Blogs are funny things. Really, it's just a bunch of people starved for the opportunity to ramble on about themselves endlessly and hope that someone will actually occasionally pay attention to them. Works for me. :-)
Have you ever noticed that on holidays, noone ever bothers to schedule a gathering on the actual day of the holiday, because everyone's so sure that you'll be busy doing something else. In reality, you have 3 picnics, 2 barbecues, and a dinner date the day beforehand, and you're stuck twiddling your thumbs on the day of the occasion. Christmas is especially notorious for this. Aren't all of the parties leading up to Xmas really the meat of the season?