Nothing wrong with the classics! 🤍

I don't know what it is, but it looks delicious and I want to eat it! (What is it? Cute plate!)

(They did a really nice job this year! Worth the $10 donation.)

Doin' my best! 🤍😂

So actually, you make a really good point. I'm so glad it helped you. Maybe all this data will help them figure out how to help me? <3

Finally, unsupervised during the pandemic, I decided I didn't want to be controlled anymore.

Now I'm pretty deep into perimenopause and building a case for HRT is what I'm trying to do... but what kind of HRT?

We know what it ain't! 😉

YMMV! Loestrin is what they put me on when I got cute at 14.

I took it for 35 more years. Nobody-- husbands, doctors-- would let me stop taking it, even when I suspected it was worsening my depression. For 35 YEARS.

I didn't have nearly enough sex to justify it!

The least they could do is declare me hysterical and give me cocaine

3) The tests themselves are very easy and tidy, but the app is a complete disaster. Messy, unintuitive, inelegant.

Anyway, I now have many points of data that reveal... that my hormones are wacky.

1) It's not really built for menopause. Everything on it says "fertility", so prepare to explain to anyone who uses your bathroom that you are not, in fact, trying to procreate.

2) It's very, very expensive. The monitor and wands are just an initial cost-- it's ongoing. FSA may cover.

(making fun of my own existence is not a rape joke)

What if I'm just bad at this and without the shield of apprenticeship I'll get tossed in the trash and then nobody will want to hire this old lady?

My work is usually good, but today it really wasn't. I'm embarrassed.

In those moments I find myself wanting to blurt out "I used to be a lady, too!" as they skootch away from me on the bench.

It is SO hard to keep my spirits up, sometimes. I have no guarantee that it'll all be worth it.

It was pouring rain all day, and I wear eyeglasses. I had the foresight to wear my fleece-lined overalls but forgot how numb my paws get when the temperature drops or how clumsy I am in a raincoat.

Had to wait for my new tire as a dirty, sopping wet construction worker among ladies eating sushi.