The Story so Far:

About nine months ago a post by Amy and Tony on Something Fishy got me to start my own website. As i guess many of you who read this diary are Fishies, you know who Amy and Tony are. In case you don't know, Amy is the creator and webmistress of the Something Fishy Website on Eating Disorders, and that is my home away from home.

Well, as can be expected, that first site was quite a mess. The second, which soon replaced it, was already considerably more structured with lots more content. Then nothing happened on my site for a while, and around Christmas-time it vanished from the web when the guy who had been hosting it on his private server went corporate.

Then In January i started the Transition Diary, now on geocities because i don't know anybody who has their private server anymore. Though i am considering the possibility of putting my own server online once i get my own appartment and a permenant connection to the internet. But that is still something of a daydream.

The Diary starts of at a quite momentous time in my life. Not only have i come out to my family as transgendered (though i had a preety easy time with that, neither my mum or my sister was very surprised at the news, and only my dad still has trouble accepting it), but i was also finaly having some succes in my struggle with anorexia, and on the very first night after creating the basic frame of the site and writing my first entry for the journal i also quit doing dope.

This entry finds me a bit over six months later, still sober without a slip. I have gathered some experience of the transgendered life, and am looking forward very much to spending a whole week as a woman in london in a couple of days. I'm still fighting with anorexia, and have recently relapsed a bit, but i caught myself and the fight is going fairly well.

This entry officialy starts the second chapter of the Transition Diary, my online Journal to recovery and becoming me.

Lots of Love,

Ruby