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UPDATE!!!

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 06:39:25 GMT

MY JOURNAL IS (now) "FRIENDS" ONLY

just post a comment, and i'll add you.

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:19:59 GMT

i'm doing crunches/sit ups ect because i feel/see all the muscle in my body turning into fat, and I'm done being a house rat that goes on daily walks and cooks/eats/cooks/eats, ect. I'll give it till next wednesday before I do any pushups (and i'll be in Mexico for that). I still have a bunch of swelling, which I think could last months (is that right?)...
Brit leaves tomrrow night, Meg and Mags early that next morning, and Ash on Thursday. That means I have the whole house to myself until Monday morning (when I leave). Glad I'll be doing the gym thing by then =) Then Grass Valley, *cross fingers and hope* for 3 weeks, then Maui till the end of june? yeah?
Brit says she probably won't be there very long (we've had a bit of a blowout w/ her dating megan), which means I'll be my myself, travelling, living, all new people/community ect... whoa. I'm meeting with Annabelle in a couple days to get all the 411 on Maui folks (she lived there for 2+ years just recently). I'm jumping in, I sure am.

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:08:47 GMT

i miss heartwood for reals. i bet is smells let wet trees there right now....

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:00:30 GMT

I realize I'm not going to post when I'm angy at 3am. And, it is also a stupid idea to have put myself in the living situation I did. D_R_A_M_A!!! at least for me, i'm the angry one. The other ones get to be in love, and my girlfriend gets to "process" with me.

Christmas in Baja with the faggots is happening. Maui for winter and spring is happening. Work for January is happening. Life is happening.

I want to be working out... doc says 4-6 weeks post op, and i'm only 2. yoga maybe? I wonder when I can run... I'm craving pushups like a crackwhore wants crack.

I need to get "the terrible girls" by Rebbecca Wood, and the Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.

Made Kabocha squash soup and oatmeal raisin cookies tonight. Ash and I are going to attempt making a acorn squash hummus that we're inventing...

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 10:25:03 GMT

so much intense emotion
contained in such a small body.
my liver cannot process it quickly enough,
and it comes shooting out my eyeballs, an evil glare.
growling out from my 3rd chakra, a lion attacking its prey.

this poison in my body...
i take full responsibility
for creating this energy into my life.
the universe put this energy into a human life form,
i asked for, and attracted it.

I have so much anger in my body right now
being projected at one human.
I am so sorry.

my body feels sick with posion.

okay, so i'm high

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:51:28 GMT

but i don't really think so... my roomates do, and they took a picture while i was drinking the "chocolate pudding" drink I made (vegan)... it's really really good, thick, chocolate milk- like in europe....

a perfect fit...

Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:18:34 GMT

today I tried on ALL my clothes (and everything else I have). I'm downsizing for the next phase of my nomadic journey. Ashely didi too. I could almost cry at the joy I feel that my shirts fit the way they do. I LOVE my body. I had some fun and did a photoshoot w/ some of the outfits =)

okay, so the shirt is mine, but the other part is ashley's ;)

ashley got these cigs from australia, and they have these "smoking causes lung cancer" ads on the packs with gross pictures on them.. note: i don't smoke

oh yeah, and this is a re-post (not on my personal LJ), it got banned from ftmvanity because of my ass... it's rather shameless and silly, but i <3 my new chest!!!

I'm healing pretty great. I'm feeling a range of emotions. the dynamic in the house has my belly in knots sometimes. I've got a lot to do before Maui...

freedom

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:13:54 GMT

getting out of bed now....

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:55:09 GMT

i can't cook, but i can direct pretty good:

roasted winter squash
roasted garlic
potatoes
carrots
caramelized onions
chopped apple
cinnamon
cayenne
salt
pepper
clove
nutmeg
bit of water....

then, toast the seeds from the squash till they pop, then add tamari, salt, and cayenne... and sprinkle into soup with a fresh parsley garnish....

no recipe. no measurememts. just vallium and farmer's market veggies...

soup fucking rocks. i <3 soup.

now we're making cookies ;)

pain...

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 15:55:09 GMT

the beautiful thing about being in intense pain at 6am (10 of 10 on the scale), is that the sky was bright orange outide the window. I feel like my ribs are being crushed, and my back wants to crack, but I can't move too much or the surface pain on my chest gets too intense. the medication wares off every 2 hours, after taking an hour to kick in =/ I emailed my doc about chaning the RX.
there's not much fluid coming out of the drain tubes at all (very minimal, like a tablespoon). I guess that's a good thing? Dr. B said the surgery went really well. And i'm much more cohearent this time around (compared to my reduction 2 years ago). The benefit from that was that I was too zonked out to get bored, so time passed by quickly. Right now I have the energy and would love to run around if moving didn't hurt so freaking much.

