All the Ways I'm the BEST WIFE EVER (there are like two ways but still...)

Tom loves IU basketball. He just does. He doesn’t care that he’s never even been to Bloomington, or that he’s never seen a game in person.

He love IU basketball so much that he usually listens to the games on the radio because we don’t have fancy television like cable (hello, 1990 called and they want their cable back) and so he tunes in to radio stations that are broadcasting the games and he sits back to listen.

Alas, one Wednesday evening I settled in to take the television away from Olivia and her insane YouTube videos. I told the Roku to log in to Netflix only to be told that I couldn’t watch it because Alyssa was already watching iCarly on her smart tv in her room and we’re cheap and so only one of us can watch Netflix at a time.

Sigh.

Fine. I brought up Hulu. And what do you think was right there on the home screen? The IU vs Rutgers game.

I called out to Tom to see who IU was playing on the radio. Duh. The game Hulu was airing was the game he was listening to.

Why yes, we do have a Roku on the television Tom watches. But he’d never logged into Hulu and so didn’t know how to watch the game.

Being the loving, devoted wife that I am, I logged his television into Hulu, assured him that he would never had to log in again and found the IU game for him.

The look on his face as he settled onto the couch to WATCH the IU game on the actual television was worth the next hour of sitting in the living room with Olivia while she watched eleven thousand Melanie Martinez videos being played in reverse. I wish I was making this up for shock/comedic value…

At half-time he came to find me and asked me how we could make it easy for him to find the channel on Hulu that was airing the game.

I told him we’d make him his own profile on Hulu and that we’d add the game channel to his favorites and then we’d show him how to find his favorites.

Alyssa wanted to name Tom’s profile “Papa Karen”. I said it needed to be “Tiny Dada.” Tom declared that it will be “The Man.”

Ha.

I have no room to talk. Mine is Tommie.

Alyssa’s is “Not Scabitha.”

Olivia doesn’t have a Hulu profile because she’s too busy watching YouTube and the insanity that lives there to be bothered with something as boring at Hulu. After I got Tom all logged in and settled in front of the IU game, I welcomed him to the 21st century.

So after I got him all set up to watch college basketball on his actual television, we muddled along for a few weeks and guess what? Ohio opened up Covid-19 vaccines to everyone 60 and over. Guess who's sixty in this house? Hint, he's a dude.

Tom registered himself online to get a call to schedule his appointments. But, poor guy missed the phone call that came the very next dya. He attemped to call back but the number was always busy.

Two weeks passed and Ohio opened appoitnments to those 50 and up. Guess who's 50!?! Meeee, that's who!

I registered myself on a Tuesday, got the call while at work the next day and had my appointment all set up for a Thursday. Yay! Tom was seriously jealous of my phone answering abilities. He tried calling again and again and again to no avail. I suggested he go with me to my appointment and see if they had any extra doses since my appointment was for 5:10 in the afternoon. He refused, acting like I was suggesting he crash a baby shower and eat the mom-to-be's share of the cake.

So, I brushed off my wife of the year trophy and while I was at my appointment to get my first vaccination, I asked the ladies sigining people in what my husband should do to try and schedule his appointemnt. They ushered me behind the curtain, sat me down (I didn't sit) with Theresa and Terry and they set up Tom's appointments right then and there.

I was able to go home from that appointment half vaccinated against Covid and with appointments for my husband to be the same. Yes, I did tell him how lucky he is to have me.