The Madness of Christmas

Today starts the 2009 March Madness, or aka Andy’s Christmas. When I first met Andy over five years ago he explained to me how much March Madness meant to him (he calls it Christmas time) and don’t expect him to do anything else during the three weeks. At first I was glad that he was up front about his obsession and then I decided that if I wanted to see him during those three weeks I need to join this crazy basketball festivity called March Madness. My first year, I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, but Andy liked that I at least tried, and was joining him during his favorite time of year. It is now five years later and I look forward to filling out my brackets. In fact, I am in three pools this year and I pay close attention to every game and all the scores. Andy finds this funny because it is the only time of year I get into these games, but at least it’s something we get to do together. It’s only day one and I am not doing too shabby in my brackets…which is pretty impressive from my brackets five years ago. I think that first year I was out of the running after round one, and now I am doing fabulous. Well, it’s day one of Andy’s three week long Christmas and it’s been fun. I am not necessarily trying to win all three pools, but I am just trying to do better than Andy. A little competition between us is great!