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I realised that other day that it's been nearly four months since my last blog update and when I started thining about it further, a LOT has happened in that four months.
Firstly though, a song. It's probably my favourite song off of Canterbury's new album but annoyingly Youtube doesn't link into Blogspot properly and I have to use a live version rather than the version where you can hear what's going on....oh well.
So yeah, it's been nearly four months since I last wrote a blog entry and a lot has changed, where to even start?
Well, let's start with work. I am still at BT and although it took me a while, I am starting to like the role. When I went on a week long holiday in November I was determined to leave and spent most of my week off searching for a new job and to be honest, it was like that up until mid-January, but then something changed....I started liking my job.
I can pin down why I like it or why I am now very likely to stay. It's probably more financial than anything else. I started on the bonus structure in January and in the two months combined I have earned nearly £850 worth of bonus, that on top of my normal wages. I'm not going to lie, I left Vodafone for many reasons, with the main one being that the pay was a bit crap for the work that I was actually doing (I saw pretty much the exact same role at other companies for almost double what I was getting paid there), however, I couldn't have dreamt about the financial boost that the job at BT has given and if I average out that bonus over a year, on top of my wage, I will be earning almost £9,000 more a year than I was at Vodafone, which is massive.
Changing sex isn't cheap and the extra finances have given me a bit more freedom to get things done a bit quicker. For example, the electrolysis hasn't really given decent results, infact, fairly minimal in the 14 months since I started on hormones, but I recently had a consultation for IPL hair removal and although slightly more costly (and not by much), it is far quicker at getting results and the place I am going to have it done is about a 15 minute walk from my house as opposed to the near 4 hour journey on trains to London.
In terms of changing sex, well, it's a bit strange, some times it really feels like the changes are coming thick and fast, whereas other days I don't feel any different to what I did before all of this started. I do however look different facially to before all of this started. The two below pictures were taken about a month or before I started even being Kate full time (June 2012) and the one on the right was taken about two months ago. My face seems a longer than it was and the hair growth is considerably fast than back before I started all of this.
The reason I say hopefully is that my granddad died a few days ago and has kind of bummed me out. I won't claim to know him at all well and we never really had a proper conversation, but it's still gutting. He was 93 at the time of his passing (two days before his 94th birthday) so I suppose it was to be expected. The funeral is a week on Monday, hopefully I will be able to go, it depends on what work say but hopefully they will be cool with it. The only trouble really is going to be that it comes just a few days before I am actually on annual leave for a week two days after that and as the funeral is over the other side of the country (Norfolk to be precise) it would mean missing at least one, possibly two days of work, so I don't know. Hopefully they will be ok with it.
Anyway, onto slightly happier things. My love affair with Lincoln City finally ended. I mentioned in my last blog that I had missed my first game in nine years in October, one became two, two became three and let's put it this way, it's now mid-February and I haven't been to a game since December 28th, nor do I intend to go to a Lincoln game anytime soon. Infact, I have only been to two football matches this calendar year, Chorley vs Fylde and Stoke vs Manchester United.
As people on Facebook will have probably realised, football has now been replaced by hockey as my main passion. As I mentioned in my last blog, I had gone to my first ever game of hockey when Blackburn lost to Solway. My attendance was sporadic at first but I soon started attending regularly and I have seen 12 games so far with the Hawks winning ten of those (the only two defeats both coming to Solway). I am certainly spoilt for goals and all the results of the games I have been to have been 1-2, 4-2, 8-1, 9-1, 10-6, 6-1, 3-1, 6-2, 0-1, 4-2, 7-4 and 7-2.
I have become involved in the Blackburn Hawks and now do the match videos and highlights on an official basis. I don't get paid for it but you know what, it's actually good fun, and I have gained some good friends since I started doing that, and it's the first time in a long time I have been socialising with people on a regular basis that has nothing to do with football. Infact, I see more of them than I do anyone that I don't live with.
The channel that I do videos for can be found here - http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiT2YOywZsYc3_J41H6mmKA
Anyway, I'm going to leave this blog entry here, I know I said a lot had changed and several things other than that have altered in recent months, but it's 12:15am and I am going to go to bed, so until next time, peace out.
