This morning I am talking to my dear friends the Keanus and we are talking about how pornhub took 19 days to get 50 million viewers. I mean what ? Mrs. Keanu (who is my inspiration for everything btw) said that when she posted something about Netflix and Chill she got loads of responses. She is highly intelligent and posts incredibly provocative and interesting things and yet it’s Netflix and Chill that caught people’s attention. Which made me conclude people are dumb. End of. Or are we? Are we so tapped out by life and all of it’s crazy demands, the never ending admin ( Errand Paralysis), the constant stream of bad news, the relentless struggle just to buy toilet paper and the not seeing our loved ones that we just can’t think anymore. We cant engage with anything in a meaningful way. Today I have the day off and normally I would fill my day with amounts of laundry, cleaning, general admin and then maybe just maybe a cup of tea at 2pm before I go pick up the kids. But this morning I woke up and I genuinely told my husband I am doing nothing today but watching Netflix. I haven’t even read the news because why bother? I know we will be in the toughest tier. I know I have to decide between seeing parents and inlaws over the holidays and potentially killing them with our latent, asymptomatic covid. Life is hard man. Life is a grind. Let us watch pornhub if we want. Let us just do nothing for one day and watch Netflix. Let me read my trashy novels about cupcakes. it brings me joy. So today I am ignoring my anxiety about doing nothing ( The Struggle Is Real.) I have already made my second cup of coffee, parked myself on my sofa that desperately needs a hoover, closed my laptop and switched on the tv. This is where you will find me for the whole day. If you want to drop off some brownies go ahead.
