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Southern Louisianan. Cat mom. Saints and Pelicans fan. Expert napper. @loyola_NOLA alum. Former Times-Picayune editor, now in @jeffparishgov public information.

Louisiana, USA
Joined February 2009
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@restrass
Rachel
7 months
Nah, I take it back. This woman is all of us. #Saints
@restrass
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7 months
This man is all of us.
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2 years
Finger sandwiches are dangerous. Those little triangles turn into five whole sandwiches if you aren’t paying attention.
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2 years
@betterwphoebe As a Southeast Louisiana resident, I started this battle with my parents last hurricane season. Never thought I’d see the day when they refused to leave. When I tell you it is the most stressful thing ever. Oof. Thinking of you and all of your family and friends in Florida ❤️
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@restrass
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3 years
Who said disco is dead?! It’s alive and well on Metairie Road.
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@restrass
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10 months
Eighteen years and still not any easier. Over the past few years, I’ve tried to reframe my thinking about this day to focus on the helpers who selflessly offered whatever they could. I’m forever grateful.
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10 months
If you put your AC on 69 and don’t go outside, it’s kind of like fall.
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@restrass
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3 years
Does Tom Brady spend every game constantly yelling at various people?
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@restrass
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1 year
My dad is now a four-time cancer survivor who just rang the bell at Mary Bird Perkins. There’s a lot to be grateful for ❤️
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@restrass
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3 years
Starting a new job tomorrow and very much looking forward to new adventures. Cheers to change!
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@restrass
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7 months
I love sad college football fans and Alabama-Auburn did not disappoint.
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@restrass
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7 months
Last night I had a dream someone stole my car and when I was in my driveway looking for it, Billy Nungesser showed up with a propane tank and pot/burner for a crawfish boil.
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4 years
33/33. My dad did the damn thing and the bell has been rung. Time to recover and move forward. I'm so overcome with emotion ❤️ #ScrewCancer
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@restrass
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4 years
Anyone need Jesus? I found him in Covington.
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@restrass
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3 years
Has anyone created a Twitter account yet for Drew Brees’ new hair?
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@restrass
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10 months
Short hair (again), don’t care.
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@restrass
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5 years
My nails are ready for today! 🖤💛 #whodat @Saints
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@restrass
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2 years
My favorite thing so far today is this. You’re a New Orleanian now, @CGJXXIII 😂
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@restrass
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2 years
Me at 7 p.m.: I’m exhausted. Is it time for bed? Me at 12:45 a.m.: 🗣 CASH MONEY RECORDS TAKING OVER FOR THE ‘99 AND THE 2000 🎶
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@restrass
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4 years
Everyone is fighting his/her battles right now. The very least we can do is be kind to each other.
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@restrass
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10 months
*adds language to dating profile*
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@restrass
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3 years
How a born-and-raised Louisiana girl manages to screw up cooking rice every single time is beyond me, but here we are. My MawMaw would not be pleased 🤦🏼‍♀️
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@restrass
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4 years
Screw cancer. That is all.
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@restrass
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11 months
Is seasonal affective disorder also a summer thing? Because I'm convinced it's real and I have it. Anyone else in a funk? How are you getting out of it?
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@restrass
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7 months
This man is all of us.
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1 year
I may not have king cake today, but I did find a ball gown last night. Bring on Carnival season! 💜💚💛
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1 year
This is ✨36✨
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@restrass
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3 years
Just a reminder to give yourself grace during this incredibly difficult time. Spent all day in bed? That’s perfectly fine. Need to take PTO for a mental health day? Also perfectly fine. Treat yourself to what makes you happy, and remember others are struggling, too.
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@restrass
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3 years
This new Target designer collab collection is ... very questionable. I really don’t want to look like an Elizabethan candy corn.
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@restrass
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3 years
“Look for the helpers.” They’re everywhere and I’m so grateful. (Heartwarming editorial cartoon by @MarshallRamsey ) #HurricaneIda
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@restrass
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4 years
2020 feels like an internet browser with 12,000 tabs open.
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@restrass
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3 years
If anyone in the New Orleans area needs a car window replaced, I highly recommend Delta World Tire. $90 for a new passenger-side window and they were super pleasant to work with.
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@restrass
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4 years
Time to buy more brown sugar cinnamon Pop-Tarts.
@CEStephens
Christina Stephens / Blue 🌌 = christinastephens
4 years
Plan your week accordingly.
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3 years
Vaccinated people: Have you stopped going to restaurants and bars due to Delta breakthrough cases?
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@restrass
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1 year
Finally got to wear it Friday night!
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@restrass
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1 year
I may not have king cake today, but I did find a ball gown last night. Bring on Carnival season! 💜💚💛
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9 months
Y’all may be at Beyonce, but I went to a meeting with a bunch of plumbers and then came home to a power outage. Try to control your jealousy. I know it’s off the charts.
