Good morning All. Coffees on.

[Oh_Kay]

Good Morning Everyone! Slept well, but it is too darn early to be up! Coffee is hot and off to work soon. Everyone have a great day!!!

[Emily michelle]

Good morning everyone! Yay it’s gonna get up to 82 today. I started out great today I was singing to the top of my lungs girls just wanna have fun on my way to work this morning.

[Tessa]

2 hours ago, Oh_Kay said:

Good Morning Everyone! Slept well, but it is too darn early to be up! Coffee is hot and off to work soon. Everyone have a great day!!!

You must not be a morning person. I’m up at 5:30 AM everyday except weekends. Always start my day with a hot bath. Today I’ll shave my legs and get dressed. Just another day working at home. Still mini skirt week. I’ll wear my green Quarantine mini mini today. Next week I’m doing all dresses week. I have 6 of them but when I go grocery shopping today I think I’ll pick out another sun dress. They are cheap. Plus it motivates me to go shopping. Get paid on Friday. Rent due and car payment. Looks like we may possibly be returning to the building in July. I better just sit back and enjoy the working at home ride for now. When we do go back I will be Tessa but I will not wear skirts and dresses. I’m not ready for that. I miss people so much! I enjoy talking to people on the phone. I think I’ll text one of my girlfriends from work today. Slept ok but not the best. Doing quarantine single is not easy at all. At least I can talk On this app. Have a good day everyone! 
 

Love Tess❤️

[SaraAW]

Good morning everyone!  A nice orange spice herbal tea this morning. It’s another cold wet day here. An announcement coming today from the Premier of the province, likely relaxing some more restrictions. Mixed feelings about it, I know lots of high risk folks, who I worry a lot about these days, my wife is one of them; but, I also know lots of extroverts that are dying inside a little each day they can’t be with people.
 

HRT continues to work it’s magic, seeing changes regularly now and my moods continue to be so much better. 
 

It’s time to begin another wfh day, hoping my business allows me to continue doing this for the foreseeable future; I’m way more productive, am 100% able to do my job from home, I don’t miss the 1 1/2 - 2 hour daily commute and I’m a huge introvert.

 

I hope you all have a wonderful day, stay safe! Hugs!

[Tessa]

29 minutes ago, Emily michelle said:

Good morning everyone! Yay it’s gonna get up to 82 today. I started out great today I was singing to the top of my lungs girls just wanna have fun on my way to work this morning.

What do you do for work Emily? 

[Tessa]

56 minutes ago, SaraAW said:

Good morning everyone!  A nice orange spice herbal tea this morning. It’s another cold wet day here. An announcement coming today from the Premier of the province, likely relaxing some more restrictions. Mixed feelings about it, I know lots of high risk folks, who I worry a lot about these days, my wife is one of them; but, I also know lots of extroverts that are dying inside a little each day they can’t be with people.
 

HRT continues to work it’s magic, seeing changes regularly now and my moods continue to be so much better. 
 

It’s time to begin another wfh day, hoping my business allows me to continue doing this for the foreseeable future; I’m way more productive, am 100% able to do my job from home, I don’t miss the 1 1/2 - 2 hour daily commute and I’m a huge introvert.

 

I hope you all have a wonderful day, stay safe! Hugs!

What kind of business do you work for? You said hrt changed your mood. What kind of mood where you displaying before you took hrt? 

[Emily michelle]

38 minutes ago, Tessa said:

What do you do for work Emily? 

I’m heavy equipment mechanic for a large quarry and underground mine company.

[Tessa]

29 minutes ago, Emily michelle said:

I’m heavy equipment mechanic for a large quarry and underground mine company.

Wow. Being a mechanic for heavy equipment does that also mean you know a lot about cars? 

Tessa
 

 

[Patti Anne]

Well, I really had a breakthrough last night. Anyone reading my past posts and really everyone considering coming out, has shared the overwhelming fear of rejection. With a lot of encouragement and support from my BFF and sweetheart Shawna, I was going into last night fearing just that, rejection and heartbreak. 

 

The backdrop: my 20 yo daughter called and told me that she was in town. (I had no idea she was coming) and would I like to have dinner with her? Of course I said yes. This young  woman was an unexpected pregnancy 20 years ago out of wedlock. I remember everyone telling me at the time just to pay support for her and don't have anything else to do with her. I dismissed that idea out of hand and was heavily involved in her life from day 1. I've always shown her nothing but kindness, patience and love. The end result? A beautiful, extremely intelligent young woman, modeling in her spare time, getting ready to begin applying to law schools. Enough bragging.

