An Obvious Blog

[Mr.Obvious]

Journal entry : 1
11/5/18

In light of the suggestion made by our dear Deirdre, and in following with the feedback given by the mods regarding said suggestion, I've decided to start up a blog.
Feel free but not obliged to respond. I will be posting all my entries into this one thread. The larger font size is therefore not just to fuel my own ego, which is already bloated. (Hey, I'm writing a blog, it has to be at least somewhat.) It will also help distuinguish, should any of you actually leave your two cents. So much for the intro.

As I sit down to actually write my first passage, it strikes me how much trouble I have. Not trouble for finding the words to say something. That has never been a problem, I tend to talk a lot in real life. Sometimes, I think, too much. But instead, trouble for finding something to use the words for.
There are many things that have come to pass in my life, however. I've rather recently finished renovating a house. My girlfriend and I moved in, for the first time. I tried for a new job. I failed getting that job. The play I directed has now been presented and received. The teams at work are to be rearranged soon...

And all of these things, though interesting to me, are things that happened prior to this blog. I'd only decided to make it yesterday, so I feel I shouldn't dwell on anything before then.A blog is already a window into the past as much as it is a journey through the present. I should aim to at least keep a stop on that, on one end. Besides, another problem is that while these things were interesting to me, I'm not certain they would mean much to you or anyone else. Not inherently. In fact, they are quite mundane things, looked at through the eyes of another.

So, let's start in the here and now. Even if it is small. It'll be small for the both of us, if anyone is still there. And we'll see if it can grow.
So what have I done since I decided to write down my wonderous adventures?
I've mowed the lawn, went shopping for pants and t-shirts with the gf, checked our gas-expenditure, filled in some forms, cleaned some outdoor furniture, went to the bakery, vacuümed twice, mopped once, baked pizza's (not entirely from scratch as the dough was premade) and cooked a simple meal of steamed vegetables and omelet.
Riveting stuff, I know.

It strikes me that I am, and have been for a long time, a rather boring person. I'm not unhappy about that, however. Perhaps in contradiction to what I think most people would feel in response to that realization. I enjoy the familiar and the comforting. I feel at ease knowing what's what in my small world and being able to act on it in an optimum way. I'm not the man for risks or thrills. I have little interest in far off travels (save a few key locations).
Life is found everywhere. Not just jumping off a plane with a parachute, or hiking up the inca trail.
Here in Belgium we sometimes say: 'Wie het kleine niet eert, is het grote niet weerd.' Which is fitting.

In any case. Thanks for listening to my incoherent rambling. I'll aim to get more consistent in the future.
In the meantime, I wish you the best. Grand adventures, should you desire so. And if not, a true enjoyment of the smaller things in life.