As we near the end of my year of blogging, I will admit that there have been times when I’ve sat in front of my keyboard, looking at an empty text box, wondering what coherent and interesting thoughts I could type out that day.

While I wouldn’t go so far as to consider an entry a day a burden (or at least, a burden of any meaningful size), there have been days were I have gotten by with simply a single paragraph of text or a picture or video, instead of something longer.

And the times at which I’ve made my entry have also fluctuated.  If you go back to the days and weeks following my birthday, I would often write in the mornings, right after waking up, or in the early afternoon.  Nowadays, I almost always write my entry right before bed and – recently – often past midnight.

The fact that I consider it a part of my day is interesting; no matter how tired I may be, I know that I’m obligated to write an entry before I’m allowed to sleep.  But it’s not so much an obligation that feels like a chore.  Instead, it’s a bit like the obligation of making soup for your sick spouse; you know you have to do it, but you don’t mind it one bit.

How time flies, though.  I can’t believe that it’s almost February, almost my birthday, almost my baby’s birthday.  I’m excited for all these things, as well as the upcoming release of Mass Effect 2, season premiere of Lost, and the Colts-Saints Super Bowl.