Three and a half months 

So past two weeks had enough excitement to not forget my regular update every fifth of the month (which is the half monthly transition update). Though it seems that I have forgotten about updating, until now that is. So what exciting things have I done these past two weeks?
Well last week I had an appointment with my endo(crinologist) and right after with a speech coach. In a previous post I Already mentioned that my endo wants me to start weighing myself, which means I have to buy myself a scale. I still have to do that, but that didn’t keep me from weighing myself at my parents this morning (I was there for my laundry-visit) and well it made my comments to others, like my therapist last Monday, about having gained only 2.2lbs kind of disillusional. Meaning to say that I now know what it is to have a less constant weight. No I’m not telling you how much I gained, but I do hope I won’t keep gaining this much every one and a half week. It’s a good thing my bike as at the repairman, which means I’ll be walking more until Tuesday, though I actually don’t know if I burn more fat by walking to the supermarket or going there and back on my bike. I do have to say though that my endo wasn’t only interested in my weight, he measured my blood presure, which was okay, and he asked if I had any bad headaches, which isn’t the case, at least none worse than before transitioning, not that I have a headache that often.
So then I had my appointment with the speech coach. First another doctor in the presence of the speech coach filmed my vocal cords while I had to make basic sounds with my voice. This was done with a metal bar which had a camera at the end which was aimed downwards, this thing was held almost into my throat, very pleasant. Afterwards I was showed bits of video of my vocal cords moving, I was told they looked really nice, didn’t make it any less peculiar to see something beyond my tongue move. Second I was taken to a sort of recording booth where I had to read out loud a bit of a story and then had to pitch my voice in several keys and do some pitch glides. This delivered a kind of scatter plot, really interesting, this will be sent to my speech coach here in Nijmegen, so she can has a better idea of my vocal possibilities and limitations. The speech coach in Amsterdam was quite pleased with how voice already sounded and she said there was certainly potential in my voice to make it more feminine with succes.
That was last week, last weekend I went to a party for gays, lesbians and bisexuals, as described in the previous post. It was fun and I had good time for a change at such a party. The music still wasn’t that amazing, but it was definitely better than the other GLB-party I went to in November 2007. The next edition of the party I went to in November will be later this month, but I don’t think I’ll be going, the next day will be a party which has far better music!
After the weekend I had my appointment with my therapist in Amsterdam, it was my last appointment with her. She’s going to specialize on children with gender dysphoria, so I’ll be getting a newly hired by the Amsterdam Genderteam therapist. I’ll have to wait three months before I meet her, though that gives her time to go through my, by now quite extensive, files. The appointment with my therapist went well, she was very positive and said it was undeniably visible that I’m feeling better. That’s as far as the gender related events go for these past two weeks.
The day after I went to Amsterdam to see my therapist I went to Amsterdam again, though now to see one of my close friends. We talked about a lot, had drinks, a delicious soup and saw how an elderly man had to be picked up by an ambulance at the soup-bar because there was clearly something wrong with him beside his stubbornness, which was probably caused by a fearfull anxiety. So I spend a slightly extraordinary time with my friend, we don’t see eachother much, so it was really nice to talk to her again.
When I got home that night I had a weird snacking frenzy, it could claim the fame for my weight disillusionment this morning. I do need to be watchful for eating frenzies like those, not only is it nothing like me to have such a frenzy, it also instantly robs me from my snacks which could at least have filled a need the next evening in a less frantic way though.
Ah well I shouldn’t complain yet, I like to snack, but I still know my limitations. And a seldom exception to the rule won’t harm me.
Last note, I have a little party next week on Saturday, with nice people and without horrible music. One of my best and oldest friends has graduated from college, a good reason for a celabration. But what should I buy him????