Having a pregnant wife makes hugging hard, as there's always this little unborn creature curled up in the way.  It kept Ellen Page from dancing close to Jason Bateman in "Juno."

When I brush up against baby girth and Pretty Bride says, "something's come between us," I don't think about Ellen Page or future baby boy, however.  I think about R.L.T., as in Rectal Love Train.  There were a band made up of a few of my friends in high school in the early 1990s who got some airtime on the local community college's radio station.  One of their hits included the lyrics:

"Something's come between us,
someone else's penis.
Don't you know those aren't teardrops on your chin?"

It's nice, really, thinking about 17-year-old kids screaming about infidelity instead of the miracle of childbirth.  Give it a try sometime.

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However, the mobile operator obviously spotted my Social Security number... In Finland males have uneven last number in the SS# while females have even number. Either the person was bored or there was some automatic check but the result was that they sent me an email wondering about it. Sure it's not a big deal but I seriously hate having to explain this to people. Especially since none of the places where I had to change the name so far have had any questions. I guess I should've contacted them through phone instead of email but I just did not want to wait in queue for hours.

I still did not directly mention anything about my TS background. Just told them that the name has changed but SS# remained for now. Bah... I wonder how hard it'll be to get them change the SS# at the end of this year when I can finally get it changed (in Finland we have to be 1 year on HRT and then meet another doctor in order to get the number changed). I'd otherwise change the operator but they offer a nice additional service of 50gb storage space and unlimited bandwidth... so a great place to host pictures and stuf, and the price is cheap too.

Anyways, tomorrow I'll be going shopping with the new TS friend I met last weekend. I'm quite excited since I don't often go shopping in Helsinki (it's to completely different direction from work than my home). I'm quite likely going to look for some shoes I could use at office since my current brown ones look kinda lame. The bad thing is that forecast is summoning rain...

Oh yeah, today's the leap day. In Finland there's sometimes been a "tradition" that when women propose and the man declines, the man has to buy the woman a cloth for a skirt... too bad I don't know any handsome and nice men I could try proposing.

Frage: Welcher Schokoriegel trägt den gleichen Namen wie der römische Kriegsgott?
Antwort: Snickers.

Frage: Was stand in den 80er Jahren auf den populären Anti-Atomkraftbuttons? Atomkraft, nein...
Antwort: Nein. (Anm: Oh Nein...)

Frage: An welchem Verkehrsmittel befindet sich in der Regel eine Gallionsfigur?
Antwort: An der Ampel.

Frage: Wie wird die Kinderkrankheit Mumps im Volksmund auch genannt?
Antwort: Hackepeter. (Mahlzeit...)

Frage: Welche menschlichen Extremitäten sind dem Kopf am nächsten?
Antwort: Die Haare.

Frage: Welcher Krieg bildet die Kulisse zu Francis Ford Coppolas Film "Apocalypse Now"?
Antwort: Krieg der Sterne. (Marlon, die Macht sei mit Dir...)

Frage: Welches häufig rundliche Körperteil ist beim Menschen durch den Hals mit dem Rumpf verbunden?
Antwort: Der Bauch. (wohl aus dem Kopf heraus entschieden...)

Frage: Welches Kleidungsstück fur Frauen wird auch als "kleines Schwarzes" bezeichnet?
Antwort: Slip. (sehr klein! ab und zu vielleicht eher "kleines Rotes"....)

Frage: Wenn die Intelligenz einer Person mit "Bohnenstroh" verglichen wird, ist die Person dann dumm oder klug?
Antwort: Klug. (Jau...)

Frage: Welcher Monat liegt zwischen Dezember und Februar?
Antwort: Juli.

Frage: Wie lautet der Titel des zehnten James-Bond-Films von 1977? Der Spion, der...
Antwort: Alles wusste. (Har Har)

Frage: Welchem deutschen Bundesland ist der Schwarzwald zuzuordnen?
Antwort: Schleswig-Holstein.

Frage: Wie heissen die kurzen Haare an den Außenkanten der Augenlider?
Antwort: Koteletten.

Frage: Mit wie vielen "M" schreibt sich das Wort Kommunikation nach der Rechtscheibreform?
Antwort: Vier (wieder was gelernt!).

Frage: Seit welchem Jahrzehnt werden in Deutschland Fernsehsendungen in Farbe ausgestrahlt?
Antwort: Seit 1900. (Deutschland, Land der Erfinder...)

Frage: Welches Pumporgan des Menschen ist hauptsächlich für den Blutumlauf verantwortlich?
Antwort: Die Milz. (daher auch "Milzinfarkt" oder "Doppel-Milz"...)

