#kelsium

[ackb]

Love you, K. All the best everything to you.

[jumblejo]

To explain why that last post is a picture of an iPad screen instead of a straight post to tumblr:

@kelsium’s thoughts on a guar struck me as SO HILARIOUS that I screengrabbed it two years ago (literally Aug 2014 if you’re curious) on my old iPad and came across it again today. But my iPad is so old/working so slowly that it froze every time I tried to even open the frickin app soooo never mind sad picture-of-a-screen time it is.

kelsium you bring sunshine to my life and also make me wheeze from laughter at your quirky word pictures.

[brostateexam]

kelsium replied to your post: anyway I just bought 5 umbrellas

I went to Marshall’s today, decided against all the work clothes I tried on and liked because “what if I get fired my first week or something” and then went and spent the same amount of money I WOULD HAVE spent on the work clothes on candles and bralettes.

this is self-care

ps: this blog is always a safe space to talk about candles I fucking love candles

[chiquorinha]

bout day

sleep was bad last night, but i’m staying positive and feeling good about the evening to come.  double excited because @kelsium agreed to volunteer at the merch table, so even though logan and the minis are not here (band competition tonight), i’ll have at least one awesome person rooting me on.  

[jumblejo]

You guys remember the glorious triumph that was Dhoom 2?

Have y'all seen Bang Bang yet? This movie is exponentially better than the trainwreck that was Knight & Day.

[jakke]

kelsium replied to your photo:The percentage of women in their so-called prime...

I doubt this accounts for it big picture, but I know far more discouraged workers who are women than men. A lot of women who took short periods of time out of the workforce to act as a caregiver not necessarily to a child, but to an elderly or ill relative and then found it difficult to re-enter. Or left a job to follow a partner’s job prospects and could not find work. Or simply never found a job and thought shit may as well have a baby.

This is a really bleak but sensible story to explain the US data, for sure. But it’s difficult to reconcile this story with the different trajectories in Canada and the United States over the last fifteen or twenty years, because we’d think the social norms about women being expected to leave the labour market for caregiving or for following a partner would be pretty consistent between Canada and the United States. That’s why the article points at parental leave policies, which are more comprehensive in Canada in terms of duration and pay and job protection for absent employees.