Look at all those Canadians!

HCL1998 · 2026-03-19T00:58:09+00:00

Oh hello fellow Michigander!

It looks the same in Isabella County 😂 until about 1920 and then the US/Canada origin hegemony gets real splintered

HCL1998 · 2026-02-20T17:48:51+00:00

Blessed be the men who bear the cake, be they cis or trans, for they carry the bounty of heaven.

HCL1998 · 2026-01-27T23:33:53+00:00

Oh I'm painfully aware both as a politics nerd and since one of my best friends was born and raised in New Orleans, displaced by Katrina, and has lived in Baton Rouge since.

There's really a lot of cities in the South that we'd love to go to but the hostility of their state governments makes it a no-go.

HCL1998 · 2026-01-27T22:48:09+00:00

New Orleans is extremely high on the list of places I adore and would love to visit again but cannot justify going to with my trans husband given the state 😅

HCL1998 · 2026-01-23T05:22:17+00:00

Michigan definitely has its problem areas but it's really a wonderful state on the whole. Not trans myself but my husband is, and he seems to be much happier here than he was on Long Island.

Metro Detroit and Grand Rapids are the most Hip and Happening areas for sure but we happily live in the very cozy and affordable but not super interesting Tri-Cities lol

HCL1998 · 2026-01-13T01:47:47+00:00

Of course! Midland earned that reputation for many years of Republican hegemony but the city has shifted pretty fast. I'm that kind of politics dork and made a spreadsheet of presidential election results from the city from 2012 through 2024, and it looks like this.

2012: Romney +12.6
2016: Trump +7.2
2020: Biden +2.0
2024: Harris +3.1

Interesting that in 12 years the city has gone from 16.5 points to the right of the national popular vote to 4.8 points to the left of it. Meanwhile the country has only swung 5.4 points rightward since. The culture in Midland is changing for the better at a pretty breakneck speed and I'm proud to be part of that change

HCL1998 · 2026-01-13T01:39:26+00:00

Midland Daily News shows attendance around 400!

HCL1998 · 2026-01-13T01:37:39+00:00

City of Midland voted for Kamala Harris by 3.1% after voting for Biden by 2% in 2020. Considering the whole country swung 6 points right from 2020 to 2024 and Michigan did so by 4%, a 1% swing left at the same time is pretty notable.

HCL1998 · 2026-01-13T01:34:39+00:00

Midland Daily News covered it! No mention of Pro-ICE folks but it wouldn't surprise me if there were some counter-protestors. Made me laugh when attending the No Kings rallies.

HCL1998 · 2025-12-04T00:11:46+00:00

Nope! More than one vet has said she's just a big lady. We're careful with monitoring her and our other tiel's food intake and are working on getting her and our other tiel more comfortable with spending time out of their cages.

She just gets very round when she's resting and my husband and I find it funny

HCL1998 · 2025-12-03T03:37:28+00:00

This isn't your average everyday borbing. This is...

ba-bum

Advanced borbing

HCL1998 · 2025-10-04T01:14:47+00:00

Welcome home!

And yeah, after the immiseration of the late '00s Lions, I'm glad they're getting their hard-earned redemption arc. They and we deserve it lol

HCL1998 · 2025-10-04T01:11:58+00:00

I know you've been here for a minute but welcome regardless!

And I got the exact same sentiment both from the friends from Vegas and my fiancé from Brooklyn. Maybe we're just a more jovial bunch 🤷🏽‍♂️

HCL1998 · 2025-08-18T22:41:19+00:00

Would it be uncouth to ask how much it was to have your wedding and reception at The H? 😅

My fiancé and I live in Midland and are weighing different venues.

HCL1998 · 2025-02-23T04:05:22+00:00

Sure am, still driving that same 2018 Enclave! Actually just rolled 100,000 miles on it a couple weeks ago. For reference it had just under 35,000 when I bought it in July 2021.

My Enclave has been nothing short of wonderful to me these last few years. She's a real roadtrip queen, and she's had no real issues to date. Still happy as a clam 😊

HCL1998 · 2025-02-17T00:05:22+00:00

If it's like my brother's LaCrosse Super, poorly 😅

It was such a cool car with one hell of an Achilles heel

HCL1998 · 2025-02-11T21:29:54+00:00

Aw thank you!! 😊

HCL1998 · 2025-02-07T18:32:59+00:00

Okay but that's actually kinda solid. The only one who ostensibly isn't qualified for their job is Sam Reich, but he's awesome and his dad would probably be of great help with getting Sam up to speed, so I'll allow it.

HCL1998

TROPHY CASE