{"id":687,"date":"2014-10-13T14:37:34","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T18:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/?p=687"},"modified":"2023-04-28T17:07:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-28T21:07:55","slug":"so-theres-that-day-21-a-new-normal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/so-theres-that-day-21-a-new-normal\/","title":{"rendered":"So There’s That, Day 21: A New Normal"},"content":{"rendered":"

So There\u2019s That: Adventures in Transgendering chronicled my transition in 2014. One hopes the gentle readers will forgive any awkward or anachronistic language within.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n

Sunday morning coming down, and I feel as if there\u2019s a new normal in my life. Or at least, a new normal where I live.<\/p>\n

No more hiding at home. No more fear of being who I am in my own house.<\/p>\n

Who\u2019d of thunk, right?<\/p>\n

I cheerfully pad around the first floor in my bare feet, toenails still painted a dark red. I pass by my oldest who is parked on a couch and he stares fixedly at my toes.<\/p>\n

Uh-oh. Uh-oh?<\/p>\n

But he breaks into a smile and, \u201cWow, those look nice.\u201d<\/p>\n

I laugh, yeah, well I told you I have girl feet.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a tension-free encounter that I didn\u2019t think possible 24 hours ago. Hell, unthinkable\u00a0only 24 days ago.<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think full-blown girl mode is appropriate after all the Sturm und Drang<\/em>\u00a0of the past few days, but I do have a desire to show off my burgundy clogs. So I do. Again, a positive response. As in, wow, I like those.<\/p>\n

It is such a delightful exchange, and I am finally able to respond how I\u2019ve always wanted to, \u201cYeah, pretty cool, right?\u201d<\/p>\n

And the bonus in all this? I\u2019m taller than my oldest for the first time in about three years. In your face!<\/p>\n

Who knew being a girl could be so empowering?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So There\u2019s That: Adventures in Transgendering chronicled my transition in 2014. One hopes the gentle readers will forgive any awkward or anachronistic language within. \u2014 Sunday morning coming down, and I feel as if there\u2019s a new normal in my life. Or at least, a new normal where I live. No more hiding at home. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-so-theres-that"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/typingmonkeys.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}