Keeping up with the Pates

Ok. Let me begin this blog post by saying that the title is a complete joke. Let me explain. Eric and I love our satellite television. We have often times joked that our cable is our country club. When we were both growing up, neither of our families had cable television. In fact, like so many of our friends, our parents did not get cable until we went away to college. Along with white couches. And super nice vacations. You know, all the things they could now afford not having kids at home. But I digress.

Things would have to get really bad before we got rid of our service. I mean really bad. I would stand out on Preston Road in rush hour traffic carrying a sign that said "Please provide money for cable television. God Bless." We recently decided to switch our satellite provider so that we could take advantage of one of those nifty bundle packages where you can get phone (our first land line since like 2004), Internet, and cable. And yes, I realize that these packages are nothing new and have been around since the inception of digital cable.

However, as in life, you can never plan the switch over to go flawlessly. So here we are, a week after our initial satellite service has ended but days away from our new service being installed. I am having a bit of a difficult time adjusting. Do you realize that you can't rewind or DVR on regular television? It is really difficult to have like, two channels (PBS being one of them). I guess I could put my English degree to good use, but my brain powers down at the end of a long day. So here I am talking about...keeping up with us - which, let's be frank, is not hard to do.

I am totally not on the bandwagon for major trends. For anything. And it is not one of these intentional feats, like "I am sooo independent that I am going against the grain." It is more like I just can't get it together to be on the cusp of what's happening. Case in point: Didn't get a VCR until my senior year in college (who knew they were still even making them at that point). Started the "Sex in the City" series the year after it ended. I read the Twilight series several years after it became mainstream. Those horrible pancho sweaters that make everyone look pregnant except for supermodels? Yep. Eric and I don't even text. When everyone is just about over a fad, we are just getting in to it. As evidence, check out my blog at Christmas 2014 when I receive my first i-Phone and talk to people like it is the newest insider secret out there.

I sometimes long to be one of those gals that is on the cutting edge of "What's hot now." But for right now I will settle for what was hot...and then not...yesterday.