Author: Mhix

Tonight Ally, my beautiful wife, helped me get ready for the weekends fun.

I had no dress to wear, so it was a purchase or purloin decision, and Ally came to the rescue.  After loosing 24kg, most of her dresses no longer fit, so rather than sending them to the charity shops she gave me a couple for this weekend.

The first was a knee high red dress with a high split (I love this one), but unfortunately it didn’t really fit all that well (still need to loose a little more weight myself).

The second I had asked her for, it was a very short dark blue “crushed velvet” look dress, which would be perfect with my 4″ soft leather knee high boots.  I was told in no uncertain terms though that the dress was not suitable for a ball.

The third dress was a very ‘slinky’ feel black and white patterned one.  The dress was described by a friend as a “spring picnic” dress, so I chose not to wear it.

The forth and final dress was the only floor length dress, bright red, with shoe lace straps.  I tried each one on, and found that they all fitted, though some better than others.  I decided that I would take them all and decide what to wear on the night.

Well Ally gave me an early birthday present today, after telling her about the ball, she asked if I wanted to go, and when I had said there wasn’t enough time, she dismissed that as an excuse and said I should go.  It came as a shock because it was not expected at all, but it does show that she is being very supportive of me and my life.  It is yet another example of why I love her so much.

Well Laserderm Civic phoned me an hour before my appointment today to cancel it, citing that the nurse had not showed up for work today.  I found it really odd, as they always phone the day before to confirm the appointment, so I think that there is more to it than that.  The appointment has been rescheduled for Friday, but I think that I’m going to cancel that as there will not be enough time between then and the following Saturday for recovery (I’m diving Sunday 24th August and you are not supposed to go out in the sun for 10-14 days following a treatment).

Today whilst browsing some of the links I had visited before I noticed a link to the ‘NewCTN‘ Yahoo! Group, the initials turned out to be something called the ‘Canberra Transgender Network‘ so I went to investigate. I signed up for the group and got almost instant access, and went browsing for information. I read some of the mail archives and added my bit to some of the more recent posts, particularly as some I cold answer from direct experience.

When I had finished I browsed their links page, and came across another interesting link called ‘Tranny Radio‘ which was a site dedicated to Cross Dressers, Transvestites, Drag Queens and Transgendered people, and they are based out of Sydney. I threw caution to the wind and signed up there as well, my membership was approved in a short time and I was able to setup a profile of myself. ‘Tranny Radio‘ also has online Chat facilities that seem popular so I got stuck in there. Almost immediately I was asked if I was going to the ‘Ball’, and of course not knowing anything about it, said exactly that. Many were quick to point me to the website and the ticket page saying there were still tickets available, I dismissed the idea as I knew I was going diving the following weekend and guessed there was no way that Ally would entertain the idea (not to mention a girl has to have something to wear!).

All in all, if there are any Trans* people in the ACT that are not part of NewCTN, I wholly recommend joining, the are a nice bunch of people and the group is fairly low volume.

Well following my “what not to wear” episode, I went shopping today with Ally, and we bought a few items for the gym.  I now have:

• A skin tone elasticated bra of the correct size
• A number of sports ‘singlets’ with builtin ‘support’.

These fit nicely, and came very cheap.  K-Mart seems to have been the answer to my earlier problems. 😉