Good morning All. Coffees on.

[Charlize]

1 hour ago, Elizabeth Star said:

It must have been my unstoppable beauty that caught their eye,

You got that right!

 

Hugs,

 

Charlize

[Jackie C.]

15 hours ago, Willow said:

@Charlize I guess I’ve been looking in the wrong places, I haven’t seen many posts.  That pie sure looks good!  It took me years to start getting a crop of berrys worth picking, sold my house and the new owners tore them all out!  I had several varieties so they weren’t all ripe at once, one or two bushes each depending on pollination requirements.  Some were big berries and some average but they were all good.

 

Who would DO that? I'm sorry, but you apparently sold your house to sociopaths.

 

Hugs!

[Jackie C.]

1 hour ago, Elizabeth Star said:

Surely they weren't staring at me because I'm trans. It must have been my unstoppable beauty that caught their eye, ?.

 

I have that problem too. We're glorious and people can see the light shining out from within. Then they think, "Hey! Why is THAT person all shiny when I'm over here being miserable?" Then they stare because they just HAVE to figure out why you're so special.

 

It's a burden, I know, but what are you going to do?

 

I mean besides own it of course. ?

 

Hugs!

[Ivy]

2 hours ago, Elizabeth Star said:

My wife's developing a new attitude towards life. She knows she doesn't much time left so she's speaking her mind. A lot of which is making her a better person.

I need to get to this place myself.  I've always been one to keep my thoughts and opinions to myself - very non-confrontational.  Oh well…

 

Gonna head into town and hit the farmers market in a bit.  Thanks to my deer neighbors, there's not much left of my garden.  

And the squirrels keep destroying my bird feeders.

 I mean, you try to be nice, and they treat you like this!

[Alice_Sybilina]

@Bri2020that's amazing news. They say it's always darkest before the dawn, and as dark as it's been for most of us, I feel like there's many bright dawns ahead of us. 

[Alice_Sybilina]

@Elizabeth StarI've seen your pictures. You really do look nice. Yesterday I went and got some tank tops after seeing how nice they looked on you. 

[Elizabeth Star]

2 hours ago, Alice_Sybilina said:

@Elizabeth StarI've seen your pictures. You really do look nice. Yesterday I went and got some tank tops after seeing how nice they looked on you. 

Really? Wow, thank you Alice. I'm glad I could inspire you.

[Ivy]

Still in town at the coffee house.

Got some okra & tomatoes at the farmers market.   I got "Ma'am'd there.  That already made my morning.

[Heather Shay]

@Elizabeth Star and think of the luck you had with the jeep. You didn't need to shower afterwards.

[Elizabeth Star]

1 hour ago, Shay said:

@Elizabeth Star and think of the luck you had with the jeep. You didn't need to shower afterwards.

I know, right? I though it was amusing, my wife not so much. I'm sure we'll laugh about it later or at least I will.

[Ivy]

1 hour ago, Elizabeth Star said:

I though it was amusing, my wife not so much. I'm sure we'll laugh about it later or at least I will.

Ya gotta look at the bright side 

[April-Showers]

20 hours ago, Jackie C. said:

He tolerated it well and despite some hair loss, he's bouncing around the house just as well as he did before.

he sounds like one really tough little guy. bless you for taking such good care of him. thank you! ?

[April-Showers]

20 hours ago, Beatriz said:

You're an angel!

well i'm not sure about that but i do try to be as good a person as i can be. with luck maybe someday i will be an angel and keep a lookout from high above. thank you so much!

[April-Showers]

5 hours ago, Elizabeth Star said:

My wife's developing a new attitude towards life. She knows she doesn't much time left so she's speaking her mind.

good for her. we can learn from that....speaking her mind. seems we are getting more afraid to do that because we might 'offend' someone unknowingly. we should never let the media or anyone try to make us feel bad about ourselves when we are not doing anything or saying anything wrong. i think that's a big reason i like working with rescued animals. because they don't judge you...they love and trust you. thank you.  

[Bri2020]

14 hours ago, Elizabeth Star said:

I think a lot of people have been using this place https://precisionhairremoval.com/.

It's kinda funny. I'm only 45 minutes from them but have yet to find myself using their services.

That’s who I was thinking of.  Maybe we can have coffee sometime when I fly out

[Beatriz]

7 hours ago, Jackie C. said:

 

Who would DO that? I'm sorry, but you apparently sold your house to sociopaths.

 

Hugs!

