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By April Marie · Posted
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By RaineOnYourParade · Posted
Welcome to the party, M.A. Sounds chaotic haha, I can confidently say that living with only two children the same age is stressful enough, much less three! -
By Adrianna Danielle · Posted
Service manager screwed up this morning.had to do a service on a Kenworth.Sent me the,wrong filters and forgot to order a valve cover gasket.I had to do valve lash adjustments on it during the service. -
By Birdie · Posted
Things hit the fan today. I was reminded that "this is not a gender fluid establishment." I had changed my preferred name and gender at the hospital on their app. My x-ray report came in with my preferred name and gender. It was not appreciated by the centre. 😬 -
By Justine76 · Posted
I'm not a nutritionist but I've gone on bulking diets in the past so I can suggest a couple things to try. Foremost, food-prep stuff that you like to eat. Any 'real food' that usually sounds good to you. That way, you don't have the time-sink or hassle of cooking for every meal. You're more likely to eat if stuff if it's convenient and mostly ready. For example, I'll spend an hour or so one evening prepping burrito ingredients that will last me the next 3 nights. Then it's just a matter of microwaving the beef/beans and throwing them into a tortilla; takes 5 min. If you need food 'on the go' often, consider prepping smoothies in advance pre-separated out into individual containers. I personally like low-no fat yogurt blended with fruit and, here's the weird part, those water flavor drops. They add sweetness without dumping in excess sugar. Insulated containers will keep them reasonably fresh non-refridgerated all day so they can even be tossed into a backpack. Hope of those sparked some ideas! -
By KymmieL · Posted
I did get a sorry from the mechanic, saying it was all on him. The boss just said I just went by what I was shown. I didn't look at the paper work. I thought maybe you should before jumping down someones throat. I am still in the market. Just waiting to find the right one. Hugs, Kymmie -
By KathyLauren · Posted
Hi, M.A. Welcome to Transgender Pulse! I am sure you will find a lot of people with similar stories to your own. Feel free to ask questions and share your experiences. THis is one of the most supportive forums. Regards, Kathy -
By Susan R · Posted
@Emily Chen I can add you to the list of those getting the Zoom Link. Message me for the meeting link if you’d like to attend. As April Marie pointed out, the next meeting begins May 4th Saturday night @ 9PM Eastern or 6pm Pacific Time. Will continue for at leas 3 hours. Feel free to join or leave at any time. Susan R🌷 -
By Lydia_R · Posted
Thanks for your thoughtful reply @RaineOnYourParade. I totally understand and agree with what you said. I'm in no way proposing a law to decrease population. It must be done on the demand side. My role in this is simply to be highly visible and inspiring on many different levels and cultures from around the world. We tend to focus on changing laws and that is addressing things on the supply side. If we make a law to tax a type of business to try to steer the economy, we are changing the supply side. People don't think of politics as a demand side thing, but our leaders should be inspiring us to change our behaviors. Like the motto I was taught in the Navy "lead by example". Although I could have tried to do this all with my music, I was not going to be successful with that. It's reasonable to try to have a career as a highly visible politician to lead like this. I never had any children that I know about. I've had a pretty fabulous life. Lots of ups and downs. Lots of adventures. Because I wasn't watching TV and I wasn't having children, I had to fill my time with something. Although I am super ambitious with this political thing, all I really want to do is cook a nice curry dinner and have an intimate evening playing music for/with a partner and/or a friend or two. And of course I enjoy cleaning the house and doing some writing, math and things. I try to give back to society, but I'm not one of these people who just wants to serve. It's very encouraging what the younger generation is doing in my opinion. It's rough around the edges and I feel we could be more intentional about things. Since population is declining, and I'm suggesting it to decline even more, we'll have this problem of there not being enough young people to take care of the old people. I'm very strong on protecting our younger generation from having to babysit old people. There simply aren't enough of them to do it like it is being done now. I think this population reduction stuff is so important and this younger generation is just inheriting all these realities that I want to totally get them out of the business of taking