Sage heads back up north today, too bad she can't take me back up w/ her =) Humboldt (in the middle of the woods) would be a great place for me to heal up right now. I'm glad to have Brittany, Ashley, and Megan all living here too. I've got some amazing people in my life.

oh yeah, and Britany and I bought our plane tix to Maui yesterday- we leave sometime in a 4-day window starting Jan 29!!!

1/2 day post op, 16 months T

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:16:53 GMT

surgery today was great. i don't feel too cracked out, although i've said some rather funny things... last night i made a thank-you vegan dinner for an intimate group of 12 friends... life is so great.

A and mama Z being fun:

i have great people in my life:

in the docs office... sage kinda looks like she could be my dad =)

what my friends did while i was getting surgery:

i heart my bed:

letting it out... this is kinda personal

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 07:11:39 GMT

I feel like multi-colored flying worms are working their way around my belly. and no, i'm not on any drugs. the drug of life has it's grip on my butt hair though, reminding me that I have a lot going on in this present moment.

(realationships) <-- they "typo" i made, and am leaving here... dynamics... letting go... I find myself completely uncomfortable. I would crawl out of my skin, or run away to some distant world where no one spoke my language... wait, does anyone speak my language?

there's this separation that's happening. a distance created and chords (the polarity ones, not sure about the spelling) cut. The bright sparkle that I imagined our love to look like in its physical form is a dim light down a long hallway. wait... I want to be clear... the love and deep appreciation i have for her still resonates within my soul, it's just... changing.

there's part of me that wants to blame her actions on this new change in our relationship to each other (avoiding taking responsibility for how i choose to respond to lifes' events). then i think that maybe her actions were what was needing because I wasn't taking any action to create change. I mean, even with Ash- I knew I wanted to "break up," but I was talking around it for hours before she put it on the table... This is how I roll sometimes.

I feel uncomfortable living with my ex-girlfriend and my best friend who have just started seeing each other. being with them one-on-one is really easy. I love them both so much. So, what to I need around it? Just what I'm doing: acknowledging it, taking care of myself, and not getting involved in dramatics. My life is not Jerry Springer. My life is venturing into in a new paradigm of compassion, love, and abundance.

tomorrow is the early morning run/weight lifting session, rainbow grocery shopping, pre-operative apt., farmer's market, and an intimate dinner party for 12 that i'm cooking for =) Then, at 5:30am, I'll be on my way to San Francisco to pay for the most expensive thing I've ever bought; my man chest, lol.

Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:06:40 GMT

a wild full life i have.
thursday. raw food thanksgiving lunch, brownies, naptime, and then a southern style thanks-giving and peace dinner w/ Lorence (raven, ash, brit, and a couple others). So sweet to have these creative huge hearts in my life.

friday. crazy-extravagant. the rental car company gave me a new ford mustang to drive to LA instead of the prius i wanted to rent (same thing, right? lol)... fast car, lots of music, and a couple cute girls. I laugh thinking that my adventure's mission was to drive my "ex-girlfriend" ashley to LA to take her, and her stuff to her Dad's for safe keeping... THEn, to pick up another "ex-girlfriend," Meg in San Diego (at her folks house)- fill the car up with her stuff- and drive back to the bay area. all in 36 hours. FridAY night in LA was so sweet w/ Ashley. damn. fun. And the drive up w/ Meg was filled with chanting, laughter, conversation, and sweetness... I have great people in my life.

tomorrow I pick chandra and amanda up from the airport (YEAH!!!), move a futon into the new house I'm moving into w/ Brit and Ash (Megan's house).. (did I mention the 4 of us are going to live together??), and then I get to figure out the menu plan for the gratitude dinner I'm having the night before my surgery (wed).

i feel my heart growing in size and in absorption. i am on the court of my life, not in the stands one bit. i'm here to play.

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 19:51:00 GMT

i worked out yesterday for the first time in a long time. it rocked my world!

surgery... time is passing slow, and it's filled with much fun to be had.

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:03:02 GMT

we left around 8am in two cars packed with... stuff. The drive was beautiful, and a bit sad. I'm happy to be back in the city, although I love to live in humboldt co. / heartwood community. Last night we had our last dinner at the lodge. It was a sweet celebration. I will miss being there very much.

I've been needing a lot of personal space lately... alone time = grounding.

my surgery is next wednesday, and time seems to be passsing...so...slowly....gah! This spring and summer I stopped binding with an underworks, and would only bind w/ frog bro- I passed probably 100%... but since this harvest season started, I started to bind hardcore again- everyday- all day- ouch. and even with that I'm not comfortable. I'm sure it looks/is flat, but my mind is seeing it not. I feel like I can relate to anorexic folks when they look in the mirror and see a fat person. anyway... that's my rant.

