Just after I wrote tonight's episode of Bike, I phoned Gabi, who likes to hear them before I post them and frequently makes useful comments. Tonight, Gabi didn't sound very well, and said she was going to lay on the bed and would phone me back in a few minutes. I waited half and hour and she hadn't called back and when I tried calling her, no answer.

A few weeks ago, as if by premonition, she gave me her next door neighbour's number - I called them and after some confusion over key safe numbers, they managed to gain access to Gabi's house in rural Oxfordshire.

My latest posting of the "Princess and the Plague" saga has sparked new interest in my "Healing a Princess" story. it's nice to see some of you trying my non-TG story writing. I hope you all are enjoying it. please don't be shy about sending me a PM or leaving a comment. I know there is still work to be done on it.

Thanks for reading, enjoying and commenting,

A.A.

Well, it looks like my store may be sold. The US based chain "Target" has been exploring coming to Canada, and is in the process of buying several stores belonging to our chain, and it looks like ours is one of them. If it happens all the employees will be laid off, and have to either apply with they new company, or at other locations of our current one. I hope I am gone before that happens.

Thank you!

Some of you have been keeping track on my blog and offering good will wishes for someone that is special to me regarding a diagnosis that was given a few weeks back.

In short: I took her to the ER for severe abdominal pains a few weeks back. An ER doc and a Oncology doc told her she had ovarian cancer and she'd be dead very soon. Nice huh? All of this without a biopsy just a CAT scan. I twigged the next day that it wasn't possible to declare it cancer without that.

Aside from Bailey...

What character interests you the most?

I was greatly surprised to see Daniel Craig in an add for women's rights. http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/03/07/daniel-craig-dresses-in-...

For a special bulletin. This is your all time favorite super-heroine, The Fantastic Fluke, coming to you live from an alternate dimension! I have "borrowed" Dorothy's blog to let you know I am working with her on the final chapter of my amazing origin! Look for it soon, and stay sexy, everybody!

I goofed...the web site URL is www.write-it-better.com

I haven't maintained it or used it for a few months, so I remembered the one I tried for but didn't get. Sorry about the error.
djkauf

The comment section attached to a story is no place for long running arguments. Especially arguments that have been going on for years and have very little to do with the story they are attached to. Thanks.

Hugs,
Erin

Well, I just had a big dust-up with my mother. She is totally afraid that I won't be able to be accepted by the world at large as Dorothy, and I will not be able to meet my obligations. I know its mostly because of her own exhaustion and stress, but it still hurt.

No, the title is not a spelling mistake but an apt one (at least I thought it was) for an interesting news article I came accross

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20110306/tuk-padded-bras-for-sex...

I will let others make up their on minds regarding the story.

To those it may concern:

Well, first of all, thanks for reading this. As you know, I haven't published anything since the tail end of January. I know, I had a good turn going. Well, as things do on occasion, everything came to a screeching halt. I haven't touched ChangeDay: Advent since then, nor my more acclaimed Dream Come True. Of course, this is not because I didn't want to or that writer's block caught me.

well, i was rather stupid. I have been fighting tooth pain the last couple of days, and i had the chance to go to see a dentist today, and didn't take it. It would have meant waiting most of the day at the ER, and i felt better by the time i might have considered it. Now, i dont know when i might have another shot, and i wishing i had gone.

To state 'the bleeding obvious', I am not going to discuss my employment in detail here, so please think before you reply to this. I have an issue at work regarding what is called an equality assessment. Under UK law, changes in working practices or conditions require an equality impact assessment. This is ostensibly a way of seeing whether a change adversely affects a particular group, such as the disabled, married folk, or TLGB (MY turn to choose the order of the initials)

She lies alone, imprisoned by fate,

her face hidden, her nature denied.

Well, it's becoming more and more obvious that we need to upgrade to Drupal 6. We've got several Drupal 6 sites now running, Stardust is on 6. So, it's time to upgrade TopShelf.

We're going to do a dummy version first, probably this week and then later, in a week or a month when we're convinced it's going to work, take BCTS down while we do the conversion on live data.

So, I was looking at rings on the internet, trying to find the perfect one for Madam Zeela to make for Gretchen.

It's not exactly what I was envisioning (which was something closer to http://tinyurl.com/4g98447) but I fell in love with the following one, and want to get everyone's opinion.

http://tinyurl.com/45gytys.

