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From: LabRat@i-link.net (Karen Mitchell)

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Subject: Story - Weekend.txt

Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 16:26:40 -0500

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I did not write this and you must be 18 or over to read it as it may

contain a great deal of adult explicit sexuality. If this is

offensive do not read - delete file. For those of us who enjoy ....

enjoy! Please do not ask for files by e-mail - I can barely keep up

with what I have now.

A LONG WEEKEND EN FEMME

I had been planning this weekend for a month, but my long weekend

en femme actually started Thursday evening as I gathered a feminine

change of clothes, a wig and a little makeup. I put these things in

my gym bag and then put the bag back in the van where it normally

stays. I'd be using the stuff in that bag Friday afternoon. I

continued with setting up for the weekend Friday morning as I took my

shower. I had been thinning out the hair on my legs all week and on

Friday morning, I completed shaving them entirely. I drove my wife to

work with her suitcases that morning, and by 1:00 P.M. she had taken

a cab to the airport and was on her way to Florida, not to return

until the following Friday afternoon. That afternoon at work was one

of the longest I think I've ever spent, waiting for five o'clock to

roll around. But it finally did, and I was off!

The first stop after work was a big empty parking lot near my

office, where, in the seclusion of the back of my van, I changed from

my masculine office attire of shirt, tie, slacks and cowboy boots to

a more feminine outfit of black jeans short-shorts, oversized

Hawaiian shirt, wide black belt and gold sandals. I also put on a

little blush, a swipe of eye shadow, some mascara, lipstick, and a

dab of perfume, topping it all off with a short natural wig. Ten

minutes after stopping, I was back on the road in femme mode. The

next stop was at my friend Mimi's nail salon. There I had a complete

set of very long acrylic nails and a pedicure done. If you've never

had a pedicure, you owe it to yourself to experience that treat.

Ann, the lady who did my pedicure paid me a compliment that I never

thought I would hear: she said that I have very nice feet. All

twenty nails were topped off with a dynamite scarlet red polish with

some gold overtones. Once again, I was amazed by how quickly I got

used to having long nails on my fingers. By the time the polish on

them had dried, I really did forget that they were there; they seemed

totally natural to me. Mimi wanted me to come back by later in the

weekend to show off, and I said I would if I had a chance.

I left Mimi's and drove home, deciding to take a bath and just

lounge around the house and visit with my sister-in-law, Bev, once I

got there. However, by the time I made it home and had eaten some

supper, I really didn't have a whole lot of energy left, and Bev

wasn't feeling well. So, I just removed what little makeup I had on,

took a quick shower and did a quick styling job on my long curly wig

before heading for bed in a new red and purple satin gown.

I didn't sleep very well Friday night, probably from a

combination of excitement and having to sleep alone. I'm used to

having another warm body in bed with me. But I was reasonably well

rested by the time Saturday morning arrived. I got up about 8:00 and

checked to see if Bev was feeling any better and if she wanted to

watch my transformation. She was still feeling lousy and decided to

stay in bed for the day, so one of my girl friends was now out of the

picture. I took my bath, postponed from the night before, put on my

lingerie with the appropriate pads and slipped into my lavender satin

robe and slippers to nervously wait for my other girl friend, Mary,

who was supposed to arrive at 9:00. I still wasn't sure just what to

expect when she showed up, or even if she was going to make it. She

called at 8:45 to ask if the coffee was on (it was) and to let me

know that she was on her way. Mary arrived about 9:15, looked me

over once and then gave me a long hug and a kiss, saying with a big

smile, "Well, you don't look like your pictures right now, but you

don't look bad, either." She wanted to see Jami's closet, so I gave

her a quick tour, and then we went into the kitchen and had coffee

while she admired my nails and asked questions about crossdressing in

general and my CDing in particular. I answered her questions, we

talked some more and finally ended up discussing what the upcoming

day was going to encompass. The decision was reached that I would

get ready while Mary observed, and then we would go back to her house

so she could change clothes in order for us to go to lunch at a nice

restaurant and then go shopping at the Galleria mall. By the time we

headed upstairs so that I could get ready, over an hour had passed

and neither one of us was nervous anymore. We were just two friends

getting together for a Saturday.

