The beginning of this blog comes with a confession. After years of thinking about starting a blog, it was only after realising that one of my best friends had taken the plunge herself that I was inspired to pull my proverbial finger out and put it to better use on this fantastic swipey keyboard.
And it's more of a self help project if I'm honest. When you leave uni and the comfort of a never ending array of seemingly productive activities with which to fill your day, that day and the rest all begin to look a bit... Samey. And you start to realise with mild horror that there are so many entertaining ways to waste the precious free time you have. Those first few weeks on Pinterest felt supremely productive, collecting and hoarding ideas of things to bake and build and buy. But then you start to notice that there a lot of people on Pinterest pinning a lot of hopes and dreams, and you look through your collection of 156 thanksgiving desserts and realise you'll probably never make a single one of them. And that you'll probably spend twice as much time pinning as you ever will baking.
...Don't even get me started on Facebook.
So that's where we are.
Looking back on where I've been and what I've done thus far, it appears to be a hell of an interesting ride. Fantastic, actually. But it's easy to forget that amidst daily meetings and emails and spreadsheets and late trains and early mornings and planning and cooking and cleaning and the occasional sleep. I find myself slipping into that paralysed fear of the mundane quite a bit. So this is for the little things, the big things - the important things that will remind me of why I chose what I chose and put this new speed of life into a little bit of perspective. That's the plan anyway. I sure love making plans.
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