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The Olympics Review So Far

My mother and I used to watch ice skating all the time back in the day. I mean waaay back in the day, Scott Hamilton skating competitively day. I remember when he did backflips and people would lose. their. minds. Brian Boitano. Katarina Witt. If they skated and announce now, we watched them. Ice skating aside, we never really got into the winter games. Just not our thing. Summer games not so much either but that's another story. I found out that my mother in law loves to watch the ice skating too. My husband actually watches it with us. He doesn't have the same appreciation for it and it's hard to hear the announcers over his intense giggling at some artistic expression. In addition to the skating, we watch the hockey (we do live in the State of Hockey afterall) and the speed skating. Oh and curling. Go Bimidji!! Last night was the first time that we watched for more than five minutes and here's what we've seen:



Joey Cheek: I call him Cheeky. Look at Cheeky go! Cheeky won the gold! Cheeky is looking good!

Shaun White: I love this kid. Peanut will probably have his hair color and, knowing my bad luck hair, his style. 19 years old and he's killing them out there. He said going to the Olympics is great cause he'll get lots of babes. (I'm paraphrasing) Oh to be that young again.

Bode Miller: I will now share some lame jokes we thought of last night (ok they were thought of by me, hence the lame part)
The 2006 Winter Olympics are brought to you by Miller Lite.
There will be no-bode on the medal stand.

Johnny Weir: I thought the Olypmic Torch was the biggest thing flaming in Italy. I stand corrected. Was he supposed to be in the women's competition cause that's what his "swan" costume was screaming to me. One red glove for the swan head. I need a bullet for mine please.

Brian Joubert: Another reason to not like the French. Did anyone see "007" perform last night? The "gun shooting"? The "bomb tossing"? The "boxing"? That one put the husband over the edge. It was almost too painful to watch. I'm really shocked that no one has complained about the howling.

Ligety Ligety Ligety Mack Ted Ligety: He won the gold Ligety split!


On a side note, my son had a stinky diaper, he hugged me then said "Peew! Mommy stinks." My DNA hard at work there people. Can you feel the warm fuzzies?

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