I took my time putting on my face, explaining what I was doing

and why, as I went along. The two of us just gabbed along as my

makeover progressed, with Mary making one or two color suggestions.

It actually took me about twice as long as usual to get ready because

of our talking, but I finally got all done, put on my long hair and

asked, "Well? What's the verdict?" Mary took both my hands, looked

me in the eyes and said very sincerely, "You're beautiful." That

almost did it for me. I got very choked up and my eyes started to

overflow as I thanked her for her friendship and her opinion. She

hugged me and replied, "You're welcome, but don't start crying now

because I don't want to take the time for you to repair your makeup.

I'm getting hungry, and I want to go to lunch." So I managed to

stifle my tears and quickly fixed my eyes and moved on to getting

dressed. Mary helped me pick out my outfit for the day: a red,

yellow, purple and black city shorts outfit and low-heeled black

ankle-strap wedgies with nude pantihose. As I took off my robe, Mary

wanted to know about the pads that I was already wearing. I showed

her the breast forms and the hip pads, and she vowed that if she ever

had liposuction hip reduction she would donate the removed fat to me

for a hip transplant. I quickly got dressed, put on my jewelry and

some "First" perfume (another hit with Mary), loaded up my purse, and

we were off in Mary's car to her house; two ladies off for a day on

the town.

I had never been to Mary's house, so she felt obligated to give

me the tour. It is a very nice three bedroom house. There was

plenty of evidence of her two kids, but they were spending the

weekend with their father, so we had the place to ourselves. I was

also introduced to her cats and made immediate friends with them. It

was my turn to help Mary pick out an outfit for the day, and we

selected a skirt and top in a very colorful floral print on a white

background and white heels. She wanted to wear heels so that the

difference in our heights wouldn't be as noticeable. We were in her

bedroom, sitting on the bed just talking away, and as she started to

take off her shorts and sweatshirt to change clothes it suddenly

occurred to us that we really weren't just two girl friends. We had

both gotten caught up in the feeling of the moment and then had to

admit the reality of it. With both of us laughing, I went out in the

hall for the few minutes it took her to put on her bra and pantihose

and the skirt and top. Then it was my turn to play observer while

Mary put on her face and fixed her hair. She got her face finished

very quickly, but I helped her with her hair. We took a moment to

sit down in her kitchen and have a drink of water and finalize the

plan for the day. We were going to stop at Mimi's for a few minutes

and then go to Houston's for lunch and on to the Galleria for window

shopping and maybe even some REAL shopping. We called Carol, another

mutual friend, about meeting us at the Galleria, and she told us to

call her when we got there since she had a previous engagement for a

golf lesson, but would like to get together later. And then we were

out the door and on the road again.

Mimi's salon was packed with women getting their nails done and

everybody was very busy, so I just said "Hi" to Mimi and introduced

Mary to her and then we left, although I promised to come back if I

could. As we walked out and crossed the parking lot to the car, Mary

said with a laugh, "Don't you know that that place is just buzzing

right now? I think we were a hit." We went on to Houston's for a

late lunch.

The food at Houston's was great, as always, and our waiter, Carl,

was attentive, charming and funny. He was every inch the gentleman,

constantly checking on us ladies and earning himself a great tip in

the process. I noticed several other diners eyeing us as we had a

drink and our lunch, but nobody was laughing and pointing. I don't

think it would have bothered me even if they had been, because we

were having such a good time. We called Carol before we left, but

there wasn't any answer. And as we were leaving, Carl told us twice

to come back soon. Little did any of us know that we would be taking

him up on his offer.

