Callie's Corner

So, since I last updated, I've come out to more friends and today I came out to my Mom.  All of whom have been wildly supportive and accepting.

Well, Mom's still processing, but she is supportive and accepting.  Fully.  I came to the decision, that I will be transitioning.  The decision has been met with "Oh, god what the hell am I do?"  It is not an easy choice.  It is however a terrifying one to make, even if it is the right one.

So now is the time I really start pushing myself to get into shape before I start taking hormones and they throw everything out of whack and makes it difficult to do so.  I also will have to be watching my budget now as I have a very expensive life altering journey to save up for.

Today's fun fact:   I picked my name Colleen, because had I been born the correct gender, that would have been my name.  Colleen Marie.

Colleen means "Girl" Marie means "Wished for child"  So roughly translated, the name I would have had means "Wished for girl."  So, thanks for irony there universe.

Callie is an accepted short form of Colleen.  Before I learned what I would have been named, I named a character I was roleplaying "Callie."  She was at first very out of my comfort zone, but she was built from enough solid aspects of myself that she sort of became a secondary persona for me.  It was another happy coincidence that the name happened to be a used and accepted short form for Colleen.

**Oh, and I think I have the comments worked out.  It'll now open in a new window that allows you to actually read and answer the captcha to comment.  Since embedded would only let you read the captcha not actually answer it.