April 17,12010 - another clothing first

another clothing first

another first for the first time ever as ether self i bought a set of jeans.
sorry no photos this time though!
now you see i never liked the constricting feeling i got from the stiffness of jeans but this pair is diff as it has some lycra in them and they move like leggins but not so skin tight!
with the drizzle and cooler mid 40's temp it was a jeans kind of day!
but in the past i haven't been able to pull the look off in pants.
but i found one needs a girly shirt and some cute jewelery to get in girly mode! *giggle giggle*

i paired them with a gray hoodie but then the delema began. what shirt to wear... himmm not the white "V" neck "T" with the lace, not the white tennis shirt, too cool and rainny for the pink cami, himmmmm what to wear.
well after 30 mins of trial and era i settled for a med blue lace trimmed "V" neck "T" along with white sneakers and no show white socks.  but still a delema it still needed something accessory wise like a belt as the "T" wasn't ling enough to wear over the jeans. well aftdr another 10 mins of thought i gave up and went with out a belt.

first stop to drop off some bakery ruggla pastry from the swiss pastry shop (wonderfull baked goods as the owner is a master pastry chef) to the coffee shop owner for fising me takeout last evening just when he was closing this is a wonderfull shop called rise and shine. about 2 blocks from rt 22 near the plainfield/watchung area.

next on to look twice consignment for a belt. didn't find one.
then to pick up a gift i had ordered for my aunts birthday at the gold star store in plainfield.
the owner is wonderfull. she and her husband sell for a lot lower than the usuall markup of gold. Ie. i bought a set of 14K post earings with made made stones for 12.00 ea one in blue safire and the other day one in a pale pink color.
after several trips there i have since shared that i am trans with the wife and she was very suprised.
this really made my day.

from there i needed to get something to eat so it was off to wendys for a salad, and small burger and some tea.
so in spite of the weather it was a good day and another first!

hugs
Dian

April 5, 2010 - coffee with my boston friend Suzanne

coffee with my boston friend Suzanne

well on a better note than Mondays' confusion i have once again had the privilege of having coffee with my friend Suzanne.

she was back on a project for her company.

she is gorgeous and so easy to chat with. 2 hours went like 5 min chatting with her. she looks more gg than some of the gg's do!
as you may remember in one of my nov. 2009 blog entry when she came for a work visit last fall. i mentioned that we share some of the same interests like sports cars. heck both of our sports cars are red convertibles!
once again we went to Hoolihans restaurant.



she arrived ahead of me and was waiting outside sitting on one of the benches.
later she informed me that a gentleman had said hello and mentined a nice comment to her. (no wonder she is sooooo cute that if i didn't already know her i'd have tried to chat with her!)




suzi had worn her new Babe dress. no wonder she fell in love with it and HAD to have it!

once again the waitress was verrrry gracious so once again we tipped generously.

ironically we had both had traffic delays getting there. so even though i had already had dinner i was now starved. so i ended up ordering a mini burger. followed by a brownie sunday. yum yum! (remember all the calories leak out when you cut it in half LOL and chocolete is a good substitute for other colorful vegetables like broccolie LOL   hay stop that laughing i can hear you through the computer LOL i still believe in santa, the easter bunny and the tooth fairy )
suzanne had a creme-brulay.

as usual the time went waaaaay to fast.

we both had a great time!
hugs
Diana

March 15, 2010 - ear update and more

ear update and more the ears have finally healed! yeeeeaaaa! it is now 10 weehs on st pats day since they were pierced. but no dangly earings for 6 months they said.

sigh so mmuch to share and it is allready into the early hours.



had an interesting comment this evening

i had stopped to pick up burgers for dad and i  . a gentleman said

" by chance did you grow up in the next town of ....?"

i said " well in the area"

he said "did you  grow up on 9th st with 3 sisters  ?"

and i said "sorry i grew up in the next town over "

he said "well you could be her or one of her sisters"

* giggle giggle * if he only knew *still giggling*

we fared well with the local flooding during the north easter but many local towns did not.
and on a sad note my beloved town of ocean grove nj lost 4 buildings in a fire duing the north easter storm. it took 200 fire fighters to put out the blaze with baseball size embers in 50mph winds. they are lucky they contained it there as this is a 1890's town with mostly victorian buildings.

hope everyone else fared well during the storm if you are in the north east

on another note i actualy told one other long time neighbor about diana ( also a muscian in the preforming arts field) and the previous neighbor i told i heard he wanded to see diana life so i stopped in yesterday. ironiclly he was watching the cnn special on a transgendered persons story. well he was bowled over . he could get over how passable i was including the voice he said. i know he was being genuine just from the expression on his face.

but the story i mentioned in the beginning really surprised me when a guy didn't guess i wasn't a gg!
hugs
Diana

Feb. 20th 2010 - ear piercing follow up..

ear piercing follow up... ....time to bring ya all' up to date.

