To all of you who participated in my Artist's Garage Sale!
You made it fun and successful!!
THANK YOU!!
THANK YOU!!
All the winners will be notified by mail over the weekend.
Your packages will be mailed out Monday or Tuesday of Next week.
WINNERS OF THE GIVEAWAY...
will be announced later today!!!
The most art I have made lately has been garage sale signs and tattoo designs for tattoos I will be getting. That is not to say I have not been working on my art.
We got my husband a Cannon Rebel and I get his older camera. We are busy planning photo shoots and digital art projects, but all will have to wait until we are done moving! In the mean time, we have a new large format printer in its box aching to be used!!
We will be moving at the end of the month to a high rise apartment in downtown in Sacramento. My art will still be promoted online but I planned to be more community oriented.
My blog will change... but again, you won't see anything until September... after we move.
Yes, that is the phrase these days... after we move!!! LOL
On the Trangender front (yes, its art... the art of making me), at our meetings we talk about everything...except nose hair. That's right... no one has ever talked about the 500% increase in nose hair. It is like a carpet up there!!!
A few months ago I was looking in the mirror without my glasses and notice a huge bruise on my shoulder. I got my glasses on and looked closer to find it was not a bruise... it was a huge patch of hair. Yes, I am growing crops of hair on my back and shoulders. None of this should be a surprise seeing how hairy my son is and how Italian we are. I have come to accept that I am a bear.
The people who I find I have the most issues with (who find out I am trangender either by figuring it out, or they are a nurse, or knew me before...) are middle-aged, hetero woman. I found this discovery unexpected.
I do not like lumping people together because there are always exceptions... especially with my good friends here in blogland and facebooklandia, BUT... trouble with this gender/type/age group has been so consistent that I really dread contact with them. I am so relieved when one of them either doesn't figure it out, or is pretty hip on alternative lifestyles.... but when they are not, I find them to be the nastiest, most obnoxiousness, cruel and self righteous people on earth (next to right wing fanatics).
On the job front... there is no job. I do not want to burden you with the complete drama... because there is 4 years worth. The last nine months were the hardest because I complained to corporate. But, I exceeded my human limit and became severely affected (I won't get into that either). Humans can take harassment only so long before its effects override the will power not to give up. For the sake of my health and my family, I am no longer at that job. While my husband and I certainly have a significant lawsuit, it would only make the situation keep going for years. We decided it was best to walk away and not look back.
Meanwhile, I am finishing my training as a Security Officer and after we are settled in our new place and new routines, I will return to work part-time.
Now on to something more exciting... boxing! When you are transitioning, there is so much that you begin to remember again. One of those things was how much I loved to watch boxing with my Dad. The need to work off my anxiety over the job issue and my new found physical-ness needed an outlet too. So, I turned to boxing. I work with a trainer and have a bag at home. Ken will be coming to a training session to learn how to use sparring pads to help me practice at home... I am excited! My increase in muscle and endurance over the last 8 weeks is tremendous!
Wishing you all well on your own Journeys....
Mario
10 comments:
Wow, sounds like you have quite an adventure ahead of you. Good luck on the job front and enjoy your new digs.
Thanks for the garage sale! Love my books!
Looking forward to seeing you back in September.
Cheers!
I can't wait to see your digital art projects. I know they'll be good!
And how well I know that phrase "after we move"...three more weeks for me and then on to bigger and better things. :0) I hope your move goes smoothly.
My DIL boxes. She mainly does it to stay in shape - no actual bouts for her she says. But she really enjoys it.
Good luck on the new career and see you in Sept.!
Good luck with everything Mario and thank you for the auction. I am off to look at the rest.
Love and huge virtual hugs.
You have a lot to do!!!
I truly am so happy for you with all your changes going on. You are such a ball of strength!
Sending love for a smooth move!
Love,
LuLu~*xoxo
Mario, I wish for you and yours much happiness as you embark on this new chapter in your lives. Looking forward to September when I can peek at some more of your art. Safe journeys, my friend.
CindyB
Best wishes to you on everything especially a happier and less stressful life!
I missed the last auction but that was probably a good thing at least for my bank account--lol! I did get my last auction box, thanks so much. :D
Moving is supposed to be one of the most stressful events in our lives, with loss of work following close behind, so you have some major events falling on you, all at once! Good thing that you have discovered an outlet for that building stress, that you enjoy, and works for you!
I was first appalled, then just tremendously saddened by the reactions that you have encountered from middle aged women, and am trying to figure out why. .not that it matters, but one always seems to look for the reasons behind someone's actions. .maybe to help one to better understand. .but then I remembered that even within my own family, I got a bit of a jolt when my 40 yr. old Lesbian daughter, who went through such emotional turmoils with other family members over her own sexual identity, declared to me that she just doesn't understand bi-sexuality, and thinks that anyone who declares themselves as such is a fraud. .now how she can make such a blanket statement, when 1. that certainly can't be said for everyone who claims to be, or is bisexual, 2.she doesn't know,has ever met, nor even talked to anyone who is bi-sexual, so that she can better understand, and 3. make such prejudice declarations when she herself faces discriminatory statements, nearly daily, is beyond my way of rational thinking! Sadly, she is an example of bad human behavior, and believe me, she wasn't raised that way.
I'm sorry that you've had endure bad encounters with those women (chalk it up to bad hair dye affecting their brain cells), and the harassment at your work place. And you are right. .as sweet as winning a court battle would be, there are times to just cut all ties, and move on.
I hope that your journey becomes a much more pleasant, smoother one, and that all of the ugliness will soon be a faint memory!
Thank you for all the good thoughts and wishes! I know that through all of this we are moving on to better things!
Isn't it strange, Suzie, just when you expect that there should't be prejudice there is? Don't judge me but I get to judge you? It is a human nature thing to create more boxes whilst tearing down others, it seems. I have to work on that....
I have one very large, all inclusive box but I am afraid it is lined with razor wire for those who hate, destroy, judge, discriminate, enslave, use.... I have no patience or tolerance or forgiveness for them.
I guess...we all always have something to work on within ourselves and actions like the one you described are mysteries in which we can only turn to prayer, education, and a firm reminder to those others who harbor such judgement of the acceptance and understanding that has be given to them!!!
Namaste
I love boxing! Total stress reliever!
I've been an absentee blogger this Summer, but I've enjoyed hearing of your journey on FB. I think it's fabulous to be who you really are - and forget (and unfriend) those who can't be happy for you!
Cheers to you!
Thank you! I have been absent on blogging too. Way too much going on. Hoping to change that after getting settled. Hugs to you!
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