Apart from that, I've slowly been cooking my own food each day.

I subscribed to Hello Fresh, something
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So, on Saturday, my childhood friend A had her Hen night. It was organised by some of her friends. I went along. It was... Well, to put it bluntly, I had no real idea what to expect or what it was about. It was one of those interesting rights of initiation and a huge insight into being female among other women that I'd always missed ( Read more... )

Sometimes, when I feel that the world hates me for being trans, for whatever reason, I sometimes go back through some of the things I read to make me feel better. I was doing that with Venus Envy's archive. Ironically, some of the non-trans stuff in there is the funniest. This particular comic is a great example of that and it made me laugh ( Read more... )

Christmas has been a bit hectic because yesterday, I cooked a full Christmas meal for 10 people. To make matters more complicated, the turkey I would be cooking wasn't going to arrive until some of the guests came. It was very, very stressful. On the other hand, I planned the whole day out and started cooking and, bizarrely, everything dropped ( Read more... )

Not all my cooking works first time and come out awesome, like the last couple. Last Friday, I tried to cook a recipe darwinian_woman showed me, which involves roasting sweet potatoes and drizzling a creamy onion/leek/mushroom/spinach sauce over them. This turned out to be a disaster, but at least it was still edible ( Read more... )

One of the really strange things that happened after I started taking the hormones is that I stopped eating much at all. There have been whole days where I've eaten nothing until dinner, and several days where breakfast was something small and lunch non-existent. My appetite has really been clobbered and even dinner portions have been really ( Read more... )

Every Sunday, we try to do something special. This is usually a roast, but the problem is that we're all getting bored with heavy food, and roasts are always heavy. So this week, I decided to try and do something completely different. I decided I wanted dauphinoise potatoes, and while at the shop I bought some pork loin chops, which I wanted to ( Read more... )

My parents have gone to Poland for a week to look after my grandmother. They drove all the way there without stopping, despite my advice, and my mother fell asleep at the wheel and nearly crashed the car, so I've been having a go at her in the hope she'll stop on the way back ( Read more... )

This week has continued to be quite hectic, but I seem to be getting on top of things, and finding some space to rest, such that I seem to be getting a little less stressed by gender stuff.

Over the weekend, I'd talked to darwinian_woman, which helped a lot, and she sent me some recommendations for counsellors in London, which I've been trying to persuade my ( Read more... )

My mother decided that, for Lent, she'd give up eating meat and cakes. Since we eat together often enough, this has meant that, effectively, both my father and I have to give up meat in the main meal. This has meant that trying to cook has grown more challenging, and we all get to see what life would be like if we gave up meat. Except for the ( Read more... )