Tag: olympics

Picking your “current mood” is hard…

First! 5 STARS FOR TEAM AMERICA – WORLD POLICE. You have to see this movie. It’s fucking hilarious!!!

Second, Works sucks real bad and I need a vacation right this moment!!

Damn! It’s hard to write a journal post when you’re chatting to 5 people at the same time! Oh well.

House hunting sucks, the market is crap. I’m about to give up for a bit. I’m just going to have my agent look for things that come on the market that I may be interested in… then she can just let me know. Seems to be the smart thing to do instead of hunting high and low for something that’s just acceptable. I saw some houses the other day that I wouldn’t feel comfortable letting a dog live in…ugh! Nasty. Why would anyone in their right mind what to spend 130K of their hard earned cash on that shit is beyond my comprehension.

Anyway, British Airways felt like tempting me again… $188 round trip from Phoenix. I figure the song below is appropriate for this post. Anyway, it makes me mad because I don’t really have the cash to go, nor do I know anyone who has the cash that could go with me… not like I wouldn’t have a good time by myself, but things are more fun with friends… you know how it is.

About 2 weeks until Torino 2006 tickets go on sale. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that I can get them over the net instead of having to go through some damn tour group here in the states. I have 2 contacts at work that have family that live in Europe, so that’s always a possibility.. now I just have to ask myself who I trust more….

OK, back to my friends who i’ve been ignoring on IM for the past 6 minutes. I went to the State Fair this weekend and it was awesome! I’ll see if I can pull some pics together to post… of course, if you would like some, you just have to email. Later!

This is not cool…

This is not turning out to be a real bad Hurricane season. We’re only to the F’s and there have been two that have made land fall in the FL area… and here comes Frances…

I’m at work, else I’d post more. You’ll be seeing more posts from me… now that the Olympics are over.

Team USA did great, as always (not including the Men’s Basketball team, such an embarrassment). Upon watching the Olympics and thinking about everything they stand for… I believe the IOC should adopt a policy that if you don’t allow women to participate (at least try to make a country’s Olympic team) that they should not be allowed to participate at all. The IOC will exclude countries from participation if the country’s Olympic Committee refuses to play against certain countries or races… what’s the difference between that discrimination and the discrimination they show towards women?? Yes, I realize it’s a religion thing, but that still doesn’t make it right. Plenty of “Islamic” states allow women to participate. Anyway, just my $.02!

Athens 2004!

Ok, my updates will be few and far between until the end of the Games. I’m happy that NBC is showing so many sports, but that leaves little time to do anything else. Currently I’m watching Men’s Indoor Volleyball – Team USA vs. Italy. I will have to say that Volleyball is one of my favorite Olympic sports to watch. It’s quite action packed. Also, yesterday they had Badminton (mixed doubles) on Bravo. That sport is freaking insane. Did you know that the shuttlecock is routinely hit at over 200 mph? They say it may turn into a sport fad here in the U.S. just like Curling did after the 2002 Winter Games. We’ll see… I know I won’t be playing though. ;o)

OK, back to the Olympics. I have over 14 hours of stuff to watch. Thank god for ReplayTV, I can skip the boring stuff like Basketball that NBC seems to think we just have to see here in America. I swear, the NBA season just ended, who needs more basketball… ugh!!

Could BB5 get any better?

Let me just say that last night’s BB episode was GREAT. I’ve been waiting 5 weeks for the twin secret to be revealed and it finally happened! The reaction by the house was perfect. The balance of power has shifted and you can tell that Jase is no longer as confident as he used to be. Last night’s episode should have been 2 hours long so that we could have seen more of the post reveal reaction. Of course, this is not possible because there is no way to control what the house guests are going to do. I’m surprised that the house guests are able to control their language for the small amount of time that they are on TV live.

Anyway, one of the funniest things i heard on the live feed last night was Karen saying that if Jase was the one with the twin she would have walked out of the house during the live show. Then Nic and Will chimed in and said, “yup, we would have been right behind you.” That would have been some good TV.

