On Sat, 29 Nov 2003, J.D. Giorgis wrote:
> On Thanksgiving Day I took Green Bay and Miami, and
> surprisingly went 1-1 in this .500 kind of year for
> me.
That Dallas game was painful to watch here in Austin. (Not that I'm in
Austin right now, but I was watching the game there, anyway....)
We were at Dan's cousin Anne's house for Thanksgiving. Sometime during
the first half, I was able to leave Catherine downstairs with some doting
cousins, and took Tommy upstairs. There was a play in which someone
barrelled out of bounds and hit what looked like a bench heater. The item
in question was hauled away from the sideline. Dan's cousin Tommy made a
joke about how it was being taken to the locker room for x-rays and that
we should get an update on it from the sideline announcer soon. The rest
of us ran with the joke. For the rest of the game, every time it got just
a little bleaker, someone would say that we wanted an update on the
heater. And whenever someone asked why we were still watching as they
observed the score in the 4th quarter, cousin Tommy's answer would have
something to do with the train wreck factor.
On the plus side, at the beginning of halftime, I got a picture of all 3
people called Tommy there (my own son, Dan's cousin, and Dan's uncle),
then was able to take Tommy downstairs and hand him off to someone, and
got to see most of the third quarter just sitting on the couch upstairs
without worrying about either one of my babies. When someone finally got
hungry, that baby was brought up to me, and when the other one was brought
up to me, the first one was taken by someone else.
There were only 30 people this year -- 28 relatives plus 2 guests of the
host. Last year, there were 40 relatives and 3 guests. Anne has the
house for it, at least. I think we could handle 30 people here if we
planned it right, but I'm not quite sure about 40, unless we got in an
extra folding table (we'd need extra chairs in either case) and put a
bunch of people out on the patio. (Which is covered, so we could do it as
long as it weren't driving rain.) And she's an interior decorator, while
our house doesn't look like one ever set foot in it. :) (At least we can
do decent color coordination, but we're in sore need for window treatments
in a couple of places, anyway.) We could certainly handle 20-25 people to
come over and watch the Texas/Texas A&M game the day after (us plus 15-20
guests) as long as some people didn't mind being on the floor or being in
other rooms doing things other than watching the game.
Julia
and if *all* of the relatives showed up next year, it would come to 52,
including 2 sets of boy/girl twins
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