Well, this is a brand new blog I'm beginning today in preparation for January 1st, 2015.
If you have accidentally come across this page, I thought I'd better explain what I'm doing here, polluting the internet with 'ANOTHER' blog.
Well, 2015 represents the year I turn 40. Over the best part of a decade I have been lingering on the 'largish' end of the scales, most days lately begin with a self questioning "What The Fuck Did You Do?" look into the mirror.
I know I'm not alone. I'm sure it's happening all over the world everyday. I look back at old photos and think, 'wow, I was decent looking back then'. In the words of Jay (Jay and Silent Bob) "I'd fuck me, I'd fuck me hard!"
I've always had problems with my weight, mainly due to my love of food and soft drink and cheese and wrapping the KFC skin around the chips and dipping them into the potato and gravy ... You get the picture.
When the weight went on, I found I became less social, a voice in my head would say 'do you really want to see them like this?', 'hold off another 6 months you'll lose weight, see them then', but the weight never dropped and sometimes I never got another chance to catch up.
So last night as I began my usual routine of going to bed I started to think of Tea, fuck knows why. I do like a good cuppa every now and then, and it usually tastes heaps better if someone else makes it, am I right?
So I've decided as of New Years Eve, I am going to go 2015 without soft drink.
So why is this blog called Year Of The Tea? Well in truth, 365 Cups of Tea was taken ... Bastards!lol! The premise is that whilst I am not drinking soft drink I need an alternative, because water alone just feels so .... well ... diety.
So to solve my recent anti-social stumbling blocks, for the 365 days of 2015 I intend on having 365 cups of tea. Not too hard, I hear you say. Well, I intend on having those 365 cups of tea, each with a different person and not repeating. The huge stumbling block I come to is that even on Facebook I only have 312 friends, and that includes workmate and school friends from the past 36 years, some I haven't seen since I was 6 or 7!
To have 365 cuppas in 2015, I'm going to have to have Tea with people I know and chase new people to have tea with, which is kinda scary.
So this blog will be a little record of that journey. Will I make it past the 1st few posts? (where most blogs die from neglect), will I lose any weight? How the fuck am I gunna find people to have Tea with?
This is not a resolution, but it is a challenge!