“We lost a whole year of our hot young lives”
In which the Throbbers review the last (godforsaken) year and discuss intentions and goals for 2021.
New year, same pandemmie.
Where do we go from here?
What if 2020 never ends? (By the time we are writing this it did, in fact, end, whee.)
We are truly depressed with the loss of a year that could have been full of doing hot girl shit, getting to fully appreciate new jobs, or, hell, just having a job at all.
Lucy is very much hopeful that she will be able to just fucking do her job again, hopefully by the tail end of the new year.
Gina points out that this is a she-cession. (That’s a recession that is specifically bad for women, not something similar to a she-shed, as we all originally thought.) Super depressing because a lot the jobs that are lost are jobs women hold, and also they are being chosen to become caregivers instead of working. Shit sucks, man.
Here are some articles all about it!
NYT – Why Some Women Call This Recession a ‘Shecession’
Forbes – […]Focus Should Not Be On Husbands
BBC – Why this recession disproportionately affects women
Lucy is incredibly grateful that some coworkers and supervisors actually pulled together some money for their staff that was actually significant and she was reminded that humanity doesn’t totally suck.
Kelly was asked during an annual performance review what some of her biggest obstacles this year were and she really had to think about it. Did anything bad happen this year? (Or was it all just Mike in Marketing?)
But really, fuck Mike in Marketing, that guy sucks.
Sissel doesn’t like making goals but it’s her turn so…
Sissel hopes to get to go somewhere else that isn’t in her state in late 2021!
Brief sidebar while we all stare at Sissel’s chromecast tv backgrounds which feature a travel friend, who looks like both Rebecca Black and Megan Markle? Somehow?
Speaking of Rebecca Black, she has bounced back from Friday! She has a totally new look, and makes fun TikToks! If Rebecca can survive Friday and come out cool on the other side, we can survive this pandemic! Right?
Hannah is hoping to use her 5 year sabbatical in 2021…because she literally has to. (Rude)
She’s been wanting to go to Iran for awhile, which becomes much less daunting without a Trump Presidency. She gets a whole 6 weeks, but she will probably split it because she feels like she can’t be away that long. Her role and team are severely understaffed, which sucks, and means she can’t really feel like she can take time off.
Hannah is also not a goal setter, and she dislikes the term resolution.
Gina is not a fan of “resolutions” per se. Her method is to just do more or less of something and not set yourself up for some big lofty goal that you won’t achieve. For 2020, she wanted to cook more, and she was fairly successful.
Kelly likes having more concrete goals, but likes the idea of an intention, rather than a resolution.
Hannah’s theme for the new year is Wellness:
- Mental
- Physical
- Societal
- Financial
- Emotional
Which might, sadly, mean impulse buying fewer things on Etsy in an attempt to fill the gaping hole in your life with capitalist indulgence. Sigh.
Gina wants to appreciate all the things she can actually do this year.
She doesn’t really know when things will be “safe” enough to be out in crowds, but there is an “end” in sight, so she wants to appreciate the things about this lockdown that are nice and good. Baking, reading, being in her home and enjoying the good things.
But also this is a Sex Podcast!
Gina, therefore, also wants to try and date more seriously and be more discerning about who she’s willing to be around.
After some necessary tension relief bangs, of course.
Maisie wants to find someone to date in the new year.
She wasn’t present for this recording, so we don’t have any nuance on this, but we’ll take a wild guess and say she wants to try giving dating more of a regular, and intentional, try.
(But also, dating in a pandemic is weird and annoying and it’s easy to find reasons not to do it in this coming year.)
But fuck the Gregorian calendar! Kelly says let’s do the Celtic Pagan calendar year!
Kelly has gotten more into the witchy calendar, and the holidays that go with it. So for 2021 on Samhain, she’ll visit a graveyard; on Beltane, she’ll do hot girl shit and light a bonfire; on Lughnasadh, she’ll bake some bread. She just wants some concrete things to do to break up the time soup.
Gina has some very specific New Years plans to get drunk and fill out this little book that her friend gave her to write in so her daughter would have something to read about her mom. This daughter was born during the time of Great Plague and it feels very pertinent to write about this shit for when the kid grows up and is curious.
Hannah then tries just get out of her duty of writing a haiku. We will not abide this!
We talk a bit more about our sex drive, or lack thereof. Is this still a sex podcast? Who’s to say.
Anyway, the Throbbers finally have their haiku and ride off into the sunset of 2021. What will this year bring? We are scared to find out.
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