After seeing what the new owners did to my grandparents' house - they basically took a home and turned it into an obnoxious fortress, cutting down trees, building high walls around the garden... -  I learned that once you sell a home you should never set eyes on it again.

[Jackie C.]

1 hour ago, Beatriz said:

After seeing what the new owners did to my grandparents' house - they basically took a home and turned it into an obnoxious fortress, cutting down trees, building high walls around the garden... -  I learned that once you sell a home you should never set eyes on it again.

 

That's fair, I won't even drive down the street where my grandparent's house was. I did a lot of growing up in that house and it killed me that I didn't have the cash to straight-up buy it from my uncle before he could sell it.

 

Hugs!

[Maddee]

On 7/23/2021 at 2:13 PM, Bri2020 said:

Who do you go to? I'm looking at a place in Chicago to do high volume, sedated electro in prep for bottom surg.

Yeah Precision

[Beatriz]

2 hours ago, Jackie C. said:

 

That's fair, I won't even drive down the street where my grandparent's house was. I did a lot of growing up in that house and it killed me that I didn't have the cash to straight-up buy it from my uncle before he could sell it.

? It was my uncle who sold it as well, because neither my mother nor me had the money to buy it

[Elizabeth Star]

6 hours ago, Bri2020 said:

That’s who I was thinking of.  Maybe we can have coffee sometime when I fly out

That would be awesome. ?

[Willow]

Hi, 

 

safely made it to our daughters house.  I haven’t finished with the car yet. It’s down to the this just got thrown in so if you touch it, it and four more things will fall out.  That’s what happens when it’s late, you are tired and it just has to be over.

 

@Jackie C. yes I think they were wacko to take them out like that but I think I was a bit crazy to have sold that house.  Oh well, that was 5 years ago, can’t cry over lost berries.

 

we stopped at a roadside market in North Carolina and bought a bag of peaches.  They’ve been hit and miss so I think it’s peach pie time. For the rest of them.

 

I can definitely tell you I am glad to be out of the car for a while.  Don’t get me wrong it rides and drives nice, I just glad to be stationary.

 

a couple weeks or so here then off to see our son and daughter-in-law, an old friend in Ohio, and Jamie, Kymmie and Jamie.  Well we’ll see I’m not sure how that will go with my wife.

 

Willow

[MetaLicious]

18 hours ago, Jackie C. said:

 

That's fair, I won't even drive down the street where my grandparent's house was. I did a lot of growing up in that house and it killed me that I didn't have the cash to straight-up buy it from my uncle before he could sell it.

 

Hugs!

 

17 hours ago, Beatriz said:

? It was my uncle who sold it as well, because neither my mother nor me had the money to buy it

I know how you feel.  My uncle sold my grandparents' house for a paltry $20K, at a time when I was making enough money to have bought it, but I ddn't know he was selling it.  When I was shopping for my first home, it was on the market, so I checked it out.  It was going for $300K, and the new owners had messed it up so badly it would have taken another $300K just to fix it.  It was originally for three families that were all close together, with various connections between the apartments, bt the new owners just wanted a rent machine, so they severed all the connections and made the laundry room accessible to everyone by adding a hallway downstairs that cut off the downstairs kitchen from its' only window. 

[Elizabeth Star]

Over the last few days I've noticed my wife has referring to me as her partner. She had made it clear I will always be her husband but that appears to have recently changed. First she did it on a Facebook post, then when making an appt with a new dentist and yet again while on the phone with her cousin. I know she was trying to use "significant other" for a bit but honestly that's a lot of syllables and way too much to write. I've always felt that "husband and wife" was too gendered and implied certain roles in a marriage. To me, partner is stronger and deeper then "married" It also has that air about it that implies a same-sex couple.

[LaurenA]

21 hours ago, Bri2020 said:

That’s who I was thinking of.  Maybe we can have coffee sometime when I fly out

 

@Bri2020 PHR is where I go.  I've had 4 days of sessions so far and another one scheduled in September.  Almost slept through the last one.

[Janae]

As I was sitting on the porch this morning enjoying my coffee and the beautiful day, I was reminded of just how much joy I felt this past weekend.  I have been so full of fear and shame for 50+ years, and through working with my GT, have been able to slowly put those away.  On Friday I had my hair done at a salon by a beautiful person that did not judge me for being feminine, and in fact gave me a stern lecture to not even think anything other than who I am.  She made a point to get my name corrected in the computer.  Wow, I had not felt so welcomed and accepted as I did on Friday.  Wouldn’t it be great if everyone was so full of love towards each other?