Lots of Football
Date: Dec. 26, 2004
From: ET
To: MJS
I hope you had a great Christmas with your family and friends. I’m so glad the holidays are over… back to my other life! There are still a couple of movies I would like to see, particularly Aviator. I had a great golf game last week, and look forward to another like that.
Date: Dec. 26, 2004
From: MJS
To: ET
Yes, we had really nice holiday! But a three-day weekend does seem to take up a whole week. We watched the grandchildren open presents in the morning. Not what they expected or wanted. My husband gave me a new fish smoker and he got tickets for car washes from me! Exactly what we wanted, of course. In the afternoon I made traditional turkey dinner for everyone, before we opened more presents. We played cards and talked. I think the anticipation built up is too much for the presents, not enough for just being together as a family, having fun together. The day after Christmas must be a great disappointment to many people. Then again, sometimes family just isn’t much fun at all. I do value my position as family matriarch and try to do it justice. When someone in the family won’t step up to all that social web work, I think the family flounders somehow.
I managed to do an old recipe that we used to love: stuffed mushrooms. Fry and chop some bacon, add chopped olives and onions and fry a little more, fill the mushroom caps and top with a tiny piece of cheese. I used to broil them (and forget to watch!), but I find they can be microwaved 20 secs each for good effect. No carbs there.
Do you realize there is football on TV every single day for the next two weeks! I am resolved to pay some attention. Football is the heavy game in the men’s world. Long ago I read a book, “Games Your Mother Never Taught You” by Betty Harrigan that really impressed me at the time. Men learn how to relate to others through the games they play, or follow. At the time I was having trouble with my boss, and that book opened my eyes. He was playing “Basketball”, expecting me to react quickly and appreciate all his cheering me on, but I was playing “Bridge”, a nice quiet game that keeps everything and everyone, where you just do what you say you’re going to do. I had to learn some basketball type moves. I used to ask friends “What game do you play or follow?” Women usually say they played volleyball, everyone rotating, taking turns at every position. Men’s games are a lot harder! Anyway, it pays to know the language of sports, if only so we women understand what men are talking about!
So other than golf, what games do you and your husband follow?
From: ET
To: MJS
I hope you had a great Christmas with your family and friends. I’m so glad the holidays are over… back to my other life! There are still a couple of movies I would like to see, particularly Aviator. I had a great golf game last week, and look forward to another like that.
Date: Dec. 26, 2004
From: MJS
To: ET
Yes, we had really nice holiday! But a three-day weekend does seem to take up a whole week. We watched the grandchildren open presents in the morning. Not what they expected or wanted. My husband gave me a new fish smoker and he got tickets for car washes from me! Exactly what we wanted, of course. In the afternoon I made traditional turkey dinner for everyone, before we opened more presents. We played cards and talked. I think the anticipation built up is too much for the presents, not enough for just being together as a family, having fun together. The day after Christmas must be a great disappointment to many people. Then again, sometimes family just isn’t much fun at all. I do value my position as family matriarch and try to do it justice. When someone in the family won’t step up to all that social web work, I think the family flounders somehow.
I managed to do an old recipe that we used to love: stuffed mushrooms. Fry and chop some bacon, add chopped olives and onions and fry a little more, fill the mushroom caps and top with a tiny piece of cheese. I used to broil them (and forget to watch!), but I find they can be microwaved 20 secs each for good effect. No carbs there.
Do you realize there is football on TV every single day for the next two weeks! I am resolved to pay some attention. Football is the heavy game in the men’s world. Long ago I read a book, “Games Your Mother Never Taught You” by Betty Harrigan that really impressed me at the time. Men learn how to relate to others through the games they play, or follow. At the time I was having trouble with my boss, and that book opened my eyes. He was playing “Basketball”, expecting me to react quickly and appreciate all his cheering me on, but I was playing “Bridge”, a nice quiet game that keeps everything and everyone, where you just do what you say you’re going to do. I had to learn some basketball type moves. I used to ask friends “What game do you play or follow?” Women usually say they played volleyball, everyone rotating, taking turns at every position. Men’s games are a lot harder! Anyway, it pays to know the language of sports, if only so we women understand what men are talking about!
So other than golf, what games do you and your husband follow?
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