 

I went into the evening slowly, in total fear of being rejected by the child I loved more than anything. I began slowly, a little at a time. She asked a lot of questions, which I answered as best I could. She got up, came over and hugged me and said 'I love you. Thanks for loving me and trusting me with this information'. She even volunteered to be there with me when I told her sisters. We speculated on how my siblings would react to the revelation, etc. 

 

Long story short, things went way better than I could have hoped for, and in such a way that I feel like I have another ally. If the rest of my coming out goes half as well, I'll be happy. As usual, my Shawna knew what was going on. I gave her a play by play via text, and this morning by phone. She was as happy and relieved as I was to hear how it went.

 

So, regardless of how the rest of today goes, it's a good day! 

 

Have a wonderful day!!

[Tessa]

Hey girls! 
 

I was wondering how all of you picked out your names? Mine I guess kinda came to me. Then it was everywhere! I saw the name on books and random things I read. I love Tessa! It means Harvester. I do feel like I bring people together it’s just part of my personality. It would be fun to know how you girls got your names?

 

Love 

 

Tessa 

[Sally Stone]

Patti Anne,

 

I so happy for you that your daughter is supportive.  That is great news.

 

Tessa, my name was actually chosen for me by friends.  Actually, it's way too long a story for this forum, so that's the abbreviated version.

[Patti Anne]

29 minutes ago, Tessa said:

I was wondering how all of you picked out your names?

 Mine was easy. My name before I began transition was Pat(rick). Growing up, friends occasionally called me Patty or Paddy. So I thought 'well, that's easy'. Anne? Who knows? LOL. Ann Rule was one of my favorite authors. But wherever Anne came from, I'm sure it was subliminal. 

[Oh_Kay]

Patti Ann, 

 

Awesome news! Thanks for sharing. It makes our day too!

 

Hugs,

Kay

[SaraAW]

1 hour ago, Tessa said:

What kind of business do you work for?

I work for a large Canadian retailer, normally out of their corporate hq. My role involves strategy and coordination, so it is easily done remotely. 

 

1 hour ago, Tessa said:

You said hrt changed your mood. What kind of mood where you displaying before you took hrt? 

I was very depressed most of the time and had developed an almost constant state of apathy and lethargy. While I still experience some depression at times, those times are much farther apart, the episodes last a lot less and they don’t go as deep. Now I’m much happier, able to emote again (and much more than I was ever able to), and I have some sense of drive and purpose back. It was the combination of therapy, HRT and finally taking some control over my life together that I think has got me here. 

[SaraAW]

@Patti Anne  That is wonderful news, gals to hear it went so well. Hoping the rest go as smoothly. Have a great day!  Hugs!

[SaraAW]

1 hour ago, Tessa said:

wondering how all of you picked out your names?

My first name is one I’ve just always loved, so it was really an easy decision for me. I’ve feminized my birth first name and am using it as my first middle name. I don’t hate it at all which is why I’ve kept it. I also feminized my birth middle name and kept it for a second middle, it’s a traditional family middle name, so I wanted to keep it. I’m not out, so I when I do come out, depending on how my family reacts, the middle names could change. 

[Emily michelle]

I’m glad to hear that coming out to your daughter went so well pattie Anne. I hope the rest of it goes well too.

I have always liked the name Emily and Michelle I got from feminizing my grandpa name.

[KymmieL]

Patti Ann I am so happy for you. You didn't tell "THE" secret did you? Remember that is my job oh, wait  that is only here on TP. Looking back I should have told my oldest in person, but like I told my middle son. That it probably been months even years. I wanted to be truthful and honest with him. Here come the water works again. 

 

 My name actually came from a vendor at a place I worked at. I just liked it. So it is mine now. Didn't pick it because it rhymes with my given name, Tim. I had picked Terrie for the longest time. If I had came out as a girl, like I was supposed to. My name would have been Patrica. 

 

Why can;t I sleep. up early today again. decided to say screw it and get up and take my shower. In stead of trying to get some more sleep. Only had one cup o coffee last night so I wasn't up every hour. It must be my brain still going 1000 miles a minute. (it sped up, LOL)

Over cast today, upper 50s forecast. May just say in a work on a model.

