I’ll be the first to admit, routine and structure are important to me. Unfortunately, my brain is like a microchip, and the tiniest grain of sand throws me off my game. My goal for tonight was to do my nails (forgot that my self-care routine puts nail care on Wednesdays, and hair masks are for Tuesdays — took care of that last night, thank you), flat iron my hair, do my laundry, read, take a bath to soothe my muscles, and exfoliate.
And then… I turned on Netflix. Started a new show called “You.” Gossip Girl is a stalker, a sociopath, I would guess. Chasing after a girl. My only problem is that this dude is pretty cute and super charming. Like THAT is a guy who needs to stalk and obsess over a girl. I mean okay, Ted Bundy was apparently dreamy and girls were all too willing to help him load something into his car. And it doesn’t help that Zac Efron is playing him in a movie this year.
I want to look up reviews for this show and see what other people thought of it, but I kind of want to not know? I want to decide my every opinion. Reviews for movies started meaning less after they gave “What a Girl Wants” a shoddy review, and THAT was a cinematic masterpiece.
I feel like I’m not supposed to like this character, Joe Goldberg, but he’s smart, well-read, looks after a little kid who lives in his apartment building, and is slowly removing the toxic people in the girl’s life because she’s a twenty-something who doesn’t know how to do that for herself yet. And yeah, she needs to GET TO THAT PART OF HER LIFE ON HER OWN, JOE, but he is being helpful. I’ve wanted to get rid of my friends’ trashy SOs when they wouldn’t take the initiative to do it themselves.
Ugh, I probably sound like the girls who swooned over Bundy during his trial. When he was on trial. For MURDER.
I swear, I’m usually more principled. I’m going to have time to get everything done tonight that I wanted to accomplish, it’ll just be rushed.
Unless this episode has a cliffhanger. Then my whole Thursday is going to be off after I’m up till 3 AM watching the rest of this show in one foul swoop.
Unless I go a full 24 hours without sleep and go to the gym right after I finish the show. I think I have another two years to pull that move off with some justice.
Except I feel like I need a full 18 hours of sleep.
Someone find me a timeturner. Or a book written by a pro on how to live a 36 hour day in 24 hours.