Ok, last night was the party and as I expected the jeans option was a good one. Chatting and getting to see Peta was really good, and I got to meet Jodie and Marija who were visiting from Adelaide. The party was at a lesbian friend of Elly's place, and was about 50% gay girls and 50% CD's (I put myself into the gay girl category by the way). It was good and we celebrated midnight under the stars with the cold wind and the open fire in good company.
I finished off my Stolly's over the duration of the party (all 8 of them!) and was convinced (hardly any arm twisting at all) into going to the Med which was interesting and fun. Fun to do some dancing for a few hours and interesting to see the other Steph and also the other pretty blonde TS who's name I can't remember.
At about 3 pm I said my farewell's and headed home. I was pretty tired by the time I had walked home and I had just enough strength to scrub off the make-up before crashing at about 3:45 am.
Today I mostly bummed about whilst my low-grade hangover persisted into the afternoon. Too much pasta for dinner, uploading some diary entries and then phoning home were the "highlights" of the day. I also started work on a presentation entitled "Health Issues for Transgendered and Intersexed People". This is something I'd like to do again for the QC 2001 conference in July if I'm still here in the country.
Food for thought is that this will be the first year for me living full-time as a woman. I'm not necessarily looking forward with a sense of "anticipation" as such, because life as a woman so far is mostly pretty normal and not greatly different from my previous life, just happier. Still, I am fairly sure I will be reading this diary entry in about 12 months time and reflecting on what I will probably consider "one heck of a year".
I guess I'm lucky, although I always knew what I was, it took years of laying the foundations of my psyche to get me to where I am today and yet…
1997 granted me a new life.
1998 allowed me to meet other Transgendered people.
1999 permitted me to start on the pathway with hormones.
2000 and now I am ending the year as the woman I wanted to always be.
2001 = ?
I guess in retrospect 1999 and 2000 were years of me "becoming" a transsexual, hopefully 2001 and subsequent years will be about me "becoming" a woman.