The Beginning

Let me start by introducing myself. Hi, I’m Adrienne and I live in Belgium with my family. I am a mother to CP. Daschund mum to Sancho. Wife to DP. I am originally from Australia and we are in Belgium for the next two years. After that, who knows? Belgium is our first expat experience. And, since we arrived I have been trying to work out what job I will do. I have tried to get work in financial services, where I worked for many years. But the job hunting just hasn’t been successful. And to be honest, my heart hasn’t been in it. To go back to something that made me so much money has been very tempting. But since becoming a mum I have not wanted to go back to financial services. In fact, I think it would be bad for my mental health if I did. So, then what do I do? So many things have occurred to me. Some ideas stay around for a bit but most dissapate after a short amount of time. I lose interest. Initially, I tried to fit the idea of a blog into the mould of my previous financial services experience. So the blog would somehow showcase my expertise to potential employers or perhaps I would run my own business. Doing what and how the blog would fit into it, I was never sure. Nothing ever felt right. That uncertainty was also reflective of my antipathy of returning to financial services in any way shape or form. But the idea of writing - that has been around me for such a long time. Since childhood. I have never really pursued it - because who has a career as a writer? But now, in another country, living a life that I really didn’t expect to be living, I feel like I could pursue this - what is it? - a hobby for now.

So this blog is my start and this is my first post. What do I plan to write about. My thought is to write about my life as an expat and my love of many things related to reality TV, specifically Bravo. I think that my main focus will be Bravo and my expat life - I’m not sure how much I will delve into that initially. My thought is to start with the Real Housewives of Amsterdam. Why? Well, I’m in Belgium, which is Dutch-speaking and not that far from the Netherlands. Also, RHOAMS is a new member of the franchise and at the moment it seems to exist on the edges of the Bravo world. There isn’t too much focus on it - at least on the English speaking side of things - and so I feel a bit more comfortable dipping my toes into commenting on it. I’m new to blogging and I’m not really sure at this stage what I want to focus on in terms of my love of reality TV. But I know that there are alot of expert commentators out there and there is also alot of passionate commentators and fans so I’m hoping that RHOAMS is a safe place to start. But it is so very tempting to start with RHOC or Below Deck.

There I did it. My very first blog post. Never thought that I’d get here…