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dolariWell, my pills and my boots came in today...
The $50 Spiranolactone (that costs me $175 locally) seems to have been mailed to me from Vanuatu, some islands halfway between Hawaii and Australia. When I popped the bottle open, I was greeted with the smell of melatonin, which I was alittle worried about.
Spiranolactone SHOULD smell like mint. Some people smell beer or bread, but I smell mint. These smelled like berries. The bottle looked legit, the pills were the right size, and...well...everything else seemed right. It was time for...THE TASTE TEST.
I'm now noticing everyone out there that has ever had to take Spironolactone is grimacing. Y'all look so cute.
Spiro, for the uninitiated, tastes FOUL. It tastes like the smell of mildew congealed into a 100mg tablet. Now the Spiro I take now doesn't taste like anything but mild mint. The pills are also coated to make them easy to swallow. So I don't taste the Spiro very much...it's just slightly moldy mint. But back in the day, when I first started and the pills weren't coated, if you left the pill on your tongue anymore than a few seconds, you were in a world of hurt.
This is spiranolactone, all right. Whew-wee it's spiranolactone. Wow. Take all that coating off and...wow...that's some...wow. It's like a bad version of Altoids. The "Curiously Strong" Mildew.
So I'm already carting up the next set of pills from the site. Looks like my $600 monthly bill is going to become a $300 Tri-monthly bill. :)
The boots also came in today, in what was probably the worst packing job I've EVER seen. The boots themselves came in your standard cardboard shipping box, sure. But then, they put that box into a bag that was waaaaaaaay too large for it, literally tossed in some catalogs and my shipping label and shipped it off.
What I got in the end was a kick-ass pair of boots, a torn and punctured plastic bag around it, ripped up catalogs inside and my "I'm not satisfied" return shipping label stuck to the inside of the bag.
The boots, however, rock. I tried them on and they fit perfectly, although the calf portion is a little "tight." Sometimes I keep forgetting that no matter what I do, I'm not REALLY a girl, and that my body has it's own little twists and turns. When I was a kid, I was a cycler. I loved cycling anywhere and everywhere. My claim to fame are a set of 70 mile trips from San Antonio to Fredericksburg and Seguin.
The problem is, by biking all those years, I've got a set of massive turkeyleg calves and these boots are obviously made for thinner/slimmer calves. They don't look bad at ALL, not at all...but there won't be any above the knee skirts with these boots till these hormones strip the muscle tone out of those legs. :)
Something I've noticed ever since I transitioned, and I've wondered just WHY this is so, but female shoes, boots and whatnot are really restricting to your walk. And I don't mean just heels. I know that if I walk with my "old" gait in my sneakers, the shoes just don't "walk" right. Same with my skimmer shoes and these boots. You have to hit a SPECIFIC spot on the heel to walk correctly in them. Anyone else notice this? I've gotten used to walking in female shoes, it's just something I notice when I get new shoes and have to look for that "spot."
The $50 Spiranolactone (that costs me $175 locally) seems to have been mailed to me from Vanuatu, some islands halfway between Hawaii and Australia. When I popped the bottle open, I was greeted with the smell of melatonin, which I was alittle worried about.
Spiranolactone SHOULD smell like mint. Some people smell beer or bread, but I smell mint. These smelled like berries. The bottle looked legit, the pills were the right size, and...well...everything else seemed right. It was time for...THE TASTE TEST.
I'm now noticing everyone out there that has ever had to take Spironolactone is grimacing. Y'all look so cute.
Spiro, for the uninitiated, tastes FOUL. It tastes like the smell of mildew congealed into a 100mg tablet. Now the Spiro I take now doesn't taste like anything but mild mint. The pills are also coated to make them easy to swallow. So I don't taste the Spiro very much...it's just slightly moldy mint. But back in the day, when I first started and the pills weren't coated, if you left the pill on your tongue anymore than a few seconds, you were in a world of hurt.
This is spiranolactone, all right. Whew-wee it's spiranolactone. Wow. Take all that coating off and...wow...that's some...wow. It's like a bad version of Altoids. The "Curiously Strong" Mildew.
So I'm already carting up the next set of pills from the site. Looks like my $600 monthly bill is going to become a $300 Tri-monthly bill. :)
The boots also came in today, in what was probably the worst packing job I've EVER seen. The boots themselves came in your standard cardboard shipping box, sure. But then, they put that box into a bag that was waaaaaaaay too large for it, literally tossed in some catalogs and my shipping label and shipped it off.
What I got in the end was a kick-ass pair of boots, a torn and punctured plastic bag around it, ripped up catalogs inside and my "I'm not satisfied" return shipping label stuck to the inside of the bag.
The boots, however, rock. I tried them on and they fit perfectly, although the calf portion is a little "tight." Sometimes I keep forgetting that no matter what I do, I'm not REALLY a girl, and that my body has it's own little twists and turns. When I was a kid, I was a cycler. I loved cycling anywhere and everywhere. My claim to fame are a set of 70 mile trips from San Antonio to Fredericksburg and Seguin.
The problem is, by biking all those years, I've got a set of massive turkeyleg calves and these boots are obviously made for thinner/slimmer calves. They don't look bad at ALL, not at all...but there won't be any above the knee skirts with these boots till these hormones strip the muscle tone out of those legs. :)
Something I've noticed ever since I transitioned, and I've wondered just WHY this is so, but female shoes, boots and whatnot are really restricting to your walk. And I don't mean just heels. I know that if I walk with my "old" gait in my sneakers, the shoes just don't "walk" right. Same with my skimmer shoes and these boots. You have to hit a SPECIFIC spot on the heel to walk correctly in them. Anyone else notice this? I've gotten used to walking in female shoes, it's just something I notice when I get new shoes and have to look for that "spot."
