Farewell Beijing Olympics

How sad the Olympics are over. What will I do now without 24-hours of broadcast sports? Luckily US Open is starting now. I need to get TSN.

I had an interesting speculative conversation with a friend last week about the athletes' prospects for encounters of an intimate nature at the Olympics. A bunch of teenagers at their physical peak away from home, thrown together with other physically fit (read, "hot") athletes, teenaged and otherwise? I mean, do they discipline themselves to abstain until the games are over? Or just until their particular competitions are over? I wondered if the athletes thought "doing it" during the Olympics would be bad luck - like shaving during the playoffs. Or maybe, it was a distraction that would throw them off their game, so they avoided all contact until the end. Or do they not care?

Thanks to my dear friend....I now have the answer. Click on the link for the funniest news article I've read in a long time. (Yeah, so I don't read the news...so what?)

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/olympics/article4582421.ece

The Log Driver's Waltz

http://www.videorambler.com/2006/06/log-drivers-waltz.html

The Log Drivers' Waltz
Wade Hemsworth (1916-2002)

If you should ask any girl from the parish around
What pleases her most from her head to her toes
She'll say, "I'm not sure that it's business of yours
But I do like to waltz with a log driver".

(Chorus)
For he goes birling down and down the white water
That's where the log driver learns to step lightly
It's birling down, and down white water
A log driver's waltz pleases girls completely.

When the drive's nearly over, I like to go down
To see all the lads while they work on the river
I know that come evening they'll be in the town
And we all want to waltz with a log driver.

Chorus

To please both my parents I've had to give way
And dance with the doctors and merchants and lawyers
Their manners are fine but their feet are of clay
For there's none with the style of my log driver.

Chorus

Now I've had my chances with all sorts of men
But none is so fine as my lad on the river
So when the drive's over, if he asks me again
I think I will marry my log driver.

Chorus

Got it!

It does come in girls size, if you go to the store...

I tried to buy ones for parents to take on their trip, but can you believe it? It's apparently totally sold out and I'm now on a waiting list! That can't be right...it's not even Roots...

Ironically, guess where my Canadian Olympic shirt is made? You got it...China.

Addicted

OK - first of all, how scary is it that after not posting for like a year, Schmassion sees my new post right away? Am I being stalked? :P Kidding...glad someone's checking.

Anyhow - ever since 8-8-08, I've been addicted to HD Olympics. The worst part is because of the time difference, there's basically Olympics on 24-7. I'm taking a page out of a friend's books and starting to PVR all the programs and fast forwarding through them in our time zone. It's weird, I stopped being interested in the Olympics over the last 10 years or so but this time I'm really getting into it. Maybe cause it's in China and it seems like everyone I know is also into it. It's funny to listen to all the CBCs (and our parents) talk about the Beijing Olympics with such Chinese pride. I think they actually have more pride about the Olympics being in China than if they were in Canada.

I'm being suckered into it too. I kinda want to buy a Canada Olympic shirt. But the one I want doesn't come in kids size! Grrr.

Bored

I haven't posted in a long time. I don't really have anything to say now. Except that I've been reading everyone else's blogs and their Flickr sites cause I'm so bored. So felt like posting again.

If I can make time for this, why can't I make time for the important things...the things I've been saying I'll do for the longest time...like reading the Bible...and dusting??