The Galleria was packed with people, so we had a little trouble

finding a good place to park, but we finally made our way inside the

mall. Mary complained that she has always had a problem finding her

car in a big parking complex, but I assured her that I had a very

good sense of direction and that we could easily find her car again

using my guidance. We cruised through the entire mall, stopping

occasionally to comment on, and sometimes drool about, shoes, a

weakness we both share. We stopped in Macy's and looked at blouses

and skirts, but didn't see anything either of us liked. We also

stopped at Caren Charles, a woman's boutique that advertises in our

local Tri-Ess newsletter and is very accepting of CDs. I tried on a

longer multicolored chiffon skirt that was on sale there and ended up

buying it, but Mary didn't find anything that she liked. We also

stopped for a little while and had coffee, but mostly we just kept

walking and looking and talking. I was totally oblivious to the

crowds. I was just having a good time. Mary finally found some

potpourri that she wanted to put in her car, and I splurged and

bought it for her since she hadn't let me help pay for the gas we

were using. We called Carol a couple of times, too, but never got an

answer, so we assumed that she had met some good-looking guy at the

golf course. After several hours, Mary finally said, "We have to go

now." I asked if she were tired, and she replied that she wasn't

tired but that she was getting upset. Of course, I wanted to know if

she were upset by being in public with me. She held my hand and

answered, "Not at all, but I'm getting upset by the reactions that I

see in other people. Actually, I'm getting pretty pissed off at the

judgment that I see those people making of you when they don't have

the slightest idea of who you are, and I find myself wanting to hit

them to knock some sense into them. So, we have to leave before I

say something or do something I'll regret. Yes, if you weren't here

with me, I wouldn't be having these feelings, but that isn't your

fault - it's those other people's." And so we returned unerringly to

the car and left the mall.

We took the long leisurely (non-freeway) route to my house, but

during the drive home encountered Mary's former fiance in his car in

the midst of traffic. She became rather upset at seeing him next to

us and pulled into a small shopping center to collect herself. She

went on to relate the story of their relationship and its end and the

impact that it had all had on her emotions. After telling me the

story and shedding more than a few tears, we hugged and she thanked

me profusely for listening, for caring and for being her friend. Then

we hit the road again. For the remainder of the trip, though, she

held my hand. When I asked why, she said that she just needed some

human contact, and I was one of the most human people she knew. I

think that was a compliment. I asked her if she wanted to go see a

movie that night, but she declined, saying that she had to clean up

her house and yard before going in to the office on Sunday and then

leaving town on Monday.

We got back to my house early in the evening, and Mary came

inside to get a glass of iced tea before heading back to her place. I

went to check on Bev, but she wasn't home, so evidently she was

feeling better. Mary and I talked for the short time it took her to

finish her tea and then she went to leave. We hugged each other for

a long time, laughing about our day, and I gave her another hug and a

goodbye kiss on the front porch. As I stood on the porch while she

walked to her car, I heard a female voice ask her, "Is my mom here?

Is there anyone home?" I immediately recognized it as Christine,

Bev's 25-year old daughter. Mary was very surprised and a little

flustered but managed to stammer out something like "Yes, I think

so," before getting in her car. Christine hadn't seen me on the

porch yet, and I was hit by an instant of utter panic, which passed as

quickly as it had come. I just stepped back inside the house and

held the front door open so she could enter the house. She walked

in, glanced at me and kept on walking toward Bev's room. Then she

stopped, turned around and stared and finally recognized me as I

closed the door. She went on into her mother's room saying, "I was

driving down to see my dad at my grandmother's house and I really

have to pee and you guys were closest so I came here. I'll be back in

a minute." With that, she disappeared into Bev's bathroom while I

just waited in the entryway. When she came back out a few minutes

later, she looked at me again and said, "You're not going to a

costume party, are you?" I answered that I wasn't and asked if she

wanted to know what was happening. She definitely did.

