Hello Again
Sep. 3rd, 2022 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Once again, kinda forgot to post here. Twitter remains my main haunt (for my sins), and life is pretty busy, especially now that we're house-hunting in earnest.
The housing situation here kinda sucks, especially in the price range we're looking, but we'll make something work. My main priorities are (a) having a decent home office and (b) keeping my commute under half an hour, preferably by foot/bike or mass transit, because I really, really do not want to own a car. (Also then I'd have to get an Irish driver's license.)
Job situation is still stable. We're supposed to be in the office 3 days a week, but I frequently drop to 2 and no one really cares.
Anyway I also realized I haven't posted any photos of myself over here since I transitioned, and wanted to correct that. Partially so friends I haven't seen in a while (which is, unfortunately, pretty much everyone) have an up-to-date mental image, and partially because I'm, y'know, pretty happy with some of the changes.
Back around May, when I was coming up on one year since starting HRT, I decided I wanted to make a big symbolic change and, slightly impulsively, decided to go blonde. Very blonde. Which also came with a crash course in hair maintenance, but I'm really in love with how it came out.


(Though these photos are more recent, from my touchup and haircut yesterday.)
Celebrated my most recent birthday with a set of acrylics, featuring a design based on the CoplandOS icon from Serial Experiments Lain that I use as an avatar here and elsewhere. I've gotten them filled in a few times since; right now they're straight metallic blue, which I also really like.

And more recently, I finally joined the ranks of the be-glasséd. According to the optometrist, it's likely I've been mildly farsighted my entire life but until recently my eyes were compensating for it. Now it seems like age, a lifetime of sitting in front of computer screens, and a very slight astigmatism have caught up to them.

In less great news, I've been having daily tension headaches for the last few months that haven't been very responsive to OTC meds (and given the frequency, I've been seriously rationing how often I try to avoid rebound) and it finally got to the point I bugged my GP into referring me for an MRI. Got that done last Tuesday and am waiting to hear back. So, fingers crossed.
Hoping to get back to the States to visit around the end of the year, but that's a question largely in the hands of the Irish government right now as I work my way through the process of getting my name changed and documentation updated (and they don't make it easy for non-citizens to do that here).
Anyway, that's what I've been up to lately.
The housing situation here kinda sucks, especially in the price range we're looking, but we'll make something work. My main priorities are (a) having a decent home office and (b) keeping my commute under half an hour, preferably by foot/bike or mass transit, because I really, really do not want to own a car. (Also then I'd have to get an Irish driver's license.)
Job situation is still stable. We're supposed to be in the office 3 days a week, but I frequently drop to 2 and no one really cares.
Anyway I also realized I haven't posted any photos of myself over here since I transitioned, and wanted to correct that. Partially so friends I haven't seen in a while (which is, unfortunately, pretty much everyone) have an up-to-date mental image, and partially because I'm, y'know, pretty happy with some of the changes.
Back around May, when I was coming up on one year since starting HRT, I decided I wanted to make a big symbolic change and, slightly impulsively, decided to go blonde. Very blonde. Which also came with a crash course in hair maintenance, but I'm really in love with how it came out.


(Though these photos are more recent, from my touchup and haircut yesterday.)
Celebrated my most recent birthday with a set of acrylics, featuring a design based on the CoplandOS icon from Serial Experiments Lain that I use as an avatar here and elsewhere. I've gotten them filled in a few times since; right now they're straight metallic blue, which I also really like.

And more recently, I finally joined the ranks of the be-glasséd. According to the optometrist, it's likely I've been mildly farsighted my entire life but until recently my eyes were compensating for it. Now it seems like age, a lifetime of sitting in front of computer screens, and a very slight astigmatism have caught up to them.

In less great news, I've been having daily tension headaches for the last few months that haven't been very responsive to OTC meds (and given the frequency, I've been seriously rationing how often I try to avoid rebound) and it finally got to the point I bugged my GP into referring me for an MRI. Got that done last Tuesday and am waiting to hear back. So, fingers crossed.
Hoping to get back to the States to visit around the end of the year, but that's a question largely in the hands of the Irish government right now as I work my way through the process of getting my name changed and documentation updated (and they don't make it easy for non-citizens to do that here).
Anyway, that's what I've been up to lately.
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Date: 2022-09-13 05:39 pm (UTC)Not from anything I've heard. By all reports it's dumb in different ways, mostly related to the bureaucracy here possessing an astonishing lack of urgency. You go on the waiting list to take the test and they'll get to you when they get to you. (vast national shrug)
This has upsides—they truly do not seem to give two shits if you're a day, a week, or six months late with paperwork no matter what the theoretical "due date" was—but it also has downsides.
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Date: 2022-09-13 06:38 pm (UTC)