Frustrating day

RIP BEA ... WE HARDLY KNEW YE

Yeah, so it's been a really frustrating day. A few highlights (or lowlights):

1. Drove four hours, round-trip, to get me added on to some of Patrick's insurance. Why did we drive four hours? Because we had made two prior home appointments, but the insurance agents forgot to show up.

2. Patrick's computer had some major problems this morning and is pretty close to death, so we ended up buying an entire new desktop computer today. Which is fine, since we planned to buy it next month anyways, but still. Not expected.

3. Our house's A/C is out. This is probably the worst development of the day, especially since the rental company said they weren't sure if someone would make it out to the house tomorrow or not. Fun. We did go to Wal-Mart and buy a box fan, so we're protected against the heat somewhat. 

4. Since our house's A/C is out, we can't do anything tomorrow until they call and let us know if they're coming or not. Stuck in a sauna-like prison of a home all day? Sweet!

5. I burned the baby back ribs that I spent four hours cooking. While this wasn't a huge deal, this is what finally made me cry.

6. Bea Arthur (Dorothy from Golden Girls) died today. R.I.P. Bea, you will forever be remembered for being a friend.

However, some good things that happened today:

1. We got our new computer! :) It is pretty awesome. It's a Gateway "gaming supercomputer," whatever that means, and it looks all futuristic and such. It completes our new home office very well. 

2. We got to see my mother-in-law, Pam. She is awesome. 

3. We get to see Dad and Trey (my little bro) tomorrow!! And they're treating us to lunch at Baumhauer's! Double yay!

4. Sen'Derrick Marks, an Auburn defensive lineman, got drafted in the second round of the NFL draft today. Seeing as how I am a major nerd, I love the NFL draft, and I love it when Auburn players get drafted.

Prayer requests:

Please pray that someone will come out and fix our A/C ... no A/C in Alabama can be a bad situation. And please pray that Patrick and I will be able to enjoy tomorrow, 'cause we sure haven't enjoyed today that much. 

Yay, Trey's here!

My little brother made a trip up here to hang with us for the night. So far it's going awesome ... we're watching Coming to America, which so far is pretty hilarious. Ah, I remember these days when Eddie Murphy was actually funny. That doesn't happen anymore, except for the Shrek movies.

Auburn won today! Of course, despite the fact that they're a No. 1 seed, they still weren't on TV. Boo. Hopefully they'll be on TV Friday night. Just two more wins and they're going to Madison Square Garden!

So, OMG, Twilight's coming out this weekend!! I couldn't be more excited. I mean, the movie wasn't a top 10 movie or anything, but I still loved it.

I'm at a week and a half of doing yoga every day! Patrick and I have been doing it together every day for about four days. We're pretty pumped about that.

OK, this was just a short post 'cause I was thinking I needed to do it. If y'all don't mind praying for a few things:

-My sister-in-law's job is about to drive her crazy, so she needs some love out D.C. way.
-Patrick and I both desperately need some time off to just spend some time together before we go crazy too.

Next post will be longer, I promise!

First post ... amazing!

Ok, so I haven't had a blog in forever. Actually, I don't think I've ever had a blog. The closest thing I've had was that LiveJournal thing that you all may recall from, like, seven years ago. I didn't even do a good job keeping up with that, actually. You would think, being a journalist and writing for a living, I'd be better with this.

You would be wrong.

But now I've been forced into having a blog again by the girls in our Core Group (read: cult) who said, and I quote, "You're not a member of the group until you have a blog!" In fact, in the three times Sarah Hearn e-mailed me, every single time she managed to say some variation of, "START A BLOG AND TELL US SO WE CAN STALK YOU!" I definitely feel loved. And a lot of peer pressure. :)

Patrick and I did have fun coming up with a name for this, however. We have this favorite SNL skit with Garth Brooks and Will Ferrell, where Garth is willing to sell his soul to the devil for a hit song. Of course, the devil writes really crappy songs, which we love. So don't be surprised if one day you come to the blog and the name has changed from "Keeping Up With the Joneses" to "We've Been Bitten By the Love Bat ... And It's Driving Us Mad!" That's also why the blog's URL is myguitarwasoutoftune.blogspot.com. Sorry for the SNL nerdiness. 

Anyhow, I'm hopeful that this attempt at keeping up a blog will go better. It probably will if people will leave comments and at least let me know someone reads this. I'm going to try to update at least once a week, probably on Saturdays or Sundays. And for those who care about such things, I'll try and leave a list of prayer requests at the bottom -- that'll help me keep up with the blog, too. And I'll probably use this as an opportunity to pass on interesting or funny news articles (which I love to do on Facebook).

Prayer requests:

-That mine and Patrick's relationship with God will continue to grow

-That our relationship with each other will continue to deepen

-That my Mom won't be so stressed with work

-That my brother will be able to start thinking about college, basketball and his future with both of those