So in what will hopefully be the last run of scary medical testing for me for a good while, I have my colonoscopy tomorrow around midday. (Due to family history I've been having them every few years since I was 35 or so, so I think this is like my 5th or 6th?)

I swear the worst part is having to choke down the drink for the prep. The version they prescribed me has two doses, one of which I took at 4:30 this afternoon, and the other I have a 5:30 AM alarm set to make sure I wake up for. I made the mistake of mixing it with white grape juice this afternoon, which I thought would drown out the taste, but somehow it amplified it instead. It was so bad I had Dylan go out and get me a bottle of yellow Gatorade so I'd have another option for the morning. I'm just glad I'm not a Baptist anymore, because I don't think I'd be able to face grape juice at communion after this. At this point I'm contemplating swearing off grapes altogether.

Yikes that sounds nasty Susan!

David thought of you tonight because I was at trivia and we could not for the life of us come up with the name Wes Anderson. If we had we would’ve gotten second place! Sigh. (Also can y’all name the three national parks whose names start with “Great”? I got two)

David thought of you tonight because I was at trivia and we could not for the life of us come up with the name Wes Anderson. If we had we would’ve gotten second place! Sigh.

Ha! David's Perfect Jeopardy Board: Wes Anderson, Hairstyles of the 20th Century, Glam Rock, Oakland A's, Comic Books of the 80s, Sandwiches

Right now, I can't name even one. The out of doors would not be one of my trivia category strengths.

Excellent board, David.

I'm not sure I have super strong categories. I need to think about that! I'm more weird, random knowledge + over 55, so I know a lot of shit courtesy of age.

Also, good morning.

I would be horrible to trivia. My sister watches Jeopardy and I am often surprised that I know some categories well, but for the most part I don't have a clue.

Great Plains? That the only thing I can think of in the us and that’s not a natl park I don’t think. Great Lakes? That’s not either is it?

Great Barrier Reef is the only thing in my brain.

Yes the two I came up with were Great Basin and Great Smoky Mountains but did not know that Great Sand Dunes is a park??

My brain did keep trying to do “grand” (canyon, Tetons, something) instead of great. A lot of teams just said things like “Great Glacier!”

Good on you for two, meara. I would have gotten exactly zero of those.

I am msbelle on the Greats. Great Scott. Great Googlymoogly. Great Balls of Fire. No parks. I might be able to say, "oh, that sounds right" to the actual parks but I probably would also say that to totally wrong answers

Great Scott.

That's the only "great" phrase that came to mind (in the voice of Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown, of course).

My dentist repaired a filling (last time I was there, he said "Well, I don't like the way I did that filling for you -- come back and I'll repair it, no charge"), and so half my damn mouth is numb and feels 3 times too big. So freaking weird. But yay, fixed filling!

Next Thursday is for dealing with Dad and his hallucinations -- he agreed to see a neuropsychiatrist, although I'm pretty sure he thinks it's just to adjust his meds. And who knows? Maybe it will be just an adjust-his-meds visit. But it really needs to be a sir-you-need-inpatient-care-right-the-fuck-now visit.