A Year In Pictures Following The Break-Up

Back when I started this photoblog, Hansen said, "I can't wait until you start dating. It'll make for great reading."

I wasn't so sure.

Then when I did start going out on dates again, in October, I wrote, "Dating is easy!" and joked that by November I'd be writing, "Dating is hard!"

Well, it's February now and dating is easy. Maybe too easy. It's a slippery slope.

Recently, the girl I've started dating seriously, said, "Remember when I said that it didn't bother me that you don't talk about me on your blog? Well, it's started to bother me."

And she said, "People keep asking me why you haven't mentioned it."

And she said, "It sort of makes me feel like I don't exist."

And you might be wondering why I haven't talked about it too. All I can say is it seems riskier to talk about something new than to talk about something that's ended. I keep thinking about the angry e-mail Mom sent after she discovered this blog, and how the picture of her at the graveyard made her write, "I kept thinking... that doesn't belong there." She's probably right.

But this girl does exist (you do exist, hello). And she is important to me. And I might have some committment issues, but luckily, not quite as many as my blogs does.

She also said, "A number of people have even told me that they think we'll eventually break up because of the blog."

# posted by Arnie : 8:04 PM