1. i'm having a super exciting life and have absolutely no time to post
or
2. life is passing pretty well and i've got no gripes with the world
right now it's number 2. not that i'm not having any problems or nothing exciting is going on, but right now i'm just having an okay time going with the flow of life, taking things as they come, not attaching too many of my own opinions on what's going on, and letting myself just experience life as it flows by. this goes back a little ways to that post about expectations and keeping a pretty meticulous calendar. i've stopped writing every single daily activity on my calendar (more specifically, i've stopped guilting myself into feeling like i need something written everyday to feel that i've living my life in a worthwhile manner), and it's done wonders for my stress and anxiety levels. somedays i come home and take a nap (actually, pretty much everyday this week), but that's turning into a problem because it's not relaxing sleep, it's like, holy crap i can't keep my eyes open sleep, which is a little worrying.
but the point is that i'm taking life as it comes and being flexible and giving myself freedom from the pressure of self-expectations. and it's working out pretty well. crappy things happen, but i keep my focus on where my head should be (i.e. matthew 6:25-34) and things are alright.
still, i do have some opinions on what's been going on (mostly on tv) so let's go through it:
1. majide - i love this show. i want to do every single challenge game they've got, awesome. i love the ridiculous-ness of the japanese people in the audience. they're retards. wonderful retards. everyone learn the new picture pose, hai.... MA-JI-DE!
2. so you think you can dance - i thought will would win, but i wanted twitch to win, once mark and chelsie got out (they were my favorite couple) i thought katie was gonna win, and then after that final performance show i WANTED katie to win. but joshua won. i didn't like him from the beginning. oh well, not like we'll ever see them again... until next year's so you think you can dance, that is. still, i think this show is getting better and better. i remember before i would only really like maybe one performance per show (or even per season), but this year there were several that stood out to me... the hip-hop ones, of course, i like that one to "bleeding love" the best i think.
3. federer vs. nadal - what a wimbledon final. i agree, the best match ever (of course, i was too young to see mcenroe and all those, the only one i can compare it to was sampras vs. agassi in that us open match that went 4 tiebreakers, and this one was better than that match). i was completely distraught for like a week after federer lost that, and then when he lost early in the us open series and nadal was assured to take over #1 i was even more distraught. i just can't see nadal as #1. he needs to cut his hair... and shave... maybe take a shower... wear sleeves... ditch the girlie capri pants... and stop digging out wedgies before every serve. ugh. if anyone, i wanted djokovic to overtake federer, he's got a game i can get behind, not nadal's. anyway, federer better beef it up for the olympics and us open coming up in the next three weeks.
4. olympics - i'm opposite of brandi... i never like the olympics, thought they were completely dullsville. now i love every single second of it. what changed? COVERAGE. probably around sydney 2000 they started showing olympics on tons of channels all throughout the day, then i was in college so i'd walk down to the front desk and watch on the big screen in the lobby. i can't stand watching all the prime time stuff (just like brandi, i think it's all way over-produced and marketed), the commentators bug the crap outta me, but i love watching all the littler, obscurer sports. the ones with REAL amateurs who would never dream of getting any kind of fame or tv time outside of the olympics. like badminton, or like curling in the winter games. because now there's coverage of, like, EVERYTHING i love immersing in all that the olympics has to offer. and so i will be doing this year. i think i'm most excited about tennis (i'm rooting for federer, djokovic, ivanovic, and sharapova) and...
volleyball (ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! i've been waiting five years to see kim willoughby play again! plus robyn ah-mow and heather bown and logan tom too). i already watched natasha kai in that soccer match US lost... ugh, but there's tons of hawaii athletes this year so that makes things even more exciting. anyway, i'm not a big USA fan, i'm unpatriotic (didn't even care about barack today), i go for the story and root for the underdogs, the countries that no one has even heard of until the olympics. that's why i watch that long-ass opening ceremony and parade of nations, this is like the only chance they get some of those countries, but it's awesome, i love it. just finished watching the torch lighting at the opening ceremonies... did you see that old guy fly-run around the top of the stadium? that was scary as crap! but way cool, best lighting i remember since when they had that archer shot the flaming arrow! go flaming arrows!
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hahaha the day after i say i'm not gonna watch the olympics, guess what i did! i worked today and most people had the olympics on their tvs, without me even putting it on. i guess i do like to watch the less popular sports during the daytime. i saw bits of rowing, swimming, beach volleyball and regular volleyball. i'm not a follower of "amateur" volleyball so i didn't know kim willoughby, robin ah mow, heather bown and logan tom would be playing!! i didn't expect to see people playing that i actually knew, well watched (obsessively), before when they were in college. crazy!! so that was cool. beach volley is fun too. i wasn't watching much of the swim and row cause it was only trials and they don't really try their hardest.
i think i want to go to vancouver 2010 winter olympics! you should come with.
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