Introducing Zoe from rob pilkerton on Vimeo.
Someone googled for my blog? According to Google Analytics, the second most used search term that led people here is “(My Name) Blog”. Also in the top ten is “(My Name)”.
Seriously? I just can’t believe someone thinks I’m interesting enough to google. I’m honored. I haven’t even updated this thing in forever.
Maybe my traffic would go through the roof if I actually had something to say.
We went to Wilmington, NC today.
Turns out it’s a pretty cool city. We bought this print from this guy. We really like his work a lot. I wish I had a son whose room I could decorate with all the cool robot prints. But you can stop thinking that I just declared our intention to have a baby any time soon.
We ate dinner at Aubriana’s. Wow. This is the first time we had really eaten at a big time restaurant (it was big time for us, anyway), and it was great. I got the Veal Chop Tampacanna, and Kirsten got the Filet. Both were excellent. Afterward we bought some fudge at a local candy store, and caught a few songs from some dude playing down the street (we intentionally avoided the st. patty’s day madness). Then we finished the night by grabbing a coffee and heading home.
It was a great time. Tomorrow I think we’re hitting the beach!
Rob and Kirsten’s Wedding from Janie Pilkerton on Vimeo.
(Thanks, Janie!)
Last night Kirsten and I went to a very out of the way restaurant. There were three restaurants in this tiny, tiny town that was way off the road, but only one of them were open.
We were finishing up our dinner and this lady is talking about her sons wedding being written about on people.com. So I decided to be nosy and ask who the son was (it was going to drive me nuts if i didn’t). Turns out her son was Ryan Adams who just married Mandy Moore.
She couldn’t believe that I liked his records and that I too had just gotten married.
Funny Story: She has all his records except for the “Love is Hell” record because: “it sounds depressing” and she “doesn’t want it in her house. Love is hard but its not hell.”
Today ends my single life. I’m getting married in just a few hours. Apart from hating to wait for things I’m excited about, I’m not feeling any different. I’m not having cold feet or anything.
It looks like it’s probably going to rain today (if it hasn’t already). Good thing we’re having the ceremony inside.
I guess that’s all for now. I really don’t have much to say. I just wanted to have a blog post from my wedding day that I could look back on in a few years.
Me (pointing to a fake horse): “That horse has been there for years.”
Unnamed Individual: “Is that a BBQ Joint?”
February 14, 2009 will mark a very new experience for me. For the first time in my 28 years, I am in a relationship on February 14. Over the years I have run the gamut of “single guy” attitudes toward Valentines Day. I have been the “lonely” guy. I have been the “bitter” guy. I have been the “indifferent” guy. But this year I am the guy who loves a wonderful woman. But you know what’s funny? I look forward to February 14 like I look forward to January 1. Sure it’s a holiday, and I’ll take part in some of the festivities, but to me it’s just another day.
Kirsten and I have talked about Valentines Day and neither one of us want any part of the corny red roses and russell stover heart shaped box of chocolates. Here’s what I’m looking forward to this Valentine’s Day: A quiet and romantic dinner with my fiancee.
I know that the female readers of my blog (if any) are probably judging me as being completely unromantic, but please don’t be so hasty. See here’s why Valentine’s Day is just another day to me: I try to treat Kirsten as the woman I love every day of the year, not just on February 14. I honestly try to be loving and romantic every day, not just once. I hope she would tell you the same.
I’m also convinced (through some personal conflicts I had before) that true love is not an emotion that hits me in the pit of the stomach. That happens sometimes, but not 24/7 and I’d be wasting my time pursuing a “fuzzy feeling.” I recognize it to be something I have to do willingly. I have to decide every day to love Kirsten. I have to willingly do loving things for her. I have to make a decision to care for her above myself. And I choose to do these things.
Lately, this has been my prayer for our relationship: “Father, please give us the perseverance to continue to love each other on the days when we don’t feel the emotion to do so and give us the grace of many days when we do feel the emotion.”
So on this Valentines Day, we’ll express our love to each other. We’ll make it a special night. But in the end, doing something special February 14 can’t express love. Because if you are truly in love, it will manifest itself over the other 364 days of the year.
Those are my thoughts on Valentine’s Day.
Well things have been crazy. Here’s a brief rundown:
- Just over a month to the wedding. I am excited and wish it were tomorrow.
- I just got back from the “Acts 29 Bootcamp” in Raleigh, NC. I met some great people down there and I’m hoping some good friendships come out of it. I ended up getting sick while I was down there and missed the second day, but day one was really good. Kirsten and I had the chance to meet Mark Driscoll and the Q&A time with him was great.
- Tonight is the Grammy Awards Show. Each year I find myself more and more out of touch with the music industry, although I’m convinced they’re still committed to finding a way to give an award to Jack White and at least one dead person every year. I’m not sure who this year’s dead person will be but bet your bottom dollar they’ll find one.
- I think the illness I acquired in Raleigh was strep throat and its not much fun.
- Some days you preach and you feel like you laid an egg. Today was one of those days for me. Some days you feel like whats in your head and whats coming out of your mouth just aren’t the same thing.
- We picked up the marriage license this week.
- That’s all I’ve got in me right now. I hope everyone is doing well. I feel like I’ve been a terrible friend lately.