WELCOME ANNA! And a stressful weekend in review...
Everyone, please welcome anna_inside to LiveJournal!!!
My regular readers will remember that I struggled with whether or not I wanted to have Anna here on LJ, but after much thought I have decided that the potential benefits to her of finding a fun and interesting community to belong to outweigh any possible cost to the honesty of my writing. Plus I learned how to use the filters, =P
I dont know how much she will use it yet, but please feel free to jaunt over and introduce yourself to her. Likely you already know quite a bit about her, she also knows something of many of you.
Welcome sweetie!
In other news, Anna's doctor appointment was moved to this Thursday, so we are still waiting on that... and I had a pretty wild weekend in a not so nice way. Long story short, I got my kitten spayed on Friday, and she would stop bleeding so the vets kept her the whole weekend while I was up north visiting family. Meanwhile, back home my other cat, I am assuming in an effort to find his lost sister, pushed through a screen and escaped. Fortunately Anna found him after a few hours of frantic searching, and I picked the kitten up this morning from the vet and she is also fine. Inexplicably the two of them have been fighting all morning... hopefully this is temporary.
During the weekend my Dad and stepmom and I talked about Anna a bit, and trans issues in general a bit more. It was a good talk because I dont know if either of them were totally clear on just how soon Anna's transition is beginning, but now they know and we are all on the same page. Dad asked me if Anna would want to talk to them about it, and I said that she would probably be comfortable talking about it if they wanted to, but she would probably be okay with silence on it if they would rather do that. Knowing my family, silence will not prevail long! Hopefully Anna is okay with that... because unfortunately we are a family of discussers, and I dont see that ever changing! We talked about how similar Dad and Anna are... and how much they feel I have changed for the better since I have been with her in areas of self-confidence... All in all a much needed gabfest...
I am glad to be home though... and I promise in the future not to have so many narrative posts as I have lately!
My regular readers will remember that I struggled with whether or not I wanted to have Anna here on LJ, but after much thought I have decided that the potential benefits to her of finding a fun and interesting community to belong to outweigh any possible cost to the honesty of my writing. Plus I learned how to use the filters, =P
I dont know how much she will use it yet, but please feel free to jaunt over and introduce yourself to her. Likely you already know quite a bit about her, she also knows something of many of you.
Welcome sweetie!
In other news, Anna's doctor appointment was moved to this Thursday, so we are still waiting on that... and I had a pretty wild weekend in a not so nice way. Long story short, I got my kitten spayed on Friday, and she would stop bleeding so the vets kept her the whole weekend while I was up north visiting family. Meanwhile, back home my other cat, I am assuming in an effort to find his lost sister, pushed through a screen and escaped. Fortunately Anna found him after a few hours of frantic searching, and I picked the kitten up this morning from the vet and she is also fine. Inexplicably the two of them have been fighting all morning... hopefully this is temporary.
During the weekend my Dad and stepmom and I talked about Anna a bit, and trans issues in general a bit more. It was a good talk because I dont know if either of them were totally clear on just how soon Anna's transition is beginning, but now they know and we are all on the same page. Dad asked me if Anna would want to talk to them about it, and I said that she would probably be comfortable talking about it if they wanted to, but she would probably be okay with silence on it if they would rather do that. Knowing my family, silence will not prevail long! Hopefully Anna is okay with that... because unfortunately we are a family of discussers, and I dont see that ever changing! We talked about how similar Dad and Anna are... and how much they feel I have changed for the better since I have been with her in areas of self-confidence... All in all a much needed gabfest...
I am glad to be home though... and I promise in the future not to have so many narrative posts as I have lately!