Beth and I gave out Christmas presents to each other yesterday. Instead of normal Christmas presents, we went to a concert at Honeywell Center in Wabash. She just a couple weeks ago heard a commercial for the Beach Boys performing a holiday concert, so we got tickets to that for each other (mostly me getting them for both of us). We both thought it was funny that we were the youngest couple there (by far, in most cases), or at least anywhere around us. But it was a really good show. I enjoyed it more than I had thought I would; I like the Beach Boys well enough but I’ve never been a huge fan, but we had a lot of fun singing and clapping along with all the songs that everyone knows by heart. One lady moved away from us after intermission, probably because Beth annoyed her by dancing in her seat. Anyway, they opened with all the surfing songs and over the course of the show did everything else. Neither one of us could think of a single song that we knew that they didn’t do. And “Sloop John B” is stuck in my head now.
Monday was my first colonoscopy! The entire staff at the hospital told me that I had done the hard part already with the preparations…and they were right. Although I would describe the internal effects of the prep to be more of a power wash than a flush, but anyway. The procedure was a little earlier than scheduled because of a cancellation (I was just about ready for them to call and say they had to delay the procedure because of the current covid surge, but nope) but still was in the afternoon (which meant that I was pretty hungry after being forcibly emptied, and nothing by mouth since midnight). But when they finally wheeled me in the OR, one doctor pushed a little syringe of something. About a second later I said “whoa, I’m already feeling dizzy.” He said “Just shut your eyes.” So I did. And I don’t remember anything after that until I woke up. I had no idea how long I’d been out: Beth said around 20 minutes, but if she’d said 2 minutes or 12 hours I would have believed her. I don’t remember the doctor talking to us afterwards at all (Beth said I was still pretty out of it), but it looked good enough that I don’t have to do another one of those for 10 years.
We took everyone out to see “Spiderman: No Way Home” on Friday. We saw the 7:30 showing, or I guess one of them because it was on several screens. I have not seen a theater packed like that in a long time, even before covid. Nobody but the kids and I were masked, either. I did look around at one point and wonder if it was a good idea to be there, but we weren’t going to miss it. It was absolutely incredible. And the audience was really into it. So many cheers, like when Daredevil was introduced, and all the previous Spidermen showed up. Some people were saying not only the best Marvel movie ever, but maybe the best movie ever. I don’t know, but I think it’s certainly the best superhero movie ever, and maybe the best movie experience ever. I mean, wow. Can’t wait for the new Dr. Strange movie!
Natalie has finished high school! As of Friday, her last day. Beth and I are not sure about what we’re supposed to do now – the graduation ceremony is in Indianapolis but we don’t really know when, and Nat doesn’t want to go anyway. She’s still enrolled in Ivy Tech to continue to become a CNA but we don’t know when that starts or how long it goes or what we have to pay for it. Nat doesn’t know much about that either. We’re going to have to find a few things out. And make a plan for her next act. We’re hoping everything works out with that, but not sure if her POTS will allow a full time job. Not sure what to do regarding that either.
