Olympic stupor sets in

It's very impressive that every four years, after 10 minutes of viewing whatever is being served up, I become an expert judge.

I can see the stability, or lack thereof, of a mogul skiers knees.  I can detect the over correction of a speeding luger and cringe at the landing of a snowboard cross 'rider' who landed a little too hard on her toes.

The 'Lympics are here, the 'Lympics are here!

Thank God for the shake up in evening programming.  Despite Mom's best efforts to find 27 hours a day of "Two and a Half Men" episodes, she too was coming up short on fresh evening diversions.

So bring it on!  Okay...maybe not too much curling (sorry Mom, Dad and Uncle Peter)...but bring it on!!!

I liked it...I really liked it...

I watched every minute of the Olympic opening ceremonies and for the most part, really enjoyed it.

Good:
- kd lang singing Hallelujah*
- Bryan Adams*
- the whales swimming across the stadium
- most of the fiddling
- Sarah McLaughlin
- slam poet
- slam poem
- treatment of Georgian's terrible death
- enjoying some Canadian shmaltz
- the array of cool Canadians brought out for the occasion

Bad:
- Nellly Furtado's dress
- some of the fiddling
- opera-lady's rendition of the Olympic song
- flying over the prairie for a little too long...
- Georgian's terrible death
- the non-event drive of Wayne Gretzky through the streets.  After all that, throw Wayne in a pick up to go the abandoned part of the waterfront...really?!?
-...and of course special mention to the Height of AWKWARD... the missing cauldron... Next time, have a Plan B

* Yes, I know it's not cool to like Bryan Adams...and where has kd been for 20 years, but I lived in the athletes village during the Calgary 88 games and both of them performed in the village.  I saw kd in her sawed off cowboy boots and I happened to be coming into the village through security right behind Bryan Adams, so I sidled closer and pretended to be part of the entourage.  Very cool for an excitable 20 year old.

Now I'm older and generally less excitable, so it's nice to indulge in a little giddiness.  :)

Go Canada!

Inaugurating the Big Screen

In honour of our imminent confinement on a wintery Saskatchewan farm, Chris has finally had one lifetime dream come true...a 50" plasma screen TV, PS3, media centre...and a few other things that rocked our credit card.

Since our shipment arrived four days ago, Chris has been lost in a blur of cabling and hardware. Several frenzied trips into town, a smoking credit card, the heartbreak of the first TV being damaged and the drama of not knowing if we'd get a replacement have all culminated of a newly minted Man Cave aka our living room.

And truthfully...I like it too.

So, we threw open the doors to our neighbours to enjoy the Greycup game tonight. A magnificent canvas to watch the sporting drama unfold for a group of the best fans in the world...Roughrider fans.

And they lost.

Because they can't count.

But the TV was great!