My Navel

I am currently contemplating my navel; it often contains a great deal of fluff.

Over the years I have had some great navel pondering moments. These were kindled, at least in part by a particular episode of the Ren & Stimpy Show; the episode was Jerry the Belly Button Elf, I particularly liked the accompanying song, Climb Inside My Belly Button, which I still play at work on occasion all these years later.

As I have got older, fatter and hairier, my own belly button has started to accumulate fluff at an alarming rate. I often pull these little cones of lint from my navel and marvel at their colour, shape and even their very existence.

I have made a couple of abortive attempts at maintaining a site on the interwebs, both of which faltered and died. The main cause was focus; there was no driving force, no one thing to capture my attention. They inevitably suffered from meandering around and simply fizzling out. I needed something I could write about every day, something that wasn’t so mind-numbingly dull that I dreaded doing it, yet something that happened to me every day to act as a reminder. I couldn’t write about my own poo as this has been done with rather great success at The Log Blog. My own urine would simply be a conceptual rip-off. I briefly considered bogies as I am a dedicated nose-miner, but the thought of photographing and documenting this was a little too grim; there were logistical problems too, like where to draw the line between bogies and snot, and those ones that fall out of their own accord in polite company.

So, there I was, sat on the toilet contemplating my navel and mumbling “climb inside” quietly to myself when the brainwave struck. I shall collect, document and comment on my belly button fluff; it shall be called Project Harvest.

Of course, I shall also post a bunch of complete rubbish about my daily confusion about life in general, but this is a blog so it would be remiss of me to do otherwise.

Yesterday I ordered some nice close-up lenses for my digital camera to better document my navel accumulations. I have an idea about where I might find a jar in which to keep my collection. I have even looked up some interesting reference material on the Great Wide Interwebs, which I look forward to sharing in bite-sized chunks.

There will also be Belly Button of the Week as well as Readers Navels (if I can find any readers). I am getting so excited.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 1st, 2008 at 4:04 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.