The years no doubt have changed me.

I am going tomorrow to PA to get my friend from the airport. She will be flying over to England with me. I am rather excited to have a seat buddy I actually know.
Speaking of England, I leave MONDAY!!!! I am so stinking excited. But nervous. I shouldn’t be though… seeing as I lived in [...]

“It’s not called gym-nice-tics”

I said before that I thought the age limit should be eliminated from the gymnastics competition and I am here today to blog: I take that back.
I did a little research and learned just why the officials put an age limit to a spectacular sport.
When a girl goes through puberty her sense of balance changes [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen of the internet…I give you the greatest Olympic athlete.

Michael Phelps, with the help of his three American teammates, won his eighth gold medal tonight.
This adds to making him the most decorated Olympian of all time with 16 medals total, 14 of which are gold, and shattering Mark Spitz record of seven gold medals in one Olympic game.
A record held for the past 36 [...]

seven down… one to go.

0.01 second.
The length of a fingernail.
That is what got Phelps his seventh gold medal of the games, not only matching Mark Spitz record of most medals in one game, but making Phelps the most decorated Olympian of all time.
Everyone thought Phelps placed second, including Phelps himself, and the look on his mother’s face when she [...]

six down… two to go.

Apparently I worried for nothing. Hey, its been known to happen before.
Phelps, again, won his sixth gold medal in the men’s 200m individual medley final while making it look unbelievably easy.
He also broke his own world record by about .57 seconds, making it the 21st world record broken in the swimming events of the ‘08 [...]

Bob Costas is my hero.

So I am a nervous wreck sitting here in my house. And Michael Phelps hasn’t even arrived at the Water Cube (where all the swimming events takes place for those of you crazies who do not watch the Olympics).
And I will continue to be a nervous wreck until he finishes his race tonight. Oh God [...]

Say what you want…

… but there is no way in hell those female Chinese gymnasts are 16. Maybe one at the most. But not all of them; they must be 12-14 at the oldest. And yet they slip right on by.
… but Katie Hoff?? Who has been said to be the female Michael Phelps? Seriously? No way. She [...]

five down…three to go.

two gold medals today.
eleven career gold medals.
he broke all world records… and one with his eyes “closed.”

200m Butterfly:

(as soon as he dove in, his goggles filled with water and continued filling up during the entire race. and yet he still managed to break his world record.)

4x 200m Freestyle Relay
America was the favorite for this [...]

Absolutely no shame…

… in admitting this hottie is one of the reasons I tuned into mens gymnastics.

8 Reasons why I love Michael Phelps:

1.    He is on his way to getting the most gold medals of any Olympian.
2.    He has broken all of his own world records.
3.    Have you seen his body?
4.    He is humble.
5.    He has to eat 8-12 thousand calories a day. (I actually think I may hate him for this one…)
6.    He has the cutest [...]