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4 years
My dad loves Whataburger, so we took a mini roadtrip to Gulfport and ate it in the car before he loses his taste. Took Beach Boulevard home and got out to enjoy the Gulf breeze. Favorite people ❤️
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@restrass
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2 years
LOL
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@restrass
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3 years
My dad adopted an outdoor cat he’s affectionately dubbed Little Buddy (we originally thought she was a he). She clearly missed him while he was out of town last week and is making up for lost time by crashing in his lap. My mom wrote this note and put it up in the window 😂
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@restrass
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5 years
I mean, I’m not saying this helped, but I lit my candle and then fake punt + first down by Taysom. #Saints
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@restrass
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2 years
Did you know that in extreme heat, the cork in a bottle of red wine can pop out and spill all over the backseat of your (freshly detailed) car? I do now 🙃
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@restrass
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1 year
Got the 129-pound box inside and assembled a damn solid particle board credenza. Taking 40 preemptive Aleve.
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@restrass
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3 years
I got dressed up and went out. It’s a rare occurrence.
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@restrass
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1 year
An oldie but goodie from my t-shirt collection.
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@restrass
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1 year
My book club is better than yours. Also, wear the swimsuit. It doesn’t matter.
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@restrass
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3 years
Finally a light at the end of this hellhole of a year. Insanely grateful. #SleevesUpNOLA
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@restrass
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2 years
Hello from the Barataria Basin, where it is very cold. But also where great things are happening for coastal restoration in Jefferson Parish! Volunteers are placing recycled Christmas trees in wave-dampening cribs and planting cypress trees. Both will help mitigate erosion 🌳🌊
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@restrass
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1 year
I’m sorry for what I said when it was hot.
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@restrass
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4 years
The mullet is definitely gone. Along with the rest of my hair 💁🏻‍♀️
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@restrass
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8 months
Happy 11th anniversary to that time I tried to make a pizza after a night of drinking.
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@restrass
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10 months
I made dinner and it was excellent. Shrimp scampi over orzo and a caprese salad.
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@restrass
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1 year
Is your normal response when you hit an epic pothole to scream into the void and then apologize profusely to your car for causing what you think is irreparable harm? Or is that just me?
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9 months
Saints are winning. Just ate gumbo. The air is crisp. Putting together this adorable pie garland. Eli Apple is getting dragged for being terrible at football. Nothing like fall in New Orleans.
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@restrass
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3 years
My mom and I tried 😂
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@restrass
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9 months
Don’t know about y’all, but my hurricane preparedness kit always has a half a million bucks in it.
@alexanderbolton
Alex Bolton
9 months
Menendez doesn't mention the gold bars but says huge cash stash found at his home ($480,000) was for emergencies: "This may seem old fashioned but these were monies drawn from my personal savings account based on the income I have lawfully derived over those 30 years."
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@restrass
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3 years
Today is my dad’s 64th birthday and I’m telling everyone because I’m so damn thankful he’s here after the year he had. We’re going to celebrate this weekend and I won’t take one second of it for granted.
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@restrass
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3 years
Please appreciate this perfectly timed picture of my cat.
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@restrass
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3 years
My landlord failed to tell me he’d be sending roofers to my place at 7 a.m. on a Sunday. Me answering the door.
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@restrass
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3 years
Goldfish and string cheese is an acceptable dinner, right?
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@restrass
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4 years
My dad has this Magic Mouthwash he rinses with to numb his mouth and throat before eating/drinking. My mom accidentally referred to it as “Magic Mike,” so I figured I’d adjust the bottle accordingly for a little levity. #screwcancer
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@restrass
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5 years
We’re running low on cat treats over here, so I’m rationing the remaining treats while I wait for the @Chewy order to arrive. If you don’t hear from me, Maggie killed and ate me in my sleep.
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1 year
There’s Dong Phuong in the office today thanks to @gghirt 🤤 I got the baby. Think I may switch things up and bring a galette des rois. Is that an acceptable move?
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@restrass
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8 years
Someone hired me! I'm the Membership and Volunteer Coordinator for the Friends of the Cabildo. Back in the museum/nonprofit setting :)
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@restrass
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2 years
Cleaned out my grandmother’s hope chest and found what we think is my great-grandmother’s (my maternal grandfather’s mom) wedding dress. Definitely handmade in a 1930s style. Gorgeous train. So sad it wasn’t preserved. Found it rolled up in a ball in a plastic grocery bag 😔
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@restrass
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3 years
We won’t be getting any sleep tonight. There’s a ladybug on the ceiling.
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@restrass
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2 years
When you’ve eaten an entire Carnival season’s worth of king cake less than a week in.
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@restrass
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7 years
@BruceFeldmanCFB @UFGATORS_WILL That is one of the most ridiculous and useless things I've ever seen.
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7 months
Hey. Hi. Hello.