So, for the next hour I explained sex, sexuality and gender in

general, concentrating on crossdressing and my own situation in

particular. She was very accepting, but then again, she's a

psychology major (graduating in December) and has always been a very

open-minded person. For the second time that day, I ended up

showing off Jami's closet and even offered Christine the use of

anything she might like. She declined for the present, but said that

she would keep me in mind, once she got used to the idea of possibly

borrowing a skirt from her uncle. While we were talking, Bev came in

and didn't even bat an eyelash to see her daughter calmly talking to

me in the living room. She joined right in, and our conversation

gradually got around to the reason for Christine's trip from college:

to see her father to ask to borrow money from him to fix her car. Bev

and I offered our opinions on the best way to beg Bev's ex-husband

for the money. In the midst of our conversation, Christine suddenly

stopped, took my hand, looked at me and said, "You don't LOOK like

anyone I know, but you FEEL like somebody I love and trust." I

thanked her for seeing the person and not the appearance. She left

after a couple of hours to resume her trip. I asked Bev if she

wanted to go to the movies, but she wanted to just stay home and read.

That sounded like a good idea to me, so she and I whipped up a salad

for supper and then headed off to our individual rooms to curl up

with our respective books. I took off my makeup and wig, took a

quick shower, and then put on some white leggings, an oversized red

T-shirt and some white sandals before settling down. I read until the

news came on TV. After the news I took the dogs out for their walk

before putting on my nightie and crawling into bed to read a little

longer before lights out. Saturday had been a very full day, but I

was looking forward to Sunday, too. My Glamour Shots appointment was

at nine in the morning!

I got up earlier than I needed to Sunday morning, but I was

really excited about going to Glamour Shots. I forced myself to

relax and eat a leisurely bowl of Cocoa Krispies (a no-fat cereal!)

and drink a cup of coffee for breakfast. Since I would be getting a

complete makeover shortly, I just washed my face and put on my long

straight wig before getting dressed, starting with all the proper

underwear and padding, of course. I had been told to wear a

two-piece outfit with a top that I could remove without pulling it

over my head, so I wore a pair of red silk shorts and a red and black

short-sleeved silk blouse along with a wide black belt, a pair of dark

pantihose and my low black wedgies. The Glamour Shots studio that I

had found willing to take me as a crossdressed customer was not the

closest one to my house, so I had to drive for a while to get there,

but I arrived right on time. There were no other stores open in the

mall at 9:00 on a Sunday morning, which was part of the reason I had

selected that time, but I had also thought about having the remainder

of the day available after I had had my makeover. There were two

makeup artists and the manager in the studio when I arrived, and

everyone was very nice and very professional. They all made me feel

right at home. I was directed to change from my blouse into a black

strapless stretch top which was then covered with a large black

lightweight cotton jacket. I came out of the dressing room and was

directed to a chair right in front of the window. As soon as I sat

down, Maria, the makeup artist, started to work. While she was

applying the foundation, she asked me about my favorite eye shadow

colors and my skin type and if I had a sample of a lipstick I liked.

I took my lipstick out of my purse, showed it to her and she just

looked at the color and said, "I can do that." Everything she did

while making me up was custom blended to suit my face and my

preferences. The makeup was completed in about an hour. She said

that she normally gets done quicker but since there wasn't any rush

she wanted to take her time with me so everything would be perfect.

Once the makeup was in place, she asked about how I wanted my hair to

look. I told her that I was looking for something elegant, yet

somewhat tousled looking and away from my face. That's all it took

for her to start sticking hot rollers in my hair. I asked her if it

would be easier for her if I took the hair off. She laughed and said

that she was used to working on hair while it was sitting on top of a

woman's head, so she'd just leave it where it was.

While I was sitting there in rollers, she touched up my makeup

and did my lips with a custom-blended lipstick. She had added a

little more mauve to the color I showed her because she said it went

better with my eyes. As she was taking out the rollers, the

photographer came in to work, and another customer came in, too.

