Decision Made & Going For It!

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Well, this is wonderful news.

After my most recent electrolysis session this past Saturday afternoon, which by the was was a rough one, my face was sore and all bumpy for almost a day and a half...ouch! I went to schedule my next two hour session for this coming weekend and my electrolysis tech said to me "Well Erica, after next week's session, I'm going to start spacing you out." This means that I'm almost to the very end of my facial hair removal process. She's going to start seeing me like every other week and for only an hour at a time, just to take care of any minor regrowth that pops up. In another month or two I'm going to be 100% free of any and all facial hair. As it is now, I haven't shaved my face once in the last 2 weeks.

This is absolutely wonderful. It is so nice not to have any hairs or stubble on my face or neck and most of all not to have to shave anymore. Shaving one's face is just such a "guy" thing and it used to be kind of depressing to do every morning. It's also made a huge difference in my complexion and the texture of my skin. It's now so smooth and soft.

It's wonderful being a girl. I just love it! :)
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Congratulations, Erica! I know all about how depressing it is to have to shave your face every morning. I don't like it at all. One day, I'll be at the point you are. I'm very happy for you. And I agree; it is wonderful being a girl.

Hugs,

Danya
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EricaAnn (imported) wrote: Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:05 am Hi Everyone,

I haven't posted in a
long time so I thought I'd just check in and bring everyone up to date on what's happening in my life.

Things continue to go very well for me. Still working at the same job, which normally might not be much to report, but in today's economy, that's very good news. The weekly paycheck doesn't hurt either. At the urging of my employer, I took a 1 day seminar on Green Construction technology back in January, studied very hard for about 6 weeks and recently took the test to become an LEED Green Associate. A passing score for this test is 170 and I achieved a 186, which by the way is a better score that my instructor got when he took his exam. I am now a fully credentialed LEED GA. A little continuing education never hurts and it looks good on the resume considering that green technology is the up and coming trend in the construction industry.

My electrolysis is finally beginning to wind down. After spending almost 70 hours with my current technician under the somewhat intense pain of having an electrified probe pushed into one's face at each hair location, the results are finally paying off as I have not needed to shave my face or neck in almost 4 months now. The results are amazing. My skin textured has changed so much and my complexion is so much finer. It's just remarkable and I'm loving it!

My weekly hormone regime continues at a dosage of 0.3 CC's of estrodiol and believe it or not, even after being on female HRT for almost 4 years, my breast are currently experiencing another growth spurt over the past 3 weeks. I'm now up to a full "D" cup without any enhancement or help from my bra, if you know what I mean. 😄 This is another thing that I'm really loving!

Dilation continues and is now pretty much a daily part of my life though I'm now down to performing this task once a day, 5 days a week. It's my understanding that my GRS surgeon, Marci Bowers, is moving her practice from Trinidad, CO. to San Francisco in the next few weeks. For all of us girls that live out east and in the Midwest, this will mean additional expense to use her, i.e.; additional travel cost and knowing San Fran, most likely higher lodging and food expenses, not to mention the discomfort of having to sit on an airplane for a longer period of time. Sitting was not my favorite thing to do for about 6 weeks after my GRS. 😄

Continuing to get out to the nightclubs on occasion though I have cut way back on these activities. I guess that living full time as myself for almost 3 years now has diminished the need to get out on the weekends in order to live my life as me, but don't get me wrong, I still enjoy partying and I still continue to welcome everyday as it provides another opportunity to just be me and the woman I have always been.
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Well, here we are in the middle of May and after enjoying some very nice weather during the month of April, May is turning out to more resemble March instead of May from a weather standpoint here in the Windy City. I just wish it would warm up and stay that way! :(

I now have completed 10 months or about 86 hours of electrolysis with my current technician. This includes not only my face and neck areas but my ears and eyebrows as well. We're finally down to the very bitter end! This past Sunday, she touched up my eyebrows and ears and then spent the rest of the session picking off some little tiny fizzy ones that still haven't yet gotten the idea that they're just not wanted. They'll catch on eventually, I hope. 😄

Celebrated 34 years of wedded bliss with my partner this past Saturday. She truly is the most understanding and loving woman that could ever be. I'm truly blessed to have her as a part of my life!

We are also going to be presenting our own seminar this year at the upcoming Be-All conference. Our topic is going to be Coming Out and Acceptance. We are most certainly not experts in this field, but I feel we have done a darn good job of maintaining and strengthen our relationship since I transitioned and if we can help just one other couple to stay together, it will be well worth the time and effort.
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EricaAnn how does that work from a legal perspective? Are you still considered husband and wife? or once your transition was final you had to divorce because of silly laws? Do you still get to file federal income tax as a married couple?

I am glad you managed to keep the relationship together from a personal perspective, just curious about the legal aspects of it in this backwater conservative legal system we have?
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bobweekend (imported) wrote: Wed May 19, 2010 8:56 am EricaAnn how does that work from a legal perspective? Are you still considered husband and wife? or once your transition was final you had to divorce because of silly laws? Do you still get to file federal income tax as a married couple?

I am glad you managed to keep the relationship together from a personal perspective, just curious about the legal aspects of it in this backwater conservative legal system we have?

Hi bobweekend,

I too had the same questions in mind once I had the legal name change, the GRS procedure and had the gender changed on my birth certificate so I did consult a friend of mine who is an attorney regarding this matter.

She informed me that since we were legally married prior to my transition and had the paperwork that could prove that I was indeed the person that was listed on the marriage license, we still have a valid marriag
EricaAnn (imported) wrote: Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:59 pm e in the eyes of the State of Illinois
even tho this state does not recognize same sex marriages.

We have filed both our federal and state income tax returns as married filing jointly for the past several years now and have not yet been challenged by either departments of revenue.
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Hi Everyone,

Well after a lot of thought and searching, I decided to go for it and cut my hair into a new, trendy, chic and bold pixie hair style as seen in my new avatar. The pixie cut is the hot new hair style for this year and is being worn by quite a few Hollywood celebrities.

I've been wearing extensions for the last 5-1/2 months while wanting for my hair to grow out a bit from a very, very bad hair cut last November. Just couldn't stand the extensions anymore so I went to the salon, had them removed and then had my hair cut into this fabulous pixie. It's pretty short, but I'm loving it and I promised myself if I did get this cut that I was going to keep it this way for at least one year. I have been told that the new style makes me look younger, which is something I sure can use. 😄

Going to be so much easier every morning as it's basically wash and wear. Just blow dry and style it with your fingers. The only down side is that it will require monthly trims to keep it in shape.
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Looks very nice EricaAnn..I'm glad for you dragonfly
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butterflyjack (imported) wrote: Sun May 30, 2010 10:49 am Looks very nice EricaAnn..I'm glad for you dragonfly

Thank you for the very nice compliment dragonfly. I do appreciate it! :)
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Well, I just didn't like my new hair cut all that much after looking at it for the past several days so I did something very radical tonight. I went to the salon and got it cut really short as seen by the new avatar.

It's totally funky and punky now and about 2" long on top. I'm really loving it now! 😄
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