April Update

[ganimede]

I'm not quite sure what happened this month or how I only managed to complete one book! That's not very good at all. I finished all the Wardstone Chronicles books that I'd borrowed from the library, but I got some more books out to replace them. I'll have to get my finger out, that's for sure!
Total completed: 14 down, 36 to go.

Books Completed
The Spook's Battle ~ Joseph Delaney

Books ongoing
Traditional Tales From Long Long Ago ~ Philip Wilson
Boston City Guide ~ Mara Vorhees and John Spelman
Deviant Strain ~ Justin Richards (eBook)
Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Teen Suicide ~ Kate Bornstein
The Stealers of Dreams ~ Steve Lyons

Comments

[From: red_trillium]

Non-book related, but wanted to say I added you back! Sorry, I've been on vacation for 2 weeks. I'm slowly getting through my emails and will start on my catching up on my friends' journals and updating mine.

Welcome to DW!

[From: ganimede]

No worries! I hope you had a good holiday.

Love the icon, btw :)

[From: red_trillium]

Thank you, they are from http://dreamsheep.dreamwidth.org/ The DreamSheep community, a kind of unofficial mascot. Feel free to nab them and credit

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Thank you, they are from http://dreamsheep.dreamwidth.org/ The DreamSheep community, a kind of unofficial mascot. Feel free to nab them and credit <user="Helens78">. I've got a lot of sheep to express myself with here :D

The holiday was really nice. We get 4 weeks paid (for full time workers) & this was our mandatory 2-week block taken at once (work requirement). We usually do a "big" trip like this every few years & we went to the other end of the country. Loved the landscape and the slower pace of life.

[From: ganimede]

I'll have to have a look there. I can only have 6 icons on here though because I can't afford to get a paid account which is a shame.

It's nice that you get to have two weeks together, even if it is enforced. It's good to get a decent break like that, especially if it gives you chance to explore.

[From: red_trillium]

You can always do what I've done, save down the ones you like and switch them out occassionally. I only recently bought a paid LJ account and then got one here, I want to compare the features. I have a feeling I'll let my LJ one lapse and then go for this as my paid account in the future but am having fun playing with them both right now.

It is nice, we take our time off together usually although she gets a few days more since she's been there for 29 years. It's nice & we do enjoy spending time together. We met online and we joke that we have a lot of time to catch up on. We met almost 10 years ago & I moved here from the US to be with her.

[From: ganimede]

That's one way of getting round it. It's hard to work with only 6 icons, I'm used to having lots of choice!

I didn't realise you met online and moved there to be with her. That's like me and Michael, we met online - on LJ actually - but we've not done the moving bit yet.

[From: red_trillium]

We met before I transitioned too. Long story, but the poor woman didn't realise what she was getting into. I didn't realise I was trans either so it's not like I hid it from her. I was packing at the time and was honest about that.

Edit (sorry, fingers slipped): Any plans on when to move and who's going where? or is that all still a bit too far off?

[From: ganimede]

Aww! Then it's even nicer that you've stayed together through your transition too.

Well, it's all still a bit up in the air at the moment though I think it's going to be me going to the US. Boston is just so good when it comes to LGBT stuff and I love the city anyway. It's just a pain in the arse to get into the US.

[From: red_trillium]

I am very lucky we've stayed together during my transition. I was afraid of loosing her. She's had her stuff to deal with & I've tried to tailor my transition to give her time to and help her through it.

Yeah, we were up in the air and originally she was going to come to the US. But I visited here and we went to an immigration lawyer just before I went back home (free consult FTW!). It sounded easier and more likely I would be able to come to NZ and get residency than the other way. That was in 2000, I came in March 01. I've read Michael's posts about LGBT stuff in Boston & it does sound like a good place to be, a lot happening. Good luck getting over there and getting through immigration!