Me, Myself and Progesterone

I touched on progesterone (P4) in my last transgender update post. I am not quite sure if progesterone is working in the way I want it to. My biggest annoyance with it is feeling like my brain is on fire just before trying to sleep...

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Flicky – The Floury Baker Cicada

Ohhh that little cicada was such a survivor. Resting and laying eggs for almost every day for ten days while in captivity.

These events happened one year ago. It doesn’t all end here though as Flicky’s children eventually hatch. 🪲

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Blood Test Results February 2024

A few milestones have been achieved this month. I’ve reached my third month of gender affirming hormone therapy and was able to get an estradiol implant (200mg, compounded). I kicked pregabalin as it wasn’t helping with my anxiety. 🫠

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The Garden, Lizards and Bees

We had a giant blue tongue turn up randomly on the lawn. No doubt here for the snails and slugs I keep finding at night. I picked up a tray of beef dog food with minimal grain content and he hasn't shown up since! 😭

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New Year, New Something That Rhymes with Year

Technically I’m still the same, but my hammock is weirdly outdoors. For the first time in years I have an outdoor area. I’m no longer trapped in a box. I hate apartments. At the same time...

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Maintenance Complete – User Is Online!

CG-NAT defeated! The Cloudflare Argo Tunnel works and has done so for about a week. However, due to the way the tech behind it all works…

…I might have inadvertently locked myself out, with help from botnets spamming...

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Thanks to this lovely little script https://github.com/ianklatzco/twitter-to-bsky I was able to import all my junk from Twitter, without clickable links! As they are all twitter links, I see that as a win! Geez, there sure are a lot of live streams though... 💁‍♀️