NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS, PREDICTIONS & WHAT CAN STAY IN 2020

RESOLUTIONS

1. Write Everyday - Some days, writing can feel like sweating - an involuntary and bodily response to stress or heat that just flows out of me and onto a page. On days like that, it feels good and necessary and easy. It pours and cools me off and when it's over, I'm a better version of myself. But those days are few and far between, and the only way to push past the days when it feels hard is to just...do it anyway. Even if it's just a labored sentence or two.

Likelihood I’ll Keep This Resolution: 8/10

2. Start My Wardrobe Over - I am a girl who still has dresses and tops from Forever21circa 2008 hanging in my closet...and yes, I still wear them. It must end. It simply MUST. Even though I will probably be staying in my home until the end of time, or at least the end of 2021, I vow to revive my closet, piece by piece.

Likelihood I’ll Keep This Resolution: 8/10

3. Watch Gilmore Girls In Its Entirety - If I had to choose the pop culture blind spot that gives me the most FOMO, I'd have to pick Gilmore Girls. More than Grey's Anatomy, more than the Housewives, more than Game of Thrones, the ladies of Stars Hollow (I mean, Stars Hollow!? Whatta name) make me really feel like I'm missing out on something special. I'm gonna finish the series this year in the hopes that I'll finally understand what all the fuss is about.

Likelihood I’ll Keep This Resolution: 6/10

4. Dabble In Italian - Ciao! I've already ordered my beginner's Italian workbook, so stay out of my way, bella! It's happening! Much to my Italian husband's dismay, I will be attempting to learn Italian, the language and the accent, in 2021. I figure Spanish is a lost cause (I took it all through high school and college and still never grasped it) and French is too hard, so Italian it is.

Likelihood I’ll Keep This Resolution: 5/10

5. Potty Train (My Child, Not Myself) - Lord have mercy on me.

Likelihood I’ll Keep This Resolution: 10/10

PREDICTIONS

1. The movie industry is going to return to the romantic comedy en masse as a way to escape the terrors of 2020 and MCU fatigue.  

2. Taylor Swift will unleash a third album as part of a witchy trilogy a la the 'Woodvale Trilogy' theory that of course includes folklore and evermore. My guess for the third album's title? cottagecore

3. Leonardo DiCaprio is going to get engaged. I just feel like this is the year. It's either this, or Emma Stone announces a pregnancy. Somehow in my mind, these things catalyze each other.

4. The Kardashians will launch some sort of iteration of KUWTK on Hulu, but package it as something totally different.

5. HAIM's Women in Music Pt. III will win Album of the Year at the GRAMMYs, fingers crossed!

THINGS THAT CAN STAY IN 2020 (besides everything)

1. Coronavirus

2. Any movie/TV show/book that fictionalizes the coronavirus - it's too soon

3. Quibi. RIP.

4. Commercials featuring Zoom or FaceTime as a way to connect

5. The word "unprecedented"