Alien Girlybrain

I am just now back from the Santa Monica Municipal Court where I have applied for and received a fee waiver and filed my petition for change of name. Everything went smoothly. First I went to the Civil Court filing window and filed my paperwork. Then I took the fee waiver and a copy of my papers to the courtroom I'd been assigned to for approval. Once my fee waiver had been approved I took everything back to the filing window where everything was finalised.

Once I was done at the courthouse I was able to go to the Santa Monica Daily Press and arrange to have my notice published. The court mandates the notice must run for four weeks, and the SMDP charges $60 for this, so I paid my money, got my receipt and came home.

My court date is 2 September, which is my mother's birthday. She's sure to be THRILLED about that. It's actually kind of funny. I started estrogen on 3 August, which is my father's birthday, and my name change will be granted on 2 September, Mom's birthday. I'm tickled that these two important dates in my life coincide with my parents' birth dates.

And now I'm here, utterly exhausted because I was stupid and walked home, but there wasn't a convenient bus. I do need to get out more and exercise, but this is kind of excessive.

Also, I need to make sure my Birks are fastened properly. They feel really loose and they slip a lot. I got a blister today, on TOP of my right food. Oddly enough, this matches one on my left foot I got a few weeks ago in Portland. There's a very good possibility that they don't fit correctly because my feet have shrunk, or at least changed their shape. This is one of the oddball effects of estrogen, the rearrangement of foot bones and sometimes other parts of the body. My hip bones have moved a bit (and not without a considerable amount of pain, I might add). I know others whose feet have shrunk, some whose wrists have narrowed, others who've lost physical height. And I do know my feet are different because the size I was fitted for is a 12.5-13 men's, which means I should wear a 14-15.5 women's, but I can fit a size 12.5 women's.

And now…I must rest.

Tomorrow afternoon I'll be heading back to Santa Monica. As much as I adore Portland, and have enjoyed with time with aris_tgd and liviapenn it's time I got back to my honey. I can travel, assuming I don't have to exert myself too much anywhere along the line, and once I'm back in my home I can rest and recover without having to feel like I'm imposing on others (not that Aris and Livia seem to mind my presence - they have been gracious, generous hosts and I am, as I have said before, very grateful to them for their hospitality).

Today Aris brought me a little present, some eye makeup. When we were at Walgreens last week to pick up my meds, we went and looked at makeup. I said off-handedly that I wanted to learn how to do my eyes. So when she went out to pick up some lunch, she came back with a little pink-wrapped package with a silver ribbon, from Bare Escentuals! It has the basics: mascara, eyeliner, brown eye shadow and a moisturiser, along with an eye shadow brush. She also got me a blue eye shadow. I've asked her to help me do my eyes before my flight tomorrow. I plan to go back in full femme mode. :)

Which reminds me. I have heard from the Center's legal aid people that my name change paperwork should be done in a couple of weeks. I will need to file it myself. I'm starting to think it would be better if I just did it myself. We'll see.