Recent Entries

• by Lucy Diamond May 3, 2005
  Sometimes it’s hard to be a woman... (Stand By Your Plan) Qualities one needs to transition: Patience, determination, self-assurance, emotional strength, empathy, and a high pain threshold. I’ve been told I’m a remarkably patient person, but I don’t really feel it. I don’t like waiting, though I...

• by Lucy Diamond April 22, 2005
  Truths, damn truths, and statistics I was just looking at my tally of forum posts. Now that old posts are archived I have 71 filed under "archive", which could be anything. The next highest scoring subject of more recent posts is Hormone City: 36, then General: 35, Coming Out: 20, Make up Tips: 1...

• by Lucy Diamond April 20, 2005
  20th April 2004 A major date in the life of Lucy, in fact the date that Lucy first ventured into the big wide world, well, a small corner of it, in Scotland actually. Though I suppose Edinburgh is a fairly big corner, for Scotland. Anyway, the events of this date, a year ago today, were to set o...

• by Lucy Diamond April 18, 2005
  Be who you want to be That title is actually the latest slogan for Weightwatchers, so doesn’t apply to me in that sense, what with my sylph-like figure and all, but you can see where I’m coming from can’t you? T-girls everywhere should read, learn and inwardly digest this statement, it could chan...

• by Lucy Diamond April 8, 2005
  Two small steps for a woman… A couple of things today, a letter arrived asking me to make an appointment with the local psychiatrist as my referral had been accepted, so I did, and it’s a week on Monday. Not long to wait, not long to think about it, and not much time in which to panic! No, I’m su...

• by Lucy Diamond April 1, 2005
  What’s in a name My dad came round today and we had a long chat. He said he still didn’t really know what to say to me but he didn’t seem to be having too many problems there. All this is quite a shock and fairly incomprehensible to him, so I think the underlying thing is that he doesn’t think it...

• by Lucy Diamond March 31, 2005
  Back on top After feeling somewhat dejected and out on a limb I woke up the next day feeling much better, as though my strength had returned. I feel I am at last in control of my own life and want to show how positive that is to those around me. But their feelings are really out of my control so ...

• by Lucy Diamond March 29, 2005
  Please try to understand before one of us dies Despite the light-hearted Fawlty Towers title, I don’t know if I actually want to blog at the moment, but I have to do something to stop the tears so let’s give it a go. It’s been a difficult day, and I’ve only been up a few hours. I’ve had two less ...

• by Lucy Diamond March 25, 2005
  Be still my beating heart Pip couldn’t have visited at a better time. Turning people’s worlds upside-down is quite exhausting, and for a few precious hours the mad world spinning around me seemed to stop turning. Time standing still, nothing else matters, just me and my sweet, my friend, my soul ...

• by Lucy Diamond March 23, 2005
  Do you want chips with that…? No fried brain will do thanks… Having spent the best part of an hour on the phone to my dad last night I did indeed feel like my brain was fried. I tried to send a couple of emails shortly afterwards which I’d normally whiz off in a few minutes, but found I was havi...