This morning at 1:00 AM I finished a short story, complete with the extra spaces between paragraphs that Drupal requires. As far as I was concerned, it was ready to publish.

This morning I got up and decided to give it one last read to check for continuity. Much to my discomfiture, all those blooming extra carriage returns are gone! Can I have not remembered correctly? Did I forget to save my work? I am quite certain that I saved it and I have auto save set at 5 minutes.

Well, I had an upsetting moment the other night but because it involves my faith, I'm not giving details publicly. The last time I did that my blog got pulled. So if you want to know, PM me, but otherwise, just know I'm not a happy camper at the moment.

I didn't want to write this in with the other entry, since this is a much different sort of topic. The previous entry today was much harder to write, so I decided to do it first. Anyways!

My weight loss goal of 140 pounds was reached as of yesterday morning. I lost roughly 45 pounds between late June and now.

I still have a little bit of remaining pudge in some areas, but that should go soon enough as I move on to the next stage of my get healthy plan: muscle toning.

First of all. the surgery itself went very well, but I re-affirmed my belief that the squeaky wheel DOES get the grease. For months, the V.A. tried to tell me that my blurry vision was a simple problem that could be solved by using eyedrops. I insisted that it was much more than that, and finally went to an outside opthemlogist who informed me that I did indeed have a cataract! I went back to the V.A. with the proof and they finally did a more detailed exam, confirming the cataract and finally scheduled me for the surgery.

Courtesy of the Daily Wail, pics of the androgynous model.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2046459/Andrej-Pej...

Angharad

Today is my 63rd year on this earth .Who would have thought I would make it this far. Now onto the next 63 years

Okay, yer tiz, the first instalment of book 9!

http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/gaby---more-chang...
http://www.lulu.com/content/e-book/gaby---more-changes-1/117...

Enjoy!

Mads

So I attempted to go to class today as I missed last Thursday and Last Tuesday, one to a migraine and one to this illness. Chi Gung, which is more meditative and has only a few actual moves actually wiped me out. So as I was panting on my way to Tai Chi, my teacher stopped me, asked how I was and sent me home. That was sweet of her.

I came home, slept and have rested quite a bit. It seems to have helped. My hopes is that I can be fine tomorrow and I will be over this. This sucked so much.

I just wanted to send a big "thank you" to all the members of "Team Dorothy" for all your support. Huggles to all.

Link to Guardian story on victory in Australian courts regarding change of legal status without full surgical reassignment.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/06/transgender-aust...

Angharad

I'm at work and it's quiet. Why? Because it's wet, rainy, and miserable.
But that's not all.
There's snow mixed in with the rain.
SNOW:(
It's actually,snowing in Moncton only a half hour away from here.
Friggin Canada eh.

Just on ABC: Steve Jobs has passed away at 56.

I hate being sick. I got the plague. Not the actual plague because I got vaccinated for that, but rather whatever cold variant is floating around the area. I missed class for two days, which is not acceptable and I am against that. I feel run over and it is hard to focus, which gets in the way of homework. Blech...

Of course the lack of focus also means no writing as I just want to lie here and have people or things entertain me. Maybe I need to get a dancing monkey or two... oh... Jungle Book might work for that. Sorry, random...

Well, today I see the endocrinologist and find out if I can start a hormone regimen. Wish me luck, because if I can't I honestly don't know what I can do ....

I just wanted to thank Erin (and all her other personas) for creating the atmosphere of this site. I must say, I enjoy writing and I enjoy having an audience. But this site is so different than other story sites. It is so supportive and user friendly. I know that some of what I write doesn't appeal to all (or most) but at least those that appreciate what I am trying to accomplish let me know. I posted two stories yesterday, one seems to be a hit, and the other is moving up the hit list at a leisurely pace (like usual).

A few weeks or months ago I posted this on another site and was directed to ask it here...

