Watched swimming on NBC today, [cue dramatic announcer voice]The Mutual of Omaha Duel in the Pool[/end dramatic announcer voice]. Actually watched a bit of it yesterday, as well, so two days in a row of seeing my pretty, pretty Aaron Peirsol. Too bad he's only 22. And completely out of my league. :P But still, the pretty ( Read more... )

So, I was checking the FINA site for possible updates on who will be at the swimming championships in Indianapolis, and a little fact junped out at me:

Aaron Peirsol was in a freshman in college in 2003. I graduated from college in 2000. And it took me five years! (Engineering Co-op program...) Depressed now...

I got my hair chopped off this weekend. No particular reason, it just seemed like a good idea. Got it done yesterday morning, and I'm still getting used to it. It felt very strange to wash it this morning--there just wasn't enough of it. I think this is the shortest I've ever had it. I think I like it... People at work are telling me it's ( Read more... )

Stolen from mrschimpf:

Okay, so the patriotic part of me is happy that Carly Patterson won the All-Around gold medal, but the truth it, I'm not a huge fan of the sparkly little pixie. She leaves me "meh." Honestly, I would have liked to see Svetlana Khorkina finally get the gold. Her performance last night didn't warrant it, unfortunately, and it's sad ( Read more... )

Let me start out by saying,

CONGRATULATIONS, PAUL HAMM!

Ahem. Now that that is out of my system... I was so, so proud of him last night. He and Morgan are too adorable for words, although they really shouldn't ever speak. I have a soft spot for them because they're from Waukesha, which, despite being in another state, is only about an hour ( Read more... )

The following was written last night at around 11 pm:

I am on a complete and utter Nip/Tuck high right now, so I feel compelled to write down everything I'm thinking in my adorable pink Strawberry Shortcake notebook, lest I forget what I want to post on LJ tomorrow ( Read more... )

Okay, I take back what I said yesterday about having minimal interest in the Olympics. I ended up watching the men's team gymnastics final last night, and it just about killed me. I kept flipping the channels back and forth, because I got so tense and nervous. After the Romanian guy fell off the high bar in the final rotation, and it was the ( Read more... )