Continuing the Journey

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Continuing the Journey (June 2003-October 2004)

I got to the last of the second round of hormones and started the third in June. At this point, the dosage is now 1.875 mg/day.

This is so not fair! I work all day, I go home and work half a night cleaning and fixing up. Weekends? I have not had one in so

long I am forgetting what they are like. Ever since the SO started with the breathing problems (which have turned out to be

Adult Onset Asthma), I have had to clean, pull drapes and replace them with blinds and blackout curtains, clean, do all the

dusty housework like cat pans, and clean. Plus laundry. And everything else under the sun that got planned before this

became an issue, like repacking stuff to move. Plus all the stuff that happens during my work day. And it is Graduation

season, so there is stress there. I have to train a summer intern how to do things here, so I can ~~waste~~ spend more time in

useless, unproductive meetings. And I have dropped out of one set of Doctoral classes, only to enroll in another.

But even Wonder Woman has limits. I am reaching mine...I am tired a lot, unmotivated, bitchy. And that's a good day.

I am going to get some breakfast before I either start crying (which runs my makeup), or I rip someone's lungs out.

In between these two dates was my annual summer vacation, this time in Louisville, KY. Read all about it here.

This has been a very exciting morning for me. I told the boss I am leaving Evansville in October. He took it well, and wants

to see me do some sort of advisory/consulting role for the school. (Of course I said yes. I'm not that dense, I have no job

waiting for me...yet.) Now the hard part: I have to tell my folks over dinner tonight.

My first book--"The Weekend Woman"--will be for sale on TrannyWeb's TrannyStuff. They did a great job with the cover!

I am very excited about this, and I can hardly wait to see what happens with the next two books. Oh, yes...the other two

books are done, finally: "Steppin' Out on Saturday Night" and "Beyond the Weekend." (If you are interested, go here.)

I love it when I travel somewhere. I am on assignment to a conference, and as I walk in the hotel (A Westin-very ritzy

and not really the kind of place I stay at when I travel but the school is paying for it and it is where the conference is

being held….) I am greeted by "Good evening, miss….uh…sir." I just smile. I didn't bother telling her she was right the

The hormones are finally working. Slowly, but they are working.

By using Sandra's wonderful tlog program, I have been charting my progress, and...my boobs have gotten a little bigger.

So have my areolas. My breasts have been sore a bit lately, and I find they get positioned funny during yoga (when I am

I am so at peace with this. It is a dream slowly coming true. I am that much closer to becoming the woman I should be.

Other than being pushed to get a million things done at work, and a million more at home, things are okay. My breasts

are not as tender as they were, and I am slowly getting my weight and blood pressure back in line. It is summer, and as

of this point, I only have 72 days until the move. People are getting wind of it here, and many of them are sad to see the S.O.

and I leave. (I am just as sure many people are relieved that we are moving away.) It's just been kind of crazy, and I suspect

that by the time I get to the end of next week, things will be okay.

Meantime, I just got word today: The Cat Transport people will be coming to move my kitties soon. They are being moved

out to my SO's folks place (where we will be staying until we get a place of our own) and so another piece of the puzzle has

fallen into place. This is really going to happen....

It is now only 60 days until I leave Evansville, and I can hardly wait. The cats leave Friday, and I will miss my babies but it

really is in their best interests to send them out now...it becomes a little easier when I don't have the little dears underfoot.

I will have to take a day off work this week to pack a lot of stuff--much of it Mina-related. That's just the way it goes--life as

a transsexual is not always peaches and cream.

Something I won't be packing is hormones. (They'll go with me, of course.) Today starts cycle 10, which means dosage is

now 2.5 mg/day. It will be interesting to see how the changes (such as they will be) pick up speed. I am having to chart my

progress on Tlog weekly now; I am not only watching my measurments and weight, but my blood pressure as well. Since I

will be seeing a new doc soon, I want to have an idea of what he'll find. I'm not thrilled with either right now, but I'm still in better

Late last week I completed an interview for the Tranny Tribune on TrannyWeb; seems that now that I am an "internationally

known authoress"(!), I'm fair game for interviews. Which is funny in its own right, as (a) the number of volumes sold hasn't

picked up too much, and (b) As a result of being on the web, I already was an "internationally known authoress." Such is

life, I suppose. I find the whole thing rather amusing in one sense--seems to me to be much ado about little. All I did was put

some info together in a usable format. I mean, I don't feel any different, or better--I still put my panties on one leg at a time,

The cats got picked up Thursday Evening. Early. So now I am temporarily catless. They are traveling better than I will,

when that time comes. I am now about 60% packed--I still have a lot to do but am starting to see the home stretch. The hard

part will be 30 days out; that's when things must be at least 80% packed. In short--I have three weeks to get there.

Stats: My weight is good, BP is a little up and down, and measurements are just fine, thanks. As part of my motivation

to lose weight and get back into shape (yes, I know round is a shape, but it isn't the shape I had in mind, thanks), I

enrolled last month in the President's Challenge/Active Lifestyle. I got my certificate and patch the other day for completing

Now I am working on the President's Challenge/Presidential Champion (Bronze Level). This is so funny, because as a child

I could never make the 85% for the Presidential Phyiscal Fitness Award. (If they had only tested me as a girl, I might have

This is the last day of my self-imposed rest from writing a lot on the website. I have added some stuff, and more than

once wanted to update it, but held off. I'm glad I did now; it gave me a chance to add, correct, and generally clean up the

place. The Olympics have come and gone, and the Rupublicans are now having their big lovefest in Noo Yawhk. I could have

written a bunch of stuff up on both, but instead have decided to ignore them, at least for now. (Especially the Republicans.)

So this is it. I am leaving the Mighty Midwest after 11 ½ years…and am throwing myself across 2200 miles of star-spangled highway

and heading home…sort of. I mean, I'm heading back to the West Coast-“Home”, if you will-but not back to the Bay Area. I am not sure quite

…and a little scared. But I am not backing down now, nor am I looking back. It is high time I dragged my princess butt back where it belongs,

more or less. I have hormones, and I have enough things packed in such fashion that I can get to them, once I determine where the Sakura boxes

are. Nothing to do now but sit tight and enjoy the drive.

Here is where I decided to start a new chapter of Diary--because it's at this point where I start a new life.