More Olympic thoughts

• The Iraq soccer team is another reason I love the Olympics. They're in the semifinals and if they win their next game they go to the gold medal game. Talk about an underdog story. I find soccer so boring to watch, but I find this so exciting I'll be watching their game.

• Favorite men's swimsuit: The leggings. Thank goodness there are no more speedos. No need to cover your upper bodies, but showing off legs is a girlie thing.

• Overall I really like the summer games more than the winter. It's so much more pure. It has the events that don't require much equipment. Just man vs. land. Or man vs. water. The winter Olympic sports like skiing require so much equipment. You can't really measure the fastest man in snow. Of course I really enjoy the gymnastics, but the Olympics wouldn't be the Olympics without track and field and swimming.

• I caught part of the walking race. Those guys look so strange. It looks like Special Olympics running. Their bodies don't look proportioned correctly. I saw that the highest an American placed was in the 20s. It obviously isn't dominated by America. Good. In fact, America should boycott this sport.

• Another funny sport is the hammer throw. Those guys spin out of control and somehow let go at the right time so as not to kill anyone. I wanna spin like that. Though I don't understand why the Olympics needs shot put, discus AND hammer throw.

• OMG, a white guy just won the 400 meters.

• An Italian just won the high bar. I like Italy's anthem. They should win more stuff.

• I'm still so amused by Greek names. Everytime I see a list of athletes competing in an event I scan the flags looking for Greece and then try to say the name. They're long and a mouthful, but also not impossible to pronounce like other languages.

I flew up to New Hampshire for my cousin's wedding this weekend. Of the three weddings I went to this summer, none were normal. This one was very "earthy". Some of their friends live in yurts which are dome tent thingys with no heating. Yes, no heating in New Hampshire. The groom got married barefoot. And the band consisted of a bagpipe and accordion among other random instruments. Everyone was wearing subdued tone dresses and skirts and I wore my verstile red dress that I wear to everything. I felt a little out of place. Everyone in earthy colors and I was wearing FIRE!

I also got eaten alive by bugs. I have at least a dozen bites around my calves and ankles and two days later they still itch like crazy. And I've been pretty lucky about not getting bites the last few years.

I stayed with my cousin Puffles (aka Heather) in her "hut" along with cousin Danni and Aunt Susan. After getting picked up from the airport, we stopped at the store and I couldn't resist buying a bag of mint oreos. I ate all of them before Sunday. Mint oreos are just an amazing invention. I like taking two and eating a chocolate side off of each and then mushing them together to make a double stuff mint oreo.


Last but not least...

I GOT A CAR. I have a Cactus Mint Corolla LE. There was so much paper work involved. I'm so glad the day is over so I never have to write 8/23/04 ever again. I plan to make a trip to Bucknell this weekend as it's first big drive.