After what basically amounts to a year long sabbatical, The…Wife and I are finally back from our honeymoon and trying to get back to a normal schedule, whatever normal is. Over the last couple of days, I’ve felt a renewed since of interest, not just in my site, but in all of the small projects that I have my fingers in across the interwebs, and in the next couple of weeks I’ll get back in to all of them.

I find it interesting the way both she and I have handled the slow descent back to normalcy after the events of the afternoon of August 23, 2008. We definitely both have our own ways of doing things. I am excited. I think towards the end, I just felt completely burdened by all of the planning and small details, that I could no longer really even enjoy the build up to the big day. I don’t think I ever finally relaxed until we arrived at the church for the rehearsal. Dinner that night was wonderful, the wedding day was perfect in every way, and the honeymoon was so relaxing and fun, but the effort that went in to it all, while necessary, just did me in at some point along the way, and so I’m glad we’ve moved on to the next step, and I have much more respect for people who do this type of work for a living, like The Wife and her friends and co-workers. It is not a job I was meant for.

The Wife (wow, gonna take some getting used to) is a little more reminiscent about the events of the past year. She’s almost got a slight case of post-wedding-partum, fidgeting in front of the television, instead of just relaxing, when there’s no wedding planning to do, and waxing nostalgic when the next of our friends to get married sends out e-mails proclaiming, “19 Days To Go!”Don’t get me wrong, I definitely get it. But I’m also very glad to move forward. If the last two years of my life are any indication, this next year is going to be, in my mind, even better than the previous one.

To that end, as a wonderful wedding gift to me, but for us, on the big day, The Wife bought an incredibly beautiful Nikon D60. As a second part of that gift, she created a blog for us to post a picture a day for the first year of our marriage. As I am of a tendency to be a bit (how you say?) obsessive-compulsive, or anal, or even controlling, if you want to call it that, and you’re feeling mean and want to hurt my feelings, I had to tweak things just a bit, and build the blog for the site myself, as well. It didn’t really take long at all, either, and as of yesterday, our little pet project, what I’m just calling 365, went online.

I’ll be interested to see how we feel about this a year from now. The idea has been around for quite some time, and I’ve seen it in many forms and fashions. The Wife got her inspiration from one of our friends, but I’ve also seen it done by people who take a self-portrait every day for a year, or a picture of their pet, or whatever, really. Right now, though, I’m loving it. Twelve days in, and I say let’s not stop at one year. You know me, though, check back in a week and see if I feel the same way.

Other little projects will be started and completed in the coming weeks as well. They may not be announced, but keep an eye out for them. This site will, as always, change with the seasons. The Wife is due for an update on her blog, has been neglected. We will archive the wedding site, and blog, soon enough, but we’re keeping the domain, so watch for changes there as well. Most importantly, I think activity will pick up here and there, so if you put this site on the back burner in the past few months, get it out again, and dust it off.

I’m back!