Weekend

Camped out at my parentals for a coupla days because I had to travel a distance for a wedding. I'm still in this same place regarding that.

On an uppity up note the Olympics Geek Out continues. Sis and I and 'Rents watched the Opening Ceremonies (sis and I the whoooooooole thing). It was pretty amazing. Teared up when the cute little boy who went back into his demolished school twice to save classmates after climbing out of the rubble. He said, "I'm a class leader, it's my responsibility." Yeah. He's 9.

Watched events as much as I could yesterday. Was getting on-line to look something up --non-Olympics related--and my homepage which is MSNBC pops up with the big old Phelps Wins Gold headline that I couldn't avoid. I'm all for making the information available, but for God's sake make the headline smaller (it was HUGE) or make an "If you want to see who won" click though.

Then I watched the Men's 4x 100 relay. The Frenchies had said, "We will smash the Americans". Au contraire mon chien.... WE BEAT THE FROGS!!!! it was all I could do to not wake the 'rents. It was so exciting that the dog jumped on my lap because he thought there was something wrong.

I don't like the pressure of everyone saying M. Phelps could surpass Spitz' 7 gold medal record. But, I have to admit....I'm really hoping he pulls it off. It's been stated that yesterday, and today's races were the most tricky. Fingers crossed, I'll be so proud of him if he does it.


Oh and if you want another tearjerking story check out the 33 year-old gymnast from Germany (well not...but that's part of the story).