Time for the Olympics!!

Posted on February 12, 2010

I am so excited about the Opening Ceremonies! I love the winter Olympics, in spite of my not liking winter much at all. The sports are so exciting, and the 1980 hockey team is what started my love affair with that sport.  I *do* believe in miracles!

ETA: I just read about the athlete who died after crashing during a training run. My thoughts and prayers are with his family and friends.





Monday musings…

Posted on February 8, 2010

The Winter Olympics are rapidly approaching, so I’m clearing space on the DVR. I *love* the Olympics, especially the winter games! While I’m generally NOT a “winter” kind of girl, the winter sports are so much more exciting than the summer ones! Hockey, Super-G, speed skating, downhill slalom, halfpipe, moguls…curling. LOL! Seriously…curling? How does that fit??

I went a-googling to see what I could find out about the heart-pounding drama that is curling and found this (and it cracked me right up):

The precise beginnings of curling will always remain a mystery! However, it is not hard to imagine a man, hundreds or even thousands of years ago, who weighed a smooth, heavy rock in his hand, then watched and listened with fascination as he launched it along a glistening bed of ice on a frozen river. This “first curler” must have been intrigued by the way the rock moved and by the grumbling sound it made as it twisted and turned. Other people in the not so distant past have heard this same sound and have applied it as a nickname for the game of curling … it is often referred to as “the roaring game”.

Um, sure. No alcohol involved whatsoever…riiiight. :-)