History Class

Why, hello there!

You know what? I signed up for this blog a very long time ago. Years ago! I had stumbled across food-blogs and thought - hey! That looks like fun! I bet I can do that too!

Incidentally, I was wrong. I didn't have the time or patience. That's a lie, I had plenty of time. I guess I suffer from that horrible illness called procrastination. You know, the one where that little voice inside your head says, "I don't need to do anything today, I mean, I've got the blog haven't I? When I'm ready, I'll go get creative and do something with it."

And that's when I forgot all about it and this blog has sat here, abandoned and unloved for God knows how long (I'm too lazy to even go and check).

I'm not saying I'm not creative, on the contrary, I consider myself to be quite creative. I'm not exceptionally creative because I still suffer from procrastination but I like to dabble in photography and stuff (now you know I must be creative; I used the word stuff...). And I did actually bake and try and take pictures but let's get serious for a second - after months of drooling over the food-porn created by Bakerella, my photos sucked. Trust me, the photographer within me was too ashamed to upload any of that crap. I decided that I would just stick to eating my baking and not worry about photographing it.

And therein lies the problem. The fundamental flaw. Even I was aware that a food-blog is almost completely redundant without brilliant photos for readers to gaze at admirably. Without photos, doesn't that just make it a recipe? And as much as I love recipes, that wasn't what I had set out to do. I wanted something more. As a result, my blog wilted away until it became another waste of cyber-space.

Until now.

You see, I'm not only older and wiser (hahaha!) but I've got a bit of paper to prove it. This summer, I graduated from University and let me tell you this; I'm not missing Uni at all. Don't get me wrong, I loved Uni and I loved learning and I'm so incredibly ecstatic that I passed and have all those experiences under my belt, but I like to think of my life as a book. A book with chapters. University was a nice big four year chapter that I enjoyed writing (metaphorically) but now that it's done, I'm moving happily onto my next chapter.

So, what is this next chapter?

At the moment, I'm not sure. I took a leap of faith and decided to move to Helsinki in Finland to be closer to my sister who moved here almost two years ago to be with her boyfriend (which is a beautiful story in and to itself!). I have ideas about what I'd like to do here, creative ideas that I'd like to pursue now that I've got a lot more free time on my hands. I was sitting in my room here in Helsinki, wasting some more time (damn procrastination!) when somewhere in the back of my mind remembered that dusty old blog account I'd set up all those years ago.

Hey! I thought. Maybe I should write an *actual* chapter about my time here!

You mean, you don't want to use it as a food-blog? I thought back.

No, that venture is dead and buried. I think I'd like to see where simple blogging takes me.

After a little while trying to remember my password, I managed to sign in and figure out how to write a post.

This is what I churned out.