I haven't been around much of late. I do continue to check in to see what is being posted, and occassionaly comment when I can, but work has had me traveling and insanely busy this year.

There have been some good changes though.

My wife and I have both been on diets since January. I'm down 40 pounds, and she is down over 30 pounds. It's interesting as we are both doing totaly seperate diets, she is on Nutra-System, and I'm doing a low-carb approach. But they are working well.

Well enough, that I'm starting to get hand-me-downs from her. :) Very cool. In fact right now I'm wearing a pair of knit slacks that were hers until yesterday. They are perhaps a bit tight still, but they are 22w, and what I have is 30w, so that I can wear them at all is amazing.

It will take a bit more of a loss before I can actually wear most of the rest, but the day will come, I'm sure.

On a sort of seperate topic, some of you might remember that my son Max, last May admitted to finding my breast forms. And while he was immediately very accepting he was not ready to see me dressed as Kristy. Over the past year that has pretty much completely relaxed. When I'm not traveling for work, I work from home, so I would always take advantage of the time he was at school for "Kristy time."

After he learned about Kristy, since I'm basically in my study with the door closed, I did not worry about being de-Kristified before he would get home quite as stringently. He quickly made no effort to avoid making repeated trips in to the study, and though I would do my best to shield my chest, he was certainly aware of it.

Both my wife and I have spoken to him about his comfort level seperately, on several occassions, and he made it known he was fine. In fact he has gotten annoyed at us for even questioning it. (Gotta love that boy.)

In a nutshell, what has happened in the past year, is that I'm free to be Kristy at home pretty much whenever. Both he and my wife have the right to ask for a night off any time, but they have not exercised it, in quite a while. Max still hasn't seen me in a dress or a skirt, though again when we mentioned it he got annoyed that I would think he would have a problem. We did point out that we didn't want him to just stumble in on that, and perhaps it was best if we did that at a planned time.

It is amazingly freeing for me to be able to just relax and spend the whole day working as Kristy, and then settle down with my family and watching a DVD or whatever and have it not be an issue.

In fact, with the weight loss, my wife and I have both needed to purchase new clothes. And with my working from home I was able to purchase quite a few outfits for Kristy. The first time in my life that I have had what could actually be called a wardrobe for her. It feels wonderful, going into my closet and seeing Kristy's section. And actually having to make choices as to what to wear...

I know how lucky this makes me, and I tell them often in many ways, how much I appreciate their acceptance.

For those of you that have followed Jason's Story and the sequel Kelly Anderson, I'm sorry that I have not been able to do any writing in way too long. The pressures at work have been too great for the past year and a half, and try as I might I just haven't been able to wrap my head into it. I hope to eventually find a way to find some time for me to truly relax and do so, but I don't see it in the short term. I'm truly sorry about this.

Not going away ... I will continue to try to be a part of this community as much as I can.

Hugs to all.

Kristy