Kelsey Jo
Humanitarian aid, wine, Afghanistan/Syria/Ukraine, writing & editing, cats, Shakespeare, travel, cheese, learning new things, coffee. Not necessarily in that order. Views shared are my own.
- Sadly, why is she surprised. Also, please hire me 🙏
- Ignoring reality for extremely short duration of this perfection
- Currently stuck due to a cat in my lap who has discovered blankets
- You forgot Iowans
- Getting some good rare Lily cuddles
- Finally made it home and the girls missed me 🥰
- Finallyyyyyyy - and my bag even made it, too!
- Heading out for day 2 of trying to get home 🫠🤦♀️🤷♀️
- So far we’re 6 hours delayed 😫
- Really really really hoping my flight to DCA doesn’t get canceled 😱❄️
- Not a terrible location from which to have a job interview 🤣
- In Baltimore for a job interview, wish me luck 😫
- First time taking the metro for weeks, if not months. It feels weird.
- Reposted by Kelsey JoAt what ease Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear against you? Such things have been done.
- I definitely didn’t have the war starting in Minneapolis on my 2026 bingo card 🤔
- Lily in a box
- The girls got a very scary new toy for Christmas 🤣
- The girls are less scared now 😂
- It is a very rainy day and I am loving the ish out of it #DC
- So far today I have: finished Stranger Things, been rejected from a job, drank an entire bottle of wine, cried over Minneapolis, and nearly started a fire in my apartment. It has been a day and I want it to end.
- Reposted by Kelsey Jothe government is telling you not even unarmed nice white lady moms surrounded by stuffed animals are off limits, and I’m sorry but: that is an extremely terrifying.
- I’m starting to understand what it’s like to have your best days in your past, and for the first time I can seriously empathize with people who peaked in high school and have to live the rest of their lives with that reality
- Okay, I am judging Nancy hard for hating The Clash
- I’m about halfway through season 5 of Stranger Things, and Dustin and Steve are breaking my heart 😭
- Anyway, here’s my sister’s cats being weird little guys bc I don’t want to think about this shitshow any longer
- Jesus Mary and Joseph, guess it’s war with Venezuela after all 😧🤦♀️
- Stuck in family holiday nightmare and I can’t go home for an additional day because of the stupid weather, save me 😭😩
- We went with the nephews to see the Harlem Globetrotters, it’s pretty entertaining
- Molly is less terrified of me finally, but she is still not quite sure 😂
- She has started jumping into the chair on her own to sit when I’m there though, so that’s pretty significant progress 😁
- Reposted by Kelsey Jolet me shun that!
- I still have to survive a week at my parents’ house before the misery of a 15-hour drive and then the freedom of arriving back home 😭
- Reposted by Kelsey JoMuch like the recent ISIS strikes, you Americans have killed a lot of sand. The sand was very evil
- Thank god another Christmas is over and done with. I find it much less stressful to ignore it completely in another county than to spend it with my family
- Reposted by Kelsey Jofamily: when are you getting a job? me:
- Reposted by Kelsey JoThe original Ukrainian lyrics of the "Carol of the Bells" are not about Christmas or bells, but about welcoming the New Year and foretelling prosperity and a plentiful harvest. This is my favorite adaptation, which captures tension, hope and excitement. www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Gt...
- Growing up, multiple people told me that I’d make a good spy because no one ever notices me. Surprisingly, not a single one ever realized quite what a backhanded compliment that was
- Obligatory annual family viewing of the best Christmas movie ever
- So far Mina has settled in fairly well. Lily, meanwhile, has found a rip in the box spring and is now living inside it 🤣🤦♀️
- First night here and Mina already figured out how to turn the light on my bedside lamp on and off 🤣🤦♀️
- 😱😱😱😱
- The cousins have gotten significantly floofier and chunkier
- The cats and I are off to Wisconsin for the holidays, by way of Virginia
- Hero
- The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
- Fangs
- Turns out these two have worms *and* Giardia 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
- Woke up to find another vomit puddle + worm this morning, so the cats are going back to the vet despite just being there a week ago 🤦♀️🙇♀️
