The Joys of Newleywed-ness...

It's been slightly over two months since I married the most amazing man I've ever known. I am daily astounded by new things learned and old things reinforced. Probably one of the most remarkable has been our ability to invite the other into a complete other world thus far unexperienced.

Case in point is the technology with which I have up to this point surrounded myself with. To say it has been minimal is a slight, if not severe, understatement. For example, this past summer, I used part of my Maryville College gift certificate to actually buy myself a portable cd player--you know, the kind with the clip that fastens on to the elastic of your jogging shorts only to pull them down around your ankles while you're actually jogging. No matter that I didn't really use my money to buy it or that it was drastically on sale. These contraptions are a thing of the past--they've gone the way of 8-tracks (which I'm not even old enough to remember) and cassette tapes (of which our first was dc Talk Heavenbound). Fortunately for me, Kevin stepped in and saved me from myself by buying an MP3 player for my graduation present. It's smaller than my cell phone, and, once I have a full tutorial on how to work it, I'm sure I will go nowhere without it. As it now stands, I'm surviving off the songs Kevin so graciously has put on there for me.



Furthermore, I would never in my wildest dreams have thought I would keep a journal that other people would read. I have kept a journal consistently since I was in second grade, and, I might add, at that time it was quite a humorous journal. Regardless to have my new husband suggest we engage in an activity that sounds more like galoshes slogging through mud than it does a divulging of the interior of one's heart took me aback. It could be fun; it could be useful; it could be a kick into the current century that I've been lacking all my life.

I'm grateful for my husband for many reason--not the least of which that he's very technology oriented. I'm looking forward to what this blog holds for us.....

Now, if we could just figure out to set up those dang fire alarms! ;)