Neither one of them looked at me twice. It took Maria about 10

minutes to take out the rollers and pick and fluff and curl my hair

into exactly the look I wanted. Like I said, she was a pro. Then she

and I picked out the four looks for my poses. It was tough choosing

from literally hundreds of tops, but I finally settled on a gold

sequined halter, a purple feather boa, a black fur stole, and a

turquoise/gold fabric wrap, which I started with. She had me take off

the jacket but keep on the black top and she tied the wrap in a

crossover halter style. All of the tops for the pictures are worn

over the black strapless top so outfit changes can be made quickly. I

sat down in the studio, and Maria hung up the other three outfits that

I would be wearing as the photographer came in. I had my own special

earrings to complete this first look, and as I was putting them on

the photographer set up the first backdrop and the camera. I posed

at his direction for the four different shots and then exchanged the

wrap for the feather boa. He helped me pick out a pair of earrings

to go with the new top, and then I sat back down for the next

sequence of four pictures. As he was setting up, I asked "Do you

take many pictures of guys?" He said, "Sure", and then stopped and

just stared at me for a minute before continuing with a big smile,

"But you're the first one to be dressed like that!" And if you

hadn't said anything, I would never have known." I was appropriately

thankful and we proceeded to go through the four poses with each of

the remaining outfits in what seemed like no time at all. It really

was fun playing fashion model. Once we were all done, I changed back

into my own clothes and then undertook the really hard chore of

deciding which pictures, if any, I wanted to have printed. The

photographer captures each shot on film and in digital form on a

diskette. The diskette is used to show a fairly good reproduction of

the photograph on a 17-inch monitor in order for the clients to pick

out which poses look good enough to turn into prints. I ended up

picking 10 of my 16 poses to be done in a mix of wallet sized and

five by seven prints, and they threw in a copy of all 16 proof

prints. The bottom line for all the pictures, the makeup, the hair,

the outfits, the jewelry and the just plain thrill and fun of the

entire morning was right at two hundred bucks. (As I write this, I

have since picked up the final prints, and I must say that the

pictures turned out to be orders of magnitude better than I had ever

anticipated!) I think it was money well spent.

It was around 11:30 when I walked out into the mall, still

wearing my "glamourous" makeup and hair and excited after the

picture-taking session, so I called Mary from a pay phone just to

share my upbeat mood with someone. She said that my morning sounded

like a real fun time, but that she was on her way out to lunch with

Carol before heading to the office. She then asked me to join her

and surprise Carol. I readily agreed and then asked where we were

meeting. Mary laughed and said, "Houston's of course. Where else

would we go?" So I drove to Houston's, stopping for gas on the way,

and arrived about 30 seconds after Mary. We walked in together,

figured out that we had gotten there before Carol, and got a booth

seat. And of course, OUR waiter, Carl came over to see us, although

we weren't sitting in his area, since we had taken him up on his

offer to come back so soon. He chatted for a minute and then left to

get back to work, but promised to return before we left. Then Carol

arrived. She was astounded, to say the least, since she had only seen

pictures of me beforehand. She sat on my left (Mary was on my

right), and kept touching me during the entire time we were there

because she said that she didn't quite believe it and wanted to make

sure that I was real. We ordered drinks and a light lunch of soup

and salad and then Carl strolled back by the table and dropped off a

big order of french fries, saying as he passed, "Don't say anything -

you don't know where these free fries came from." Lunch and the

fries were great, again. Carol kept asking me questions that all

basically boiled down to "Why?" I kept trying to explain that even

if I knew why, I couldn't change anything, so why ask why? She asked

what I would do if someone from work walked in and recognized her and

Mary and then me. I replied, "I'd deal with it. I'm prepared to do

that or I wouldn't be here with you two right now. But in the

meantime, I'm going to enjoy being here and not worry about it."

That appeared to be good enough for her. We finished our lunch

without any incidents, paid the check and then headed out the door.

