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Every day all day

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Fuck yeah! Gotta love the folks down at NWCS!!

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EXPLORING PIKE PLACE MARKET TODAY

Here’s lookin’ at you, @jaggedlens

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It's been over a month since we've settled here in Washington. Renton has become our home, and things are finally settling down. I am occasionally plagued by feelings of intense dread on a semi daily basis, but I am confident that things can, and will get better. I'm dropping another resume off to another dispensary tomorrow. The first few attempts at finding a job in the industry fell flat, but as I've been saying a lot lately, third time's the charm. As for what I've been up to? Working at a quirky little hotel, and spending my off time getting fucking stoned off my gourd, and jamming to my boy Mac Demarco. Oh, before I forget! In order of appearance: THC-A Crystalline by Dabstract "The White" sugar resin by Oleum Dutch Treat Shatter by Slab Mechanix And finally, my sparkly clean cyclone perc rig by Headdies Ithaca! Tldr: moved to Washington. Life is good.

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Calculating the perfect jump.

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HAZYHUNNY’s 420 giveaway!

In order to enter, you must:

🏃 Be following me 🔞 Be 18+  🔄 Reblog this post (every reblog counts as an entry, but no giveaway blogs, and don’t spam your followers!)

That’s it!

The giveaway includes:

🍯 Honey oil rig ⚱️ 420 Science stash jar 🐝 Little bumble bee zip up bag 🌴 Honey coconut body butter 🚿 Lush’s It’s Raining Men  🍭 Candy scented candles 💡 1 Color changing light bulb

I’ll choose a winner with an automated generator. I will only ship to the US🇺🇸 and Canada🇨🇦

If this post gets more than 4,200 notes, I’ll add a second prize!

Giveaway ends midnight on 4/19

Winner will be announced on 4/20!

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HAZYHUNNY’s 420 giveaway!

In order to enter, you must:

🏃 Be following me 🔞 Be 18+  🔄 Reblog this post (every reblog counts as an entry, but no giveaway blogs, and don’t spam your followers!)

That’s it!

The giveaway includes:

🍯 Honey oil rig ⚱️ 420 Science stash jar 🐝 Little bumble bee zip up bag 🌴 Honey coconut body butter 🚿 Lush’s It’s Raining Men  🍭 Candy scented candles 💡 1 Color changing light bulb

I’ll choose a winner with an automated generator. I will only ship to the US🇺🇸 and Canada🇨🇦

If this post gets more than 4,200 notes, I’ll add a second prize!

Giveaway ends midnight on 4/19

Winner will be announced on 4/20!

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Imagine: my paycheck being enough to cover bills and fun things

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Life in Washington has been interesting so far. About a month has passed since pat and I made landfall here, and it's been a stressful whirlwind of trying to find jobs, and shuffling from shitty Airbnb to shitty Airbnb. I have started my second week of work as a hotel desk agent, and it's pretty alright. It's enough to get started. Pat is getting confirmed for an electronics store, and once he is we can finally begin to search for an apartment. One month down. It's getting there.

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I think it was at this moment where I realized that things really were real. That I was indeed further away from home than I had ever been with no intention of coming back. I miss home, and the people I love and loved. The life I left behind was colorful, and full of friendships. Now I feel a bit lonely when I wake up, and occasionally I've thought I was waking up at home. I just keep reminding myself that there is an end to all of this, and I'll really be starting my new life soon. Peace and love.

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Outta here

Tomorrow is it. Tomorrow I’m gone.

NY no more.

PNW LIFE

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The Road Ahead

My time in New York is coming to a close.

Twenty four years here seems like far too long, yet seemingly not long enough. There are so many people, and places that I’ve come to know and love. I find myself being hit by intense waves of nostalgia for a time that has long since been gone. Things like my first mushroom trip, late night debauchery as my friends and I explored what it meant to be reckless youth. Relationships both bad, and good. I look back at it all with a very bittersweet fondness.

It’s time. Oh yes, it is time. Time to start over and reinvent myself. Time to become the best version of the person I’ve wanted to be for so long. 

See ya later. Or maybe not.

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We are all beautiful

I’m sitting here, listening to old Bill Hicks specials, and maybe it’s because of viceland’s damn catchy commercial, or maybe the poignancy of the words, but we are all beautiful, and I want to experience that beauty. I want the human experience. Not the one sequestered behind tiny screens, and filters. Not the one that involves interacting with others solely because we are where we are.

I want to explore. Live peacefully, and love freely. I want to see the sun, and think of nothing else but how beautiful the world is. I want be the flowers, and the trees, and the earth, and the moon. I want to swim in an ocean of experiences. Mine, yours, his, hers, theirs. 

Most of all, I want all you beautiful people to do the same. Create! Imagine! Be who you wanted to be when you were a child, or something even better! Don’t give up on the world. Don’t be afraid! After all: “It’s just a ride, and we can change it any time we like” 

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Poltirant

Over the past few weeks I’m sure we’ve all felt a wave of collective nausea as the dust has settled, and the final punches thrown. If any of you are like me (and I fancy myself a rather “status quo” kind of person) then you’re probably asking “Holy shit, how did we get here, and what can we do to fix it?”. After stewing with the thought of the next four years looming over my head the answer came to me by way of Kool and the Gang:

We don’t wanna sit down, we wanna get up”.

Get up. Which is exactly what many of us didn’t do. We should all feel a profound sense of disappointment in our peers who voted for third parties in swing states, and especially for the 15,000 special individuals who decided TO VOTE FOR A DEAD GORILLA. Then there’s the apathetic demographic who decided that their vote didn’t matter, and they could just as well stay home. If there was any way to make your vote really not count it’s not doing anything. Even if the electoral college exists, it’s up to us to ensure that we still have a voice no matter how small it may seem. When the time comes for a new system to take its place we have to be ready to make sure we all get up, and make the changes we want to see.

Get out. Take to the streets. Fight back. Be heard. 

Do this any way you can. One new supporter is the spark that can ignite a revolution.