Please take a moment to listen to this!!!!

Let me start off by saying, I feel quite blessed that I've been VERY fortunate to have received so much love & support from my family and friends during my transition, and for that I'm forever grateful. But even with all that love & support, I know all too well the sting of the many things discussed in this piece. The objectification from those who think that just because I'm trans I must be a hooker or some kind of sex freak. The rude & downright disgusting comments. The weird looks & snickering behind my back and DEFINITELY the discrimination of trying to find a job as a trans woman.

Even with all my trials and tribulations, I still consider myself lucky that I have such a wonderful support network of family & friends, but there are still WAY too many of us out there that aren't so lucky. There is SO much work that needs to be done in letting the world know that we are no different from anyone else walking this earth, and all were asking for is just a little bit of understanding and compassion! We are not jokes, we are not freaks, we are just HUMAN BEINGS trying to live happy, fulfilling lives like everyone else!

This is a VERY SERIOUS matter and I hope you take a few moments to listen to this piece and just try to understand that it's hard enough for us to deal with our own emotional roller coasters, and all we are asking for is to be treated like any other human being, with dignity and basic common decency.

For those that have been so kind and gracious to me and others like me, THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart. For the rest of you, listen to this and open your minds and hearts!

G's Thought For The Day...

You know when I see those toilet bowl cleaner commercials on TV, the first thing I think is..."What the hell are these people eating?? Good Lord!!"

Goodbye My Precious

Goodnight, my precious Frehley! You were my bestest lil buddy & companion when I truly needed someone, and your personality and uniqueness will never be forgotten nor replaced. Go play and frolic and be free to your hearts content. Thank you for filling our 15 years together with such, joy love and happiness. You we're absolutely a one of a kind and loved beyond words. Now go hop on Grammie's lap and give her a good nuzzle for all of us left down here.

I may or may not write more on the passing of my sweet lil pal, but I was up with him literally ALL last night and can barely see the screen at this point, but I felt I owed it to him to just jot down at least a few thoughts on how special my "Freh-bird" was to me. I can tell you that Frehley's end was VERY peaceful. I put together a small playlist on my phone and we played "Free As A Bird" by The Beatles, and "Forever" & "God Only Knows" by The Beach Boys as he went to sleep. My sister Jennifer and I held his paws right til the end. It's been an exhausting day as you can imagine, so I'm off to night nite land. Thank you all SO MUCH for all your wonderful vibes and condolences!!

I love you Birda, and know there is forever a hole in my heart that can only be filled by my thoughts, memories and love of you!

For more pix of my precious kitty, check him out
here

I Need Your Help!

Hey everyone. Again I really want to thank you for all the wonderful birthday wishes the other day, but I need your help big time now! My bestest pal in the world, my beautiful kitty Frehley is VERY, VERY ill and things do not look good. In fact, we will unfortunately put him to rest this morning, but PLEASE I ask for your prayers, good vibrations or whatever you got to help Frehely (yes, I'm that dorky that I named my cat after the KISS guitarist), my sister and I get through this night. Which makes this doubly sucky is that today is his 15th birthday. It's gonna be a long night, just making sure my Bird is as comfy as possible. I should give a lil background though, yes his name is Frehley, cause from the moment I saw him at the rescue shelter way back when, the grayish/silverish patches around his eyes just made me think Ace Frehley. As time went by, I would still call him Frehley, but then the nickname Free Bird (which had nothing really to do with the Skynyrd song) came about then that just got shortened to Bird. So when I talk about my Bird, you know where I'm coming from. We actually just fed him a Joe's Of Westlake Ravioli (which he always loved, and scarfed down, btw), so he still has some kick left in him, but things aren't good, and we are still planning on putting him to rest this morning. I can't believe I'm saying something like this about some one I who is like a child to me, but it's got to be what is best for him and not me, so I just rub and kiss him and reminisce about all our adventures.

Birthday Thoughts

Well, another birthday has come along. I'm another year wiser (the word older will never cross my lips) and I have to say that my life is progressing just like a fine wine, only getting better with time! I want to thank all my wonderful family and friends for their oh so sweet birthday wishes, you have no idea how much they mean to me!

I do however, get a lil teary eyed though when I realize that the one call I always looked forward to most on this day doesn't come anymore. I MISS YOU SO MUCH, MOM! I think that cliche of time healing all wounds is pretty much bullshit, cause your loss hurts just as much today (especially today) as it did those six long years ago that you left us.

So on this day when I get all the adulation and celebration, I thought I would take a moment to celebrate you. You brought me into this world with trepidation, fear, but most of all with undying love. From that day forward, you were not only a wonderful mother (and father for that matter), but my hero and best friend!

I can never forget that awful December day six years ago when I held your hand and whispered to you that "Dad was coming to take you home", it was so surreal that I felt him there taking you in his arms and giving you the hug you'd been so patiently waiting for since he was so unfairly taken from you all those years ago. I felt a complete family unity that I hadn't felt since I was a baby and that made the unfathomable pain of losing you a little easier to take, because I knew you were now with him and Granny, Grandpa and everyone else who loved you so dearly. I'm sure there was quite the shindig happening in heaven that night and I bet Uncle Andy had an unending box of wine under his arm making sure all glasses stayed full as they celebrated your arrival. It was that image that at that horrible moment of devastation, where I actually felt an inner peace that I've never felt before or since. I knew in that instant we completed a circle of life that will bond us for all eternity. I know this sounds bizarre, but that moment will go down as one of the proudest of my life.

So while it's happy birthday to me today, I just want to say happy "birthing" day to you! And even though I may not physically get that phone call I so long for, I hear your sweet voice always.

I LOVE YOU MOM!

I'm definitely feeling better than I look.

This is really happening! See y'all on the other side.

G's Thought For The Day...

"Well, those good ole' Winds Of Change are a blowin' once again! This time they are comin' in at a gale force! As of tomorrow at 10am, I will be forever changed! From now on you can just call me Hootie McBoob!"

G's Thought For The Day...

"Ego should be treated the way children of yesteryear used to be. They should be seen and not heard".