.

My husband started work 2 hours early this morning.  He is releasing his employees early this afternoon so they can get home to their families.  Going to be a busy day. 

[Mmindy]

4 hours ago, KymmieL said:

Should be home today. 

Drive safe Kymmie...

 

Good morning everyone, my day started early picking up parts for my next training prop build.

 

Hugs,

 

Mindy🐛🏳️‍⚧️🦋

[Rianon]

17 hours ago, Willow said:

First, let me say, no one should push you to do anything.

@awkward-yet-sweet, @Willow
 
Good morning!
 
Thank you both for your follow-up to my post yesterday about once having been made to feel like a second-class citizen because I wasn't all hot-to-trot for either HRT or surgery. The truth was I would have loved to be a candidate for both. Medically, however, I just wasn't, and I had little choice but to learn to live with that. I have learned to live with it, and I'm a happier, more fulfilled, and more honest person for it. As I think back over all the years that have come and gone, I realize how wrong it was for my trans friends to make others who were less sure of themselves feel like being trans was an all-or-nothing proposition (my way or the highway). I can forgive them for making me feel that way (and quite possibly, they had never meant to make me feel that way), but they were excited about the prospect of finally becoming in the bodies the persons they had always known themselves to be in their hearts, minds, and spirits.

 

I would have been just as excited had I had the same opportunities. I think kindly of those friends now.
 
I'm lucky in that I'm reasonably passable, enough so that I feel safe going to most places. Of course, as a dear friend once said to me, one of the many advantages of being an older woman is strangers don't scrutinize older women –– or older men, for that matter –– nearly as much as they do younger people. I know that it's a shame that our society pays less attention to people in their upper years. For a select few of us, though, sometimes getting to slip about unnoticed can also be a blessing!
 
Rianon (@rianon)

[happyinvermont]

Well was in place where there was no unisex bathroom. I may not pass. But I had my breast forms on and my makeup. Had to go pee. Used ladies. Walked in and it was empty. Went and did my business. Got up and as I was leaving a nother lady came in. I didn't care and stood my ground. 

[Mmindy]

24 minutes ago, happyinvermont said:

Got up and as I was leaving another lady came in. I didn't care and stood my ground. 

Good afternoon HappyInVermont,

 

The key words in this coffee talk update is: "Another Lady". You're in there for a reason, and you did well by owning it, as your bathroom. 

 

Hugs,

 

Mindy🐛🏳️‍⚧️🦋

[KathyLauren]

2 hours ago, awkward-yet-sweet said:

We're focused on storm preparedness today. 

 

Stay safe, AYS!

 

36 minutes ago, happyinvermont said:

Well was in place where there was no unisex bathroom. I may not pass. But I had my breast forms on and my makeup. Had to go pee. Used ladies. Walked in and it was empty. Went and did my business. Got up and as I was leaving a nother lady came in. I didn't care and stood my ground. 

 

If you happen to make eye contact in such a situation, remember that you belong there.  Smile and say "Hi".  You don't have to get into a conversation, but pretending that others in there are invisible is a guy thing.

[April Marie]

Be safe @awkward-yet-sweet!! And, way to hold your ground @happyinvermont You go, girl!!

 

I just spent the last 3.5 hours moving dirt on our property from a mound of leftover dirt from an old project to an area where there was some washout. I think I'll take a second shower and just relax for the rest of the day. My back earned the time off.

[Marcie Jensen]

@happyinvermont, Good for you! You rock!!

[Dillon]

8 hours ago, awkward-yet-sweet said:

We're focused on storm preparedness today. 

I hope all of you and your neighbors will be safe.

[Dillon]

6 hours ago, happyinvermont said:

I didn't care and stood my ground. 

happyinvermont, good for you! This is inspiring.

[Willow]

Hi

 

they have found the remains a Casey Johnson, a Wilmington NC transgender woman who was killed and has been missing since January.  Her body was found on the bank of the Savanah River.  Her alleged killer has been in jail for her murder since shortly after she went missing.  
 

Rest in peace Casey.

 

Willow

[Dillon]

Well, I did get a second cup of coffee. I got to the doctor's office early, and wasn't taken until two hours after my appointment time. That's unusual for them, and the doctor explained that he had several semi-emergencies (my word, not his). I was there four hours. LOL. After, I went across the street and got an almond milk cappuccino at Panera's. 

[Dillon]

11 minutes ago, Willow said:

Rest in peace Casey.

Rest in peace, Casey, and all who love you are in my heart tonight.

[April Marie]

Rest in Peace, Casey. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.

[kira_k]

Good Morning all.

 

I hope you are all having a good week so far. 

[April Marie]

Good morning, everyone!! First cup of coffee complete, folded the laundry we forgot about last night after giving it a few minutes of fluffing, and now it's time to read the local paper. My back is still a bit sore from yesterday's yard clean-up work - getting older sucks. 🙂 But, I guess it beats the alternative.

 

It's nice to have the warmer weather return - looking forward to opening the pool before too long.

 

Stay safe and enjoy this day.

[Dillon]

Tea this morning. I need to catch up with some errands etc. today. Our Friday trans support meeting is canceled this week because the space is not available, and I'm going to miss it. Everyone have a good day!

[Rianon]

The best of this new morning to you all, too! My No. 1 ambition for today is apply my browser-blocker for the remainder of the morning (so I'll not be tempted by the Internet), eager to get some work done. So, 'til later in the day …

… keep smiling!

Rianon

[Willow]

Good morning y’all

 

another beautiful day today.  We sat out by the pool for a bit yesterday afternoon.  Now I have my first swimsuit top lines.  Lol.  I didn’t bother with sunscreen on my upper body, I guess I should have. At least no farmers tan.  I stuck my feet in, and I suppose to some of you the water would have been warm.  But 72 just isn’t my full immersion water temperature, unless I’m in my wetsuit.

 

I work today until 7pm.  That makes the day seem extra long.  There is a late shift, we stay open until 12:45am otherwise known as 00:45!  Glad I don’t ever work that shift.  Oh and it opens back up at 04:00. I don’t work that shift either.  My earliest start is 6 and my latest is 11 which is today.

 

speaking of which, I need to finish gettin ready.  I’ll be back tomorrow afternoon.  It’s a 6am day.

 

Willow

[KymmieL]

Good morning everyone.

 

Welcome from a balmy 6 degrees. Yep I made it home. ran into some blowing snow in NE and east WY. had to take a side road home called happy Jack road. It is a more scenic route than the interstate. Drove this road all the time in the winter when I worked in Cheyenne. No problems, I have driven that road in worst conditions. But grateful I am home. To sleep in my own bed. 

 

I did make it to my son's with about 1 1/2 to spare. Helps when you set the cruise on 80. Dropped off some items that where given him and his family. including a 130 yr old kids rocker that my grandfather had. It goes to the oldest son. So my oldest grandson got it. However, my granddaughter will probably use it. for her huge collection of stuffed animals.

 

Got a nice shower. Now my wife is asleep on the couch this AM. she must not have been feeling well. Gonna wait for another day or so to let the boss know I am back. so I will start back to work next Tues.

 

Have a great day,  @Willow don't work to hard.

 

Hugs,

 

Kymmie

[Dillon]

46 minutes ago, KymmieL said:

Welcome from a balmy 6 degrees.

Glad you're home safe. OMG 6 degrees! Here people think it's cold when it's under 30. But I remember when I was a kid it got a lot colder here, even below zero.