Hello to the entire one of you that will probably actually visit/read my blog! I've been thinking about starting a blog for a long time, and have in fact attempted one on myspace without success. I always felt like I had nothing to say that anyone who didn't know me would be interested in, but lately I'm starting to feel like I have more to say than I think. That, and work is so slow I'm bored out of my brain, and need something to do!
I've spent a lot of time lately reading the forums at http://www.stevepavlina.com/forums, and have found some really great inspirational tips, talks about bloggers etc. One of the things that keeps popping up is the 30-day challenge/trial. My understanding of it is that if you want to make a change for the better, rather than commit to the overwhelming goal of changing forever, you 'trial' the change for 30 days, and then decide wether you want to keep going with it (at which point you're already off to a good start and it's easy to commit longer term) or you decide you're better off without the change, and go back to how things were (for more info, see the forums via the above link). Anyway, I thought about this for a while, and decided that I should do a 30 day challenge. Deciding what should be my challenge was a different matter. The idea is that the challenge should bring you closer to living a life you love, and mostly I'm pretty happy with my life. I mean, I don't want to be where I am forever, but where I am is pretty good for right now. I'm making progress towards my future, and I'm pretty happy with that progress too. I have plans, they won't work the way I want them too but they'll work in a way that is better than my original idea and I'll be happy. I know from experience that this is the way my life works, and I'm happy with it - I like to think of it as my higher self at work, gently pulling the strings and setting up a suprise for me.
In the end, I decided on two things - firstly, I'm going to apply for at least one new job every day. My job totally sucks, and being bored and harrassed constantly isn't exactly helpful on the path to happiness. The second - to write one blog post every day. This helps alleviate the boredom, and lets me say the things I have to say.
So, I bet now you're all wondering 'What is it that made today the day you start blogging? What is it you have to say today?" The answer is simple. Mock cream. Yes, that fake cream that they use in cream buns they sell in supermarkets, bakeries and school cafeterias the world over. Today for morning tea, I felt like something a little sweet so headed to the bakery where I decided on a cream bun. The sales assistant asked me if I wanted mock cream or real cream. This got me thinking - what did they put in mock cream that made it better than real cream? Curiosity got the better of me (like it often does, especially when I'm bored) and when I got back to work, I googled 'mock cream recipe'.
Apparently, mock cream is mostly made of creamed butter and a bucketfull of sugar, with some variations including vanilla essence or similar flavouring. What? For those of you that don't understand my shock, think about this - isn't butter what you get if you overbeat your cream and it separates? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that butter is the fattiest part of the cream, separated and made solid for spreading on toast. I'm pretty sure most bakeries already add sugar or vanilla to their cream to sweeten it a little anyway (well, I would...) So basically, mock cream is fattier, sugarier real cream. Apparently it lasts longer, but do I really care about that if I'm eating it? Just one of those things that doesn't make sense I suppose. I should point out at this point that there is some mock cream made with the absence of butter, you just have to search far and wide for the recipe.
Well, post one on day one, 29 left to go. So far so good! Please call back again soon for more of my strange inner dialogues and wry observations. Let me know if you enjoyed this post or otherwise by leaving a comment. Thanks for dropping by.
(PS: For those people who are somewhat like myself and therefore are thinking "But did she choose the mock cream, or the real cream?", I chose the real cream. If in doubt, always go authentic!)
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