Nerd level: scheduling a turtle tattoo on World Turtle Day. (intentionally)

Rough tummy morning for Rutabaga but hopefully a good snooze will help now.

Da stars are out

Yesterday the writer/creator of the middle grade graphic novel I was illustrating was informed they were canceling the publishing. Luckily we’re friends so he texted me and let me know. No one from the publisher has yet to reach out to me, the person actively working on it, to inform me.

feeling a weird sorta bittersweet way about my career today...

I would love to know what folks that actually rely on video captioning think of the insanity of single words popping on as people talk. I personally hate it cuz it means if I’m watching with the sound off wow can I not fckin blink during this 2 min video essay? It annoys me.

i desperately need to escape to the woods for about a week or so and just cleanse my soul with some nature

Påskekrim could fix me.

Spring flowers.

Damn they were woke in the 1910s. What happened…. (Oh WWI..???!)

Lololol this child’s adr cough

My dog loves making me research a sudden new ailment or new medication side effects due to new issue. Today’s new development is limping and lameness!

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

I just wanna fill my closet and home with only handmade and vintage stuff. I wanna be kinder to the planet and support artists! A cupboard full of ceramic dishes is the dream someday. For now I chip away…

Rutabaga

This Monday felt very long…

went to reorder some flowering lawn seeds only to discover the company has switched their packaging design to AI slop graphics. promptly sent a message that I would not be buying more because of that. AI manages to ruin or taint something nearly DAILY in my life and I fckin hate it so so so much

Watched "if I had legs I’d kick you" last night and idk if ive ever had such a long lingering sense of absolute depression after a movie.

i really enjoy that my job is keeping me busy and then exhausted by the end of the day that I have so little idle online time. I could do with less exhaustion though since I have a comic to be drawing after hours and I don't want to lose every weekend to that...

Rutabaga is being a champ dealing with some health issues and still always cute.

I hate that all event info for stuff I might wanna go to is on fckin Instagram posts with "link in bio" which gives me, without an account, a crazy time trying to find the information or sign up for things. can ppl please make websites again for their orgs?

Sorry for all the reblogs guys, but as of rn I wont even be making rent tmw, not just additional bills in March. 🙇🙏REBLOGS & DONATIONS SUPER APPRECIATED🙏🙇

my personality has become "depressed cuz dog is sick" and i'm sorry but i love her too much not to obsess over it

I haven’t slept in my own bed in at least 10 days cuz I’ve been on the floor or on the couch to keep an eye on our dog as she deals with her new kidney disease diagnosis and med adjustments. I don’t want her falling off the bed since her legs are weak, so she’s been sleeping floor level.

If I had time I would steal this last spot! I’ve taken Patricia’s pilot class before and came out on the other side so improved and inspired!

Margo is so smart and funny!

rechipped my front tooth as I've gotten back to nail biting in my anxiety downward spiral

Hello internet people, I'm still here. Still doing my little thing. (Still desperately looking for work)

navigating the new job on top of anxiously monitoring my poor doggo after her vet visit to figure out poops and vaccines that have her so super sore. I just want to cuddle her and now she can't even be touched. at least she loves her new prescribed food! but i am big ol' anxiety ball and so tired

normally i watch the super bowl, but last year it was agonizing to endure the gambling and ai garbage commercials. this year i expect it to be even worse so i'm just noping out completely. (plus i couldn't care less who wins between two teams I don't like.) I'll just watch bad bunny highlights later

I’m so in love with my tattoo! What are you doing right now if you’re in LA and not booking Leah for a tattoo RIGHT NOW!?!?

Today was 85 degrees. That’s a winter crime in my book.

I am so sick of AI in my face. Forced to use google workspace for my job and every time it asks me if I want to summarize something I want to put my fist through the screen. I swear I turn off everything AI but why won’t it go away!!!!!! OPT OUT OPT OUT

New early bday tattoo from the super talented “@ tiny.toad” on Insta!!!

lololol took a new "headshot" photo for new hair color and could not hide the thousand yard stare of "how is it still only january"

I’m trying to relax and not worry but man oh man my anxiety is just simmering constantly in the back of my brain.

when you need to get up for more coffee but your dog is snoring so contently next to you... i shall go without

MUTUAL AID OPP Sharing this GoFundMe for a SoCal vendor who's been detained by 🧊. I gave what I could, but also noticed that contributions have stalled. It's such a nominal amount, so if you can support (or even reshare) every little bit really does count. gofund.me/0898bb7b4

More formal announcement coming soon but: I submitted my resignation for my retail job so I can commit to tattooing & freelance work full-time. I am SO scared, but so excited. I really hope I can make it work

It’s impossible to enjoy little life wins when everything is burning down and crumbling to pieces around us. I’m so tired and angry…

my fellow millennials showed themselves today by complimenting my Wishbone shirt at the art fair. best dog

it's getting close enough to my bday (February...) that I can start planning my next tattoo! I'm trying to keep it to one or two a year and birthday tats just seem to be the perfect excuse for me!

I was watching an episode of "Murder She Wrote" about a hollywood TV writer, and her agent was being dodgey about her feature script. And when he said the Exec liked the coverage, the writer complained "the script is 200 pages!" And I was like, yeah of course no one is reading a 200 page feature!

there is a wild house on zillow that has a new wall texture on every surface and it's blowing my mind. I tried screencapping just the main offenders but it's staggering

this rain is the only thing sustaining me right now

opened the house windows for a cool breeze but now all i can smell is the delicious aroma of the taco stand around the corner. so hungry now

I miss raaaaaiiiin

Bought a lottery ticket cuz it seems like the only slim slim slim chance for any hope of survival in the long run??? Dats where da brain is right now anyways.

The Burbank butt-sniffer arrested again!