Yah the Olympics!

I LOVE Olympic years. It is so much fun to cheer for your country and hope they do well. Of course, when you are me it becomes a bit difficult. When there is a NZ vs. US event, I don't know who to cheer for. I've pretty much been ranking them like this (unless they are head-to-head): US, NZ, Aus, GBR, Ire, RMI (easy to do, since they only have 5 people in the olympics), and whatever English speaking countries are left.

The whole opening ceremony issues have been keeping me amused. The little girl who could sing really well wasn't cute enough to be on TV? What? We pre-recorded the fireworks? Huh?

What KILLED me about the opening ceremonies was the photo slideshow Yahoo! put together that mis-identified the NZ delegation as Aussies. That was a big frickin' NZ flag in the picture moron! Red stars ... no big star with a freakish number of points! Argh.

I watched badminton the other day. Holy crap was that amusing. Who knew backyard barbeque games could be so intense? Those guys were *really* serious about their badminton.

What really did amaze me was Women's 3m Synchronized Diving. It's hard enough to make those dives look flawless to begin with. Now you have to do them flawlessly, in perfect time with someone else. It blows my mind that people can do that, when I have no real difficulty tripping over flat surfaces!

Then there is the rest of the stuff going on in the world ... Russia has invaded Georgia. Sad to say, there are too people that I know personally that initially thought Russia had declared war on the US and were taking over Atlanta ... possibly because they just really love Coca-cola. Of course, the US jumped to Georgia's aid by airlifting their troops that were servinig in Iraq back to Georgia. I thought that was nice of us.

People in the US are upset about off-shore oil drilling. Apparently people with really, really keen vision go to the beach and don't want to see oil rigs 50 miles off-shore. I say drill it! I also think we should drill Nebraska, or wherever it is in the mid-west that has an incredible amount of oil. No one really cares about Nebraska anyway! Ok, except for people in Nebraska, but I'm sure they really don't count! :)

14 days and a wake-up 'til I can get on a plane and go home to see my niece! WOOHOO!