Frage: Braue, Wimper und Lid schützen welches Sinnesorgan?
Antwort: Das Gesicht. (Frankensteins Monster...)

Frage: Für einen Einkaufsbummel in Düsseldorf musst du in welches Bundesland reisen?
Antwort: Rheinland-Westfalen. (Da hilft nicht mal ein Falkplan...)

Frage: In der Sendereihe "Vorsicht Falle" wurde vor Neppern, Schleppern und vor wem noch gewarnt?
Antwort: Mähdreschern. (Saugeil...)

Frage: Welchen französischen Namen tragen die knäuelartigen Quasten, die zur Grundausstattung jedes Cheerleaders gehören?
Antwort: Tampons. (Man stelle sich das mal vor...)

Frage: Unter welcher Telefonnummer erreichst du den Notruf der Feuerwehr?
Antwort: 010. (Warum nicht 0190?)

Frage: Welches Pedal entfällt bei einem Wagen mit Automatikgetriebe?
Antwort: Das Gas. (Das erklärt die vielen Sonntagsfahrer mit Hut und Klorolle...)

Frage: Wie wird der Tüllrock von Baletttänzerinnen bezeichnet?
Antwort: Töff töff (War wohl eher auf einer Racing Show...)

Frage: Was reimt sich auf "tief"?
Antwort: Runter.

Frage: Nennen Sie ein gelb-schwarzes Insekt.
Antwort: Eine Spinne.
Nächster Versuch: Eine Giraffe.

Frage: Nennen Sie etwas, das einen Schnabel hat.
Antwort: Hering. (Tschernobyl...?)

Frage: Nennen Sie ein Tier, das Stacheln hat.
Antwort: Ein Stachelbär (letztens erst im Zoo gesehen).

Frage: Nennen Sie eine Cremesuppe.
Antwort: Ochsencremesuppe

Well life is never boring is it?

Its been a while since I posted anything personal and there has been a ton of things going on these past few days, weeks, etc. Some good, some bad and some straight from hell.

On the positive side, I have transitioned to full-time. Actually the decision was sort of driven home by a bad experience, but I turned it into a good one after all. This past Saturday I went to pickup my kids from my ex's house and things started out badly from the get go. First she called me to make sure there wouldn't others like me where I was taking them...excuse me you mean female??? She has been so closed minded and unwilling to learn anything about transsexualism that I'd swear mountains grow faster.

I wasn't exactly wearing clothes she would approve of and I knew it. I was tired of having to pretend around the kids because she has a problem with accepting me for me. I had on a nice pair of stretch jeans, a white tee with a pink tee layered on top and sandals...and painted toes. Before getting to the house I put on a gray pullover t-shirt to tone things down a bit. Anyway, I got the kids into the van without incident when the ex came over and saw my jeans...

"Are those woman's jeans?" she asked.

"Yep, all I own are woman's jeans," I answered. "Actually they are all I've worn for years, you just never noticed."

Well it didn't go well from there. She ordered the kids out of the van and back into the house saying they couldn't go with me since I found wearing woman's jeans more important than my kids. Boy, what a bitch!

I've been on hormones for over 8 months now, and I hardly look male anymore...heck...I've never really looked male. When I would dress in boy clothes to be with the kids I got far more looks, stares, comments, and uneasy feelings then when dressed as myself. I no longer feel safe presenting as male to the world and I can't really pull it off anymore. For my own personal safety I needed to full transition...this incident only helped to drive that fact home.

Well that was it...I'd had enough at this point and decided that trying to pretend to be male for her sake was not worth it...I need to live life as myself. When I got home the last few remaining male clothing items went into a bag and dropped off at goodwill. So as of this past Saturday I've been living full time as my true self...being out of work sort of makes that easier too...and harder.

Oh well...things are moving along again.

Peace and love,
Isabelle Saint-Pierre

Com que eixa declaració la signem tots, però el que compta no són les frases, sinó els fets, i seguint l’exemple del portaveu del grup socialista, Ángel Luna, ja ens agradaria que la pròxima relació de llocs de treball (rlt), que és un assumpte que haurem de tractar tan prompte com siga possible, partixca de la «proposta coherent i rigorosa» que hi ha damunt la taula —per iniciativa sindical— des de la passada legislatura.

D’altra banda, ampliant o matisant un comentari d’Ángel Luna, les propostes «coherents i rigoroses», i ho sabem molt bé els treballadors de les Corts, no consistixen únicament a comparar càrrecs, jerarquies polítiques i sous dins de la mateixa administració o entre administracions diferents, sinó també capacitacions, responsabilitats i funcions. És en eixe sentit que la nostra rlt demana una revisió, per coherència interna i per comparació externa, i no és una qüestió únicament econòmica, sinó de millora laboral i professional.