Personal Ad Response

As I wrote on Facebook:

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A couple days ago, I posted on the Reddit T4T subreddit. The next morning I had a response, but I had to go out and do a few errands, so I decided to wait to look at it until I had time to read it and respond thoughtfully. I was thinking about it while I was out, and when I got home I opened up Reddit to see what they said.

"Hi, how are you"

*laughs*

And it's from someone who seems to post on a bunch of trans *and* cross-dressing *and* sissy subreddits. I will not be responding to that one.
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But, as I told Miriam, in complete honestly, if it was a chaser but actually a female chaser, I might actually be interested in a hookup. And the responder does have a female name.

Catch-up From Facebook - Yesterday

A few other updates from yesterday:

I was driving in some of the worst conditions I can remember this morning. Everyone was driving like 20-30 kph and the anti-lock breaks were still activating at stops. That was awful. I can tell other people were uncomfortable too because I was leaving a ton of following distance, and no one else tried to change lanes into it!

I'm amazed I only saw one car off the road. People up here are probably used to this and have snow tires.

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I just got the latest Covid and flu shots. I expect, as usual, I will have no negative effects, but should that change I'll probably tell you all about it! Miriam got just the Covid booster because either one by itself causes flares of her chronic pain. Together, they can disable her for days.

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Scored at Value Village today:
*13 x 9 Pyrex glass dish for $10
*A nice set of 4 matching glasses for $3
*A giant glass mug for me because I drink so much water and want to have to refill my cup less often
*More forks
*Some gauzy curtains for the daybed
*A (mismatched) set of sheets for the daybed
*An Andreas Vollenweider album I haven't heard (Caverna Magica)
*A Calvin and Hobbes collection

The forks and glasses are part of getting prepped for a visit from Miriam's parents.
We are worried about their visit as a Covid exposure vector, both for them and for us. But they are isolating and masking consistently in the weeks before coming, and Miriam's dad, though he's one of the folks who would not be masking if not for his family asking him too, actually shaved his beard so he can get a better mask fit for the flight here. I think that was a lot for him and I appreciate it very much.

In a perfect world, we wouldn't have to compromise in these ways, but this world has never been perfect. Her parents are significantly older than mine, and after my dad's death, it's become deeply important to us to make sure we see them.

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Treadmill yuri yesterday and today has been Sakura Trick. It's ridiculous fluff, and I am loving it.

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I washed the curtains but did not put them in the delicates bag, and now they have big tears all through them. They were inexpensive, but I'm still sad.

I just really want a super girly canopy bed with pretty curtains! I'll have to look for more, and be more careful about washing them this time. You can't really see in this image, but the purple curtain on the end is badly torn now, so I didn't even put up the other one.

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Ella is taking a leash reactivity class whose first session was tonight. I'm hoping that as well as making it easier to walk her or take her places on the bike, it might be a step toward her barking less at people outside the condo too. If she can *get to* other dogs or people, she's great. When she can see or hear them but can't get to them, she loses her little mind.

But it just got cancelled due to bad weather, so I'm unexpectedly free this evening. More cleaning maybe?

Voice Training Stuff

I just did my voice training for the day and my throat is really feeling it!

I get really self-conscious about doing this with people around: even Miriam. She often naps during the day so I tend to do it then. Today, she's out at the chronic pain center, so it was another good time. I do want to keep doing this while her parents are visiting, but I don't really know if I'll be able to, even in the spare room with the door closed or something.

In case people are interested or find it helpful:

I've started going through a series of voice training videos by a YouTuber named Bria. The Trans Voice Lessons channel seems to be a lot better known, but I have found Bria's videos to be a lot more direct and approachable. I was overwhelmed by TVL, but I'm really encouraged by Bria. There are a bunch of videos in the series, which were originally a livestream done weekly.

So I'm more-or-less going through the same video every day for a week, and then moving on the next one. I just watched the second one for the first time today and I feel even better about things.

Coincidentally, Bria is also the author of a book I bought - before I was fully certain I was trans - about transitioning called "First Year Out: a Transition Story", though I didn't know that until following the links back to more info about her after watching the first video a few times.

Here's the first one!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Z9HBWYVcQ