Missing Link

This past weekend was spent at a retreat house on the east side of Indianapolis. Why would I choose to spend my weekend at a retreat house on the east side of Indianapolis? I wouldn’t, to be honest. And I didn’t…. I was told I had to, so I did.

You see, Ann and I are getting married in… under 5 months now. As part of the preparation for marriage, the Catholic church decided that we needed to partake in a marriage preparation retreat weekend. So, dutifully obeying the commands of the Church, we went.

We went in expecting to have a terrible weekend. After all, it was a weekend where we were forced to go stay at a strange place, with strange people and do strange things. I was still somewhat sick from having the flu last week and Ann had a ton of studying to do for school. Neither one of us could think of anything we could want to do LESS than the retreat.

We were wrong.

I’m not going to lie and say that it was the BEST WEEKEND EVAR… it wasn’t. But just as it wasn’t the BEST WEEKEND EVAR, it also wasn’t the worst… by a large margin. You see – neither Ann, nor I, realized going in that this weekend would afford us the opportunity to hang out with each other and talk, and have fun, and joke around. Without distractions.

So, we did all that…. and we liked it. There were some other nice couples there too, which was cool. Nobody I’d call a new friend, but they at least made the weekend a bit more enjoyable.

Plus, the weekend was over by noon on Sunday, giving us Sunday afternoon and evening to spend doing what we wanted. In my case that meant installing Boxee on my AppleTV and testing it out by watching episodes of ALF, Ghost Hunters (both regular and International), and Doogie Howser M.D.

Right now I’m watching Indiana Jones’s (the new one, Crystal Skull) from Netflix, and later I’ll begin my journey through the world of 24 by watching the episode that started it all off…. the first hour of the first season… thanks to Boxee.