Ok, so here’s a question… or not really a question, but why wouldn’t you do this?? So they want Jase out of the house… the only people allowed to participate in the Power of Veto competition are the people who are nominated and the HOH plus the choices of the nominees and the HOH as their partners. So, you put up two people who are in your alliance, they pick people who are in the alliance to play the veto competition as well as the HOH picks a person who is the alliance to participate and once someone wins it, you take a person off the block and put up Jase. He then has NO WAY of taking himself off and all you have to do is make sure the alliance is strong and will vote correctly and there you have it. Come on people, it’s not that difficult! BE SMART! Anyway, we’ll see what happens this upcoming week!! Sooooo good!!

On another note, ATHENS in ONE WEEK! It’s going to be great! So much to see, not enough time in the day!!

Ok, back to work for me. I’m so bad. :o)

I know you’ll be amazed but…

I haven’t seen The Village yet!! Yikes! I am planning on seeing it tomorrow, so I’ll update then with my small review.

Now, on to other things… let me see… oh yeah, NINE Days until Athens! Sweet! If you know me at all you know how much I love the Olympics. It’s going to be so great.

What else… oh yeah, today is Tuesday… that means BB and TAR were on. So let me recap for those of you who decide that those shows are not important enough to make time to watch. ;o)

BB this week, Scott and Jase as we know are on the eviction block… tonight’s episode was the veto competition in which only the two put up for eviction, the HOH and three other house guests (each person gets to choose one) compete. First of all, Diane is completely retarded, if you didn’t want Jase to get the Veto you had to put enough coins in his piggy bank to knock him out of the competition. You know that you have one other person on your side and all you two had to do was put all your coins in his pig and it would be over… needless to say, that didn’t happen. Jase won veto power (sucks!!) and in the subsequent veto ceremony, took himself off the block. This forced Diane to put someone else up. Scott and Jase wanted Marvin to go up because they believe that they can sway the other house guests to vote for him instead of Scott. Little do they know that the real plan is to get rid of Scott. He’s the lesser of two evils, but since Jase got off, they have no choice. Now, I’m predicting that they go through with this, but if for some reason it turns out that Marvin gets evicted, I will be speachless. If these people think they will survive another week with Scott and Jase in the house, they are on crack! We’ll find out on Thursday… and that’s also the day that Adria and Natalie both get to come into the house, which will be super cool!! (did i just say super cool??)

Now, TAR, well, it continues to make me happy. It’s the highlight to my Tuesday night. This week they traveled from St. Petersburg to Cairo. I have officially picked a team and that team is Colin and Christy (or is it Kristy?). Now, I know you’re all thinking that’s just because they are in the lead but that’s not so. If you’ve ever watched this show before, you know a lead this early in the race means absolutely nothing! They are a smart team and they play fair (for the most part). The teams had to go to the Hermitage Museum to find Rembrant’s “The Prodigal Son” which was easier than it sounds (most museums place art by the same artist in the same room/wing). After that, they had to make their way to Cairo. In Cairo, they had to make their way over to the Giza Plateau and complete some tasks. The tasks consisted of putting together a puzzle to find out where to go next, followed by a Detour which made them choose between leading some Camels to a carpet merchant over a mile away or moving two 100 lb cement bricks 100 yards. The only people to do the Camel way was Charla and Myrna. The other teams were too late to do that one and had to move the cement bricks. Anyway, the finishing teams for this leg were Colin/Christy, Myrna/Charla, Brandon/Nicole, Chip/Kim, Marshall/Lance, Kami/Karli, and Linda/Karen. This was a non elimination round so Linda/Karen were spared being booted off the show, but the new twist for this season is that they lose all their money and have take on the next leg broke. That’ll make it much more interesting… I believe they’ll be able to survive through this next leg. We’ll see! Tune in next Tuesday to find out!!

Ok, time for bed! Diamondbacks WON! amazingly enough! HP comes for a visit tomorrow (scary!!) and I need my sleep because work is not going to be fun tomorrow!!