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**Reenie** · Reporter Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 3190 Location: Glasgow

Depends on what they're paying you. If it's minimum wage, sod it: move on. If it's £70 per hour, stick with it for a couple of months.

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Herb · Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:18 pm Post subject:

So it seems my diet is going well. Ridiculously well. In terms of waist and hip numbers, I'm pretty much the perfect model for a size 12. Considering my body mass index is still well inside the healthy range, and my waist-hip ratio is a fraction under 0.75 (i.e. good even by natal female standards), I am puzzled. Short of a genetic anomaly, I really can't see how I should be able to have reached this point.

Not that I'm complaining, mind you.

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Herb · Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2008 11:45 am Post subject:

I have a little list...

Well, checklist. It's from West London Mental Health. It seems the paperwork is finally moving. Smile

Sadly, things aren't moving on the "financial independence from mother" front, which is just as essential Sad

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Herb · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:41 pm Post subject:

I think I may have found a place to live away from mum. It still depends on a few things falling into place, but it may just be what the doctor ordered Smile

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Susan · Joined: 27 Jun 2008 Posts: 79 Location: Cardiff

Herb wrote:

I think I may have found a place to live away from mum. It still depends on a few things falling into place, but it may just be what the doctor ordered Smile

Hope it works out for you, moving out of your parents is fab; although can be scary and definitely costly XD

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**Reenie** · Reporter Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 3190 Location: Glasgow

Herb wrote:

I think I may have found a place to live away from mum.

Fingers crossed...

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**Flameboy** · Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 11:55 am Post subject:

Good luck - I hope it works out for you!

Dave

Herb · Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 6:45 am Post subject:

New temp job starting today - yay!

Didn't get that place to rent I was hoping to - Sad

Swings and roundabouts, it is.

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Herb · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 7:53 am Post subject:

Mum has invited a 2nd cousin (half) 3 times removed, or something like that anyway, to stay in the house with no time limit specified. Could be months.

More roundabout than swing, these days, it seems Sad

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Herb · Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2008 6:46 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure if it was insanity or boredom or simple frustration at life, but I spent most of this morning plucking beard hair out. one at a time. With tweezers.

It was strangely therapeutic.

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**Reenie** · Reporter Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 3190 Location: Glasgow

Boredom has much to do with it, so I've found. Then there's always that irritating one that the razor didn't get. And the one next to it...

Yes, it's therapeutic.

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Herb · Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:49 pm Post subject:

/me circles a certain date in mid-December in her diary.

Very Happy

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Herb · Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2008 4:29 pm Post subject:

"This beautiful face looking like nice girl".

Those were my nanna's words to me as she was leaving the house this afternoon.

Now, her English is far from perfect - she didn't start learning it till her mid-thirties. And it is possible she didn't say what she meant to say. But, taken at face value, that does suggest that she is at the least aware that i am trying to appear more feminine. I know I haven't told her, and I can't imagine mum (the only family member I've told so far) telling her.

I'm not sure what to make of this.

Also in the news... sis noticed some changes, but other than the longer hair (which she accused me of having curled; nope, it is naturally wavy) and me pointing out that I had shrunk 2 1/2 inches since I first left for Japan 6 years ago, couldn't or wouldn't point to anything specific.

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Herb · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject:

It appears the temp job I'm currently on, which has been going for about a month now, may continue for up to two more months.

This is actually mildly disappointing. I wanted it to end in the next 2-3 weeks. That way, i could move out from mum's before this distant cousin thrice removed arrives to cramp my style.

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Herb · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 5:46 pm Post subject:

So this last month and a half, i've been working in a telephone call centre. It's hard on the voice, but it's the most awesome voice practice job you could ever hope for.

Except late in the afternoons, when my voice gets tired, and I lose the energy to try at a girl voice.

Except today...

I was just doing an ordinary "supposedly guy" voice, and I was still getting "miss, darling, love" and the like from guys (I expect it as standard from old ladies, regardless). I think I may have internalised feminine intonation to the extent that my deeper pitch didn't get read as male.

Made me feel awesome.

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