Have a great day everyone.

 

Kymmie

 

[KayC]

1 hour ago, Tessa said:

I was wondering how all of you picked out your names?

My first name was Erica.  I thought it was cute and "sexy" but wife did not like it, so she gave me another name Cindy.

Its OK but it feels like another person, not me.
When I signed up for this site I used the initial K as part of my profile name, and after my first post I realized I didn't really have a name.
So, K became Kay ... and I REALLY like Kay now!  I feel like Kay!

great question Tessa!
Hope everybody's had a great week

hugs

Kay

[Mx.Drago]

☕Still so sleepy... Feel like a bear after a terrible winter.

[Oh_Kay]

I chose Kay because it was simple and seemed to fit. Long ago I tried the name Rachel, but it didn't feel right. I know there are other Kays here, so I am in good company. When I joined, I needed to make my user name different so I came up with Oh_Kay. 

[Mmindy]

2 hours ago, Tessa said:

Hey girls! 
 

I was wondering how all of you picked out your names? Mine I guess kinda came to me. Then it was everywhere! I saw the name on books and random things I read. I love Tessa! It means Harvester. I do feel like I bring people together it’s just part of my personality. It would be fun to know how you girls got your names?

 

Love 

 

Tessa 

How did I choose my fem name? I didn't, it chose me. About 15 years ago I was working for a public safety department and coworkers started playing online as a team in "Soldier of Fortune" servers, and I needed to come up with a screen name. My first and last name both start with "M" and I live in the Indianapolis, IN Metro area "Indy". So as an old person trying to get into this game the kids were playing, and not thinking about what I was putting into the box it came out as "M" for the first name and "m" for the last name and "Indy" for my location. Mmindy was coined and became my nickname as a joke, so they thought. The funniest thing to happen when I started getting better, and some say very good at the ambush and sniper roles. Some of the teenage boys started hitting on me to be on their teams, and flirting with me. I still didn't make the connection. I would bush them off thinking it was some internet cop trying to bait me into something wrong, and still didn't make the connection. Our team started getting challenged to move to other servers for capture the flag tournaments and we started using Team Speak online and all these gamers voice their surprise when they found out I wasn't a girl. THAT'S WHEN I MADE THE CONNECTION! What did I do after that? I changed my Avatar and became the online female soldier making head shots on my opponents. Good morning to everyone and my name is Mmindy Moore.

[Jackie C.]

Huh. For me the clouds parted and the Goddess descended on a beam of light. She knelt and give me a kiss on the forehead, then rose and proclaimed my new name to the heavens. Isn't that how it happens for everyone?

 

In all seriousness though, it's similar to my birth name which was a tribute name by my history geek father. He named me after a Scottish national hero from the 14th century. Not identical though because the feminized version of my birth name is the sort of thing you end up with after you're on the wrong side of a witch's curse. Bleah. My middle name is my first choice of names when I came out. I named myself after a bad-ass video game character when my therapist put me on the spot for a feminine name. That name got me through some really rough spots, so I keep her close.

 

Now then, congratulations @Patti Anne! You raised a good kid. I wish more parents did the same.

 

Hugs!

[KathyLauren]

@Patti Anne Congratulations on coming out to your daughter!  I am so glad that it went well.

 

@Tessa I wanted a first name that sounded and wrote like my old name.  There is no feminine form of my old name, so Kathy was the best I could do.  I chose Kathleen, rather than Katherine, because it is is the Irish version and because it was my mother-in-law's middle name.  (It doesn't hurt to butter up the in-laws! )  My middle name is a feminine version of my old middle name.

[Susan R]

3 hours ago, Patti Anne said:

Long story short, things went way better than I could have hoped for, and in such a way that I feel like I have another ally.

I am so happy for you. Your daughter sounds very mature and a well adjusted young adult who loves you very much.  This sure says a lot about you as a parent. I know how very proud she must make you feel. Congratulations on getting past that fear of coming out to her. I’m glad you’ve been blessed with the support you deserve.

 

3 hours ago, Tessa said:

It would be fun to know how you girls got your names?

I won’t bore anyone with story here again but it was ‘spur of moment’ decision in early 1986 after seeing the movie, “Desperately Seeking Susan”.

 

No coffee yet but it’s set and ready to go. Hope everyone has a great day today.

 

Susan R?