Apartment Maintenance

A maintenance person came to fix the loose kitchen faucet yesterday. He had to replace the whole tap, and now every time I use the sink I have that subtle feeling of things being just not quite right.

We'd also asked about the whole-apartment humidifier that seemed to have stopped working. I'd thought that it was having trouble keeping up with the cold weather and got a humidifer from Kijiji a while back. It's actually a whole apartment *dehumidifier*, which explains why it wasn't keeping the apartment humid. Oops! I'd looked at the humidistat dial on the wall and assumed, because you generally don't need to worry about too much humidity in Regina. We were down to 15% at times before buying our own, and that's pretty rough, especially for Miriam.

And our front door works much more smoothly now, so that's nice.

Trans Meme, Yuri

Also, I created this meme about my HRT experience for a transfem shitposting group. It got over 60 reacts, so I guess it was good!

Lots of girls who thought they were only attracted to women start HRT and find that they're interested in men. I always thought I was basically 50/50 bi/pan. Now, though, I'm leaning more like 70-80 percent toward women. I've realized that one reason I've always liked yuri media so much is that, without really acknowledging it, I was envious of the experiences of the women in that anime and manga.

A friend commented that he's heard the same thing (about being envious of the experiences of women in such media) from two other women who've transitioned and it's definitely a thing! I said:

It's not yuri, but my favorite manga is probably Azumanga Daioh, which is just a slice of life comic about a group of high school girls who are friends and their daily lives. I love it so much that I've never read the last few pages because I kind of don't want it to end, you know? I wish I could have had a high school experience like that.