2 weeks after getting my ears pierced one ear ended up with an infection! now mind you i followed the clairs instructions to a "T" and used their solution.
now in the ol' days folks used alcohol to clean the piercing until it healed. heck back in the day some of those folks didn't even have sterile equipment!

so back to my ear Dr. who was back logged so i needed to see one of the other partners. this is a verrry large group they have several ear nose throat guys and a one that is the last word on ears. so about 3 days later they squezee me in .

now mind you the first ear dr i had seen several weeks ago sort of looks like a rock and role star but the second one is more clean cut loooking so i expect some comments on the piercing  since i am 52 and they don't know of my fem self.  wellll after i mentioned this to the next dr he turns his head to me and shows me his piercings and tells me the first dr has the same! well you could have knocked me over with a feather if i wasn't sitting down already!

 he agreed with my suggestions of eather achoal, peroxied , basatracian (sp) or bactaban , along with also the cipro drops usually used in the ear.  which is what finally did the job. now mind you i have a good repore with these guys as i am in about 3-4 times a year to get my ears vacuumed due to my exema induced wax build up.

well now it is week 7-8 after the piercing. so i will keep you posted.
i have since talked to another licensed piercer who said sea sal or epson salt works well to but she was the only one who said don't use achoal which all the rest including the dr said to use . amaizing how you can ask 10 diff people their opinion and get 10 diff answers. LOL

meanwhile it is an interesting sensation to not need to remove the earings before entering the house or out in the world in male mode. when in male mode and asked aske why did i get them pierced ? i simply say because i wanted to !

ironiclyly i was loosening the backing over the sink just before i was to go out to a sat evening event and the earing slipped out and into the sink. agggghhhhh. major panic lucky it wasnt ' the infected ear lobe. i quicky grabbed it out of the sink, dropped it in a cup of alcohol and reinserteded it. remember this is the only pierced earings i have currently and needed to keep a post in till it healed to prevent it closing up!

meanwhile i managed to get out shopping "dressed pretty" about 20 times last monnth and this month i needed to buy more dress swweaters to wear with my boots and tights since it has been agout 10 degreees below normal this year. to accent the colorfull sweaters i have bought 2-3 more black skirts one in wool and all knee length.


hopefull spring is on it's way in the not to distant future!

hugs to all
Diana

January 17, 2010 -told one of my neighbors about me being transgendered

told one of my neighbors about me being transgendered another first . this time a biggie! yesterday i told one of my neighbors about being transgendered. 
it went something like this:

neighbor :  so whats up with the ear piercings?

me: i just wanted to do it!

neighbor: just looks questioningly at me

me: that and.... another reason .... but maybe it is to much info for you
( i already have been told this summer that he found out a former roommate transitioned so i thought he might have known about diana especially since he is in the physiology field!) but if you don't mind i am non transitioning transgendered.

neighbor: *blink blink*  really?
i kind of wondered with the nice nails though.
but as i told you a former room mate-tenant contacted me who had transitioned, and i never suspected.
anyway i have no problem with it. but wow.

me: please don't discuss this with the rest of the neighbors at this point.
would you like to seee some photos of me. *showed the photo from the glbt-dignity 35 anniversary mass*

neighbor: Wow quite a different look from the male self. but very nice! very professional!

anyway it went much better with this neighbor than i thought! although i am guessing that the rest of the neighborhood allready suspects. anyway fir the sake of my dad i am still trying to keep a low profile about this.
meanwhile this month i have managed to dress and go out as diana 14 times already! yeaaaa!

hugs
Diana

Jan. 6,2010 - Big news i finally got my ears pierced! - jan 6th, 2010

big news i finally got my ears pierced ! whoo hoo! i finally took the plunge and got my ears pierced!

i took the advice of so many of the girls and gg's i know and went to Clairs in the bridgewater, NJ mall.
the sales clerk had been  very friendly to me last week when i went there  as my other self. she was very knowledgeable in that she told me she had had everything pierced. so she had first hand knowledge. she was very patient with all my questions. and even sold me a set of magnetic earrings. which look great but become an annoyance when you drop one as it doesn't always end up where you dropped due to the magnet. usually you find it later attached to some mettle object usually in the car.
so when i went in this week as diana ( i had showed her photos of diana last week) she was pleasantly surprised that i was still thinking of getting my ears pierced. we talked some more of the different  styles available for the piercing. i chose a set that would't be as noticeable in color. ( as a half way measure to my other selfs' stogy immage LOL)
a birthstone from i think nov. kind of a yellowish-pinkish stone. in a small 3mm size.
as soon as she was done i looked in the mirror and i immediately looved the look!  

believe it or not i went from there to a womans swim apparel shop feeling verry gg! and on my way out of the mall i admired a gg's plad skirt and we stood their chatting like to girlfriends about how due to the weather this year everyone was wearing opique tights along with boots but she mentioned that she was finally getting adjusted to the 23 degree weather and had gone back to a shorter coat. the interesting thing was that she looked somewhat like a slightly smaller/shorter version of me!
to say i felt giddy would be an understatement.

hugs to all
Diana

january 1, 2010 - happy new year! and the year in retrospect.

Happy New Year and the year in retrospect i want to wish everyone a Happy New Year! in looking back over this year my goal had been to increase the time going out dressed as Diana from 5 days a month (61 days for the year which was up from 4 days a month last year), to double that time (8 days per month = a quarter of the time ). well, i surpassed that by getting out as diana 12-13 days a month or 1/3rd to almost half the time dressed as diana. this included going to the beach several times. that doesn't include sleeping as diana in pretty satin nightgowns which has been about 99.9% of the time. heck i even managed to sing keroeky at georgies in asbury as diana this year. i even got to meet one of the new england girls for coffee. Suzanne is even a prettier dresser than me. this was a first as i had wanted to meet some of the ladies i have corresponded with. it's ironic in that although i have said that i am not transitioning, i am feeling the need to dress more and more as diana. but then again i think they entire world is still constantly evolving whether it wants to admit it or not. hugs to all Diana