Tom & Alissa

With great happiness, we discovered that Tom has today (meaning, late tonight into early tomorrow) off, so we get to actually kind of have a weekend before he has to work at 6pm on Saturday. So we can do things like have meals together (or in my case, meals at all), maybe a little Bourne Ultimatum, and useful things like sleep and relaxation. Ah, bliss.

Our church moves our service outdoors once a year to Washington Square Park. I’ve missed it the past two years, so I’ve never actually been to one, but this year I’m neither getting married nor traveling and it’s looking good. We met last night to plan the logistics, and I somehow volunteered to put together some printed materials. Fun for me, but I should have known when I went that I am a compulsive church volunteer-er. It comes from my years as church staff. In any case, I’m kind of jazzed about it. I like print design. It’s so much more fun than web design; your end product more often actually meets what you had in mind, as opposed to the horrors that operating systems and browsers inflict on web design.

I’m enjoying summer, don’t get me wrong, but I do so love autumn and I’m very excited for it to arrive this year. I was in a very strange place mentally last fall (with Dad’s passing so close to the wedding), but this year I’m a bit more stable and feeling a bit more alive. The weather is so splendid around here in the fall.

You must check out this photographer on Flickr. Love her work.