Just as we got outside, we heard someone say, "Hey! Were you just

going to sneak out without saying goodbye?" Carl had followed us

out, so we all gave him a big hug and told him goodbye, again

promising to come back soon. Carol hugged me and got in her car that

was parked right outside the door. I walked with Mary to her car,

gave her a quick kiss and a big hug and then she headed off to the

office.

I got in my car and was going to head straight home, but then

thought of Mimi. Her shop was kind of on the way home, so I decided

to stop by and visit with her, if the shop wasn't busy. When I got

to Mimi's, she didn't have a customer right at that instant but was

expecting one in just a few minutes, so we sat and talked until she

showed up. Actually, Mimi did most of the talking about how good I

looked. I told her that the makeup and the hair had been done by

Glamour Shots, and she replied that all that looked very nice, but

that the total look came from me and it was excellent. She also told

me that when Mary and I had stopped by yesterday, no one who had seen

us in the shop could tell that we weren't exactly what we appeared to

be: two ladies headed out to go shopping. We hadn't created much of

a stir after all. While we were talking, all of the women in the

shop had gotten the word about me from the manicurists and everyone

was checking me out. I noticed a couple of them looking at me and

smiling, so I smiled right back, and one of the women complimented me

on how feminine my appearance was on her way out. Needless to say,

by the time I left, my ego was a couple of sizes bigger than when I

had arrived! From Mimi's, I headed home.

Once I arrived home, I took a couple of pictures of my own and

then changed into a pair of pink cotton shorts, a white tank top and

white huaraches: comfy clothes. I took off all the stage makeup from

Glamour Shots and my wig, poured myself some iced tea and sat down to

just read, relax and "vege out" for a couple of hours. At five

o'clock, I started to get ready to go out to dinner with Susan, a TS

friend of mine whom I had initially met three years ago as my boss,

Rick. I took a bath, did my own makeup and wig and put on my new

purple suit with matching hose and gold dressy flats. I said goodbye

to Bev and headed for Steak And Ale to meet Susan for dinner. I was

a few minutes early and had a seat in the bar to wait. I ordered a

margarita and opened my purse to pay. The bartender had a big smile

on her face and winked when she handed me my drink and took the

money. I smiled right back, since I assumed the smile meant that she

approved of something about me. Susan arrived shortly after that,

and we were shown to our table. This was Susan's first time to meet

me en femme, and she was duly complimentary. She's had almost half a

year of RLT and looks very good herself. We had a very pleasant

evening, talking about a lot of things, including people at work, the

local gender community and her upcoming surgery at year-end. She has

found a doctor in Belgium that is highly recommended by other TS's in

our area, and even with doctor's costs, air fare, hospital and hotel

stay, the total fee to go to Belgium is still several thousand dollars

less than any doctor in the U.S. And our mutual friend, Ruth, has

volunteered to act as a recuperative nurse for her once Susan gets

back from Belgium. Susan had a full day on Monday and a long drive

home, so we parted company about 9:00 after many big hugs and promises

to keep in touch. After Susan left, I waved at the bartender on my

way out to see if she still remembered me. She evidently did,

because she smiled and waved for me to come back into the

now-deserted bar. Never one to pass up an opportunity to talk to a

good-looking woman, I went in and had a seat at the bar again.

I introduced myself and she did likewise; her name was Sandra.

She wanted to talk to me because she said that she had seen many of

the daytime talk shows about crossdressers and transsexuals and other

gender folk, and she was really fascinated by the whole thing. So I

had a beer (on the house) and proceeded to give her my by-now

standard lecture on sex and gender and the world in general. She

said that my appearance and everything else was truly feminine, which

of course prompted me to ask how she knew I wasn't really a woman.

