Lots has gone on with family getting together so I haven't gotten to really watch until tonight ( Read more... )

What a crazy night!  First, Phelps lost at the last moment in the 200m butterfly because he stretched the end instead of taking one more stroke so that was a bummer, but then USA came back to win the 4 x 200m free by a lot for the 3rd Olympics in a row and that was sweet.  Phelps anchored, Lochte and Ricky Berens were on this same team last year ( Read more... )

We're back here again...at that awkward place where Tom Daly is still younger than me, but even more attractive this time around.  He is of age now so I don't feel so bad, but hot damn.  Those Chinese ninjas took gold in men's synchronized diving.  USA got the bronze!

Misty May Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings won their match!  So sweet!

NBC totally ( Read more... )

There has been so many upsets already ( Read more... )

So I'm just going to go ahead and write down my thoughts as I have them ( Read more... )

The opening ceremony was okay.  I liked them making the ring in the industrial age, but it took a really long time and it was all really bizarre.  They created the one ring.  I get it.  This is Mordor.  I was all for J. K. Rowling reading!!  That was exciting but she only read for like a minute.  I would have listened to her for hours. She could ( Read more... )

Watching the Olympic Trials for men's gymnastics is just nerve wracking.  It also makes you a bit schizophrenic because you don't know who to root for since they're all US ( Read more... )

I'm expecting one more thing to happen since bad things happen in 3s.  While I'm grateful that the bad things are crazy and not long lasting (unless my hand falls off), I could have still done without ( Read more... )

So I've started this habit of taking the trash out the morning it's picked up instead of the night before because it gets dark so early, it's really cold at night, and once i'm inside, i'm not going back out.  As I'm dragging my first trash can to the curb, I'm shuffling around thinking I have pretty shitty boots and why am I shuffling my feet when ( Read more... )

On my way home after Christmas, TSA pulled me over because I had a can of tea.  What exactly did they think it was?