Or, do you have a preference of your own?

Zeela does not want to go with a traditional diamond setting, and has a "large stone" that she wants to use.

Anyway, as always, your input is appreciated :)

Well, I had my interview, and I think it went well. I should find out by the end of next week if I got the job, but they seemed okay with me being me, and I think i showed my telephone skills. So we will have to wait and see.

The next chapter of 12-String is done, and it has been submitted for editing. Last time I posted about this, I think my editor felt a little rushed. That was not my intent. Take your time, as I would prefer a complete product to a fast one :)

Just letting you all know where we are in the process.

With the advent of the first BC V-1 a thought occurs. Recently, I have been working with an author on a re-write and an issue arose regarding comma use.

I had recommended the grammatical use of the comma in a specific application. The author used the comma as a pause indicator in dialog. When I responded to the author, I brought out the issue, but left the final decision on usage to him.

I'm still working on options for bad weather, but somehow or another we're going to make it work out.

If nothing else, we may have a couple of tents to go over the tables at the park. They still need to be checked out. But hopefully we will not have to worry about them.

I'm still looking for a place we can go indoors if we have to. The place I thought of first, does not have a separate room we can use, but I haven't put on a full court press yet.

Just to let you all know that a visit to my site (maddybell.com)will let you rerad a new chapter in Angharads Fanfic Whatever Next.

Mads

People....as a computer illiterate I have somehow managed to disable comments to Chapter 20. I have mailed admin for a fix, but until then, please feel free to abuse me here

It seems I'm not going to finish in time for Short Story Month. I have only about 80% of a story done, and still no idea for an ending.

Oh well.

I think I'll steer clear of story challenges for a while and concentrate on Stephanie. (Episode 24 is about halfway completed at the moment, and both of my readers deserve a better update schedule.)

Well I got curious after Steph (Cyclist) mentioned the Gogiati test in one of her replies so I googled it and took the test.

I scored -50 That is Androgyne 3 and that is eeerily close to my mind set at the moment.
It recommends that I don't go for anything radical and indeed I never had any intentions of doing so. I am happy with my little boy bits and never felt the need to go 'whole hog' for SRS.

Well, I just got back from dropping off a resume with a call center as Dorothy. Not only that, but I dropped in at my current work as Dorothy, and said hello to everyone. Thanks to having been talking about this for the last while, nobody seem shocked. One of my co-workers even called me Dorothy. Pretty good day, I think.

I noticed that The Trial of The Phoenix didn't get the right tag for the Universe, are there other stories that I missed because they were missing the proper tag?

Some of you may remember that the 1998 Eurovision Song Contest (that's a television Spectacular where the TV companies in each country in Europe (and also neighbours like Turkey, Israel and so on) select a totally crap song and then all 32 or whatever have a 'gala' night to select a winner) was won by the Israeli entry, a song called 'Diva' sung by a performer called 'Dana International'. To be of relevance here on this site, it will come as no surprise that she is an MtF Transsexual.

Today we talked about editing standards and decided on Word/OpenOffice/LibreOffice as our editing platform.

The workflow will be nomination, choices and priorities, permission, conference with author, editing revisions, approval from author, final edit, proofing, layout, final approvals.

Stories that get hung up in the process will probably be allowed to slip to the next volume. We now have about 150 stories nominated, though some of them are too long. At any rate, we have no dearth of stories to go into Volume 1. :)

I just thought I would pass on the link to the Daily Telegraph obituary for Chris Dale.
He was a 6ft 6in mountaineer, with a passion for solo climbs. He was also a cross-dresser who went by the name of Crystal.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/sport-obituaries/...

Now there is someone who led an extraordinary life. It’s a shame he died at only 49.
Love to All

Anne G.

Flippin heck!
I've only just Noticed Catherine's blog offering me a happy birthday and all the following comments'

I just can't get my head around this. The site is just Soooo- sooooo friendly.

I offer everybody a tearful and heartfelt thankyou!

I hadn't even considered posting a blog cos I hardly ever expect nice stuff like this.

Thankyou everybody. Thank you, thankyou, thank you!