She said that my voice and my height were clues, but what had really

clinched it was that she had seen my driver's license earlier when I

took out my wallet to pay. I guess I really do need to go down and

get an alternate license done en femme (Texas allows that) if I'm

going to be spending much time that way in public with my wallet

open. I spent a very nice hour with her until closing time, at which

point she asked me to wait around while she closed up so we could

walk out to our cars together. "We girls can't be too careful at

night, you know," she said with a grin. Since the bar hadn't been

very busy, it didn't take her very long to finish and close out her

register. We walked out to my car since it was closer to the door,

and she thanked me for spending time with her and answering her

questions. I thanked her for her honesty and her openness. She then

gave me a long hug and kissed my cheek and wanted me to promise to

come back next time I was out "all dolled up". I told her that I

would do my best, but I couldn't guarantee when that might be. I got

in my car, but waited until she got to hers before leaving. She

waved goodbye as she started up and drove away. I drove back home, a

very tired but very happy lady. Once I got there, I took off all the

finery and scrubbed my face before putting on my teal satin

nightshirt and crawling into bed. Then I realized that I hadn't

asked Bev to take the dogs out, so I got up, put on my gold slippers

and a pair of shorts under the nightshirt and took the beasts out

around the block. By the time I got back and collapsed into bed

again, I had no trouble dropping off and sleeping all night long.

I took a day of vacation on Monday and slept in until about ten

in the morning. The day was rainy and dismal outside, and I was all

by myself in the house since Bev had gone to work. I made myself

some coffee and had a bagel while sitting in the kitchen in my

nightshirt and slippers, just enjoying the morning. Since the weather

was lousy and everybody was at work or out of town, I decided to just

stay home and play dress-up and take some pictures. So, I took a

long bubble bath and shaved my legs again before putting on my makeup

and then killing most of the afternoon modeling several fabulous

outfits for myself and the camera. Bev got home about 5:30, and I

went in to talk to her for a little while. She had talked with

Christine during the day about our visit on Saturday, and said that

Christine's greatest fear had nothing to do with my crossdressing;

Christine's immediate fear upon seeing a strange blonde woman leaving

our house when Cyndi was out of town was that I was having an

affair. She told Bev that she was very relieved to find out that I

was not being unfaithful, but that I was only a crossdresser! Bev

asked if I wanted to go out to get something to eat, since she and I

hadn't really had much of a chance to do anything together during the

weekend. I accepted her offer, and we decided to go to a nice

Italian restaurant in the mall closest to the house. I put on a

short white denim skirt and a green silk blouse with white flats and

freshened up my makeup, while Bev changed out of her work clothes

into jeans and a blouse. We drove to the mall and walked to the

restaurant, doing a little window-shopping on the way. The

restaurant was almost deserted and we had an uneventful supper, and

although I'm certain that our waitress knew there was something

different about us, she was always courteous. I asked Bev if it

bothered her to be seen in public with me, even when I didn't always

pass. She said that she didn't have any problem with other people's

attitude, and that if I didn't feel uncomfortable with a given

situation, then she didn't either. We left the restaurant and the

mall and drove home. Once there, Bev said good night and went to her

room, and I started the process of removing my acrylic nails (but

leaving my toes painted) so that I could go back to work the next day.

It didn't take long, and I finished the evening by taking off my

makeup and taking a long shower. I put on my robe and slippers and

watched TV for a while. After the news, I changed into shorts and a

tank top to walk the dogs, and then I put on my nightgown and hit the

sack.

Although my full-time femme time weekend was now over, I still

spent the remaining evenings after work at home in at least a partial

feminine mode. Bev said she had some problems with the partial

presentation; she had no problems with my full-fledged female

appearance but the in-between appearance was unsettling to her. So,

those times when I wasn't 100 percent femme, I avoided disturbing her.

Of course, I slept in a nightgown every night. Finally, after a week

of slowly winding down and disengaging from the feminine life, I took

the polish off my toes, put all the makeup and the clothes and the

shoes back in their places and picked up my wife at the airport. My

fabulous weekend was officially over, but so were my nights of

sleeping alone.

Jami Ward