Andrew jumps on the bandwagon with a blog...

Picture this. Your number-one favourite human is perched on a squishy chair. Your heart skips a beat as you make eye-contact. Could it be him? Surprise! You need to get your eyes checked becuase it’s me, Andrew Macfarlane, your eighth most favourite person in the world. I’m only one spot on the list behind that cool Uber driver from last night.

I’m writing my first blog post from my local Starbucks. I know, very cosmopolitan. Actually, who am I kidding? I live in Christchurch, we literally only have one Starbucks.

IT’S EVERYONE’S LOCAL STARBUCKS.

I’ve successfully ordered a 'skinny, cinnamon, gingerbread latté with cream' without mucking up my words, and I am now officially the perfect picture of a blogger. What hashtag will I use when I Instagram the photo of me with my #starbucks? #pumpkinspicedlatte #juststarbucksthings #blackcoffeesmatter? Basically I have embraced the 'hipster blogger' cliché, and have finally taken the plunge.

For the last month I've been tweaking, chopping, changing a pre-made theme on this website. I mean, I've got to have my aesthetic right? What font should my name be in? Does this background colour reflect my true self? When do I do a brand deal with Audible.com? Effectively this period of tweaking has just been another form of procrastination. I can spend thirty days working out what colour scheme reflects my ‘inner-blogger', and yet I never have to write a single word.

Now THAT'S what I call ideal.

Blogging has always been one of those things I've wanted to do. I'd love to be the person who goes camping and then whips up a quick thousand words on how they finally connected with their 'inner self' in just five easy steps that anyone can do! That person who rocks up to a family Christmas party with a tray of biscuits and confidently says that ‘my readers think this is the best recipe on my website.’ Like I said, I've always like the idea and glamour of blogging but have never given it a shot.

The harsh reality is - I've never really felt that my life was interesting enough to blog about until now.

If we were in a movie - this would be a part where you hear a ‘dun-dun-dun!’ as I look down the barrel of the camera with a raised eyebrow. Alas this is not a movie, merely my shitty blog. Moving on…

“Andrew,” I hear you say, “you are the most boring person I know. Why the hell would I read a blog about your life?”

Firstly rude. And secondly my dear reader, how wrong you are.

I have lived in Christchurch, New Zealand for as long as I can remember. I’ve spent the last 19(ish) years here, and to be honest I feel comfortable and at ease. But in just over one month I’m shifting cities and getting ready to become an adult. This is what my blog is going to be all about - the life lessons that I learn in the big city of Auckland.

Think ‘Sex in the City’ with a whole lot less sex and more ‘shitty’. Also less fashion - I’m on a tight budget here.

2017 will be a year of firsts for me. First time moving away from home, first time flatting, first full-time job and who knows, maybe even first degree murder if we’re lucky!

That was morbid, and I am extremely sorry. I wholeheartly promise not to kill someone (next year...).

My goal is to share my experiences on here as a digital diary. You can read along if you want. I can’t guarantee that it’ll be interesting or worth your time, but if you get to hear about the mistakes that I’m making in life, at least you’ll feel better about yourself right? Right.

So anyway that’s the general idea. Whether it works out is another story, but hey, if Donald Trump can become TIME magazine’s person of the year, I can surely write a couple of hundred words every now and then.

Wow did I just make a topical popculture reference! This blog has everything! Humour, self-loathing and grammatical errors. You should definitely bookmark this site as your homepage...

Andrew x

#Starbucks #Blogging