My Birth Certificate, the last piece of paperwork needed, is in the hands of my lawyer. All that remains is for me to sign in all the right places, and then the filing of the paperwork and the setting of a court date. Then, the REAL work begins. Changing all my identity papers to my new name. LOL!

Well, my Phoenix story is up. Its nearly 30,000 words long, almost three times as long as anything I have ever written. I hope people like it (and are not shy about saying so)

Well, I want to thank publicly everyone who sent me some support after my last entry. Somehow, just writing it down, getting it out in the open, made a huge difference, and the support I got pulled me the rest of the way back up the hill. That doesn't mean I wont ever struggle with not feeling "pretty" again, but I think as long as I remember I don't have to listen to that feeling, I will be okay. Meanwhile, I am reaching the home stretch in terms of my Phoenix story. I have one last issue to figure out, and that is; do I let them actually make love? Or not? Its a nice problem to have....

I just want all my readers to know that I do appreciate all the comments. Some of those are as entertaining to me as the story seems to be to all of you.

So don't worry, there is more coming and Dahlia's intemperant mouth won't stop. She can't help the smart assed comments, it's just in her and she can't fight it all that well.

Thanks to all of you following this story.

Maggie

Hello Wow snow, rain, temp up to 38 F , then rain,ice then snow
what a day and they say snow is comming again LOL LOL LOL any body want some water? (solid in form of hard pack snow ) come get it it is free heheh LOL LOL you must pick up though free clump of cat fur (color white ) with every pick-up hope everyone stays warm and dry have a nice day

christi

Sorry for the delay in posting a new chapter but as always real life gets in the way.
I'm hoping to get the next chapter edited and posted this weekend, so for those of you who have waited patiently, your wait will soon be over.

Working 12 hours a days really is a drag and doesn't leave much time for anything else after caring for Mom and sleeping there's just an hour or so left so I'm behind.

Again I apologize for the delay

Love to you and yours

Danielle_O

Hello all :)

In my perusings I came across the site http://www.transformation.co.uk/en/home and wondered what other people thought about it? It looks like some of their products may be wonderful for the TG community. Artificial breasts, vaginas...etc. Looks like they may be of nice quality and would certainly be desirable. I don't know if the prices are reasonable as I don't shop for things like that.

Authors of transgender fiction have written many stories on the theme of the male who became a female fashion model. What is it they say about "truth is stranger than fiction?" A young Serbian-Australian man is now the hottest thing on the female fashion runways of London and Paris. His* story trumps many of the fictional ones I've enjoyed reading here.

Here is an interview by an Australian television station with Andrej Pejic, his family, peers, and others in the fashion world.

http://au.tv.yahoo.com/sunday-night/video/-/watch/24174190/

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Hiya! To help people keep up with where the Year of Challenges is at, here's an update of what's going to be due in March:

redman

Well, I had an MRI a couple weeks ago, and now I know why things are the way they are. As far as I am concerned, I function pretty well, have no physical disabilities, and have been pretty successful in life. One thing that has always bothered me is that in certain social situations, I just mess up. I just don't understand what is going on.

I just about have Ch 3 ready, finally, and this afternoon was looking at the other two chapters to see how they matched up with Ch 3 and at the heading of one of the chapters, it said the word count was about 40,000 words. Well I already knew that from my having done most of my writing in MS Word; though I am now using Works until I work out some issues with using Word. That works out to about 25 pages and for me that seems like a comfortable amount of work to do per chapter.

My humble apologies to my several fans, but Second Sight's Chapter Four will be delayed due to having to attend a job interview tomorrow.

Please bear with me as I'm almost done and will try and get it out as soon as possible.

Yours regretfully,

Nick B

I don't just look it, I'm totally in need of a job right now...

Last night we were fortunate enough to view The King's Speech. What performances by Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush! Even though I live across the pond, I was familiar with some of the acrimony between Elizabeth II's mother, and Edward and Wallis Simpson. I know that it carried over to the Queen. Neither of the brother's wanted to be king. Many say that The Queen Mother blamed Edward for George's early death. The fact that he was addicted to cigarettes certainly contributed to that. I don't think I was aware of George VI's speech impediment.

Well, I had a doozy of a nightmare last night. I was behind a person, who had his back to me. I tried to get his attention, and his head snapped around without his body turning, while a deep note played like from a soundtrack. It was very frightening.

Does anyone know the cost of HRT.