It was at least 4-5 months ago when I started getting excited for the Olympics but so much else was happening this Summer, like the wedding and honeymoon, that it really turned into a Summer of anticipation. But July came and went and with it the wedding and honeymoon. It was okay. I only waited over a year for those things; and I had the Olympics to look forward to a few weeks afterward anyway.

2 weeks ago, the Olympics finally started. I watched so much Olympic coverage the last 2 weeks and I still couldn’t get enough. Swimming definitely consumed me, as well as the rest of the world, for the first week but there was so much other great stuff to watch around Michael Phelps. Regardless, today is the last day of the Olympics on TV. They’re showing everything that happened yesterday because, as I’ve come to live with, nothing’s ever live. Except for the Men’s Basketball gold medal game. I was actually able to watch that live last night at 11:30PM. Great game.

By the way. As I’m typing this, women’s group rhythmic jumprope? gymnastics is on. When on Earth did this become a sport? I looked it up, it’s called Five Ropes. Never heard of it. Wait, what the hell is this? Now they’ve replaced ropes with hula hoops? It’s called Three Hoops + Two Clubs. They give out gold medals for this crap? People in China live off of rice and they’re wasting precious medals on 5 girls that can throw hula hoops around a mat?

Anyway, now I guess the Summer is officially over. The closing ceremony will be on tonight, kids are back in school tomorrow, traffic is bad again in the morning and TV shows will be starting up in a few weeks. And I think there’s some election coming up soon for some government role. I had more to write about here but that rhythmic gymnastics stuff really hurt my head and I can’t think of what I was going to say. I guess I’ll leave on that note. Only 2 more years til Vancouver. Then we get to watch curling on Tuesday at 3:18AM. Hey, at least it’ll be live, right?

I’m currently watching: XXIX Summer Olympics: gymnastics, rhythmic group final