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| Hair by JJ Hart, Beadwork by LizTDesigns. |
My wife Liz sells a fairly wide range of her artistic/crafting skills on a platform called Etsy.
Yesterday, she ran into a shipping snag with an item that
she sold, and we had to venture out into a very busy scene as everyone was out
before a winter storm hit. We did not have far to go to get to the shipping
store and then the post office, so I did not have to do any prep work for the brief
trip. In fact, I did not even have to shave closely since we had gone out to
eat the night before with her son at our favorite restaurant.
The bottom line was when I finished writing yesterday’s
post, and Liz abruptly said was I ready to go, I was. I was in a what you see
is what you get mode. I was not a transgender woman, I was me, and I am always
interested to see how that attitude plays out. Because no matter how long I
have been out in a transfeminine world, I still have a little voice in the back
of my head wondering will I be discovered as some sort of a gender impostor.
As it turned out, the only person I encountered closely with
Liz paid no attention whatsoever. I was just another face in the crowd while
she worked her way through the problem Liz had and then we were off to the post
office. As I said earlier, everything was crazy busy which meant the post
office was going to be also. This time I took the easy way out and stayed in
the car. I was in jeans, an Ohio State sweatshirt, fleece and snow boots so I
was quite comfortable in the car while I waited.
For once, the weather people were dead on, on their forecast
and we got between six to eight inches of snow before the temperature plummeted
to below zero (F) temperatures. We have a fairly new furnace and plenty of
supplies so we should make it with no problems until the temps rise back up in
the middle of the week. In true Cincinnati style, the high temperature will be
near fifty degrees.
In January Liz and I have another vacation planned to go
south to warmer climates, and sometime I am going to venture out to our local
pharmacy to get another Covid booster. Hopefully, this shot will keep me out of
the hospital which is what happened last year when I caught Covid and ended up
in the hospital for three days in Georgia in the Atlanta area. It’s not until
the 24th of January but time flies when you are having fun and will
be here before I know it.
In the meantime, I know the brutal winter weather is affecting
large portions of the country, along with flooding in the Pacific Northwest so
I hope you are surviving the best you can.
