A Thank-You and a Little Laugh

First a heartfelt thanks to all my new friends from SITS. I'm overwhelmed by all the comments... SERIOUSLY, Overwhelmed! I want to sit down with each of you, have a long chat, really take some time to get to know one another and share some laughs. Since that's quite impossible, the best I can do is take some time to carefully acknowledge each of your comments, visit your blogs and get to know you through your shared stories. There are a LOT of comments so this could take me a while, but I'll get there and enjoy every moment of it!

Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts and your time!

Another jab at the Fast Food industry. I share these jokes like I'm somehow above eating this stuff but I cannot tell a lie, I'd sell my first born for McDonald's French Fries Super-Sized ANYTIME!

While watching the 'Wendy's Baconater' commercial.

Husband: "The Wendy's Baconater, yours Free with a set of cardiac paddles... Because NOTHING sounds more delicious than... CLEAR!"

Just a side note here... What is it about Olympics coverage that makes the fast food industry think selling a 'Heart attack on a bun' is a good idea?

Olympic Time

Welcome SITS friends, to my little corner of the blog o' sphere. I'm very excited to be selected as today's featured blogger. I look forward to sharing a chuckle or a perhaps an emotional connection in which you might say to yourself, "Are you kidding me, I look at the world in the same twisted way!" I know I've had that feeling reading your blogs and am continually amazed over all the things, we perfect strangers have in common.

4 years
2 1/2 weeks
An Hour
A Minute
A Second
A 10th of a Second
A 100th of a Second

All those years, all those weeks, all those hours devoted to being the best... A humbling thought that it all comes down to a minuscule increment of Time.

Tremendously humbling.

*I promise to keep the Olympic posts to a minimum but tonight I am so moved by all I've witnessed. From the devastatingly loss for Lolo Jones to the spectacular win by Shawn Johnson. I admit it, I'm an Olympic junkie.

Armchair Ponderings

A few random thoughts come to mind when I'm watching the Olympics:

• Look at the muscles on those men!
• Look at the muscles on those women?!
• How do they DO that?
• That is AMAZING?
• I'm tired from just WATCHING this competition!
• How can I get one of these specimens of strength & endurance to landscape my yard?

And Then They Went Home & Ate Their Beret's With a Wedge Of Camembert Cheese

If you saw the 400m relay last night, the one in which the French talked smack about beating the US in the 4x100 freestyle relay? Well if you witnessed the Awesomeness that IS the US Mens Swim Team? Then I'm sure you understand the title of this post.

If you missed the 400m relay last night and the comment made by Bernard of the French Mens Swim Team, which I believe went something like this: "The Americans? We're going to smash them. That's what we came here for." I reiterate, If you missed that race? I'm sorry, but you missed one of the greatest moments in Olympic history.

Oh and allow me to leave you with this last quote from the French.... Uh, Um, Boo-Hoo... LOSERS!

"A fingertip did the victory," said Amaury Leveaux, one of the French swimmers. "It is nothing."

It's ONLY the GOLD, Baby!