It’s funny that in a year where I’ve been writing about new things and new experiences I never wrote about the biggest new thing all year - my new job…which is pushing into not-so-new territory. (It’s still less than a year, so it’s still new-ish.)

It’s relevant here because I started this blog-post-a-day experiment before I had an out-of-the-house job.

It was a way for me to have a creative outlet, because so much of my everyday freelance writing was not all that creative.

Then I found this job and I was writing a lot less and I didn’t need the structured writing I was setting up for myself with this (there was an effort to break up my day into writing segments for the first couple of months of the year, with this being one part of the day in order to bring structure to my writing day…which I was reminded about with all my unstructured time over the holidays), and there was a time I wondered if I would keep it up - or if I would be able to keep it up.

But as with so may of my writing ventures over the years, I enjoyed doing this too much to give it up.

I like these creative outlets, whether it’s writing about the Mets or doing something weekly like I did with my Sunday Papers for so long.

I alway come back to something like this because I miss it when I don’t have it.

There is going to be an initial relief, though.

Next week will be nice because I won’t have to worry about the next post - there were a couple of times this year where I thought I’d tapped everything and had nothing else to write about…but I managed to find something.

I’m kind of proud of the fact that I was able to keep the words coming every day for a year.

But I’m glad now I don’t have to worry about finding that something.

I’ve really been thinking about the end of the year since the beginning of the year - how many more posts do I have to write/how many more weeks of To-Do Lists…and now we’re here.

It didn’t even occur to me until I wrote that last Monthly Goal recap that I was completing one last goal this week with these last few posts.

I’m glad I did this, and while I’m glad I don’t have to worry about more posts for now…I’ll get the itch soon enough.

I’m sure I’ll figure something else out to fill the space of writing here every day.

Until then you’ll get an idea in the next couple of days what I’ll be doing instead.