A few weeks ago I had the flu, and I was glad to see myself get past it.   Being sick isn't fun at all.  Then this weekend happened.  Saturday was a blast.  Chris was in town, and we went to the Milwaukee Art Museum.  The Calatrava is a stunning building, and the artwork inside is also.  Afterwards, we went to a restaurant on the east side called "County Clare".  It's an Irish food place. I've eaten there before, and it was good.

This time I decided to get a burger.  I know...not very Irish, but I hadn't had red meat or a hamburger in quite a long time.  I figured...why not.  Seems it wasn't cooked very well.  A few hours later, the toilet and I were spending some quality time together. It was a one way conversation mostly...I don't vomit very often, but I managed to do so a lot last night.

Sunday we had planned to go see "the Watchmen", but I was just drained.  I ended up sleeping most of the day.  Finally at about 6:00 I was up and moving around.  Here I am...not 5 hours after that already in bed again.  I hope I'm back up to 100% tomorrow.

I've been meaning to blog all week, but my free time disappeared.  I've been working on freelance all week, and it looks like this next week will be no different.  I guess that's a good thing, but my personal life has taken a dive because of it.  I didn't really have time to do much of anything besides work and eat.  Even my sleep was cut short.  The check will make it all worth it though.

I had something interesting happen over the past week in regards to gender.  I've been thinking about my voice and how it's still somewhat gender neutral. For the longest time that bothered me.  If there's anything that gives me away, it's my voice.  But why do I care if I'm "given away" as trans?  As the past few weeks have progressed, I've thought about this a lot, and I've come to the conclusion that I like my voice where it is.  In fact, I think my voice being gender neutral is great.

One of the things that bothered me is that when i went through voice training, the entire purpose of it was to teach me how to conform to the social expectations of female speech.  Basically it was forcing me into a gender binary normative behavior.  But I don't accept that gender is a binary.  So, my voice truly represents me as the transwoman that I am, and I'm proud of that.  I like the fact that when I'm around, I make people think.  Screw gender norms.

In other news, I did my taxes last weekend, and I was relieved to discover that I am getting a return.  I thought I was going to have to pay due to my business, but I had enough items to write off and not nearly enough income to have to pay.  So that's good.  I also will be finally paying off my medical bills.  Apparently my account went to collections, which I felt bad about, but since I was willing to pay them straight away with my tax return, they were willing to give me a discount.  So that's great.  I'm soon on my way to having less monetary stress on my plate.

I have plenty more to say, but I think I will save it for another day this week.  I am rather tired despite my sleep.  I better get some rest so that I'm recovered for the work week.