This is my dear friend Summer and her husband James, they lost a lot of their assistance this year and are struggling to get by month to month. They're super good people and I love them! I would appreciate a share or help if you have the ability!

In 2014 I did a photo project that I paired with quotes, I have been going through and putting all the quotes in one place as a distraction and they're so good! Words are magical.

Not an actual interaction: I was on a flight with Kirstie Alley and she had a live rabbit with her. It was like she wanted to be approached, there was a line in the gate waiting area to pet her rabbit. I didn't do it but kind of regret it because she was letting everyone pet her rabbit!

Sometimes when I'm standing around the kitchen stirring pots and moving from task to task, I fantasize about being on a unicycle

It's nice to see all the kids out playing in the neighborhood, a thing I have loved about both townhouse communities I have lived in is how we all kinda share a yard and we aren't dicks about it

our lady of perpetual sad sacks of potatoes

Oak Tree Books and Scott Dingman were a big part of my childhood, wild to read what happened with the store and Scott after we sold our bookstore in the mid-90s and fell out of touch. I got most of my childhood Nancy Drew books here.

You really don't have to read very much news at all to feel absolutely devastated all the time

Escaping for a little bit into a Sims 4 Legacy. I've never really done one (I was big into the Sims Livejournal scene, in the Sims 2 and Sims 3 days) and I'm rusty as heck but it has been nice to spend a couple of hours playing with my dolls a few times a week.

Most of the good stuff lately has been food.

Past couple of months, existing

Being scared and sad all the time is really wearing me down

I'm tired

Today in an attempt to have control over anything at all, I went to moisturize my face, and my lotion wasn't there. Because it was still packed from our Oklahoma trip. Because I haven't moisturized my face since November.

Not posting on Instagram anymore but I have been posting f&f only on Flickr again flickr.com/photos/47864..., posting my daily happy photos and other positive photo stuff here: @homemade-happiness.bsky.social, Tumblr a bit rachelakelso.tumblr.com?source=share, and my website/blog: rachelakelso.com

Panicked so much today my Fitbit told me I need to take a break because I'm at risk for overtraining 😂

Womp womp our pipes froze last night 😭

Picture @jennysaisquoi.bsky.social took of me when I was five, I had just been performing Sweet Transvestite in my hand-me-down black cat sweater and frilly-butted underpants

Got all my old phone photos backed up and found this picture I took of a childhood guided journal. This is fine.

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“Holy smoke!”

David Lynch taught me that the things I make can be as weird as I want them to be and I don't have to explain them to anyone which is the most beautiful feeling

If you need me I will be here

Fix Your Heart or Die: The Startling Empathy of David Lynch

Still feeling like I'm only halfway here...

I'm so excited about this winter storm

Just thought you should know. Norse and Danish mead-horns sometimes had feet.

I didn't send Xmas cards this year because depression but I need you all to know I love you and wish you holiday cheer!!!

Not sure if I'm just extremely burnt out or I have a cold or I'm bored or I'm hungry

Hungry and stuck in traffic looking up the menus of all the restaurants we are passing

I'm really proud of this one, I love my family so much

I wish there were drafts here so I could have a visitable void to send all the super depressing things I say and never post

Attempting to avoid sitting down and doom scrolling I just realized I am, instead, standing up and doom scrolling

The end of October!

I love bath bombs with dried flowers in them because it looks like you're bathing with lil bits of dried meat

The thing on Instagram where some influencer has posted something that was actually prompting thoughtful human responses to which their reply bot responds "the link to buy is in your DMs!"

I’ve Had a Rough Year, Dad: The Unbearable, Beautiful Messiness of One Line in Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums

Use a gif to show where you're from

Decided I should start making a world of my own

Post your most popular art from Twitter. Okay. This was my guy.

Feels like I'm worried about things at every level, worried about you, worried about them, worried about me

Just pretty much frozen with anxiety at the grocery store, only got Brussels Sprouts and left

Trying to have a good time with our families for 2 weeks because that's all we get with them every year but I have all this anxiety and nowhere to cram it

Nice things I saw today

Pretty surreal to be lounging in a hotel in Indiana after a day of crying as we drive through the rain

I'm very very sad, but tomorrow I get to hug my mama so that's something

Getting the decorations out and watching an especially cheesy Hallmark Christmas movie

We voted by mail over a month ago and can see that our ballots have been received so now I just have to pack up and get ready for a trip today and tomorrow I'm decorating for Christmas and then the next two days I'll be in a car all day so at least I have a lot of distractions this week!