FNC - Unbothered. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

Emily Writes

12 Dec 2025 — 6 min read

Welcome to Friday Night Chats! I am so excited to chat with you. My break was so so good. I loved it, and I am so much happier. Truly, all I needed was to dance with my friends. And then I thought the transition back to Real Life would be tricky - but then Neon released Nathan For You, and it is so perfect that I think it's cured my burnout/life/anxiety/depression? Anyway, let's chat!

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I feel like Nathan For You is genuinely incredible TV. I laughed so hard at the petrol rebate episode that I cried. I really cried. It is the best, weirdest TV.

Also, I watched Heated Rivalry four more times. This is very normal behaviour, I think?

I think maybe we're all losing the plot a little bit with the end of the year hurtling toward us. Next week, my eldest will finish intermediate, and my youngest will finish primary school. It's huge! And it's also not?

We will celebrate in some way or another. For now, I want to make sure I don't forget anything I'm meant to be doing.

Next week is going to be pretty brutal. My youngest is being sedated for a blood test, which is never pleasant. I am seeing a periodontist, and though they won't do anything painful to me, it will be painful seeing how much it's going to cost to get my teeth fixed. And it's school prize-giving. Endlessly grateful my youngest never gets prizes, because sitting through more than one two-hour prize-giving is more than enough.

Then it's sleep in time!

So, my focus this week is being GRATEFUL! Things I'm grateful for:

All of you lovely people.
I had a crisis that my post about AI stealing my books was too self-absorbed. And then after publishing, I started reading the comments and cried. They were so so so lovely.
$11 Mi Piachi slides!
I got near-new, leather, perfect in my size Mi Piachi slides for $11 at my local op shop!
My boy's amazing CV.
My ten-year-old wants money, and I suppose he got tired of hearing 'well, you need a job' because he made this, and I think it's the best CV ever haha.

What are you grateful for?

What is the secret skill you'd put on your CV? Mine is: Knows all the words to Silver Springs and can do a very passionate interpretive dance to it.

What I'm reading:

I finally got around to opening Patricia Lockwood's Will There Ever Be Another You. It is so beautiful. She's just such an incredible writer. And I'm so grateful that there's a book out there that covers one person's experience of Long Covid so deeply and intensely. She really is astounding.

Help Me Hera: My closest friends don’t read my blog - This is deeply strange to me because I feel very stressed when I think of people I know reading my writing lol (I of course love it when people say - "I loved that post" - but that's the most I want to talk about it in my offline life haha).

I'm gutted this is behind a paywall, because I have wanted to write about it for ages and I'm so glad someone finally did: Powerful Men Are Using Neurodivergence As a Smokescreen. This is what people do with David Seymour here.

What I'm watching:

As I said, Nathan For You and Heated Rivalry on Neon. Also on Neon now is Key and Peele, which is so silly (and yes, sometimes it has poorly aged), but it's good fun (if you don't think about it too much haha).

And I rewatched a few episodes of Overcompensating with friends. I had already seen the series, but it was a fun re-watch.

I'm looking forward to watching Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery on Netflix - it comes out tonight.

Plus there's The Devil is Busy - a documentary about abortion providers facing anti-women protestors.

And I'm very excited about Robby Hoffman's special Wake Up. Which is very much at the other end of the spectrum! Robby is the domme from Dying for Sex and also Internet Icon and star of Celebrity Traitors Gabby Windey.

I've also been watching some clips about detecting AI - looks like it's going to be an uphill battle.

Also I am having to watch my cat because honestly look at this jerk:

What I'm listening to

I started Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen by Peter Apps, and wow - the first ten minutes. I sobbed in my car and had to pull over. It's absolutely harrowing. I really think everyone should listen to it.

Other than that I've been trying to listen to poppy, happy music to keep my mood up. So that means no more depressing podcasts. Just ABBA and Robyn.

What are you reading? Watching? Listening to?

This time of year I start to get emails asking for my Christmas balls story haha. So here it is - ready for you to share if you enjoy it x

I hope you have a wonderful weekend. I am so grateful you’re here with me! X