More from the Nola trip

Went with a bunch of friends to NOLA for the Halloween Vampire Masquerade and got some cool photos in a cemetery and the mansion they rented 👻

Smoked a massive pork shoulder the morning we got a surprise snow, 15 hour cook with plenty to vacuum seal and freeze 👏👏

Video before the candles were lit

I made a completely vegan charcuterie board for Walt’s family for xmas, the Rebel Cheese products did not disappoint 🙌

I’m back motherfuckersssss

I missed my friends on FB but as expected it’s made my mental health go VERY DRASTICALLY downhill again

Why the fuck can’t people just be kind and empathetic instead of being completely selfish bully pieces of shit

I took a whole week of PTO from work starting tomorrow for my birthday on Sunday! I’m so excited to just have seven days of doing whatever around the house haha. Last chill time before school starts up on the 18th 🥲 🥲

Update!! I added stones and a solar powered porch light 🥹🥹🥹

Someone up the street put this on the curb, so now Bean has a super fancy new dog house!! Hehe it even has a kitchen 😭❤️❤️ and lil planters out front we can put flowers in! He loves itttttt

Oh spicy oil bottle is pictured but from far away…

Finally did it 🥹 grilled one million garlic cloves ahahaha! Time to portion some for the freezer

Not pictured - cooking oil bottle with a couple chunks of ghost pepper in it (:<

Cooked a bunch of yard squash and zucchini in the garlic oil afterwards ✨

I’m super excited about these string lights for our back yard, I finally got them set up today and it makes it looks like a fairy garden 😊😊😊 they’re plugged into a dimmer too because I don’t fuck around with lighting haha it has to be perfect 🤌✨

Yard updates 🥰

•Pile of zucchini, squash, and cucumbers just picked today
•Some of our basil plants, I already made a lot of pesto yesterday
•Echinacea flowers
•Some other yellow flowers (forgot the name) that never bloomed before we had to cut the nearby tree down post Helene

Kitchen countertop with six small jars of red berry jam

We have a volunteer wineberry bush in the backyard that’s been going apeshit this year. First batch of jam was a success! I added a couple garden ghost peppers (frozen 2023) for funzies. 🔥

Who is this queen? 👑

Broadway needs to gift this woman tickets to every show for channeling millions of us.

Trump says “Les Misérables” is his favorite show.

The irony in that is not lost on me.

But this fierce woman got me fired up for this weekend’s protests.

Are you ready?🔥

#NoKings

Re: the big No Kings protests this weekend, remember that the corporate media, politicians, etc are obviously champing at the bit to be able to force a “good protestors vs bad protestors” narrative to discredit the anti-ICE/anti-genocide movement.

Do not let them. Embrace a diversity of tactics.

She fast af haha. Big upgrade from my ancient thicc Cannondale I’ve had since the more punk days 🤌 but like anything it helps starting out on a suboptimal setup and learning the hard way so you get strong quick!

Asheville NC 8:46pm license check at 191 Lyman st - River side 🐷🐷🐷

We made giant tofu spring rolls with garden herbs and nasturtium flowers ☺️ and homemade extra spicy peanut sauce ~

Gonna check these out later todayyy

Screenshot of someone’s post: “As I hoisted my own luggage into the trunk, my very polish cab driver, impressed, shouted “STRONG GIRL!! FARM??” And this is the only way I wish strange men to speak with me moving forward.”

"...and Meta has followed suit—widening the net of posts it automatically removes, and creating what can be called the largest mass censorship operation in modern history."

I finally got a new (to me) bike today! I’m so excited! Motobecane Vent Noir 2016. SO LIGHT, and WAY cheap on Craigslist! I’ve been walking to work but this will be much faster and more fun. Also pictured- a skull I found on the way home earlier this week 😀✨ aw I’ve really missed biking.

If Universal Basic Income were a drug, this evidence would force them to halt the study and put it into production immediately.

Further studies are unethical at this point, the benefits are absolute.

Uh I got Grimes 😭 this is gonna be weird

A lot of people noticed the Hands Off protests were mostly white women—and peaceful.

Isn’t it interesting how protests are peaceful when there aren’t a bunch of cops in riot gear… or white supremacist militia groups lurking around?

Listen to this…

Certain federal student aid programs are no longer available. I’m trying to go back to school this fall and no longer qualify for any assistance, no explanation. Guess it’s time to get some student loan debt. 🫠

Bridget with The Beatles on Abbey Road.

Bridget hanging out in Grant Wood's American Gothic.

Bridget in Bruegel's Hunters In The Snow (with a freshly caught mouse).

The Cat With The Pearl Earring.

A little while ago, my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the weeks dragged on, they became extremely worried. My dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time and popping up in some of art and music's most iconic scenes.