1999-11-15 23:47:59
Post-bummed
The Cowboy game did bum me out as I sat there watching it alone. I ended up watching a lot of football games in my life at my sister's or Mom's and always anticipated that when I was married I would have a husband to watch them with. D-boy will sit down if there is an important game on or nothing else to do but he'd rather be doing something else most of the time.
Odd. My sister married a European and thought she had cleverly bypassed the American obsession with sports. Her husband played soccer and tennis but wasn't interested in televised sports. Until they married. Suddenly he becomes an avid football fan, must watch every tennis match that is televised and when it comes to World Cup Soccer---fuhgetaboutit!!! He's into it. I, on the other hand, marry a manly man born and raised in Texas that should be a diehard Cowboy fan and that's what I want, and I get a husband that would rather reroof the garage than stay inside and watch football. Sigh. And, yes, when I was single I would have made cheese dip and TV Snacks and drank a bottle of wine, too, if I felt like it. Now I can't invite over friends and am inhibited from eating and drinking. I sure don't want to be single again, but it's interesting how it's like so many things in life, marriage might solve some of the problems of single life (taking care of mice, for instance), improves some things you wouldn't even think about (....errr...I can't think of a good example....) and some things are the same as they were, just different, like watching a football game alone.