You’re gonna make it through this year.

For a slew of reasons, it’s gonna be tough this year. Mostly family related.

You ever invite folks over and then all of a sudden, you’re knee-deep in a Google Hangout messaging barrage with a family member? And simultaneously on the phone reading verbatim that family member’s hangout messages to someone else who lives 2000 miles away?

If you have 70 year old chronically ill narcissistic parents you might relate.

So, at only 2 days into the new decade, I felt it appropriate to bring you this gem again:

The Mountain Goats released this anthem for all of us, the ageless anxiety ridden denizens of the planet that is literally on fire, back in 2005. The Australian Fire was not happening in 2005, but we also didn’t have an Obama presidency yet. Either way, this is an anthem that will stand the test of time. Although it’s arguable for me whether this or Palmcorder Yajna is their best song.

In any case, I was extremely hungry because I was waiting for my friend to get to my apartment so we could eat a brunch of eggs and tater tots and orange juice and other assorted things that I was attempting to use up to free up some much-needed fridge space. The lesson here: do not wait until you get jittery to eat. That is bad news. Especially when the absurdest urgent but actually not urgent phone calls and texts pour in.

The hangry-ness probably affected my ability to juggle the explaining to someone on the phone what a 70 year old was typing to me on Google hangouts with any sort of decorum. My insides are incapable of producing empathy at times like this and I just go into full blown John Cusack in the rain mode.

So, having eaten a thing and gotten the ever-so-urgent requests taken care of, we watched the truly confounding and horrible movie The Holiday (2006):

 

I won’t get into it here, but suffice it to say that Amanda and Juliet and Kari from theringer.com ‘s The Rewatchables podcast convinced me that I should check this monstrosity out. I loved the podcast episode about this movie way more than I liked the movie. My friend who is way more acquainted with rom com type flicks defended it at parts because it’s truly a nice movie.

Just coming off of the juggling of hangouts and carbs and eggs, this movie did kind of wash over me and put me in a state where I was in desperate need of a nap. But the movie is atrociously acted and written. So many good stars were in this. Kate Winslet. Cameron Diaz at the height of her powers. Jack Black as a romantic lead? Jude Law as a supposedly nice dude?

Go watch it if you’re looking for a huge puzzling mess of a movie.

Set boundaries, breathe. You’re gonna make it through this year, y’all.