care of older people. The idea is to get medications mailed to them. Make doctor visits very short and sweet. Get old people staffing old folks homes. I think we have a huge problem with mental health treatment in this country. I think our economic realities from greater automation and income disparity have lead too many people to fall into despair. We have to do something with our time and if we get rid of jobs with automation, and we stop making making housing (a decreasing population doesn't need more housing), then we still have to do something with our time. I was successful at fighting addiction with relatively low carbon emitting work. I make apps on the computer and record music in my living room. I don't own a car. I've been working part time from home for 12 years. I actually work an excessive amount to do politics like this, but I have had periods of downtime. Totally! I think that humanity is just going to go in reverse here and these rural areas are going to be popular with younger people. Set them up with some wind turbines. Adjust to not having power 24/7. Plenty of space to grow food. Keep up the roads well enough to truck in some grains and other supplies. As long as climate change doesn't cause some kind of environmental or insect problem, I think these rural places are going to be great. I think we'll have to pick and choose which ones to continue supporting and which ones to abandon. There are always details to work out. I think in a world that is aging with declining population, people who are more unhealthy are going to be moving towards the cities and people who are healthier and middle age will move to the suburbs. The suburbs are OK places as long as you are strong enough to get around by bicycle. As someone who is 53 and physically fit, I groove on the idea of those big houses in the suburbs becoming house parties. Perhaps I'm just dreaming though! LOL! @awkward-yet-sweet is making some interesting points here. My first wife did concrete work on the freeways in Chicago. They do that up there because the extreme cold cracks the asphalt. Those freeways are annoying with all the bumping between joints, but the roads last a long time. But it takes a lot of industrial heat to make concrete. Yes, humanity got along without the paved roads before and we can do it again. We all inherited this world the way it is. Sure, us older people contributed to it as well, but this whole industrialization/globalization thing has been going on a long time. Perhaps we will avoid the horse and buggy thing and do a lot of mountain biking? -
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By MAN8791 · Posted
Hi, I'm . . . . let's go with initials for now. M.A. works. I've been out as genderfluid for about a year but finding I have more questions about my identity now than I did this time last year. I'm AFAB, in my mid forties, widowed parent with three teens (god help me!). I have a new therapist as of two weeks ago, a decision I made with the help of my previous therapist and my new one specializes in LGBTQ+ needs so very well equipped to deal with my hot mess. We started screening for gender dysphoria this week and my response to almost every question she asked was "wait, that's not normal?" I don't live in a particularly sheltered bubble but somehow I seem to be much better at recognizing when my friends are struggling, than when I'm struggling myself. I'm a freelance writer and graphic designer, and in my "free time" (lol, TWO of my offspring are theatre/band/choir kids, and the third is an aspiring screenwriter, y'all can imagine the sheer chaos easily) I write plays/musicals, and poetry. -
By VickySGV · Posted
Sounds like time for a new Body Technician hopefully one that is actually a Doctor Of Medicine, this one you describe is short of that mark. -
By Ladypcnj · Posted
Hi Lydia, I had McAfee before on my other computer and it allowed over 19 viruses to come in yikes lol -
By Ladypcnj · Posted
I've been seeing my new treating doctor for quite some time now, whenever I'm advised to make an appointment. When it comes to seeing a new treating doctor, hard part is starting all over again building trust between patient and doctor. On my first day seeing my new treating doctor, before I could say anything else to her, she explained to me I needed to be completely honest with her. I kind of expected that type of patient profiling response from her, since she doesn't specialize in intersex care. Anyway, I sat down in the chair as I explained to my new doctor, I don't have all of my hospital records, certain records from my childhood and teenager years are mysteriously missing regarding a surgery. After my examination was over, she disregarded or showed no interest in searching for my missing medical records, but instead she blamed me for how I take care of my health today.
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