Not Asheville, I’m about an hour away in Tennessee. We have grown really fast and have modeled ourselves after Asheville im some ways, but the area is much more conservative.

That’s so great!! Congratulations. I’m enjoying not being severely anemic after I had an iron infusion last month. I can actually do intense excercise and breath. Now I’ve gotta step up my game because my old routine isn’t much of a challenge anymore.

This is my summer of all the concerts. My husband and I have a ridiculous road trip planned next weekend where we go to two music festivals and two different cities in one weekend. It’s going to be a lot of driving but I can’t wait. And when we come back we have two more shows in May. We are seeing Radiohead in July…

Maybe limit yourself more though the week and have a cheat day on weekends? That worked pretty well for me, I need to get back to it. I need to lose about 20lbs now and it’s a struggle. Best of luck to you.

I love seeing your work every week so much!

Absolutely get your ears pierced with a needle, usually at a tattoo shop, not a gun. It’s only a small pinch, like a shot. Just last for a couple of seconds and then it might be sore while it’s healing. I’ve never been good at healing piercings, but most people have no problem. Just follow the after care info they…

Oh that all sounds wonderful. Free pizza is the best pizza. Congratulations on the master’s degree. I really need to get around to finishing mine one of these days.

I’m actually around for SNS!

It’s ridiculous how we’re treated sometimes. My hand is permanently damaged. The ortho doctor let his med student look at it, he hardly even looked at it or examined my fingers. He asked me if I was a drug addict when I asked about pain medicine because the urgent care didn’t give me any. He brushed it off when I…

A lot of women downplay their experiences. “Well it was that bad...” or “it’s not like what so and so went through.” I do the same thing, I feel like what happened to me was minor, to be clear it was not rape but it was sexual assault. It’s hard to admit that. I don’t think I’ve ever spoken those words out loud when…

You could do blotting the grease of your pizza next? (Serious question)

I think the Trump administration has driven a lot of us to drink these days.

I’m pretty sure Van Huss sponsered that. He’s from my area but not my representative, he is the worst I’m a state with a metric fuck ton of terrible politicians. He always get roasted all to hell online, but people keep voting for him and others like him because there’s usually no one else on the ticket.

Local dems are fighting hard, but we definitely need more state and national party support.

I can’t speak for Memphis because I’m about as far away as you can get and still be in the state, but Tennessee has a lot of good qualities too and a few more liberal voters would certainly at least help us moderate some of the batshitt that’s happening now. There’s even a little hope that Bredesen could take corker’s…

You probably won’t hear back but at least you have it a go. I need to do the same.

Speaking of...my City is trying to pass an ordinance to fine homeless people who “camp” on city property including parks, sidewalks, and our beloved farmers market pavilion. God I fucking hate this state. But I also love it for a lot of other reasons, and there’s a lot of us fighting this dipshittery. It gets tiring…

Those are beautiful! I’ll have to look into getting a set.

I’ll definitely be voting and pushing my friends to vote. I got two of the to register. Im so damn tired though. I’ve pushed myself hard the last few weeks and got well outside of my comfort zone to the point of having some serious anxiety. I went to a fancy fundraiser, did door to door canvassing twice, and spoke in…

I’m seeing him in 2 weeks, I’m so damn excited.