See, Meg, I shaved....

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 21:59:01 GMT

...and I have sideburns now =)

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 17:36:41 GMT

surgery in 10 days. Last spring, in Medicino, with a bottle of port and a bar of chocolate, I stated that "I will have my top surgery by winter solstice 2007." Having no "solid" path of how I'd make this happen, it fell into place. And now I'm 10 days away from completing my goal.

2 days left in Humboldt. Today's a day of rest at the 'Wood. Tomorrow we hitch to Eureka to get the rental car. And leave Tues. Morning for Berkeley.

My life feels rich with experiences.

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 19:02:26 GMT

almost leaving humboldt...

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:44:01 GMT

when i move back to the city i'm going to miss the view from a 3-wall outhouse. it's a great view.
we have less that a week left, and then we head forward to our bay area adventure. my life continues to change and flow, and i still have no idea what i'm doing for december....

i miss working in the kitchen at h-wood. and hanging out w/ maia... really, i'm not just saying that 'cause she's reading this =)

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:38:47 GMT

we got new jobs... yay.

a turn of events...

Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:26:40 GMT

i bought robot.
we lost our jobs.
the rain has started....
Ash and I "broke up." We were at a cross roads where she wanted an exclusive LTR, and I don't know what I want...
18 days until my top surgery, I still need to make $2700 for the surgery center costs...

at this point, i have no idea where i'm taking myself. I feel pretty good about it, although a bit in wonder. my life is never dull...

a plus: we have LOADS of beans, rice, and quinoa in bulk containers...

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 16:32:34 GMT

to fix car = 5$k . fuck.

so instead we're buying sage's school bus (in maine), converting it to veggie oil, and... the possibilities are endless. we're gonna be "britany's butt pirate rocket ship" or something random like that... I get to be the first mate, and brit is capitan of course. ash will be the parrot, and if meg's the skipper. this will be for BM next year, and then humboldt season, and then south? i'm really interested in seeing how this all unfolds.

my forearm feels a bit tweeked today. 4 more days and then we take robot to the bay... yes, hotel robot is making the trip down and hopefully back up to the bay... to be continued.

i think the folks in the FTM forum hate me, lol. I'm just living a different lifestyle. they jumped on me for being vegan, and now they're jumping on me for liking strong pain meds and pot. They don't even know me! grr... I wish sometimes that people who actually had an answer to my question would be the only fuckers to answer it =)

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 04:54:23 GMT

black beans and vicodin start my day this morning. I know I had more to write than that, but it's left my mind for the moment. Broke Brit's nice car (or at least, I was driving when it broke)- I hope it's only 1,000$, and not the 3-4k$ they say it could be... it'll only be 1k or less... it will be 1k$ or less to fix brits car. yes. it will.

the lifestyle i'm living right now has a lot of fun moments, and i'm glad it's almost over. it's shows me that i really can push myself and get-it-done. i've picked up a good pace for myself- by the end of the night i'm cursing and done, but by morning i've forgotten the hate and do it all over again. i'm pretty sure ash will be able to come work with us.

i'm pretty pissed about my folks. i have a lot of silent time to think about things, and i'm bummed that they've cut me out of their family. it's still new to me, and i'm over the "what about my birthday," and now on "what about thanksgiving/xmas?" not that i'm really into the days themself, but the conditioning i've been in for 22 years. I guess it's time for a new way to be. I feel abandoned by them- and i have this really strong urge to "prove something" to them. and then, as i type, i hope i'm not falling into a victim role...

surgery is coming up soon, and i'm ready.

looks like brit and i will likely be farming at the gratitude farm in maui- leaving in late january. life is pretty fucking cool.

Tue, 30 Oct 2007 19:48:22 GMT

still alive after working 32 days.. got another 25 or so to go!

oh, and hanging out w/ sage on my bday was great:

birthday today

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:54:42 GMT

today in my email i recieved a icard with a picture of a mom and little girl and a birthday cake. on the side it said: "I'M NOT YOUR DAUGHTER, I'M A BUNNY RABBIT WITH A PANCAKE ON ITS HEAD. YOU CAN CALL ME JOHNNY"

wtf? i'm not feeling the humor in it my dad intended. i don't feel loved. i feel made fun-of, and disrespected. and, it's my choice- 'cause i know, in his own way, he's trying to be loving and funny.. his humor hurts.

there was no note or anything. i forwarded him the letter i wrote my mom, asking him to make sure she got it just in case there was a email mishap.

this morning i woke up to coffee and hugs from sage, terra, and shelia. sweetness from maggie, and some vegitarian options (cereal) for breakfast (that's a big deal) at work.

i choose this great day, now. lol.