Too Many References to What?

Remember Maureen O'Govern's song "There Has To Be A Morning After" from the 1972 film "Poseidon Adventure?"  Well, if you don't, that's OK!!! The lyrics though, roughly describe the way I felt New Years morning...very roughly.
At any rate I was up drinking my first coffee of 2015 and noticed the sleeveless tank top which drapes down over my hips as a nightshirt.  Actually I should say, I noticed my body in it in the full length hotel room mirror.
The experience was similar to meeting up with a person you have known but just hadn't seen for awhile. My HRT changes of course have been happening but not as fast as I thought they should, but faster than I thought over time.
I was looking at a decidedly feminized version of the old me. Starting at "the girls" and my biceps, my girls still are coming along nicely and my biceps are going away nicely! Can't wait for next summer and the sleeveless fashions. Unlike the Jefferson's I began to movin' on down to my hips and waist area. 
I could see with a little (or more) dieting in my tummy area, I could just maybe begin to exceed my expectations of how this HRT feminization process will work in the very near future. A nice start to the New Years!


**It is quite possible you have no idea of my references above, but being a good girl I gave you links!!! What other transgender blogger is so knowledgeable or nice?

Cyrsti's Condo "Pretty Boys Make Pretty Girls"

Drag queen Kayla Fontenelle

The Best New Years Post EVER?

I suppose I get jaded, OK, I am jaded.


Plus, since I have written a daily blog for well over three years now, I know how difficult it is to maintain perspective.


Yesterday, I saw "perspective" on a transgender stage I don't normally see when I made my regular visit to Stana's Femulate blog. Stana very simply, posted a before and after picture of herself. I was blown away. Whoa I thought, that's huge.  It took a lot for me to post my "before" picture here in the blog long ago in one of my side pages. I suppose first I was afraid, then as I transitioned, the person I saw wasn't me.  I wondered if anyone else cared and why?


Since I have been a regular visitor to her blog, I know Stana has struggled over the question of coming out and living as her natural self for awhile now. Seemingly, her picture on one of the most visited cross dressing/transgender based blogs anywhere answered a ton of questions.


We all know though, there is a huge jump from identifying as a cross dresser to a transgender person. I have never made a value judgment on who does or doesn't make the jump. Plus, I also know from experience, many never do. Many reasons are ironically rooted in the same male lives we are/were stuck in. You know, shut up, suck it up, don't complain and move on-be a man.  Of course, doing this makes our plight all so more serious. Take Leelah Alcorn for example, reportedly,  her Dad still is calling her his son. I have a long term friend who refuses to even consider he may be trans get out of one marriage to a very unsupportive spouse and within a couple months get engaged at the age of 65.  I asked did he find it important to tell his new fiancé? Of course he didn't. This is the guy who "posed" as a generic woman for over a year on a site and built a whole new life...catfishing?


Those are just a few of the main reasons I most certainly applaud Stana for being one of the ultimate "mentors/role models" I have had the pleasure of ever meeting.  Forget the gorgeous part, I go to her obvious love of living her life on it's own terms. She is not alone, so many of other of you visitors to Cyrsti's Condo speak to the same idea of shedding your gender bonds. If you haven't yet:


Stana is living proof you can do it!!!