Now before I ask my question I feel I should state up from that the other site suggested I ask directly if this site would be able to host my site, but I do not honestly think this site would be able to do such so instead...

I am looking for a web site host that would be friendly to transgender fiction stories, as my site is a personal site I doubt it ever be that big or use that much bandwidth, but I do need functioning PHP.

Just a note on how "Its for your own good" came about. See, I was reading Moongoddess' last chapter of "Magnetic Personality" where they tried to turn Lorna into a straight woman, and the thought came to me, "what if they had succeeded?" So I found myself having a nightmare that basically became the story. Its scary stuff, so I'm glad it was just a dream ....

I got a few very complimentary comments on my latest short story, and today I happened to notice that the read count had already broken 3,000. This got me wondering...

Not literally. My entry titles are often not literal.

Remember, though, how in Cinderella, the way they determined who she was, was by finding who the missing glass slipper belonged to. They determined that by trying to find who it was the "perfect fit" for.

Well, you may recall that I'd never been able to find gloves that fit until I couldn't find mens small and tried womens, finding that, for the first time in my life, I could actually understand the phrase "fits like a glove".

Heres the cover of the Gabycon guide

Mads

Okay

to start with theres a new chapter up on BC of book 7.

More important though is the release today of the Gabycon 2011 official guide which includes pictures from the weekend as well as an exclusive first peek at a new Angharad Gabfic and the first chapter of book 9!

follow the links

http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/gabycon-2011---the-off...
http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/gabycon-2011---the-officia...

ttfn

Mads

Well, last night, things were zooming along great until after the last coffee break. Then the slightly shaky feeling I'd had on and off blossomed into a full blown flashback that left me in tears and gasping for air. One day I would really like to be free of these blessed things ....

Something happened to my last change, and for some reason it did not appear on the site. Unfortunately I wrote the new stuff ON the site. RE-wrote it, and hopefully it is at least as good as the first version no one ever saw. It is really up there this time. I promise.

As mentioned at the start of the public (free) publishing of the completed version of Jaye's Quicksilver story, it will be unpublished on the tenth of this month, in preparation for publishing in several formats. I encourage anyone who wants to save it as-is to use the "printer-friendly" format button on the title page for the series to grab it all at once. It's yours to keep, a gift from Jaye and me. I think he would be pleased. I know I am.

Thank you for all your comments and kudos.

The Family Girl Blogs (aka "The New Working Girl Blogs") Blog #12: Channeling Mary Or, "Retro? What retro?" To see all of Bobbie's Family Girl Blogs, click on this link: http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/book/28818/family-girl-blogs

Does anyone know where the word/prefix "retro" comes from?   I'm sure many do, but I didn't so I had to google it.   Anyway, it's a Latin prefix that means "backwards" or "in the past."   Hence you now get words like "retrospective" or "retroactive" et cetera.   Last Monday, I indulged in a little bit of retro-ing.

Well I thought I'd post an update and tell you folks that I'm almost finished with the sequel to Incompatible. The main part of the story is finished I just need to tie up some lose ends and maybe add a few details. I hope to have it completed by the end of next week, but it just depends on my schedule and how much writing I get done. The Sequel will be roughly half the length of Incompatible, but is an important bridge between the first and last stories.

But the next couple of stories won't be filled with sunshine and puppies. Sorry.

The past few weeks have seen some interesting occurrences. Mostly positive, but, you know what they say about "interesting times"...

For 36 years I have lived a conflicted life. I went through abuse when I was younger, but I made it through. I took up wrestling in High School and did pretty well at it. I have memories of my life as Keith that I will enjoy, but I have decided that the real, complete me must be set free. I have decided to transition, but maybe not in the way that many may think. I didn’t go out and buy a bunch of dresses (though that would be a hoot) and I didn’t start wearing makeup (I doubt I would do it correctly without practice) and I am not shouting out to the world I am trans accept me.

I know we all have car problems from time to time, and in speaking to a friend about mine realised she'd had problems too.

