Dinner: leftover eggplant pasta salad, half a small watermelon, and half an enormous heirloom tomato drizzled with balsamic vinegar & olive oil, garlic, and basil.

I ordered a bi-fold door. This weekend I need to buy a power tool.

Are you allowed to have medical intervention in gender development that early, outside of an intersex issue? I thought you needed years of therapy, etc. Or is that only for surgery and not medication?

What everyone else said--they can hold off puberty in your biosex so that it's sooooo much easier to transition if you decide to, at 18 (or 20 or whenever). Or don't, stop the drugs, and just hit puberty later. For MTFs who transition as adults, gotta say, the results are usually waaaay more obvious than FTMs, partly because of size, and because growing a beard is easier than getting rid of one. Now, as for functionality of genitalia, thats a different question.

Megan, you and Venus and the moon cracked me up (but I'm on the iPhone so cant c&p multiple things easily)

Sis asked me to keep Donna in my thoughts, and now I've got all of you joining me in thinking of her.

I love my Buffistas. Seriously, y'all are the best. ::hugs for everyone::

Oh, and I love Owen and his twitters, too!!

Sometimes I think I'm just fucking with his head.

It's no small part of why we raise them, I think. To watch those connections being made and to also amuse ourselves while it happens.

Dinner: Sandwich, plus golden beets with lemon and garlic, all from the CSA.

Congrats Jessica!

Dinner tonight was a pepper-crusted eye of round, steamed corn on the cob, and half a big beefsteak tomato. The first two turned out magically delicious, but the last tasted kind of funky like it had been soaked in antisceptic or something otherwise medicine-y. (I shouldn't complain too much though, the smaller tomato I had with lunch was awesome).

Baby greens salad with bacon bits and curried chicken salad. This low-carb thing can be quite deelish!

Mmmm. But then you get to the point where you would kill for a spoonful of rice.

Ugh. There's a dustup on my Blenderized-Diet for sick kids list and I can't let it go. One woman wants her insurance or the government to pay for the food she blends because if the kid were getting a specialized formula, insurance would pay for that.

I feel like a republican because I'm all, "but if your kid were eating the same foods by mouth, you would be responsible for paying for it. The g-tube is just the delivery system."

Ugh. I need to let it go.

My thoughts are with you too, Kathy.

Kat, why do you think you're messing with Noah? He is diurnal and he has bilateral symetry. Oddly enough we were discussing being diurnal today too.