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@restrass
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5 years
My bangs are back! I feel a new woman. (One who cut her own bangs for free and then went out and ate a fancy dinner, also for free. Adulting like a boss.)
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9 months
Saltwater Intrusion: Day ??? Sunburn. Dirty wind-blown hair from being on the batture. Tired raccoon eyes. Onset of pounding migraine. In desperate need of electrolytes. But onward we march (after some sleep)!
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2 years
I can handle the Huey P. and the Causeway, but driving over the High Rise will never not scare the crap out of me 🥴
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@restrass
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10 months
Just gonna start a series of me in random mascot heads.
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@restrass
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8 years
I wrote up G-Eazy for being noisy when I was an RA in the dorms. Now he's a millionaire performing with Britney on the VMAs. Joke's on me.
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@restrass
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7 years
0 days until we should stop using Comic Sans
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@restrass
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5 years
I won a thing! It’s my first PR award, so that’s cool. #SPRF2019
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6 years
Getting it done 💯
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@restrass
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4 years
I know we’re OK here but I have horrible storm anxiety today. It’s so overwhelming to see this. 15 years after Katrina and it still affects me. My aunt and uncle in Lake Charles are straight up refusing to leave and I’m terrified for them.
@NHC_Atlantic
National Hurricane Center
4 years
Unsurvivable storm surge with large and destructive waves will cause catastrophic damage from Sea Rim State Park, Texas, to Intracoastal City, Louisiana, including Calcasieu and Sabine Lakes. This surge could penetrate up to 30 miles inland from the immediate coastline. #Laura
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@restrass
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2 years
Is Only Murders in the Building worth watching? I need a new show. What do y’all recommend?
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@restrass
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4 years
Procured my favorite hurricane snack.
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@restrass
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1 year
Anyone know of a place in the metro area that services hi-fi consoles? I have my great-grandfather’s, and it could use some TLC.
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3 years
My parents still have these on their nightstands.
@SheDatWeDat
⚜️New Orleans vs Everybody⚜
3 years
Y’all had to be there 😭
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3 years
FYI: @CityOfNOLA is opening a third #COVID drive-thru testing and vaccine site at the UNO Lakefront Arena. Additionally, transportation options are available via Uber and Lyft. You can also pre-register online.
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2 years
This Humidity Makes My Hair Look Like a Rat’s Nest: A Memoir
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@restrass
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7 years
Still basking in the afterglow of Cakeup's success. Y'all helped raise $5,000+ in goods for #PuertoRicoRelief . So amazing, #TeamCakeup ❤️
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6 years
At the New Orleans Press Club Awards for the first time in nine years. I looked prettt decent and then, you know, I walked outside in 95 degree heat and melted.
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3 years
First vacation in 2.5 years. Grateful to get away from it all.
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7 years
@SeventhWard @WTAE HAHAHAHAH. Amateurs! Everyone knows you're supposed to practice in the water first 😬
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3 years
It’s #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth and I’m thankful for a new medicine my doctor prescribed. Six weeks ago I couldn’t bring myself to get out of bed most of the time. This week I’ve cooked, cleaned and run a bunch of errands.
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2 years
So it’s no longer Carnival season, but there’s leftover king cake in my house. Will I jinx the Saints and hurricane season if I eat a slice? Do I spare us all and throw it away? WHAT’S A GIRL TO DO.
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5 years
In Florida for vacation. Just asked a waitress for a frozen Irish coffee to go. She told me no. I was genuinely confused and thought she wouldn’t serve me because I look young. I sat & stared with a confused look on my face. Louisiana girl is in a foreign land of no to-go cups 🤦🏻‍♀️
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4 years
All I want to do right now is go to the Mid-City @JuansNOLA and shove a giant plate of pork nachos and several double house rocks margaritas in my pie hole. #takemeback #covidsucks
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2 years
Mom: Wait, LSU is in a bowl?! Dad: Is it the toilet bowl?
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@restrass
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8 years
Y'all. There's a @HillaryClinton sign on my street. IN OLD METAIRIE. It's a damn election season miracle! 🙌🏻 #ImWithHer
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@restrass
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8 years
You can all expect a million more photos of Maggie Moo from me because SHE DOESN'T HAVE CANCER! I've never been more relieved in my life.
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5 years
Oh hey, hurricane PTSD. I can feel you’re very much still in there.
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@restrass
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3 years
Your pet versus their namesake
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@restrass
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4 years
I got this lovely bottle of @MoetUSA for my 30th birthday and it’s been sitting in my fridge since. I guess turning 33 during a pandemic tomorrow is as good a time as any to finally pop it open.
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1 year
I baked! Ooey gooey banana bars with salted caramel buttercream.
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@restrass
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9 months
Welp. Don’t attempt I-10 West right now.
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@restrass
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4 years
We’re all crying, right? Yeah, thought so. #BlackAndGoldMonday ⚜️
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