Well, my muse has been a busy girl. This is where things stand for me at the moment: "Notification Service", a look at a future war between the sexes with a focus on a family caught in the crossfire - status, almost done; "Command Performance", a dark story from one of my nastier nightmares - status, being beta tested; "Quest for the Silver Cleric", which will be my D & D story - status, in progress; "Indestructible", a slightly different super-hero story - status - in progress; and story whose title I cannot reveal, because it will give the game away, but it is also in progress.

What do you listen to when you write? i'm writing Slacker 3 right now and i have been trying to get into a skater mindset, so Phantom Planet, ween, Fountains of Wayne, Avril... a little, offspring... but i was wondering if anyone else soundtracks their writing?
Rawking out,
Diana

Just got back from a walk with my daughter, and along the way we ran into a lady with a dog named "Dexter." Only Dexter is a girl dog. I wonder if other dogs tease her about her name?

This mornings' discussion around the story "The Beneficiary", caused me to get curious about intersex penile sizes. In doing just a little google search, I found a very interesting NOVA site with an interesting article and several links to yet more informative articles.

So for those who know they are intersexed, and for those who are just trying to figure things out, here is the link:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/intersex-spectrum.html

Enjoy

Gwendolyn

Daughter to Demons, the second of four stories by Jaye Michael I'm completing on his behalf and at his request, started posting today. It seems particularly appropriate to the days leading up to Hallowe'en and the days of all saints and the dead, respectively.

The last series was posted as a marathon, very rapidly, in order to get at much as possible out in the world as quickly as possible. This story will have a more leisurely publication schedule, once a week or more, depending on what else is happening in the world.

This is an interesting article, with video.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/27/health/transgender-kids/index....

Well here is a story that is so close to some written here.

http://news.yahoo.com/video/desmoineskcci-18191122/football-...

Yep, football player becomes cheerleader, unfortunately he isn't wearing a skirt though...

Everything continues to go well, 6 days after getting out. I've cut the pain pills in half and may quite in a day or so, and went out for several hours shopping with Gwen and Shelly.

Didn't buy much as we we pricing and trying to locate an exhaust fan for the kitchen. I need to let the landlord's agent know our ideas, as it will soon be too cold to keep the back door and kitchen window open to keep the smoke alarms from going off,or when cooking onions.

I'm still less comfortable when sitting or standing vertically, but if I can kick back even a bit it isn't bad.

I am continually surprised by the number of readers who seem to thirst for the next chapter of Somewhere Else Entirely. That being the case, I thought I'd jot down a few notes about the story - without giving anything away, I hope - so that readers know what to expect.

When I first went online looking for answers for my gender issues, I came across a site called Daily Strength that I found very helpful. (My profile can be found here: http://www.dailystrength.org/home/profile ) One of the features is the ability to create a goal, and I decided that mine was to "become whole". I wasn't 100 % clear what I meant by that, and in fact my idea of "wholeness" has radically changed. When I joined that site, I viewed my need to be female or as feminine as possible as a form of addiction, and hoped that somehow I could be cured of it.

The God Bless the Child trilogy has really been the most complete work that I've ever done. It is the only work that I put serious thought into while crafting it, and the only work I actually sat down and edited (sorry to admit this but the rest i just type as i go and then post, I don't even do a second read) With the trilogy I actually kept close tabs on character's personalities so that they responded consistently (on two occasions I had to re-write scenes to put the right character in there because of the response I needed).

And I lost another inch from my waist and an inch from my height.

I've always been 5'5.5" ever since... mid-high school? Fairly recently, I've been feeling like I'm slightly shorter, and when I googled "m2f hrt shrinking", there were results, so apparently, some people do experience a slight loss of height on hrt. So I decided last night to check, and I was 5'4.5". Decided to measure again this morning to be certain, and it came up the same, maybe a sixteenth of an inch higher.