April

 

April has been a really busy month with just one very short dressing opportunity. It's been a month of laying down foundations upon which to build upon in the near future. 

The main priority of the month was organising the fitting of the ceiling hoists which will be necessary to allow respite carers to come and look after my Wife, giving me the opportunity to have some time to my own thing. Which is mostly going to be crossdressing related. 

So we've had seemingly endless enquiries and responses, surveys being done and quotes being sent to us. And finally we had the hoists installed on the last day of the month. So hopefully it won't be too long before the respite care cavalry arrive. 

So my one dressing opportunity was a mere hour and a half, which included getting ready and changing back and make-up removal, so it was very brief. To be honest, it felt too rushed to enjoy it. And given everything going on at the moment, I really shouldn't have bothered. But I almost pressured myself into dressing bbecause I sometimes worry about losing my mojo with having to deal with my stressful life. I'm going to try and stop feeling like that, and just accept that sometimes life gets in the way, and proper dressing opportunities will eventually appear and be much more rewarding. Anyway here is a photo of me dressed in my vintage dress suit. It only just fitted so I'm glad I'm losing some weight. 

I think May will be a much better month for dressing. March and April were crammed full of appointments. Hopefully the schedule in May remains much less hectic. 

Of course only having one short dressing opportunity isn't ideal, but I have been doing a lot of work in  creating new looks to try out, and working to refine my wardrobe to give myself a much more versatile set of looks. And a couple of new dresses have arrived into my wardrobe to hopefully debut soon. Below are AI created impressions of how they will hopefully look on me.

AI Pics Of New Wardrobe Arrivals

And talking of AI, I have been using an AI platform, ChatGPT to help create style ideas and suggestions and it's really helping me to create new looks or improve older ones.  It does very much reflect ideas that are mine, back at me, but in a way that sorts out my jumbled ideas and thoughts, into something much more coherent. And it does come up with some very good styling suggestions in it's own right. AI has a place as a creative tool, and I use it as such to help me. But in certain creative areas, I definitely don't like it. Music, art and creative writing are areas where it should never be used. I wouldn't even use it to help me with this blog, because then it wouldn't be me. But I find it works well as my styling assistant. 

An example of this is styling a look based around my cobalt blue swing dress. 

The Original 

I asked for some styling  suggestions and it suggested a white cardigan and gloves. I wasn't sure, but got it to create an image  for me to view. 

ChatGPT Styling Suggestion

It also suggested white trainers be worn with the dress. And it really works as a look. I had a further idea to refine the look with a white lace top and lace gloves, both of which I already have in my wardrobe.  And the result was this.

ChatGPT Idea With My Ammendments 

So I now have a look I can create, that was a result of an AI collaboration. All I need to do is find some white trainers. It's definitely a useful tool to have in my styling locker. And it really helped with sorting out an ongoing wardrobe malfunction I have been struggling with. I won't go into details now, but I have a new bundle of hosiery arriving very soon. When it arrives, I will write more on the subject. 

As to my health and fitness, I'm eating better, losing weight slowly and feeling much better. I'm doing a lot more exercise and beginning to do some weight training to build up my muscles after some statin induced atrophy damaged them. 

One very upsetting event was the destruction of the LGBTQ+ nightclub, Pink Punters in an awful fire. To make it worse, it happened on a packed Saturday night. Thankfully everyone, both clubbers and staff all made it out safely, with a very effective evacuation process. 

The cause of the fire was arson, with a man being arrested. It's not been announced what the motive was, and it's important not to speculate. 

The building was completely gutted. Just a framework and the iconic roadside facade left. It's a sad sight to see. 

Pink Punters is a big part of TG history. Ever since I attended the UK Angels 10th Birthday Party in January 2010. I met a lot of new friends that night, and a good many of them are still on my life. I visited the club a few times after that. So it's very upsetting to see this happen to a place that exists to make people happy. 

The club's owners have said that the club will be rebuilt and reopened. I hope that it happens.

I will end by writing a few words about this blog. I have to admit that I haven't been fully engaged with the blogging world in recent weeks. I've been absorbed with getting the adaptations to the house done. I'm hopefully going to start posting more. And I'm going to try to keep up with the blogs I follow. 

Thank you. 

Deeanna 

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